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Create Your Perfect Time Management System To Help You To Ace Your Goals
Gail McMeekin, Creative Success, LLC
August 2010 |
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| About Gail
Gail has over 25 years of experience helping people discover fulfilling work, activate their creativity, restore inner balance, and grow their businesses. She works one-on-one or in groups with people from all over the world helping them to vision and achieve their goals. She is the author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative women, The Power of Positive Choices, The Path to Creative Success, Boost Your Creativity, Productivity and Profits in 21 Steps, and the Creativity Courage Cards. She has written over 100 Creative Success newsletters and numerous articles.
Her work has been featured in the Sunday New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, Investor's Business Daily, Self, Shape, Redbook, Woman's World, Boston Business Journal, and a host of other publications and websites. She works with people by phone or in her Boston office. Contact her at:
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
DON'T LET STRESS RUIN YOUR LIFE: SPECIAL DISCOUNT OFFER
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We have launched our new Creative Success Affiliate Program, which many of you have been asking for, as well, so that you can sell our products on your website, via social media, and in your newsletters, etc. It is now running and you can sign up right away. It will cost you nothing to sign up or participate and you can earn 25% commission on any products in my webstore that you sell using your private affiliate link. You also receive 5% of eligible products whenever your referrals sign up to be an Creative Success Affiliate.
This is a great opportunity to generate multiple streams of income for your business, which I am always teaching all the coaches who work with me to do. You do have to have a website to participate and we have an easy approval process. There are plenty of forms and artwork that you can put on your site.
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Success Strategies for Creative Souls #111: Create Your Perfect Time Management System To Help You to Ace Your Goals
Learning to manage your time is a critical Success Strategy. Many creative people suffer from overwhelm, feeling scattered, trying to do too many projects at the same time, being stuck in right or left brain dominance, languishing without firm deadlines, etc. Learning to be efficient in a way that supports our work style makes life so much easier.
So I decided to do some research on what systems were working for people, as there are so many choices, which is also overwhelming. I posed the question to my Linked In contacts and I got flooded with responses. The answers were all quite unique. About 75% of the respondents used a software tool AND a paper tool. Some people had lost data on their computer, so they wanted a paper copy of client appointments and important addresses and dates.
The different tools that people were using are as follows:
1) Outlook Calendar
3) Google Calendar
4) David Allen's Getting Things Done software(takes a while to learn, but worth it) (www.davidallen.com )
6) Daylite, a Mac productivity tool
7) Franklin Covey Daytimer
8) Microsoft Project for big projects
10) iPhone Calendar
12) A Hand-written To Do List
13) 2 people created their own index card/paper calendar systems
15) Levenger Notebooks
I was struck by how people responded differently to all the systems out there and often adapted several systems to meet their needs, including incorporating paper into the whole. People talked about how much they enjoyed physically crossing off a To Do on their list, which kept them in the paper camp.
You can hit Reply to this email if you have other systems that work for you. We will put your suggestions in the next newsletter.
Just remember, these time management tools are mostly to enhance implementation. You need to be sure that you have a set of written personal and professional goals that are accurate and meaningful to you first. Dream Manifesto can help you to "see" photographs of your goals as reminder to keep the big picture in mind as you choose your daily focus. Mind-Jet can help you to brainstorm lots of ideas and put them into a manageable form--but then you must choose what to work on.
If we are doing our own work, that decision we make about what to create, makes all the difference in our lives. |
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Creative Acts and Resources
THE IMPORTANCE OF WHY
I recently interviewed Sheri McConnell, CEO of the Smart Women's Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning in Texas for my book. Sheri is well-known for saying, "I personally think the world will be saved by the western entrepreneurial woman!" She is a master at helping women set up association and memberships sites. Her new book Smart Women KnowTheir Why is a fabulous book which shares her own personal story of neglect and abuse as a child and the strategies which have helped her to grow a multi-million dollar business that creates positive change in the world. You will learn some powerful lessons.
TEACHING KIDS ABOUT MONEY
Nancy Phillips is a mother of two young children with a successful twenty-year career in medical sales, international marketing, and product development. Her mission now is to help create a financially literate society by providing children and young adults with resources that encourage a basic understanding of personal finance and the process of goal achievement. Her new book The Zela Wela Kids Build a Bank is a fun book for kids on how to build a personal bank that will teach them to give, invest, save, and spend money wisely. It's a delightful read.
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New Printed Creativity Courage Cards
"The courage to create--that is the gifts of these cards: beautiful to look at, lovely to contemplate, and exceedingly motivational."
Victoria Moran, author of Creating a Charmed Life
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Our new printed Creativity Courage Cards are selling quickly! There are 34 cards in this packet with lovely rounded corners and measuring 4" by 6"--the size of a photo print. The printed Cards can travel with you anywhere. You will be inspired by the inspirational messages of courage and the metaphorical photograph's paired with them.
Each quote is designed to eliminate your fears about taking the next step with your personal, professional, or creative goals. People are loving these cards, calling them "stunning" and "true motivators," and using them daily to get into action mode!
Creativity Courage Cards
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Creatively yours,
Gail McMeekin
http://www.creativesuccess.com
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Copyright, 2010, Gail McMeekin.
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