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Overcome Procrastination and Create the Life You Want

Far too many people feel that they are unable to overcome procrastination, but doing so, will make a massive difference to your life. Procrastination may be stopping you living the life you want to live. How often do you find yourself putting off tasks and activities that you want or need to complete? Although you […]

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I am comfortable delegating tasks that do not fit my schedule.

So as a business owner, entrepreneur or independent professional, how comfortable are you at delegating tasks? If you’re not how are you feeling at the end of this week? Joyous and happy because it’s been productive and you have made progress towards your goals and dreams. Or has it been one of those weeks that […]

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Why Waiting for The Right Time Can Be a Mistake?

Are you waiting to start something? Are you waiting for the right time to launch your grand plan? When exactly will that right time be? Unfortunately, I have some bad news for you, the time will never be right.  We don’t like to wait in line, but we’re more than content to wait for some […]

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5 Ways To Increase Your Productivity Anytime

I know it’s easy for me to say but I firmly believe that it’s possible for you to increase your productivity and to help you here are five productivity tips that you can implement anywhere. Use them at work, use them at home… if you’re really keen and crazy enough, use them on vacation. They […]

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How to use the Pareto Principle to create the life you desire

If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you will know that I’m a great fan of the Pareto Principle or as it is more commonly known the 80/20 rule. The Pareto Principle is the idea that 80% of your results come from 20% of your actions. You wear 20% of […]

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Use the last half-hour of your day to plan tomorrow

Whether you work in an office or at home, your last task of the day should be to plan tomorrow. Before you close the office door, take some time to look at what you’ve accomplished during the day and plan tomorrow. Why plan tomorrow Many people waste a significant amount of time first thing in […]

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Prioritization eliminates procrastination

Prioritization eliminates procrastination, it is a a key weapon in the battle against procrastination and mediocrity because it allows you to constantly produce excellence. Make a choice as go into the new week and choose to prioritize your activities and organise yourself with a plan of action, and get right to work so that you […]

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Balancing Business and Family – It All Starts With Goals

Today I continue a series of posts that is designed to help you with the process of balancing business and family in a way that enables you to feel fulfilled and guilt free. To be clear we are still talking about the the process of identifying your goals and objectives so that you’re always taking […]

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Big Rocks and Time Management

In a recent post How to Build Your Time Management House I wrote that when building your time management house, it needs to be built on two solid foundations: the first of which is the need to fully understand your goals and objectives as this will make sure that you’re able to prioritise your actions, […]

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How to Slow Down and Achieve More in Less Time

In todays, fast paced, high tech environment, we’re all expected to achieve more in less time and as a result, more and more people find themselves feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and maybe feel pressured or perhaps put pressure on themselves to do more and more. Are you one of them? Over the last few days, […]

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