Numbers Are Life

That powerful little word “no”, so hard to say but oh so effective. If you’re a parent, you’ll know that it’s often the most common word that you use, as you attempt to teach your children the boundaries of life. This little word can be difficult, as we love our children and want to provide for them. As they slowly become adults, a new respect develops for this tiny word and how difficult it can be to say out loud when needed.

I often get asked the question, how on earth do you achieve so much in one day? In previous posts I have given tips on how I organise an entire year and work backwards to break that down into weeks. I have also given my tips on batching similar tasks together to increase productivity. Another key factor for my productiveness is scheduling.

I’m sure you’ve had the feeling of being “in the flow” when working. You know when you’re working at your optimum level. How would you like to operate at that level for the majority of your workday?

Outsourcing As the owner and driver of your business, you must ensure that you spend your precious time on revenue-generating tasks. This could be client work or tasks that go towards developing revenue generating products and services. If you take a look at your to-do list for today, I’m pretty sure you’ll find tasks listed [...]

Batching This is a very important but often underutilized concept.  Batching can literally save you time and money.  Batching involves putting similar tasks or location based tasks together to make more efficient use of your time.  This could be back to back phone call meetings (thus the location is at home on your phone), back [...]

A mentor of mine once said “you can’t actually manage your time, you can only manage yourself”. Wise and logical words. So what tools do I use to manage myself, my time, my team and my business? Managing myselfI use a Blackberry phone that synchronises with Microsoft Outlook on my laptop. This means I have [...]