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The Real Reason Entrepreneurs Struggle With Time Management

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Do you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Are you working 70+ hours a week and feel like you are just treading water? You aren’t alone. After working with thousands of business owners over the past 25 years, time and time again we see a lack of time as a huge concern […]

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Why The 40 Hour Work Week Is A Complete And Utter Lie (Part 2)

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In a recent article I addressed 3 reasons why you are working more than you think you are. So today, I wanted to give you two more reasons why you haven’t been able to cut your hours. “All I do is work. Even when I’m with my family I’m still responding to emails and texts […]

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Don’t Let This Huge Misconception About Time Management Sap Your Productivity (Part 1)

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I have heard it more times than I can count. “I’m overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.  So much of my day is spent putting out fires and reacting to customer demands.  The only way I can get my key projects done is to come into the office earlier and stay later, and work […]

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Improve Your Delegation Skills Faster

Improve Your Delegation Skills Faster

When it comes to delegation, practice really makes perfect, but fortunately, there are some tips and tricks along the way that can help you be more efficient at the task without dropping the ball or losing momentum. So today, I wanted to share with you three tips that I teach my business coaching clients on how to improve […]

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Your Hyper Responsiveness is Expensive and Dangerous

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In today’s business environment there is an expectation among workers, particularly remote workers that can be really damaging to your business’s overall growth and well being. And that danger is hyper-responsiveness. It can rear its ugly head in the form of emails, chats, slack, team messages and meetings. It’s the expectation that you should be able to […]

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What Your Employees Wish You Knew About Having Better Meetings

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If you are like most business owners, you start the day by reviewing your calendar and seeing how many meetings you have for the day. Often, there are quite a few each day, many of which are marked as urgent. This can be a total productivity killer–not to mention a mood killer as well. In […]

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4 Situations You Should Never Use Email For

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If you are like most of us, your e-mail inbox is a huge source of distraction and frustration. It’s a bottomless pit that constantly pulls you away from the high-value tasks you should be doing on your business. And, unfortunately, it isn’t going away anytime soon. A few years back my workplace did a survey of small-business […]

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Does ‘Eating the Frog’ Still Not Work for You? Try Focusing on ‘Big Rocks’ Instead

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When it comes to prioritizing tasks and staying productive, Mark Twain once said, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” That sounds like pretty good advice, and […]

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How to Cut Your To-Do List in Half While Creating More Value for Your Business

How to Cut Your To-Do List in Half While Creating More Value for Your Business

As a business owner, you have a lot of responsibilities. And if you are like many of the clients I coach, your to-do list is extensive and filled with meetings and other responsibilities. It’s easy to get caught up in your task list, and to feel overwhelmed and anxious. But what if I told you that very little of that […]

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You Spent Almost 2 Months in Meetings This Past Year. (Here’s What You Should Have Been Doing Instead)

You Spent Almost 2 Months in Meetings This Past Year. (Here's What You Should Have Been Doing Instead)

“Let’s set up a meeting.” The statement itself seems harmless enough, but for the majority of us, the mere mention of yet another meeting is enough to send you off the deep end. It has been estimated that executives can be in meetings for up to 23 hours per week on average. And business owners […]

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Treat Your To-Do List Like A Buffet

Treat Your To-Do List Like A Buffet

Over the last 25 years, I have worked with thousands of business owners to help grow and scale their companies. One of the biggest hurdles most founders and entrepreneurs experience is the inability to manage their time correctly and focus. Throw into the mix cell phones and emails, and it then becomes nearly impossible to […]

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How Busy Entrepreneurs Can Make Time for Important Projects

How Busy Entrepreneurs Can Make Time for Important Projects

If you’ve ever been curious what my life is like then come over for an evening at my house. As you walk into our calm and peaceful home, I greet you at the door and lead you to our clean and immaculately set kitchen table. My kids are sitting quietly, napkins on laps, patiently waiting […]

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Four Ways To Approach A New Task When You Feel Like You Never Have Enough Time

Four Ways To Approach A New Task When You Feel Like You Never Have Enough Time

“David, if only I had more time…” “I would love to do that, but I just don’t have the time…” “I work 70 hours a week and still run out of time…” The only thing business owners need more than cash is time. I see it over and over again with the thousands of business […]

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3 Time-Tested Strategies to Protect Your Company from Fraud and Embezzlement

Karl (not his real name) ran a successful medical group specializing in elder care in the Midwest. Smart and hardworking, Karl was like a lot of small business owners we know. He was focused on the operational side of his business, in his case the practice of medicine, and didn’t pay close attention to the […]

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What’s Your Biggest Time Waster at Work (And How to Increase Productivity)

How to Increase Productivity What’s Your Biggest Time Waster at Work? What is your biggest productivity killer at work? Is it: A. Phone calls? B. Meetings? C. Email? D. Staff interruptions? If you are anything like the 353 U.S. business owners my company Maui Mastermind surveyed you’re likely answer is “email” (57%), followed by either […]

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Business Coach Tip: 7 Simple Steps to Escape the Competency Trap and Free Up Your Time

Here is a simple 7-step game plan to escape the Competency Trap and build an organization that is stronger, more scalable, and less reliant on you…

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You DO Have the Time

You’re already working enough hours; you just need to carve out a small percentage of them to invest in higher order activities to help you scale your company.

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The First Step to Making the Time to Scale Your Business

If you feel overwhelmed and at a loss for making the time to grow your business, start here.

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The Best Place to Find More Time

To create more time you don’t need to work nights or weekends. Here is the best place to find more time…

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Top 6 Apps for Business Owners (and how to leverage them to save you time)

Here is a short list of my top 6 apps and how I use them to better run my business.

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The True Secret to Getting More Done in Less Time

What are your distinctions around time? Here is a breakthrough new tool to help you see time and your use of time in a wholly new way. We call it the Time Value Matrix…

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The 6 Major Time Addictions

They rob you of your time and kill your productivity. What’s more they weaken your company. Which of these six addictions do you struggle with?

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10 Tips to Leverage Your Personal Assistant to Get More Done in Less Time

Here are 10 concrete tips to leverage your personal assistant to help you get your life back as you scale your company.

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