The Accountability Minute:Business Acceleration|Productivity

After recording 2,887 episodes in a row of The Accountability Minute without missing a single day, I’ve decided it’s time to practice what I teach.   And that means taking a short pause.   As much as I love being here for you every day, encouraging you, challenging you, and helping you stay focused on your highest payoff activities, I also know that rest, renewal, and stepping away for a bit are e...

Even The Accountability Coach Needs a Pause After recording 2,887 episodes in a row of The Accountability Minute without missing a single day, I’ve decided it’s time to practice what I teach.   And that means taking a short pause.   As much as I love being here for you every day, encouraging you, challenging you, and helping you stay focused on your highest payoff activities, I also know that rest...

Even The Accountability Coach Needs a Pause After recording 2,887 episodes in a row of The Accountability Minute without missing a single day, I’ve decided it’s time to practice what I teach.   And that means taking a short pause.   As much as I love being here for you every day, encouraging you, challenging you, and helping you stay focused on your highest payoff activities, I also know that rest...

To help you be even more effective and efficient, so you can achieve your goals at an accelerated rate, it’s my guess that you can delegate even more to your team members than you have or might think possible. Stop holding on to things that can be done by someone else and do only those activities that you can do and can’t be done by anyone else. Stop doing revenue generation / business development...

Vision boards are inspirational collages of pictures and words that help engage your subconscious mind. These boards are a powerful way of activating the Law of Attraction to make your desires more attainable.   Let me share a few ideas about how you can activate the Law of Attraction to make your life and personal goals a reality: ·         Look, hold, and imagine your vision every night.  ·     ...

Vision boards are the perfect visualization tools that represent your ideal business and ideal life. These boards allow you to feel good about setting goals via pictures, images, and words.    This way, you can strengthen and stimulate your emotions, feel good about your future, and boost your chances of achieving all of your professional and personal goals.   To download my complimentary thought-...

Today, let’s explore a simple step-by-step guide to creating your perfect vision board. You will need to:  ·         Create an extensive list of goals you want to achieve in the coming years ·         Collect old magazines and catalogs with attractive pictures that inspire you ·         Find pictures online or lying around your home that represents your goals you want to achieve ·         Get rid...

The purpose of a vision board is to inspire and motivate you- it helps you breathe life to your goals. Thus, you can include anything that drives you to achieve your objectives.   Typically, vision boards help you achieve your goals in the following areas: ·         Career or Business ·         Finances ·         Home ·         Health, including emotional, physical, and mental ·         Relationsh...

Today, let’s explore the top 3 vision board ideas to help you in setting your goals.   1. Home and Family  Home and family vision boards include your family plans, values, and upcoming adventures.    You may even incorporate your desires to reinforce your relationship with your child (children), partner, parents, or grandkids.   2. Dream Job and Career Goals Since most of us are working to create...

Let’s talk about some items you will need on your vision board checklist to help you create your vision board: ·         Magazine cutouts, catalogs, postcards, old photos, and any symbol that represents your objectives to help create a collage of images ·         A large corkboard or posterboard  ·         Scissors ·         Glue, pins, thumbtacks, or magnets  ·         Ribbons, flowers, leaves, s...

As humans, we are more likely to remember something if we retrieve or recount it multiple times. Thus, repeatedly looking at your vision board helps you achieve your goals and dreams.   Here are some reasons you would want to create a vision board and keep it current: ·         Ensures you don’t get sidetracked ·         It helps you stay intentional about transforming your mindset ·         Keeps...

We are all guilty of making extensive lists of goals and resolutions. We all create plans, set goals, and make resolutions- but more often than not, our goals may not always be realistic, and our plans and resolutions fall apart.    Whenever our goal doesn’t go the way we planned, we feel defeated, hopeless, and unworthy. And then the next year comes around the corner, and we repeat the cycle.   ...

Vision boards are the perfect tool to picture your dreams and goals. Goal boards, dream boards, motivational boards, inspiration boards, and various other different types of vision boards serve the same purpose: to inspire, to motivate, to help you achieve great heights.     Vision boards help you set goals in two ways: 1.      Tap into your receptivity and imagine all that could and can be. These...

Having dreams and goals is an incredible thing; it keeps you motivated and gives you purpose. But without a well-thought-out plan, a goal rarely executes well. Planning is a fantastic way of staying focused on your goals and achieving personal greatness.    Vision boards are helpful and inspirational tools that make your dreams and goals feel more accessible. These boards can be a fun art project...

A vision board is a physical reminder of things you want to achieve in a specific timeframe. Typically, vision board ideas include photos, words, and virtually any other visual displays.       These boards act as a visualization tool to help you hit your personal, professional, and material goals. By placing visual representations of your dreams in one space, you can look at them daily and even ac...

In a survey of business professionals, when asked they consistently feel they waste approximately 2 hours a day, which translates to 10 hours a week, etc.  Let’s not focus on how much time is actually wasted as the focus needs to be on what you can do with the wasted time to generate even more money, work less, or do other things you really want to do.     Use a time log to help you know where you...

Today we are talking about a fifth way of the 5 ways to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Stick to Your Time Blocks.   The only constant thing in business is change. New activities arise every time that may require some flexibility or adjustments with your plans. Always pay attention to your priorities and set different hours to attend to these occurrences.   Make sur...

Today we are talking about a fourth way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Account for Every Hour.    When managing your time effectively with time blocks, ensure that every hour of the day is accounted for. This allows you to function at the highest possible level and complete every important task on your list.   As a general rule of thumb, you want to set time blo...

Today we are talking about a third way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Plan Your Day.   From your waking hour, it is essential to plan each hour of the day. Doing this allows you to focus on essential hours of the day where you perform optimally. Depending on their relevance, plan your first one or two crucial tasks in the block of time where you function the bes...

Today we are talking about a second way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Highlight Your Priorities.   What are the activities you need to carry out before the week runs out? What activities have a direct impact on the goals you have to achieve in the following week?   Highlight your most important goals and allocate time blocks to achieve these tasks first. For yo...

Today we are talking about 1 way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Develop Your List.    At the beginning or end of every day, it is essential to take stock of what you have done previously. You should know where you are with each task, and what you need to accomplish for the next day.   At the beginning of a new week, start by writing out everything you need to ac...

There is a shift in work ethics requirements from how much work is done to what results are produced at the end of each day. Because of this, multi-tasking has been exposed to present sub-par results in all tasks carried out simultaneously.    Placing a tunnel focus on few tasks and getting the best results through time blocking is the best choice for everyone.   Over the next 5 days, we will expl...

Effective time management is where time blocks come to the rescue.   The challenge you, as an entrepreneur, face is your inability to streamline your focus into a few high payoff tasks without getting distracted by other tasks to be completed.   Lack of focus becomes a problem because when you split your attention into all the tasks you have to complete. You won’t be able to complete any of them w...

As a business owner, the only real challenge you have is time. Time is a factor that stands against you due to its limited availability. There are only twenty-four hours in a day (8 to 10 hours for sleep, transportation, eating, and other chores to do). Due to this limited time, learning to manage your time effectively is the best way to reach your goals.   Time has a powerful impact on your overa...

The Art of Effective Delegation to Increase Your Productivity    When it comes to delegation, you must first, look at delegation of tasks to someone as an investment and not an expense.  If your current earnings as a business are only covering your business overhead and your personal expenses and not much else, unfortunately, you’re not in the ideal financial situation to delegate tasks.  However...