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Booked Solid University Free Iphone App – It’s Ready!
It’s official. The FREE Booked Solid U Small Business Success app for the iPhone and iPod is available.
You’ll get daily tips, advice, support and inspiration sent directly to your phone. You’ll never have to come back to this site again.
How do you like them apples?
Just go to the apps store at iTunes and search for the “Booked Solid U” app. Click the FREE download button and, before you know it, you’ll be smarter than you’ve ever been.
8 Comments »Free Small Business Networking & Referral Group
Sometimes I love working alone and others times I hate it. It can be lonely and isolating. I much prefer collaborating and connecting with others. Sure, we have all the social media outlets but they can be overwhelming, unfocused, and filled with irrelevant ideas and information.
So, last year, I created the Booked Solid Referral Network. It was a free online community for business owners who wanted to connect with each other in very purposeful and profitable ways. Specifically around networking and referrals . Because, if you network with the right people, you’ll get more referrals. It worked. In just a few short months over 3500 business owners joined . We were building something special.
But I closed it down. Don’t worry, it’s back up now. I closed it because the massive software platform we were using sucked, plain and simple. It was too big and offered too much. I since learned that sometimes, less is more.
So, today, we re-open the doors to the Booked Solid Referral Network. It’s streamlined and simplified. It’ll take us a few months to grow the community but I wanted to personally invite you to be a charter member and build the community in your image.
Sign up takes 2 minutes and it’s free. No strings attached. Go for it!
6 Comments »How to get the job done and be more productive
Parkinson’s Law posits that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion. Meaning, the more time you have to get something done, the more time it will take you. It is called Parkinson’s Law because it was first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in an essay he published in The Economist in 1955. It was later reprinted together with other essays in the book Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London, John Murray, 1958).
I’ve often heard that time management strategies are supposed to help get the job done and be more productive. But, I think the idea of time management is misleading. I don’t think you can manage time because time is a finite concept. There are only a certain number of minutes in an hour, hours in a day, and days in a week. They do not expand or contract according to our will. Plus, you don’t always know how much time it’s going to take to complete a project or task.
However, we can manage our commitments.
Commitments are manageable because you can prioritize commitments. When you do, you focus on the most important commitments to get the job done and be more productive. It’s really a rather simple concept. Spend your time making and managing your commitments and then go about fulfilling them. Simple as that. If you master the skill of commitment making and fulfilling as your methodology for being more productive, you’ll find you make better commitments. And, you’ll stop over-committing to unattractive or unproductive initiatives. Instead, you’ll be more selective with respect to the commitments you make and cultivate more excitement and passion to fulfill those commitments. Bottom line: you’ll get the job done and be more productive.
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Resource for commitment making and fulfilling: www.cothrive.com (I don’t have any financial connection to company or product but I do use it personally to make and fulfill my commitments. It helps me get the job done and be more productive.)
6 Comments »Project Mastery
Seth shows us a list of Tim Burton’s unrealized projects as revealed in an exhibit at The Modern Museum of Art. You can see how he has mastered the project.
No Comments »Keynote clips of Michael Port
