Proven Life Management Strategies


Time management is really life management. How you use your time controls everythingthat happens in your life. The success of your relationships, goal achievement, financial success, and even personal happiness, are all determined by HOW you use time.

All truly successful people are excellent time managers. They’re organized – they know where they are, and where they are going. As a result they get more done in less time, and have more free time to enjoy life.

Clarify Your Priorities
The first step in taking control of your time is to define and set your priorities.

High achievers are expert at separating out the essential from the less critical.

To get started, ask yourself, “What is the best use of my time right now?” Every action involves a choice between what’s more important. Doing one thing means not doing something else.

Separate the urgent from the important. Ask yourself, “What is the long term consequence of NOT doing this now?” Don’t do anything you can delegate.

Remember: Your aim in time management is to increase your return on energy.
Put lower priority items on the back burner.

Get Focused
When working on something, focus totally on your task. Get clear on your task: “What am I trying to accomplish? How am I doing to do this? Is there a better, easier, or more enjoyable way?”

Write It Down
There are several ways to designate which tasks are the most important. One way is to create two lists: a short-term checklist and a long-term, top-priority list.

Organized plans of action are a great time saver. Each time you make your planning schedule be sure to include some activity that works toward your long and short term goals.

Know Your Peak Productivity Times
All of us have work rhythms and certain times of the day when we do better work than at other times. The ability to stay focused plays a major role in saving time. To do this, you have to find the time of the day when you work at peak efficiency.

Block Your Time
An important part of effective time management is being able to set aside blocks of time when you will not be interrupted. This allows you to better focus on your work.

Organize Your Work Space
Organizing your time is easier when you organize your workspace. A cluttered desk creates stress and distracts you from focusing on the task at hand.

Don’t Reward Procrastination
Poor time management can be draining and energy zapping. Take procrastination: Procrastination is a learned behavior that is established through reward.

The moment you fail to do something and instead turn to watching television or some other “preferred” activity, you have rewarded yourself for procrastinating.

Change such a habit by breaking your task into smaller steps you can accomplish easily, then reward yourself for completing each step.
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Getting Real About Your Home Business


Choose your hours working from home that are the least interrupted.
For example, if you have children, it would be when they are at kindergarten/pre-school, day care, school or asleep.

Remember, if you don’t make the time for your business, you risk earning insufficient income and may then have to work for someone else, losing a majority of flexibility.

A big tip for setting hours of work is to sit down with your immediate family, particularly your partner, to work out what hours you will work and when. Setting up a plan for work hours helps you meet each other’s needs and your business will prosper from all their support and encouragement.

It’s also good to review your plan with your family regularly, change accordingly and keep them up to date with your business.
Inform others you are working
If you were returning to work in an office or elsewhere, your friends, family, school and community would not expect you to continue all that you have been doing to date and work as well.

It would be a given that everyone would need to make adjustments. This is the same; you are working – full stop!

Inform your family and friends of your decision to work from home and explain what you’re doing and how important it is to you. Advise them of the hours that you will be working.

For example, you inform your friends that you now work on Mondays and Wednesdays solidly whilst your child is at kindergarten or day care.

Let your family and friends also know you will make time for them on a particular day of the week or when you meet socially on the weekends.

It’s exactly the same as if you were to work in an office or elsewhere, except you can be flexible for special occasions or for when you are really needed elsewhere.

When you do spend time with your family, friends and community, ensure you give them your full focus. As your attention to your personal life increases, not only are you all happier, your performance in your business usually goes up also.

These extracts are from the free report ‘Top Ten Time Management Tips for Business Women’ available at www.LindaMcMahon.com.au

Linda McMahon is happily married with two children and lives on a hobby farm in a small town in North East Victoria, Australia.

Over the past eight years working successfully in direct sales and network marketing, Linda realised that working for yourself was the only way she could see to earn an income and have the flexibility needed for your family. However, she also discovered that working from home came with some interesting challenges.

Two years ago Linda decided she wanted to help other women tackle those challenges and set out on a mission to interview and learn from some of the top women that already had a successful business and juggled a family as well.

Are You Using the Power Of Your Voice


Raven Blair Davis interview by Kimberly Rhodes

Are you spending countless hours trying to figure out the next best way to market your business? Do you have a product you would like to share with the world? Maybe you would like to share ideas with your team on how to take their business to the next level. The possibilities are limitless. Listen to Raven Blair Davis “The Talk Show Maven” as shares with you how to unleash the power of your voice and build a big direct sales business. In this interview you will:

  • Discover how to promote your product or service
  • How you can leverage your voice to attract more customers or prospects for your business
  • Learn how to become a recognized expert
  • Build your own fan base
  • Spread your message locally or internationally

One of the keys to building a successful business is to reach a focused audience. Raven gives you specific tips and strategies to do just that. With just a few hours a week you can generate interest in exactly what you have to market. [Read more...]

Why is Marketing the Leadership Opportunity to Your Team The Same As Marketing Your Product?


Kimberly Rhodes Interviews Deb Bixler on

Why is Marketing the Leadership Opportunity to Your Team The Same As Marketing Your Product?

Are you recruiting hoping to find leaders that will step up to the plate? Are you showing people a lot of information and giving them data trying to motivate them to do more? Many times when people reach a certain level of leadership they want to duplicate their actions and move up the ranks.  If that’s you accelerate your success by marketing Leadership just like you would your product.  In an interview with Master business builder Deb Bixler you will learn what it important to market the position of Leadership.

Here is what you will discover in the interview:

  • How to develop leaders rather than trying to convince people.
  • The art, science, skill of marketing creating desire in the market place for your products, opportunity and services
  • The skill of marketing upfront to those who internally desire to be leaders
  • Why having a marketing plan is crucial to the success of your business
  • How to know if leadership has a proven system for success
  • Exactly what skills a leader should exhibit

Home party plan expert, Deb Bixler retired from the corporate world in 1999 to enjoy life as an entrepreneur. In the first 9 months in the direct sales industry she built a sales team and cash flow which provided her with an income capable of replacing her corporate business salary of $80,000 per year. Deb now teaches other direct sales professionals how to find more business, increase sales and grow a sales team with systems that will work in any company. If you are ready to take your business to the next level go to http://www.CreateACashFlowShow.comc and get the insider tips to creating a profitable direct selling business.

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