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To Do Lists Are Not For Everyone – Creative Ways To Manage Your Time, Reduce Stress and Get More Done

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jennifer Hazlett | 1 Comments

If you don’t follow a schedule you may start your day by sitting down at your desk wondering what you will do today. You will not be productive and likely not accomplish anything important. Let’s say you start with checking email and get sidetracked forgetting the world outside of your inbox exists. Then you go on Facebook to get in…

How To Beat The February Blues

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Jennifer Hazlett | 1 Comments

If you live in a climate with long, cold winters, then you know all about the February Blues or ‘Blahs’. It’s the time of year when we’ve had enough of hibernating inside away from the cold and often dreary outdoors, short days and lack of sunshine. As solopreneurs we spend a lot of time on our own as it is…

3 Simple Ways To Add Time To Your Day

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Jennifer Hazlett | 3 Comments

As a small business owner there is usually one activity that you find you are spending (or wasting) too much time on. This activity is probably a necessary part of your business, however, it is preventing you from getting to the really important stuff. What is your top time waster? What is it that you always seem to get stuck…

How To Successfully Market Your Business With A Pink Spoon

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Jennifer Hazlett | 1 Comments

If you have ever signed up on a website to receive information in the form of a free report, newsletter or ebook and had this delivered to your inbox, you have experienced the pink spoon. A pink spoon is a ‘free taste’ of what a business has to offer. It is like the ice cream franchise that offers potential customers…

The Top 7 Reasons You Don’t Have Time For What’s Important

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

One of the most common challenges I hear from small business owners is that they do not have enough time to focus on what’s really important in their business. In order to solve this problem you first have to determine why this is a challenge. Once this is clear, you can look at strategies to help you manage the little…

3 Simple Solutions to Clutter Control

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Do you have a process you follow that keeps your home office organized? Do you document your expenses monthly or throw your receipts into a shoebox? When tax time comes, will your records be in order? Do you manage your emails daily or is your inbox out of control? It is much easier to maintain your office and manage your…

Out With The Old, In With The New

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Professional Organizers recommend that for every new item you bring into your home or office, you remove an old item. This makes complete sense and I recommend that you adopt this rule. You avoid collecting clutter with this process. For those of you that have already accumulated clutter, there’s no time like the present to purge and organize and gain…

3 Simple Ways to Consistently Grow Your Business

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Business owners can get stuck in the area of Revenue Generating activities. This initially seems like a good thing, however, it’s important to devote time to other aspects of running a business to enable you and your business to grow and prosper and the cycle of Revenue Generating activities to continue. Business Development is one of those areas. Here is…

Perception Is Everything When It Comes To Time Management

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Why is it that when we have to complete something in record time we are able to, however, when we have one week to complete the same assignment, it takes us a full 7 days? I came across an article lately discussing time management with a reference to Parkinson’s Law and our perception of time. Parkinson’s Law is defined as…

5 Key Focus Areas Of A Successful Home Based Business

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

A maze puzzle is symbolic to taking our businesses on the path to reaching goals. From start (building), there is no direct route (growing) to finish (your goals) but rather twists and turns and some backtracking along the way. Your schedule is like your plan through that maze. When you take the time to contemplate your route and map it…