So I mentioned a few months ago that I had started going to the gym. I made a commitment to do it and Nelson and I have agreed to go at night after work. Yesterday wasn’t a stellar day for me. I was disorganized (the horror!) and a cascade of things just made it worse. […]
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A One Minute Workday
Ok, yesterday I didn’t actually work for only one minute, but it sure seemed like it. My eight hour day literally flew by. What I was doing is less important than how I was feeling. Or rather what I wasn’t feeling. I was literally unaware of time. I wasn’t hungry. I don’t even think I […]
Distracted by numbers, comments, and Facebook
I have just one question for you today: Are you relentlessly focused on the one or two things that actually make you money in business? Those actions that get you clients and increase revenue? My newest client called me because he realized how much he wasn’t focusing on those things. Social media, his website analytics, […]
On Matters of Life & Death
Until this year, I thought I was in the organizing business. You know – file folders, goofy “How-To” videos, eliminating piles, teaching time management, creating flow charts and documenting processes. And then the Universe upped the stakes – and I upped my view of the game. It started innocently enough over lunch… “So, Jeffery, you’re […]
Carolina Pad File Folders – Because Beige is Boring!
I know it and Carolina Pad knows it – beige is boring. And uninspiring. Really, really uninspiring. Most of the standard beige file folders last a long time – but they don’t look great doing it. You know how it is – you use a file folder for awhile and the corners start fraying. You […]
SEP’s steal your time
Are you bogged down with SEP’s? “Wait. What are SEP’s?” you ask. These are Someone Else’s Problems. I recently asked business people I know what their biggest issues were related to getting organized. Over and over, the answer was TIME. And in my experience, nothing steals time faster than those pesky SEP’s that crop up […]