Here’s a sampling of our top posts from the past month, based on YOUR votes (visits)!

Finding Time for Google Plus – Timely Resources This Cyber Monday came in at #1 – just as it seems to be doing on the web!  Have you tried it yet?  What do you think of it?

With the power of Google behind it, it’s hard to see how anyone wanting to boost his or her presence on the web could NOT jump on the Google Plus bandwagon.  While there remain controversies about how Google Plus is embedded in Google search results, it seems clear that this is a social-networking tool that is going to stick around (unlike some earlier attempts by Google).

Self Care was the topic for our second-most-read post:  Find Time to Give Yourself Exactly What You Need Every Single Day!

How often do you feel like you’re running against a stopwatch and depleting yourself in the process?

Don’t you sometimes wish that someone would come along and give you whatever it is that you need in that moment?

Well, the good news is, that “someone” is YOU!

Find Time to Nourish Your Courage with Love: Today’s Timely Tip was your third favorite post, followed closely by some other courage posts:

• Find Time to Build Your Brave Muscles With a Daily Courage Workout
• Find Time to Cultivate Courage-Today’s Timely Tip
• Find Time and Courage to Move Ahead by Letting Go: 3 Timely Tips

Here’s one timely passage from that last post – about moving ahead by letting go.  A thought for today:

Finding time is all about saying No to one thing to say Yes to another, as I often say.  The No that you say to one thing is what actually makes your Yes to something else possible, and meaningful.  It’s all about how you make your time choices.

So, let’s pause for a moment.  How do you feel about your time choices so far today?  Don’t come from a critical place or you’ll clam up.  Just let yourself feel.

Are there choices you’d like to change?  Most of us are going to say yes to that … but before you start thinking about how you want to change those choices, let’s pause again.

Ask yourself, what is it that, for YOU, leads you to want to change how you use your time?

Want to learn more about how you can expand and deepen your time and efforts … in whatever areas you choose? Here’s a great way to explore avenues to increasing your time skills and heart-based power – whether it’s in your business, or your personal life.  I am so pleased to be able to offer my expertise and support as The Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to “Time Management”.

You can visit by clicking the link, and when you do you’ll find lots of time management articles by experts in the field, along with a vibrant and welcoming on-line community. Stop by my Expert Page and leave a comment or question … or just say hello.  There are lots of ways to connect … I’d love to get started!

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So, what Time Finder posts piqued your interest in December?

Topping the list was a tech tip from early December titled Find Time to Explore the New and Improved Google Analytics: Timely Resources.  If you didn’t catch it, you will want to take a look, because the old version of Analytics was slated to no longer be available after 1/1/12.

So, now is the perfect time to delve into this powerful tool, learn about the new-and-improved version, and make sure that you have everything set up properly on the blogs and websites that you want to track.

If perfectionism is something that trips you up, you will want to check out our #2 post – Find Time to Free Yourself from the Perfectionism Trap-Your Heart Holds the Keys! – and explore the powerful keys that you hold in your hands.

Beating perfectionism means knowing in your heart of hearts that you are plenty good enough and that what you create and offer to the world from your heart is a gift to be cherished!

The third top post for December was a fascinating look at going paperless.  If this is something you’re considering as you start the New Year, read Finding Time to Go Paperless: De-clutter with 3 Time and Productivity Tips to get started.

Many of the advantages of going paperless are self-evident. It cuts down on clutter, may help reduce your carbon footprint, and can make it easier to find important documents.  However, finding time to move in a paperless direction necessitates making some fundamental changes in the ways that you work.

The next post in our list of December favorites was Find Time to Thrive by Focusing on Your Minutes to Optimize Your Hours!  It’s a new look at how you can use your time optimally and move through overwhelm easily …

As you use your minutes to achieve small goals, you’ll find that your larger goals are accomplished in your hours. And you will be amazed at how this reduces your stress, worry and bother!

And last but not least, there were several posts with holiday advice that will serve you well no matter what time of year it is.  Check out 3 Heart-Based Time Management™ Tips to Help You Find Time for a Lion-Hearted Holiday! and learn why courage is key to finding time …

Courage offers clarity and confidence. When you let your heart guide you, your sense of direction is clear. You can enter the whirlwind of the season with your feet firmly planted on the ground. Your sense of self-worth centers you and your clarity gives you direction as you make time choices.

One last bit of news that I’m so pleased to share, as I look back at 2011, is that The Time Finder was, for the second year in a row, featured as one of the Top 50 Productivity Blogs of 2011 by Evan Carmichael.  We are excited about this terrific honor … and privileged to be part of Evan Carmichael’s fantastic collection of productivity blogs.  We have posted the badge in our sidebar, so that you can visit the collection whenever you want – it’s an excellent resource for productivity ideas, information and tools.

And if you are interested in learning more about the Heart-Based Path, here’s one way that you can transform and deepen your relationship to time in the Heart-Based Way … I invite you to explore Secrets of Heart-Based Time Management™ – my chapter in the book I co-authored - Stepping Stones to Success!  In it I share my proven system for exploring and harnessing the power of your mind, your body and your spirit to help you deepen your experience of time and of your life.

As you work with the ideas I offer, you’ll explore your patterns, clarify your values, identify and prioritize your goals … and create your path for achieving them.  You can give yourself the gift of this wonderful resource today, and get started on your journey toward success, Stepping Stone by Stepping Stone …just click this link to get the details!

Let’s explore time together …

In keeping with that heart-based sentiment, we always pause, as a new month begins, to look back at the blog posts that readers were drawn to in the previous month.

The top post for November was an empowering piece from early in the month titled “Finding Time To Know That Nothing is Lost.”

You see, it’s not what happens (or has happened) that matters, in the end. No, what defines us and shapes our path is how we respond along the way.

Next, coming in a close second, was one of our technological posts – this one about Posterous – titled “Find Time to Share Your Posts With the New and Improved Posterous.”  It enumerated some changes and improvements in Posterous, along with the introduction of Posterous Spaces:

Private sharing is part of what has driven these changes in Posterous. You can create spaces for sharing with family, with friends, with work groups. For online entrepreneurs, you might consider developing spaces for sharing teleclass material, product lines, you name it!

We invited readers, in November, to develop a morning ritual for themselves.  There were several posts that focused on this, and “Find Time to Create a Morning Ritual: The Heart-Based Way to Start Your Day!” was one that was especially popular.

Finding time to balance your energies is especially potent as you start your day. That’s why I warmly recommend that you create a morning ritual for yourself.

It needn’t be long or complex to be effective. What it provides is powerful grounding and a much-needed boost. Even 5, 10 or 15 minutes can help, so don’t tell yourself there’s not enough time … there is!

Gratitude was much on our minds here in the States, as we celebrated Thanksgiving and were warmed by appreciation for life’s gifts.  “Find Time for Gifts, Gratitude, and One Timely Tip for Busy Times” offered a very practical tip for navigating time challenges during the holiday season:

Tip: Compassionate curiosity can clarify priority conflicts in your schedule.

Action Step: Identify which time choices reflect your ambivalence about what matters most, and invite a friendly “conversation” amongst your options to arrive at a satisfying resolution.

And last (but not least) came a post from October that we loved then … and love still.  It’s titled “Finding Time for Feelings: It’s The Heart-Based Way” and it offers an excellent introduction to heart-based time management:

Finding time for feelings is as key a time management skill as you can ever develop. And yet, this is a subject that is rarely discussed in time management circles. I think that is because feelings are seen as “soft” and subjective — not measurable or scientific.

When you approach time management in a heart-based way, you include all the parts of you — mind, body, emotions, and spirit — in the equation. And that adds up to a lot!

So, are you interested in learning more about the Heart-Based Path as you move ahead this month?  Here’s one way that you can transform and deepen your relationship to time in the Heart-Based Way …

I invite you to explore Secrets of Heart-Based Time Management - my chapter in the book I co-authored - Stepping Stones to Success!  In it I share my proven system for exploring and harnessing the power of your mind, your body and your spirit to help you deepen your experience of time and of your life.

As you work with the ideas I offer, you’ll explore your patterns, clarify your values, identify and prioritize your goals … and create your path for achieving them.  You can give yourself the gift of this wonderful resource today, and get started on your journey toward success, Stepping Stone by Stepping Stone …just click this link to get the details!

Let’s explore time together …

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Here is a video that a friend recently shared.  I offer it to you from my heart, as we enter this holiday season in the Heart-Based way … enjoy!

What a great way to begin — opening your heart, deepening your experience, and living fully in each moment of your day.

… and are you interested in learning more about the Heart-Based Path as you explore ways to deepen, enhance and energize your relationship with time? 

I invite you to explore Secrets of Heart-Based Time Management - my chapter in the book I co-authored - Stepping Stones to Success!  In it I share my proven system for exploring and harnessing the power of your mind, your body and your spirit to help you deepen your experience of time and of your life.

As you work with the ideas I offer, you’ll explore your patterns, clarify your values, identify and prioritize your goals … and create your path for achieving them.  You can give yourself the gift of this wonderful resource today, and get started on your journey toward success, Stepping Stone by Stepping Stone …just click this link to get the details!

Let’s explore time together …

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When you look back and savor, you solidify and assimilate lessons learned.  You also have the opportunity to make choices about what to let go of and what to carry along on your journey.

These are powerful choices – and the wonderful news is that they are entirely in your hands!

When I look back and savor the month at The Time Finder, I am engaging in that same process … and here’s what I found about our readers’ favorite posts during October 2011 …

Topping the list was our post titled “Find Time for Your Feelings-When You Name Them You Claim Your Power!”

Work to be open and compassionate with yourself as you explore and identify your feelings. Remind yourself that there are no “bad” feelings – they simply are what they are. Once you are able to see them, you are able to make much more informed choices about how to respond to them.

Second … a very close second … was our companion post titled “Finding Time for Feelings: It’s The Heart-Based Way.”  These two posts, together, give you a helpful roadmap to empowering and energizing yourself so that you can live your moments with clarity and compassion.

When you approach time management in a heart-based way, you include all the parts of you – mind, body, emotions, and spirit – in the equation. And that adds up to a lot!

“Finding Time for Feelings-Move Ahead Powerfully by Looking Back” came in third for Time Finder readers.  Here’s a snippet of this post … you can’t go wrong when you explore your feelings …

Finding time for feelings is hands-down the most powerful time management skill that you can develop. Whether you are naming your feelings in the moment or looking back to find their roots, the moments that you spend exploring your emotions will energize you for whatever tasks you face.

Finishing fourth and fifth on our list of October favorites were two posts from the Time and Technology category:  “Find Time to Keep Track with Trackur on Cyber Monday” and “Find Time to Share Using Google Circles and Google +1: Timely Tech Tips”.  Did you find them helpful?  Want to check them out now?

There’s so much to explore!

So are you ready to move into November?  What will you bring … and what will you leave behind?

Stay tuned, there’s more to come as this new month unfolds.  In the meantime, if you’d like to explore ways to increase your power and effectiveness – whether it’s in your business, or your personal life … I am so pleased to be able to offer my expertise and support as The Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to “Time Management”.

You can visit by clicking the link, and when you do you’ll find lots of time management articles by experts in the field, along with a vibrant and welcoming on-line community. Stop by my Expert Page and leave a comment or question … or just say hello.  There are lots of ways to connect … I’d love to get started!

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Find Time to Keep Your Finger on Your Twitter Pulse-2 Twitter Tools looked at 2 tools that we’ve found to be very helpful, noting the challenge inherent in keeping up with a constantly evolving platform like Twitter:

Finding time to stay on top of your social networking efforts is an ongoing task that you can often make a little bit easier by keeping an eye on the innovations that are made available. For Twitter, in particular, there seems to be an almost constant stream of new applications geared to ease or extend every facet of your Twitter experience.

Find Time to Use What You Have: Heart-Based Productivity Tips looked at time choices – and the power that we hold in our hands, as we choose:

… think about “budgeting” your time. When you make a new time choice you pay for it by giving up another choice. In that, you are investing in something important to you and letting go of something less important. And you are exercising your power to change your life.

Every time you make a time choice, you change your life.

Check Your Grades on HubSpot and Increase Your Marketing Reach offers more excellent tech tools and resources.  Have you checked your grades yet?

Not only do they grade you on some key components that measure the effectiveness of your efforts, but they also offer very helpful, practical input that can increase your marketing reach. Along with many of their suggestions they provide a link with more information about how to implement the change that they recommend.

September is a transition month, and the seasonal change was a popular area to explore by readers who liked Find Time to Survive and Thrive Through Every Transition Time!

Transition time isn’t really a different kind of time, even though we all have a tendency to see it that way. In reality, we are always in transition. Whether it’s transitioning from sleep to wakefulness, vacation back to work, or winter to spring, we live each of our moments in transition time.

Just think about it: every in-breath is followed by an out-breath. Transition time is a part of us, right down to our cells. So why do we feel challenged by transitions?

And last but not least, September saw one ‘golden oldie’ continue to be very popular.  Check out Find Time to Amp Up Your Twefficiency with Buffer – A Twitter Tool! - “what it does is allow you to spread your tweets out, throughout the day, rather than swamping your followers with lots of tweets all at once.”  It can be a very helpful addition to your Twitter Toolbox.

Did you have a favorite that we missed?  Let me know - I’d love to share it with our readers!

And are you interested in deepening your relationship to time in the Heart-Based Way?  Then, I invite you to explore Secrets of Heart-Based Time Management - my chapter in the book I co-authored - Stepping Stones to Success!  In it I share my proven system for exploring and harnessing the power of your mind, your body and your spirit to help you deepen your experience of time and of your life.  As you work with the ideas I offer, you’ll explore your patterns, clarify your values, identify and prioritize your goals … and create your path for achieving them.  You can give yourself the gift of this wonderful resource today, and get started on your journey toward success, Stepping Stone by Stepping Stone …just click this link to get the details!

Let’s explore time together …

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