by Hawkins | Oct 21, 2010 | General, Habits, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Being a time management coach I’ve seen many people challenged with many things over the years when it comes to managing their time. For some it’s the distracting, disorganized environment that makes things challenging; some don’t know their personal energy cycles,...
by Hawkins | Oct 19, 2010 | General, Habits, Productivity, Time Management
Life is all about how we relate to the things and people around us. Our friends and family, how we do business, everything is based upon relationships and those relationships impact everything. The same is so when it comes to time. Our relationship with time impacts...
by Hawkins | Oct 17, 2010 | General, Habits, Productivity, Time Management
Recently I’ve found myself observing a few situations where people were wasting other people’s time and even found myself in a situation where someone was wasting my time and needless to say, I wasn’t happy about it. I started to think of the...
by Hawkins | Sep 20, 2010 | General, Goal Setting, goals, Habits, multitasking, Procrastination, Productivity, Workplace productivity
There’s one more way to use procrastination as a stepping stone. We can do nothing. Yes, I said do nothing. Our tendency is to push ourselves and to push hard. We don’t slow down, so there’s no down time. We need to be clear about what we want to accomplish...
by Hawkins | Sep 14, 2010 | General, Goal Setting, goals, Habits, multitasking, Procrastination, Productivity, Workplace productivity
Consciously Procrastinating As I mentioned in my last post, there are things that you can do to use procrastination as a stepping stone. The first way is to consciously put something off. If you look at your to-do list, you’ll probably see some things there that...
by Hawkins | Aug 18, 2010 | General, Habits, Productivity, Routines, Time Management
You’ve probably heard of Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Those principles if established as habits help the reader become more effective. Let’s take a look at them. Habit 1: Be Proactive-take responsibility for every aspect of...