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Managing Time for Social Media and Other Communications

I can hear many of you stammering, “What about social media and communications?  What about checking emails and Facebook and Twitter and…” It’s okay.  I didn’t forget. My recommendation is to be very careful about these types of tasks because “just checking my Facebook account” can quickly lead to “wasting copious amounts of time on Facebook”.  Even [...]

5 Steps in Becoming an Effective Time Planner

Ready to get started?  Below are the first steps to becoming a time planner: Get a really good calendar, use your Outlook (or other email) calendar, or create one yourself using your regular software package.  Your calendar should contain squares big [...]

Tick, Tock… How to Use the Clock to Your Advantage

The number of hours in the day doesn’t change. So why does it seem as if some days result in significant achievements while others are practically “write-offs”? It all boils down to how you plan your time. Becoming a time planner can be one of the most powerful personal productivity tools in your arsenal. [...]

Golden Rules of Goal Setting

Plan Your Day More Effectively by Reviewing, Re-Evaluating and Re-Focusing

The 3 key steps to follow that are important in determining what happens during your day are Review, Re-Evaluate and Re-Focus. These are steps that can and should be followed at the beginning and end of your day to assure that what goes on the middle of your day goes the way you want it [...]

Final Part of How To Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less

Thank you for stopping back to Lead Up.biz. This is the final segment on how to get your point across in 30 seconds or less. More written information will be posted on this topic soon.Thank you and enjoy!

How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds or Less, Part 3

In this post I will review the third principle for how to get your point across in 30 seconds or less. As a quick review, in the first principle we talked about knowing what you want. Know what your objective is. The second principle focuses on knowing the right person or group to go to [...]

Leadership Development: Urgent vs. Important

Urgent vs. Important When you think of urgent, you think of immediate.  When we think of important, we think of things that strongly affect what we are doing day to day. Although important tasks may have long-term effects, they have great significance both short and long-term. There are careers out there that limit us from one to [...]

Part 2 of What You Do at the Beginning of the Day and the End Determines What Happens During Your Day

Last time we talked about what happens at the beginning and the end of the day determining what happens in between. Today, we want to talk about the beginning, which is the most important part of your day. Your beginning actually started yesterday. Notice sometimes when you start your work day, it tends to pick up [...]

What You Do at the Beginning of the Day and the End Determines What Happens During the Day

The beginning and end of the day really determines what happens between your day. When tackling an issue like this, you want to determine the amount of time you actually have in a day. Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in a day! It is best to break down your time to develop effective time management. Having [...]