Find Time to Deepen Your Relationship with Time This Valentine’s Day!
Posted on February 9, 2010, under Time After Time, Time and Values.
Finding time to deepen our relationships is always time well spent – and what better day to focus on relationships than Valentine’s Day!
I’d like to invite you to do something a little bit different, and take a moment to reflect on how you relate to time this Valentine’s Day. Do you approach it as a friend in your life’s journey? A difficult, sometimes cranky and critical relative? An enemy?
For many, I think the latter is the case, and time becomes an entity that we are in perennial struggle with. And yet, I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way. Not at all!
We each can choose how we relate to time – and how we frame that relationship will, in turn, affect everything else in our lives. Indeed, HeartBased Time Management is about learning to redefine our relationships to Time, Meaning, Money … and ourselves!
Here’s a passage from a recent interview that Michelle of Taming Time recently did with me. We discussed how important and basic one’s relationship with time is:
“The way you use your time is the way you live your life.” I certainly apply that to myself and to my own unique relationship with time.
I know, in the core of my being, that time is finite and concrete, and that on some level, every choice that I make is a time choice. Every single time choice that I make, no matter how small or large it may seem, shapes my relationship with time. In the same way that the quality of one’s personal relationships is shaped by the quality of choice that one brings to them, so, too, the quality of the energy one brings to making time choices affects one’s relationship with time (and therefore with life)!
I am in a constant process of looking at this, and developing ever deepening self-intimacy as I do! My relationship with time becomes increasingly organic and internal, and I am better able to place myself in the moment, being fully present, and feeling and expressing gratitude for my environment, my choices, and my life.
It’s an ever-expanding process of going deeper, and seeing the ripples move out, through time!
You can read the whole interview here … and please feel invited to check out Michelle’s blog here! (I’ve added it to our sidebar, too.)
What is your relationship with time like? I invite you to find time, this Valentine’s Day, to celebrate and deepen it! It will enrich you in unexpected and meaningful ways … I promise!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
Let’s explore time together …
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Find Time to De-Clutter Your Computer on Cyber Monday!
Posted on February 8, 2010, under Time and Technology.
Finding time to de-clutter is a great way to reduce stress. Have you noticed?
The benefits of de-cluttering apply to your time, to your work and living spaces, AND to your computer!
My VA recently brought an excellent post by LJ on the Simple Productivity Blog to my attention. Titled “Things You Should be Able to Do on a Computer to Keep It Clean,” it offers excellent advice for keeping your computer as uncluttered as possible – meaning that it will run faster, optimizing your work time.
The top three suggestions are to:
- Uninstall unused software;
- Clean-up the “stuff” that gets left behind when you remove software; and
- Run an anti-virus utility regularly.
The post offers suggestions about two free clean-up applications: Glary Utilities and CCleaner. My VA tried CCleaner after uninstalling some never-used programs, and she found that it truly did speed up the performance of her computer. This can have a major impact on efficiancy if you spend hours a day on the computer, as she does!
One other area to de-clutter, according to LJ, is your web browser. Here is a helpful post about de-cluttering Firefox, if that’s your browser of choice. While many of the Firefox extensions are very helpful, they can also slow you down!
Finally, I would also heartily recommend de-cluttering your desktop periodically. Opening up your computer to be faced immediately by a cluttered workspace can be very demoralizing. My advice is to use your desktop for items you’re currently focused on, and using folders and sub-folders to keep everything else organized and more in the background.
Do you find time to de-clutter your computer? Try doing a little bit of cleaning up once a month, and see how it goes for you! I’d love to hear what you try – and what you think!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
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Find Time for Your Entrepreneurial Success!
Posted on February 5, 2010, under Time and Energy.
Did you find time to hear Wednesday night’s EnergyRICH® Teleclass with Heather Dominick: “The 6-Figure Foundational Success Secret You Must Have As A Healer Coach or Heart-Centered Entrepreneur”? It was an amazing gathering of mastermind energy, and you can tap into that energy on the recording right here!
On the call, Heather got right to the heart of what it takes to Shift Entrepreneurial Fear, Gain the Commitment and to easily Move Your Prospects into joyful, high-paying clients. She also introduced participants to a special offer for the February 2010 EnergyRICH® Business Boot Camp, which is now ALMOST Sold Out (in BOTH time slots)! Heather doesn’t take more than 20 members in each time slot because it’s important to her that each ERBBC member receive intimate attention and energy.
You have until FRIDAY, February 5th to sign up for Heather’s ERBBC at the special rate of up to $100 off … and you can grab your special spot right away at this link!
“Before the EnergyRICH® Business Boot Camp I was frustrated with feeling like I had no control over my business and my success. I was always stressing out about how I’d be able to create the sales I really wanted and to have that support me financially. I felt uneasy when I talked to prospects, especially when it came to talking about price. And now, with Heather’s help, I have implemented the EnergyRICH® Prospects to Profits Process (P2P!).
With my P2P process set up, There is no longer any uneasiness at all about my rates and whether or not the prospect will become a paying client. Now that my P2P process is in place, I am actually excited from calls with prospects, and how I might help them! And I signed on 8 out of my original BC goal of 10 new clients!”
Fia, fearlesfaith.ca
If you weren’t able to make the call, don’t worry, the AUDIO is posted and ready for you. (Be sure to click “Play” and be ready to take notes – Heather gave away TONS of detailed info!) It’s an incredible call – you’ll want to hear it! Here’s what Heather covered:
- How to be sure the fear of selling disappears.
- How to be able to clearly communicate the value of what you’re here to offer. So much so that folks feel called to work with you!
- How to have an effective EnergyRICH® Selling process that is consistently getting you the results and the money that you deserve.
- How to have amped up EnergyRICH® materials that have people saying, “Yes, I want that!”
- What to do to have a process that you can use over and over because you know confidently that it works.
- A MUST: How to be confident in your marketing! So much so you are ready to be what Heather calls “Considerably Huge” … out in the world in a big, big way.
And as you listen, you’ll want to have your EnergyRICH® Success Sheet with you. You can download that here.
AND if you are ready to build your business from a place of serving, getting you results and leaving you feeling great about what you do … then I encourage you to check out this special offer (remember, it ends today). Click the link to learn more, and access your savings of up to $100 on the next EnergyRICH® Business Boot Camp!
Again, this special rate is only available until February 5th.
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
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Find Time to Stay True to Your Time Boundaries
Posted on February 4, 2010, under Ask Paula, Time Boundaries.
Finding time by setting time boundaries is a key component in your time management toolbox. But it’s not just a matter of setting those boundaries. You have to maintain them – and that’s not always easy!
Here’s a question that I received some time ago from Sara D in Maine:
“I have trouble maintaining the boundaries that I set around how I use my time. I set them and then I get talked out of them.”
This is not an uncommon problem by any means. Here are some quick tips that will help!
- Be sure to decide, before going into a discussion with others about your boundaries, whether or not the boundaries you have set are negotiable or non-negotiable.
- If they are negotiable, strive for a compromise that meets the needs of everyone involved.
- If they are non-negotiable, courteously explain in the beginning that these boundaries probably won’t be modified in the short term, and explain why.
It’s always important to enlist the support of others as much as possible. When you ask the people in your life to support your boundaries, it’s a good idea to also assure them that you will be open to discussing and perhaps modifying your Boundaries if (or when) your current time requirements change.
This builds in room for flexibility down the road, and may be helpful to everyone (yourself included, perhaps) in respecting the boundary right NOW!
What do you think? Are you using time boundaries and staying true to them? Please feel invited to drop me a line – I’d love to hear … and respond!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
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Find Time to Be in Charge of Your Time (Rather than Vice Versa)!
Posted on February 3, 2010, under Time Choices.
Finding time to step up and take charge of your time is the path to learning that 24-hours really are enough! Rather than feeling trapped by the ticking clock, when you are in charge of your time you live each tick (and tock) to its fullest. The finiteness of time isn’t something you experience as scarcity so much as a quality that highlights and elevates the importance of each moment!
So, being in charge is all about being proactive and focused, and about asserting and maintaining your boundaries.
My friend and colleague Maggie McCauley recently wrote a wonderful blog post about this. It’s titled The Simple Secret To Taking Charge Of Your Time and in it she offers lots of very helpful, concrete tips while encouraging us to think in terms of abundance, rather than scarcity, and take charge of the time we have each day!
Maggie includes a list of 12 tips, and notes:
When you are always in a rush, a slave to clocks and watches you are allowing time to manage you. When your day planner is overflowing because you’ve said “yes” to every interesting event or project, it’s all scheduled back to back with no space in between to breathe and life’s “unexpected interruptions” are not taken into account you have given time all the control. There isn’t enough time because you haven’t added in enough space in between events.
I’d like to highlight just one of her tips for you right now – a very concrete and grounding one: “Learn to time yourself with tasks.”
It’s tip #11, and I think if you try it you’ll find it very eye-opening. A BIG part of the reason so many of us feel short on time is that we don’t give ourselves enough of it – because we don’t know how long our everyday tasks actually take. I bet if you try this, you’ll find that you are setting yourself up to be behind, right from your first task of the morning!
Here’s a challenge … pick a day this week or next, and time your activities. Keep track, and see what you discover! Oh, and please feel invited to drop me a line – I’d love to hear about what you find!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
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Finding Time for January’s Time Finder Favorites!
Posted on February 2, 2010, under Time After Time.
Finding time to review the Time Finder posts that caught your eye during the previous month is always an interesting window on readers’ time choices, priorities, and challenges. January’s favorites seem to reflect the excitement and resolve of starting a New Year, along with some of the concerns and realities of our current economic situation. Here are the details!
At number one we have a perennial favorite: Finding Time by Being Flexible-3 Timely Tips! Do you sometimes feel challenged when you need to shift gears? You might want to check out these 3 tips and try approaching flexibility in a new way in 2010!
The second most popular post was one titled Find Focus by Culling Your Basket of Time in 2010. It built on this sage advice from Sidney Howard: “One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
Have you managed to cut back? Is your basket of time still overflowing? Maybe you’ll want to take another look at this post!
Find Time to Find Your Financial Baseline and Take Charge is another perennial favorite and a reflection of our precarious financial times. “As with so many other things, taking the time to pause, pay attention, look around, and find your baseline is the necessary first step. Also imperative is that this be done, not with self critical eyes, but with fully open, compassionate eyes.” This is great advice, no matter what you’re looking at – and especially helpful with something as important and as laden as money!
Fourth on our list of January favorites was a post that’s timely as we launch into 2010: Find Time to Strive for Excellence … Not Perfection! Is this a challenge for you? (It can be for me!) I particularly love this quote from Harriet Braiker: “Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.”
Rounding out our list of favorites was a post for busy times: Finding Time When You Are on Overload-3 Tips. You’ll want to review these tips for getting back on track when your stress level gets high and overwhelm begins to take hold!
What was your favorite Time Finder post this past month? Is it on the list? Something different? Let me know … I love hearing from you!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
Let’s explore time together …
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Find Time for Some Resolution Remedies from Solo-E this Cyber Monday!
Posted on February 1, 2010, under Time Management Skills, Time and Technology.
This Cyber Monday I want to draw your attention to a very special offer from Solo-E that is available through Friday, February 5th!
Not familiar with Solo-E? Founded in 2003 by Terri Zwierzynski, Solo-E is a virtual learning resource (and vibrant community) for solo entrepreneurs!
They are hosting a one-of-a-kind event that couldn’t be more timely … the Post Resolution Hangover giveaway. This isn’t your typical giveaway … each item is a real product that you normally would have to pay to get. The value of each item is the price at which it sells today … and as you’ll see, there are some very valuable products available, both from a monetary and an information point of view!
The gifts include ebooks, audios, home-study packages and more. Here are just a few samples:
- 101 Ways to Attract Clients,
- Create Your Second Life After 40,
- The Social Media Content Creation Kit,
- Building a Strong Brand in a Weak Economy,
- How to Move Through Fear for More Money;
- From Drab to Dynamic,
- The Finding Time Quick-Start Guide (yes, that’s us), and lots more.
Here’s how it works:
Up until February 5th, you are invited to visit the Post Holiday Hangover Remedy Page and gain immediate access to these incredible resources to help cure your Resolution Hangover, provided exclusively by solo entrepreneur gurus including: Alicia Forest, Ann Ronan, Loren Fogelman, Tracey Lawton, Allison Babb, Tina Forsyth, Rebecca Zwar, Christine Gallagher, Lou Bortone, Heather Dominick, Laurie Weiss, Laurie Mandato, Zahra Efan, Hazel Palache, Laura West, Eva Gregory, Alicia Smith, Michele PW, Nina East and me!
When you go to the page, you’ll first see some additional free offers that you can sign up for. To receive any of those offers, you can select the ones of interest to you, and click “Submit.” Or, alternatively, if you want to go right to the Post Holiday Remedy page, bypassing these offers, just click on the “No Thanks” button and you’ll be taken straight to the download page…no strings!
The goal in the Post Resolution Hangover giveaway is to provide you value while supporting the growth of your business at the same time. The best part? Solo-E isn’t asking for anything in return — no email, no mailing address, nada. Just visit Post Holiday Hangover Remedy Page and download your gifts.
So join us, learn what the fuss is all about and at the same time gain immediate access to fantastic resources. Visit the Post Holiday Hangover Remedy Page – and please feel invited to drop me a line – I’d love to hear what gifts strike your fancy!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
Let’s explore time together …
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Finding Time to Ask Paula!
Posted on January 28, 2010, under Ask Paula.
This morning we’re introducing a new category to our blog here at The Time Finder – Ask Paula!
We anticipate that it will be a good spot to highlight questions (and comments) that come to us in response to blog posts and to our e-zine (which will be firing today a little before noontime ET, by the way)!
We’re looking forward to being able to expand on the already-lively dialogue in our Finding Time Community – and this is a great way to start!
So, to inaugurate Ask Paula, here’s a question from Bruce K. in California:
How do I know if my choices around time really do fit with my values?
What a great question! This is a topic that Heather Dominick actually touched on in our interview on Tuesday night.
In response to a question about making choices and taking risks, she suggested doing a body scan and noting where your feelings about a particular choice reside.
She went on to say that if you feel the energy of the choice in and around your heart, it is probably in sync with your values and core direction. If, on the other hand, the feelings are centered in your head, you may be over-thinking and forcing something.
To delve further into this – on a daily or weekly basis, ideally, I’d encourage you to step back and think about your values.
Then also, periodically, pause and assess how you are feeling about your time choices. Ask yourself:
How do I feel at the end of the day?
Do I feel satisfied?
Do I feel like I’ve accomplished something?
Or do I feel anxious or indecisive?
Do I think about the things I could have done or should have done?
The answer to these questions will tell you if your time choices fit into your values.
Knowing how you feel about your choices helps you see your priorities – and then you can tweak things, to bring them into better sync with your core values!
Do you have questions you’d like to Ask Paula? Please feel invited to drop me a line – I’d love to hear … and respond!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
Let’s explore time together …
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Find Time to Take Yourself and Your Business to the Next Level!
Posted on January 27, 2010, under Time Choices, Time and Energy.
Did you find time to join Heather Dominick and me last night as I interviewed Heather about The Time and Money Mistakes that Smart People Make? If you did, then you know what a dynamic and wise coach Heather is! So read on – because I want to share something very important with you …
I’m sure you sense that there is a monumental shift taking place in the world. You may have secretly begun to believe that this is a shift into greater darkness and experienced fear, worry and concern about what’s to come. There is a sense of doom and desperation circulating … but this is NOT the truth … the Truth is this shift is poised for major light.
My good friend and colleague, Heather Dominick – EnergyRICH® Entrepreneur Success and Master Coach, has a very clear answer to what’s currently plaguing the planet … it all comes down to a personal decision. This is the Universal Law of Free Will, the most powerful energetic principle that you can activate at any given time. And Heather has a powerful plan to help you to be able to do this in the most prosperous way.
Just imagine completing your very own EnergyRICH® Core Business Building Success Template right on a teleclass! So by the end of the call you walk away VERY clear about what’s missing in your mission and your marketing and how to step into 6-figure (and beyond) success that’s aligned with who you are and that will have you fast-tracked into modern marketing rather than relying on old-out-dated-past-paradigm marketing methods (so you can prosperously serve the world)
This shift into light is about YOU stepping out and up to be the magnificent person that you are! And Heather is going to give you an inner and outer plan that will show you EXACTLY how to do this on her next EnergyRICH®, revolutionary teleclass:
“The 6-Figure Foundational Success Secret You Must Have As A Healer Coach or Heart-Centered Entrepreneur”
Date: Feb 3rd 2010
Time: 1:30-3:30pm EASTERN
Sign up here! (affiliate link)
I am so confident of the high-value, high-impact information you will receive on this call! In addition to her incredible, inspirational energy Heather is known for her impeccable, easy to understand and implement information. (And if you heard our interview last night, or have participated in any of Heather’s other classes or groups, you absolutely know what I mean!)
I truly see this as a gift for you and highly recommend that you reserve your spot on this revolutionary interactive-training teleclass now by signing up here! (affiliate link)
This is the time for you to step into your highest self.
This is the time for you to serve those that you are meant to serve.
This is the time for you to receive your most prosperous reward.
Be sure to be on this call that is going to give you the exact foundational formula you need to be able to do this no matter what is happening for anyone else around you.
Your time is now.
This is a must be there teleclass. See you on this very special, unique call.
Oops, I almost forgot, Heather is truly one of the most generous coaches I know. She always freely gives of her time, her energy AND on this teleclass she will be giving away Cash Prizes! That’s right. Three of them. But you MUST be on the call to win. So be sure to reserve your special seat by signing up here! (affiliate link)
Are you ready to take the next step?
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for The Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and it provides you with key tools for your time success! Grab it and see how you can recharge your energy, reduce overwhelm and frustration, and come to learn that 24 hours really ARE enough!
Let’s explore time together …
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Find Time to Start Making Your Smartest Time and Money Choices Ever … Tonight!
Posted on January 26, 2010, under Time Choices.
I am SO excited to be kicking off my FREE EducationRich and HeartBased Interview Teleseries at 7PM ET TONIGHT! And I’m even more excited that my first interview is with EnergyRICH® Entrepreneur Success & Master Coach Heather Dominick!
Our topic? What are the Biggest Money and Time Mistakes Smart People Make? I’ll be asking Heather about her coaching experience and success secrets … as she has mentored people toward creating a healthy relationship with time and with money.
Do you feel chronically short on time and money? Are you struggling to keep your head above water? Well, you’re not alone – not at all! Are you ready to explore the many ways that your choices about time and money are intertwined … and start untying the knots?
And you know what? Therein lies the good news! That’s because, as intertwined as time and money can be, when you work to clear up your relationship with one, and start untying those knots, it usually affects the other as well!
Imagine how you’ll be able to fly once you’re unshackled from old fears and doubts. Picture what you can accomplish once you can confidently trust that you will always have enough!
So join us and kick start your year of abundance with LOTS of excellent insights and ideas about making your smartest time and money choices ever! Sign up for my interview with EnergyRICH® Entrepreneur Success & Master Coach Heather Dominick. That’s TONIGHT – Tuesday, January 26th … at 7PM ET!
Can you see your path to making different time and money choices for yourself? Join us on tonight’s call … and then let me know what you think … I’d love to hear!
What if you could find another hour every day? You can! You are invited to sign up for the Finding Time Success Kit. It’s FREE, and provides you with key tools for your time success!
Let’s explore time together …
And don’t forget – sign up for tonight’s call with Heather – you’ll be so glad you did!
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