There’s a lot of discussion these days about work/life balance. We all know what a challenge it is to juggle the often conflicting demands of earning a living, fulfilling job responsibilities, making a home, looking after family or loved ones, and trying to stay healthy in the midst of it! So where is the “me” time in all of that? And how do you go about making some quality time for yourself?

The problem…

Often, taking time out for yourself is seen as the very lowest priority. There’s a perception that it’s somehow selfish or a luxury. But it’s actually essential to your health and wellbeing — no matter what your “job” in life is. Making “me” time can be hard for everyone. Women may have been brought up with the belief that they must be selfless and always put the needs of their children, partner, parents or even their employer ahead of their own. And a common issue for men is falling into the trap of spending long hours at work, in order to excel in their chosen profession, and then feeling guilty about not spending enough time at home.

My client, “Pete”, was struggling with just this issue. In his early 40s, he had reached a major crossroads in his career and had come to me for coaching to get some clarity and make decisions about what direction to take. Pete was happily married, with a young family, and did his best to spend as much time as possible with them. He lived a busy but pretty healthy lifestyle, keeping fit and staying in touch with friends. So he had actually accomplished a lot of the things he thought he wanted in his life.

But, when we talked, it became apparent that Pete was secretly feeling empty and unfulfilled and he was doing some real soul searching to try and figure out why. He thought that finding the “right” job was going to solve things. Yet, as we delved a bit deeper, he realised that what was really missing in his life was a spiritual dimension. He was not a religious person — he simply yearned for more depth and meaning in his life, more of an understanding of himself and his purpose.

The solution…

Now, what to do about this? Pete’s dilemma is a common one. It’s tempting to look for an external solution, yet this is actually about an internal journey we each need to make for ourselves. You may think that finding the perfect partner or home, earning enough money or, as in Pete’s case, taking the right job, is going to be the missing piece of the jigsaw that will make your life work. But it’s the other way around. By tuning into yourself, and coming to understand your unique purpose, the elements of your life progressively come into alignment and start to gel in a deeply satisfying way. It’s not necessarily about adding a whole lot of new stuff to your life.

Pete came to realise that he needed to regularly spend some time by himself. This wasn’t something he’d previously thought was important. He became really drawn to the idea of meditation, but didn’t think he could fit one more thing into his life. I suggested he do the simple exercise of mapping his activities in a typical week. Was there any time in there that he spent on his own? Actually, yes there was. He took the dog for a walk most mornings. So, instead of trying to squeeze meditation in as a new activity, I suggested that he try using the existing activity of walking the dog as a form of meditation.

This had never occurred to him before — he thought that meditation required sitting or lying down in a quite formal practice. But it doesn’t. Just getting out into nature is great. Meditation is about being by yourself, allowing your mind to settle, and getting into your own rhythm — the inflow and outflow of your breath, feeling the warmth of the sun and the breeze on your face. Simply being present… and allowing yourself to simply BE.

After only a few weeks of doing this, Pete reported that he was feeling calmer and more centred, and he started following his inner guidance in shaping the direction of his career. His wife, noticing the positive difference it was making for him, began to also take some time out for herself. They decided to create a corner in their house that was for “quiet time” — an armchair by the window, and a small sidetable beside it with a candle and a few other meaningful items placed on it. A simple thing to do, but one which made a profound difference to their whole family.

Try it for yourself…

Why not try this for yourself? Make a list of your usual activities across the week and see if there’s time in there that you could use differently. Walking the dog is just one idea. When do you get to spend time on your own? Maybe you can go and sit in the park at lunchtime a couple of times a week, instead of always eating lunch on the run, going out with others or sitting at your desk. Or go and sit in the garden with a cup of tea when the baby’s asleep, rather than putting through that load of washing. Make a quiet corner in your home… Remember, taking care of yourself is important too!

Copyright © 2006 Judith Waller

Judith Waller is a spiritually-oriented professional coach and writer who helps people create soul-fully rich and fabulous lives. Go to http://www.soulbuilder.com.au/ to sign up for her ezine and get a free copy of her ebook “Living in Bliss! 10 secrets of a soul-full life.”

Are you at a job where you are paid by the hour? If you are trading your precious hours for dollars you are probably not making the best use of your time or your knowledge.

I started working during the summer that I turned twelve. My family wouldn’t let me work alone so I had partners. I had two part-time jobs. The first job was babysitting. My partner was my best fried, a girl named Debbie. Debbie and I hand printed cards and flyers advertising our service. We would baby-sit for up to three children for $2 per hour. We had many people in the neighborhood that used our services and we prided ourselves in doing a good job. We changed diapers, prepared food, played with the children, took them to the park, and made sure they took a nap. We followed any direction that the parents left for us and followed their rules to the letter. The parents loved us and used our services any time they had to be away for a few hours and needed to leave their children. At the end of the summer we had each made about $100.

My other job was mowing lawns. My partner for this endeavor was Tim, the boy next door. His father let us use his older lawn mower and we promised to take care of it and always keep it filled with gasoline. Again, many neighbors wanted our service. Boys don’t like fancy cards or flyers so Tim and I just told people what we were doing and they told the others in the neighborhood. We charged anywhere between $10 and $20 to mow a lawn front and back, depending on how big the yard was. We also picked up any dead leaves or branches and put everything into their trash can. Sometimes the people would buy some flowers and we offered to plant them for an additional $2 to $5, depending on how many they had bought. We only had one lawn mower, so we took turns. When one of us was mowing the other would fill up the trash can, plant flowers, or hose down the cut grass to make it look better. Unlike baby-sitting, we could mow the grass whenever we had the time and desire. As long as we did it by the end of the week the customers were happy. It took varying amounts of time to complete a yard but usually we could finish an average sized one in about two hours. At the end of the summer Tim and I had each made about $220.

There is a huge difference between $100 and $220. But the real difference was that with baby-sitting Debbie and I were trading our hours for the parents’ dollars. We each made $1 an hour at the rate we were charging. There were many other girls who could have done the job in the same way that we were doing it so we couldn’t charge more than we were getting paid.

With the lawn mowing business Tim and I were being paid to complete a specific task. Our rate was only slightly less than what professional gardeners were charging. We were also able to add additional services like planting flowers and receive more money. During the summer grass has to be cut more frequently so we knew that certain people would want us to come even more often than once a week.

Also, my family went on vacation for a week and Tim’s older brother helped him during that time. The customers were still happy because the job was completed whether I was doing it or someone else was working. With the baby-sitting job the parents were not happy when I was gone because the children had become used to Debbie and I and how we did things.

The point is this. If you can find a way to make money where you are paid to complete a specific task rather than to work for a specific number of hours you will make more money and have a more flexible schedule. Maybe you have never thought of your job in this way. Think about it for awhile and watch how your thinking changes.

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When it comes to experiencing more success with less stress, I often work with my clients on “getting out of your own way.” There are lots of ways we get in our own way of success. Although I can’t address all of them here, I will share one with you that will have a major impact on your time: “The 90% Rule.”

What is the 90% Rule? The 90% Rule is the most important rule a perfectionist can have in her toolbox.

Most professionals and small business owners are perfectionists. You want to do things “just right.” In fact, you probably are spending excessive time trying to do various tasks just right.

Consider that if you can do a task to a 90% level of perfection in 4 hours versus a 100% level of perfection in 7 hours, you save yourself 3 hours by applying the 90% Rule. That’s a lot of time!

Perfectionists love the 90% rule. Why? If you recall from college, 90% is still an ‘A.’

What is even better than the 90% Rule? The 70% Rule. 70% is a ‘C’. Recall, that a ‘C’ is average.

Not all tasks that you do in a given day require 100% from you. Which tasks can you give 90% on and still be doing an excellent job? Which tasks can you give 70% on and still be doing an average job?

Try this Coach’s Success Challenge:

List all of the tasks you do in a given week.

Place an “*” by the tasks that require 100% from you.

Place a check mark by the tasks that can be done to a 90% level of perfection.

Place a “-” by the tasks that can be done to a 70% level of perfection.

Use your list as a reminder to yourself that you don’t have to work so hard. Use the list to remind yourself to clear the obstacle of perfectionism from your path to success.

Of course, a lot of your work will still require 100% from you. However, if you get clear on which tasks can be done sufficiently with less time and effort, you make your work a lot less stressful. You free up more time for what is most important to you!

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What could be more stressful than not having enough time? The day comes and goes and you still didn’t get even half the things done that you had intended to get done. So how exactly do you manage this elusive thing called time? Actually, you don’t. Time can’t be managed. Time just is. (In fact, time is not what you think, but that’s for another article.) So the title of this article is a bit misleading, but it’s named as such because most people still believe it’s TIME they need to manage, when in truth it’s really ACTIVITIES that they must manage.

Step One

The first step is to sort out all the helpful, goal-oriented activities from the dead-end activities. And by the way, don’t list the activities you always do, like getting out of bed, eating breakfast, etc. Those you already know you’re going to do, and they are part of your routine. The activities I want you to concentrate on are the ones that are unquestionably linked to a big and spectacular goal.

For example, if your spectacular goal is to earn at least $300,000 this year, then what activities in your daily life are supporting that goal? Reading a book about your particular industry, or taking a seminar in goal setting, or replacing watching a TV show with going to the library and looking up information on how to write a business plan would be definite and constructive goal-oriented activities.

So weed out on paper the activities that are non-supportive from the activities that are fully supportive. You might be amazed at all the non-supportive activities that have been filling up your busy days.

Step Two

Once you have your list on paper, take a look at the supportive activities and add to them or amplify them to really target your goal-oriented direction.

For example, let’s say you have on your list that you read every evening. That’s great, because that’s a possible way of expanding yourself and your knowledge. However, if the book is a comic book, it might not be helpful towards your goal of making at least $300,000 this year (unless, of course, you’re a comic book writer, artist, or store owner!), but if you exchange that comic book for a book about your industry, or a successful person’s biography, or some other related material, then you are in alignment with your goal.

Step Three

Now, of all those goal-oriented and supportive activities, choose the six most important ones that must be done first—the ones that are the first steps of an enormous goal. (Remember, the longest journey always begins with a single step!) You should be able to complete all six activities within a single day. Of those six most important activities, decide which should be done first, second, and so on, so that all six activities are in their order of importance.

Write these six activities on a blank sheet of paper, in their order of importance, and begin work on the first one. Only go on to the second one when the first one is complete. If you don’t finish the entire list in one day, let it roll over to the next day, adding the next activities so that you always have a list of six most important things to do in a day. Make sure to carry this list with you so that you can always remind yourself of what comes next on your list.

Follow this strategy for at least a month, every day, and you will change your life.

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Kim Markison is a master hypnotherapist. Her lifelong path is to teach and show everyone how powerful and extraordinary they really are. To align with that path and purpose, she is creating unique, empowering hypnosis meditations for HypnoFreedom. Each one is designed for complete relaxation and stress relief, so no matter which one you listen to, you will always arrive at the center of your being to safely enjoy who you truly are.

Time is such a valuable resource, we can not store or recycle it, and once it is gone it is gone. As a small business owner, time is our most valuable resource. It will determine
(depending on its usage) our successes and failures. There is so much to do within our daily time frame: family obligations, cooking, cleaning, driving, reading, exercising, school, watching our favorite TV programs, contacting clients/customers, marketing, talking to friends, etc. How do you spend your time?

We all are responsible for managing our own time but what is Time Management?

According to the Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, time is defined as continuous measurable quantity in which events occur in apparently irreversible order. Management is defined as a practice or process of managing. Therefore, Time Management is the management of quantified events that are irreversible.

Irreversible! (Now, that’s deep)

But, can you really manage time? Are you able to say, “Time wait here and accomplish this project until I get back” or “Time can you work for an additional 2 hours today? Okay, I am being a bit facetious, but you get the point. We cannot manage time; we can only manage ourselves around the 24 hours we are given daily. You can waste it or use it to your advantage, but whatever you decide; it will continue to move with or without any actions on your part. And as the above definition states, your actions are irreversible.

Don’t start thinking about any time wasted in the past, start today to use your time wisely.
Successful people don’t waste time because they have discovered as Internet Marketer Alexanderia Brown stated, “Time Is The New Currency”.

© 2007 Bridgette Boudreaux

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Business Coach, Bridgette Boudreaux, teaches female small biz owners to get it all done in 6 hours or less daily!

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Yes I admit it I’m over-organised.

And if you want to stop drowning in a sea of “useful email”, “the must have ezine”, “the just in case email” or “blind copy email” you need to get your email organised too.

And it really doesn’t matter what email program you have because what I say applies to all the popular programs.

I like to put stuff where it belongs. And to that end I’ve organised all the ezines I subscribe to so that they automatically go into their own folder in Outlook.

Then all the other email I get goes into different folders, according to who sent it, what it’s about and whether it’s junk or not.

Setting up rules in Outlook has always been very simple, except I now have hundreds of rules.

What Rules Do I Use? I tend to stick to my favourites and the steps the rules go through are these:

1. Identify the email address or standard part of the subject heading on the email and use it to send to it’s own folder
2. For any ezine I’m no longer interested in - auto delete
3. For an email from a customer, supplier or business partner - flag it’s arrival and say who it’s from
4. Short-term rule check on Internet Marketing campaigns to set the read flag to yes so that I don’t bother looking at every email on a new campaign

What About Junk Mail?

Outlook has its own spam recognition aspect, however although I set it up to filter out various unsavoury and irritating emails quite a few still got through. I then looked at other 3rd party add ons for Outlook.

I tried Spambayes which picked out quite a few of the spam emails but not all of them. I then moved to ZoneAlarm (my personal firewall) which now offers junk mail checking too. I’ve found that Zonealarm picks out a lot more of the unwanted emails. The slight downside is that it does pick out some legitimate email too.

That said both these programs got rid of over 3,500 spam messages I never got round to reading or deleting.

Does Folder Organisation Help?

The simple answer is yes. The reason is that although I simply don’t have time to read all the marketing and selling information I can get from the Internet I can store it.

A picture of how my folders are set-up are shown on a related email advice post on my blog The picture shows about one fifth of the folders I’ve set-up to hold processed email. I also note a great book for helping to avoid email faux-pas and downright career or business-limiting mistakes.

Then when I have a particular aspect I’m interested in I can use the advanced search in Outlook to find other opinions on the subject.

These same principles apply in all the other email programs I’ve used over the years.

Jim Symcox is a business growth coach, copywriter, blogger and the author of “How to Leap Ahead Of Your Competitors”. He coaches Chet Holmes clients around the world.

See Jim’s blog on Business Growth and Marketing at http://www.business-powerpack.com it has over 500 posts on a variety of mainly business boosting topics.

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In many activities hesitation or procrastination means failure or death. When every second counts, you should not waste seconds. On the football field or any sport where you race against time the clock is your friend or your worst enemy. If you are racing the Boston Marathon and you are going for your personal best record or perhaps you are an outstanding athlete and going for the record then you know every single stride must be perfect and the most efficient.

Some people believe that if you get too far behind that you can make up the time. Although this makes sense it isn’t really true. Currently in this realm or this dimension that we live in once the time is gone you cannot go back, call it a time trap if you want, nevertheless you must respect the time you have during your life experience. Although life is not a race the analogy still fits.

If you are in a marathon and you stop to tie your shoe then you will lose 10 seconds and you might believe that you can make up this 10 seconds in the race, but in fact if you can make up the 10 seconds you should already be 10 seconds ahead. You cannot make up time when every second counts. In a footrace every second and every minute counts.

It amazes me the excuses people will make when they procrastinate or when they hesitate and they just say I’ll make it up later. That’s fine they probably will make it up only they will make it up on their personal time or on company time, but in the end it doesn’t matter if it’s personal or company time because it is still time and if you waste time you lose it forever. I wish people would consider time so they don’t waste. Maybe it’s time that you thought about time instead of putting it off.

L. Winslow is a Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entrepreneur. Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by http://www.Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.

If you’re wondering how you’re going to accomplish everything you need to do, listen up! Success is determined by having a PLAN. Remember, people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.

WEEKLY TASKS – Customize your own weekly worksheet that will allocate all the things you need to do for your family, work, finances, organizations, kids, appointments, shopping lists, bills due and your meal plan for the day. A weekly outlook helps remind yourself what’s expected of you during the entire week.

A DAILY LIST is a detailed itemization of the day’s activities with a time frame that must be met as closely as possible to keep you on target. Create good habits by:

1. Making a list the night before of all the things you need to do by category.

2. Including daily routines that you do most days like exercising or walking the dog, exercising, prayer time.

3. Prioritizing your list by appointment times and importance. Save balancing the checking account during off hours, not during working hours. The goal is to do the “must do” items first and move on.

4. Delegating some tasks to your family or assistant to minimize the time you spend completing tasks. If you have little ones, make it a game! See how quickly they can help put all their toys in their toy chest. You’ll find that they will have fun and will have a sense of accomplishment.

5. Knowing what days you clean house, do the laundry, or have meetings or your children’s activities and lessons. Block out a time for each task you do.

6. Checking off your list as though you were in a race — give yourself a time limit. Don’t lag or get off track. Get it over with! If you’re going to wash the car, give yourself 15 minutes to do it.

7. Scheduling time for yourself to give yourself a reward. Give those you’ve delegated tasks to a reason to get the job done too. Make a date for something exciting – be creative!

Always plan ahead when you’re going to take on the task of cleaning out a closet, the garage, doing your taxes, sewing curtains, or planting flowers in your garden. Long-range projects can be done in increments, but don’t let it drag on. Set a time frame as your goal to reach.

TIPS on How to Make Shortcuts!

1. Keep your home orderly by putting everything in its place immediately. Empty out that waste basket, change the towels with fresh ones, wipe down the bathroom sink and mirrors.

2. Make more food so you can freeze leftovers so you can come home to your own “frozen dinners” that are healthier and inexpensive.

3. Clean your house with music — dance and exercise (run if you have to) to keep yourself fit. It isn’t much harder to clean your house half the time if you really want to.

4. Record your favorite TV show so you you’re not distracted or are tempted to say “I’ll do it later!”

5. Don’t answer the phone while you’re completing a task. Check the messages and call back when you’re done and relaxed.

6. Let your dishwasher do its job. Your sink will be empty and your dishes will be clean.

7. Prepare food in a crock pot so when you come home, dinner is ready! Stir fry is another way to make good, nutricious meals quickly and easily. Find recipes that are easy and always be sure to list any ingredients you need.

8. Go to the grocery store ONCE a week. If you don’t have a list of what your menu plan is for the week, you may buy more and come home without the ingredients you need. Keep a list on the refrigerator door and, if possible, have a spare refrigerator in the garage so you can stock up.

You will feel more relaxed, accomplish more, have a sense of productivity and won’t have those tasks hanging over your head haunting you not to forget to do something. As you get in the habit of implementing some of these suggestions, you’ll start to enjoy some of your own ideas. Then, you can tell your friends… “I’m at the pool eating bon-bons enjoying life!”

You don’t have to be a slave to your ongoing chores, tasks, and obligations. There are easy, quick ways to make your life simpler, stress-free, and be more productive, and you may even have fun doing it. Get your family involved and learn to accompllish more in less time so you can relax.

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She provides various resources to develop entrepreneurial skills in a successful and productive way at http://www.MasteringTheSecretLawOfAttraction.com

Her goal is to help others promote building innovative online businesses with visual instructional methods to promote all her businesses at http://www.dorisjeanpina.com

Michael Dlouhy (A MLM master-mind) once said: “Any belief that is not a benefit – get rid of it!”

“How To Focus Correctly…” Sounds like the same thing said in a different way to me.

If we are focused correctly, wrong beliefs will be dispensed with.

“What we focus on determines what we miss.”

This is a challenging one…!

The ‘what we miss’ bit is the interesting and challenging part.

If we focus (hard) on the result of anything without thought for the way of achieving that result then nothing can (not ‘will’) stop us from reaching that result.
We will, in fact, miss all the hurdles whether they are negative thoughts or whether they be negative ‘outside forces’, folk, situations etc.

Therefore we become what we set out to become or arrive at where we sought to arrive at. (I hope that makes sense.)

But there is more… “What we focus on determines what we miss….”
It does not say ‘what we ‘get’! - it only says ‘…. What we become’!
What we focus on is results in ‘becoming’ not in ‘getting’ because in ‘becoming ‘ we get what is required in that situation anyway – it’s part of the package.

This could also be expressed thus:

“What we focus on determines what we get - and what we do not become.”

“What we focus on determines what we miss and what we gain and what we become.”

Therefore we must focus on what is good for us and not what is bad…then, if we do that, then we will automatically filter out the bad.

That does not mean that we shall never have anything bad happen to us. It is not what happens to us but what our attitude is to any situation that governs our focus and success.

We must focus in a positive way and treat every situation as a learning curve sent for our total advantage - because that is the reason that it was sent!
Antony Robbins understood it when he said:

“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become.”

Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine what you become.

It’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny”.
Copyright Roger Bulpitt 2007

Dividing Class Time

It is important that your classes are not always the same not just in content, but in structure. Nothing breeds boredom or complacency more than, well, boredom and complacency.

You need to divide your class time up into blocks. This will help you in several ways.

1. It will make the time for each class pass more quickly for the students and the teacher.

2. It will allow students to change their focus and bring their focus back to you, the teacher, rather than setting tasks and waiting for the energy to run out before you move on.

3. It will also allow you to ‘do’ more and leave the students with the same impression.

4. This method of classroom time management will also give more opportunities for the student and you to find the exercises that work best for you and your situation.

No one method or lesson will meet the learning style needs of all students. Some students need to be doing, while others need more listening, or visualizing, or one-to-one practice time. Dividing your class time into blocks for several activities will increase the chances of each student getting to do an activity that matches their learning style without being negligent about trying to improve their other areas.

Some things to keep in mind.

Be flexible. Sometimes you’ll find a particular exercise is going very well. Let it run for a bit more. The same is true when an exercise is not working as well as you would like. You can shorten the time and then prepare a different approach for covering that material in a later class.

Vary the amounts of time for your blocks. Don’t try to stick to a class of 5 ten-minute blocks, or whatever your case may be. One week do two 30 minute blocks. Next time try two 20-minute blocks.

Vary the activity and intensity required for the exercises. That is, do an exercise where everyone is seated. Then one where they have to walk around, or stand. Then go back to a seated exercise.

Use a stopwatch. This is one of my favorite techniques, and my cooking timer clock is well-known in my classrooms. It also has a magnet on the back so I can affix it to the board, punch in the time, count down the start, and then press “start.”

This works for you in a couple of ways. It keeps you to your word. If you say, “you’ve got 5 minutes to do this exercise,” your students will know you mean it. It also provides a sense of urgency. The clock is ticking. It even adds a bit of fun, or game-like, atmosphere to the activities and your class.

Try these techniques and you will see that you will enjoy your classes more, students will enjoy them more, and the benefit will be that students will want to come to your classes, you will feel better about what you are accomplishing in your classes, and students always learn and remember more when the environment is an interesting one.

Allen Williams is a professional educator, speaker and writer. Get a free subscription to the PowerMeUp Newsletter and Goal Setting and Getting Course with a bonus book for a limited time at: http://www.PowerMeUp.com Read more articles on Personal and Professional Growth and goal setting at http://www.SelfHelp.PowerMeUp.com