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 Do you have a never-ending plan for the day that never seems to be completed? One productivity tip that can help increase your effectiveness and efficiency is to prioritize your tasks and responsibilities. By taking the time to focus on your work, you can zero in on the most important and pressing tasks first and avoid getting bogged down by less significant ones. This can help you stay on track and on target, and increase your productivity and success.
One method for prioritizing your tasks and responsibilities is the "123" category method. Divide your tasks into three categories: Category 1 tasks are the most important and urgent tasks that need to be completed immediately. These tasks should be your top priority and should be tackled first. Category 2 tasks are important but not urgent tasks that can be completed at a later time. These tasks should be completed after the 1 tasks, but should still be given attention and priority. Category 3 tasks are tasks that are neither important nor urgent and can be delegated or put off until a later time. These tasks should be given the least priority and can be tackled once the 1 and 2 tasks are completed. By using the 123 category method, you can prioritize your tasks and responsibilities, focusing on the most important and urgent tasks first. This can help you stay focused and on track, and increase your productivity and success. Need support and want to know more? Book a call here
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 We as a whole have an internal voice, a wellspring of insight and direction that lives inside us. This inward insight can give important bits of knowledge and assist us with exploring life's difficulties and choices. In any case, how would we get to this inward direction and make it a standard piece of our lives? The following are a couple of ways to track down your inward insight:
Characterize your qualities: Your inward insight is intently attached to your qualities and convictions. Carve out opportunity to consider what is genuinely essential to you and a big motivator for you. This can assist you with pursuing choices that are lined up with your qualities and lead to a feeling of satisfaction and joy. Practice care: One method for taking advantage of your inward insight is to calm the clamor of the rest of the world and spotlight on the current second. This should be possible through practices like reflection, journaling, or just taking a couple of full breaths and focusing on your environmental elements. By focusing on the present, you can make space for your inward insight to be heard. Look for direction from others: It tends to be useful to search out the viewpoint of confided companions, relatives, or tutors. Notwithstanding, make certain to believe their recommendation with some hesitancy and recollect that ultimately, your internal insight is the most dependable aide. Utilize the admonishion of others as a beginning stage, however trust yourself to pursue the most ideal choice for you. Trust yourself: Believing yourself and your choices is a critical part of getting to your inward insight. This can be far from simple or easy, yet attempt to relinquish self-question and recollect that you can use sound judgment. Trust in yourself and your capacity to go with choices that are appropriate for you. By rehearsing care, characterizing your qualities, looking for direction from others, and believing yourself, you can take advantage of your internal insight and use it as a directing power in your life. Make sure to proceed to sustain and pay attention to your internal direction, and it will end up being a significant wellspring of insight and direction.  Defining goals is an essential part of leading a fulfilling and successful life. It provides direction and motivation, helps you focus your efforts and resources, and enables you to track and measure your progress and achievements.
Setting goals allows you to identify what is truly important and meaningful to you and create a plan to achieve it. It helps you prioritize your time and make conscious, purposeful decisions about how you want to live your life. By setting clear and specific goals, you can break down large and complex challenges into manageable and meaningful steps. This makes it easier to stay on track and motivated, and to overcome obstacles and setbacks along the way. It also helps you celebrate and appreciate your progress and achievements, and learn and grow from your experiences. Goal setting also promotes accountability and self-discipline. It provides a framework for making and following through on commitments to yourself and others, and for staying focused and making consistent progress towards your goals. This can boost your confidence, self-esteem, and sense of accomplishment, and further enhance your overall well-being and satisfaction. Furthermore, goal setting can improve your communication and collaboration with others. It allows you to share your vision and plans with others, and to seek help, feedback, and accountability. This can strengthen your relationships and help you achieve your goals more efficiently and effectively. In conclusion, goal setting is a powerful and essential tool for leading a fulfilling and successful life. It provides direction, motivation, and accountability, and helps you focus your efforts and resources, and track and measure your progress. By setting and pursuing clear and specific goals, you can live a more purposeful and meaningful life, and achieve greater well-being, happiness, and success.  Starting the week off on the right foot is key to having a productive and successful week. Here are some tips for getting your Monday off to a great start:
 In the past, many pregnant women died during childbirth due to a lack of understanding about the importance of hygiene in medical settings. This was largely due to the fact that doctors did not wash their hands before examining or treating patients, which allowed bacteria and other pathogens to spread easily.
One man who recognized this problem was Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician who worked in a maternity clinic in Vienna. In 1847, he noticed that the mortality rate for pregnant women was much higher in the clinic's first division, where doctors performed exams and deliveries, compared to the second division, where midwives were the primary caregivers. Dr. Semmelweis hypothesized that the difference was due to the doctors not washing their hands, and he implemented a policy requiring all doctors and medical students to wash their hands with a chlorine solution before examining patients. The result was a dramatic decrease in the mortality rate in the first division. Despite this success, Dr. Semmelweis's colleagues were initially resistant to his findings and refused to adopt his hand-washing policy. As he wrote in his book "The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever," "Despite the evidence presented, the majority of obstetricians refused to accept the concept of contagion or the idea that cleanliness was essential to the prevention of disease." Unfortunately, this unwillingness to embrace change and accept new ideas led to the unnecessary deaths of many pregnant women. It wasn't until several years later, after the work of other scientists had confirmed Dr. Semmelweis's findings, that hand-washing became standard practice in medical settings. In conclusion, the story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and the resistance to his hand-washing policy highlights the consequences of not embracing change and embracing new ideas in the medical field. By refusing to accept the importance of hygiene in preventing the spread of disease, many lives were lost unnecessarily. It is a reminder of the importance of being open to new ideas and willing to adapt to improve our health and wellbeing.  The importance of having a strategyIt's simple. Business success is the same as making a cake. Different cakes require different ingredients. The ingredients needed and the order in which they are added changes based on the cake you want. If you change the order, add or remove one or more ingredients, chances are the cake will not turn out too well. Imagine adding raw eggs to a cake that has already been baked because you didn't know they needed to be put in earlier. No one would want to eat that! You know the smartest way to make a cake is to follow a recipe, find out which ingredients are necessary, how much you need and the step-by-step process from scratch to the final product.
Guess what? Business success is the same way. You can try to figure out the recipe on your own and waste a lot of time and $$$ ingredients in the process or you can follow the right recipe for what you want to achieve. Many who do this, end up throwing the cake and giving up. Save yourself time, grief and money by investing in the right guidance. So what are the ingredients your business needs? - A vision is necessary BUT it is not a strategy - Setting goals is necessary BUT it is not a strategy - Systems are necessary BUT they are not a strategy - A positive mindset is necessary BUT it is not a strategy - Having a coach is an asset BUT it is not a strategy - Some skills are required BUT they also are not a strategy. Unless 'success' falls upon you by accident, your business needs a strategy in order to succeed long term. Period. A strategy is a recipe. The above are just 'ingredients'. Maybe you need a coach and maybe you don’t. Maybe you need new systems and maybe you don’t. Maybe you need new skills, maybe you don't. Maybe you need to work on your mindset, maybe you don't. Maybe you you need to redefine your goals, maybe you don't. Maybe you need a clearer vision, maybe you don't. So how do you know what it is your business needs and what steps to take to get you there faster, save yourself a lot of grief and $$$? You need an expert who can look at your business objectively and give you solid advice without the ulterior motive to sell you more of his/her programs and tell you what you need and how to get there. You need an expert that can help you simplify and show you the steps that need to be taken based on your goals. You don't need another online cookie-cutter program or cookie cutter advice because your business needs to be different from your competition if you want it to succeed. Curious to know more about a strategy tailored for your business? I will be happy to help. Contact me 
More and more we hear and read about how being grateful is a key ingredient to happiness. Well, even before I found out that studies started revealing this, I always found Thanksgiving to be my favourite holiday.
Growing up in Italy, with regular big family get togethers one would think it would pretty much be a similar experience, yet… for me personally, it isn’t. Listen to this short solocast and I would love to know your experience and reflections on this subject. Happy Thanksgiving!  The steps for creating a successful business are similar to the steps of baking a cake.
1. Decide what cake you want to make 2. Know who will be eating the cake when it's ready 3. Find out the recipe, which ingredients you need for the specific cake you want to make 4. Get the tools/utensils necessary to make the cake 5. Follow the recipe and add the ingredients in the correct order and follow the process in the correct order ( for example: adding baking powder to the mix of a cake while it's in the oven half way baked, will ruin the cake. ) 6. Invite people and share the cake. If your cake smells good, looks good and tastes really good, chances are they will want more and most likely will tell others, and they will want it too. If your cake does not look, smell or taste good, they may not want more cake from you, they will either not tell anyone or they will tell others to stay away from your cake. Creating your own recipe rarely works. If you’ve been in business more than a year and still trying to figure out how you get students to come through your doors, or how to retain the ones you have, it’s time to get the recipe, follow the process and not skip ingredients.  You may be wondering why I speak so often about fear, as I have done so quite a few times now. The thing is, fear is such a big part of our thought process that sometimes we overlook it all together. We may be so accustomed to our fears that we let it run our entire lives. This happens to so many of us and then we are left looking back with regret.
Why should you go for your dreams and conquer fear, no matter how hard? Because if you don’t you will regret it and regret is so much worse than failure - trust me. Don’t live your life wishfully thinking, act and act now. In the end, you don’t want to look back and say to yourself ‘if only’. Live your life with the goal of having no regrets. So, with all that in mind, you may be asking yourself how to overcome fear and make your purpose overcome your fears. Well, I went back and collected a few points I covered in a much larger conversation on my podcast Succeed Against The Odds on this very topic. If you want to hear more on this issue, I highly recommend checking it out. As for now, here is my list of ways to make your WHY bigger than your FEARS.
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