Category: Time management

November 13, 2018

Do you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Are you working 70+ hours a week and feel like you are just treading water? You aren’t alone. After working with thousands of business owners over the past 25 […]

October 17, 2018

A lot of confusion with resume writing – and especially formatting – centers on dates. How far should you go back? Do you include months and years or just years? Should dates go on the left or right side? What […]

October 9, 2018

When it comes to calendar management, there’s no shortage of hacks and strategies to improve how you spend your time. For example, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh uses an email management system called “Yesterbox.” Amazon’s Jeff Bezos prevents wasteful meetings by […]

September 4, 2018

A big part of being successful at time management is being organized. But what if you happen to be a disorganized person? It’s nothing to be ashamed of. After all, you may have never been taught proper organizational skills or […]

August 24, 2018

There’s a lot to be said for being labeled as a workaholic. After all, we generally get a lot more done than everyone else. However, speaking from my own experience, I might be a workaholic out of necessity rather than […]

August 20, 2018

Time management can be defined in many ways, but what comes to mind for most is a definition similar to this one: Time management is the ability to plan and control how you spend the hours in your day to […]

August 13, 2018

Lots of people spend time coming up with budgets so they can improve their finances. Then they spend additional time tracking their finances and comparing everything to their budget. After that, they may tweak one or the other, and sometimes […]

August 10, 2018

Most people quite literally live by a clock. We eat, sleep, work, and play according to the passage of time. Clocks tell us when to get up in the morning and what time to get to work or school. Our […]

July 18, 2018

How does your workday end? Do you feel guilty about not getting enough done? Do you stretch yourself for another hour in an attempt to get more done? Or do you just pass out from exhaustion at midnight and close […]

June 22, 2018

Working from home is one of the most attractive parts of the freelance lifestyle. Away from the distractions of a traditional office, your productivity should naturally skyrocket. Right? Actually, that’s not always the case. While it is possible to be […]

June 12, 2018

Did you know that on average, every single one of us wastes 31 hours per month in unproductive meetings? I’m going to show you how to prevent that. Very early on at Stride Consulting, I searched for a process to […]

May 23, 2018

No matter how driven and hard-working you are, it’s very easy to get carried away and lose track of the time. This especially applies to small business owners who try to do as much as possible during their working day […]

May 14, 2018

There are three important factors that come together when determining the success of a project. These are, of course, quality, budget, and time. In this post, we are going to deal with the latter. After all, time management is one […]

May 10, 2018

I was annoyed. Seething. Here I was talking with a client that was demanding the impossible. It wasn’t the first time I had these types of conversations. I asked “When do you want delivery?” “Next week” was the reply. My […]

April 24, 2018

As a business owner, you run into one of two issues. The first is procrastinating because you think you have more time than you actually do. The second is thinking projects will take less time than they actually do. The […]

March 13, 2018

Now that we are a month into 2018, are you still looking for ways you can kick-start your business successes, sales and marketing wins? One of the best ways is by really being intentional about where you spend your time. […]

February 16, 2018

One of the greatest ways that you can improve your daily productivity is to cut out habits that drain your motivation. They give you less energy to tackle the day and decrease happiness levels. The challenge is that life is […]

January 31, 2018

How many times have you answered “How are you?” with “I’ve been really busy”? American culture prizes busyness. We associate activity with success — regardless of whether that activity is actually productive. Curiously, we also associate stress with success. When […]

January 24, 2018

So many things to do and not enough time. This seems to be a common problem amongst working individuals today. Sometimes it’s true, you may just have too many things on your plate. However most of the time the problem […]

January 9, 2018

I coach a lot of small business owners who just quit their jobs to work for themselves full-time. One of the questions I get asked the most is tips for structuring your workday for productivity. Up until this point, they […]