Small Business Success Strategies

For Busy Professionals: 10 EASY Time Management Tips

Stephanie Chandler, our official Small Business Growth Expert

If you feel like your life moves faster than a Nascar race, you’re not alone. We are living in a time where dual income families and single parent homes are the norm, a sharp contrast to the happy sitcom families we grew up watching on TV.

So how do you get everything accomplished when there are only 24 hours in a day? The first step is to reprioritize. Does it really matter if you’re house is immaculate? Does your family really need a 7-course meal on the table every night? Instead of spending time preparing an elaborate meal, wouldn’t you rather use that time with your family or to catch up on some R&R for yourself?

Regardless of how your priorities are defined, we could all use some extra time in the day. The following are some time management ideas that can help increase your productivity and improve the quality of your life. Try incorporating just a few of these ideas and see how it affects your life. You will be glad you did!

1. Turn your email off. It may be hard to break away from your constant communication with the world, but if you check email twice per day instead, you will be amazed by how much time you save. Specify specific time frames during the day that you will devote to email and stick to your schedule.

One Silicon Valley company recently implemented a No Email rule on Fridays. If you need a question answered, you have to pick up the phone or walk over to the person with the answer. While this may not always be the most productive solution, it drives home the point that we rely too heavily on email for our communication. When you stop letting it rule your life, your productivity will ultimately increase.

Read Stephanie's entire article 10 Easy Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals

How to Turn Your Ideas into Cash

Do you have an idea spinning inside your brain, but wonder if it could ever really make any money? You're not alone.

Thousands of folks have done it - really turned their ideas into cash.  But it's kind of a miracle, right?  I mean, these folks just got lucky breaks.  Surely.

Trust Your Heart: Transform Your Ideas into Income, the new book from IdeaMarketers.com showcases 19 very different individuals who once sat in the same spot you are.  Wanting to develop an idea and market it, but just wondering how.

This hot-off-the-press book reveals the stories behind real internet successes and shares how these individuals made their dreams come true.  I personally know and have worked alongside these contributors. They're the REAL DEAL. You'll also find my story included as well.

After reading, I guarantee you'll be inspired to get moving forward on your idea.  The truth is, anyone with the right formula can make their dreams reality.  Take a look at the blueprints these folks used to do just that.

Here's where you can get a copy of Trust Your Heart: Transform Your Ideas into Income on launch day (May 18, 2011). Right now you can get audio interviews from the contributors and find out how you can get your idea promoted to all the Trust Your Heart: Transform Your Ideas Into Income readers when you purchase the book on launch day! 

Work at Home Moms: Let Go of the Guilt

Many people who work from home know what it's like to get lost in "the zone" creating new things for their businesses. They also know what it's like to come out of this flow state and discover their homes transformed into what my mother refers to as a "pig sty."

Many view the chaotic wake left behind a flow state and berate themselves for neglecting their family or other responsibilities. Especially work at home moms tend to feel incredible guilt that they're bad mothers and that their businesses are robbing their family time. 

Still others become frustated when they can't always be "on." They'll have times when ideas and productivity are flowing, but then other times, they can't bring themselves to think of a single new idea or do what's necessary in their businesses. The following video outlines the stages of the creative process that every entrepreneur should know. Please know that the self-doubts and guilt-trips are rarely deserved! They are just part of the process – part of the natural ebb and flow.

In an upcoming course, I'll be teaching entrepreneurs how to minimize the chaotic wake and work with this cycle for a maximum business harvest. I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments and experiences about this cycle! Please leave your comments below.

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Conscious Business Development: The Golden Rule or the Rule of Gold Part 1

The purpose of this article series is to give you the tools you need to make more money -- double your income in a very short amount of time through business development-- ninety days or less, and thus give you the ability to make a difference in the world.

Everyone has something within them that is their assignment to bring to the world and this is mine: The knowledge of how to use and how to measure thought energy as it influences daily life, specifically business strategy and business development activities.

Intentional use and mastery of thought is the only strategic advantage in business and is first and foremost a development and harnessing of consciousness with corresponding application of the energy of thought to meaningful key indicators.

Read Dawn's entire article Conscious Business Development: The Golden Rule or the Rule of Gold Part 1

Dawn Todd, our official Business Development Expert