The Accountability Minute:Business Acceleration|Productivity

Today, let’s explore a simple step-by-step guide to creating your perfect vision board. You will need to: 

·         Create an extensive list of goals you want to achieve in the coming years

·         Collect old magazines and catalogs with attractive pictures that inspire you

·         Find pictures online or lying around your home that represents your goals you want to achieve

·         Get rid of all distractions and get in the right frame of mind 

·         Create a comfortable and welcoming environment by clearing your space and putting on some relaxing music

·         Make a vibrant and ins...

The purpose of a vision board is to inspire and motivate you- it helps you breathe life to your goals. Thus, you can include anything that drives you to achieve your objectives.

Typically, vision boards help you achieve your goals in the following areas:

·         Career or Business

·         Finances

·         Home

·         Health, including emotional, physical, and mental

·         Relationships

·         Personal growth, such as spirituality and education

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Today, let’s explore the top 3 vision board ideas to help you in setting your goals.

1. Home and Family 

Home and family vision boards include your family plans, values, and upcoming adventures. 

You may even incorporate your desires to reinforce your relationship with your child (children), partner, parents, or grandkids.

2. Dream Job and Career Goals

Since most of us are working to create our dream career or business, it’s wise to create a dream job or career goal vision bo...

Let’s talk about some items you will need on your vision board checklist to help you create your vision board:

·         Magazine cutouts, catalogs, postcards, old photos, and any symbol that represents your objectives to help create a collage of images

·         A large corkboard or posterboard 

·         Scissors

·         Glue, pins, thumbtacks, or magnets 

·         Ribbons, flowers, leaves, stickers, or stones 

·         Crayons, markers, or colored pencils 

·         Motivational quotations, poems, or affirmations that match your vision board ideas for your future

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As humans, we are more likely to remember something if we retrieve or recount it multiple times. Thus, repeatedly looking at your vision board helps you achieve your goals and dreams.

Here are some reasons you would want to create a vision board and keep it current:

·         Ensures you don’t get sidetracked

·         It helps you stay intentional about transforming your mindset

·         Keeps you from feeling overwhelmed 

·         Aids you in making the right decisions that moves you closer to the achievement of your goals – professional and personal

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We are all guilty of making extensive lists of goals and resolutions. We all create plans, set goals, and make resolutions- but more often than not, our goals may not always be realistic, and our plans and resolutions fall apart. 

Whenever our goal doesn’t go the way we planned, we feel defeated, hopeless, and unworthy. And then the next year comes around the corner, and we repeat the cycle. 

Vision boards help you break the cycle. Vision boards include the big picture of the years ahead and inspire you to take a...

Vision boards are the perfect tool to picture your dreams and goals. Goal boards, dream boards, motivational boards, inspiration boards, and various other different types of vision boards serve the same purpose: to inspire, to motivate, to help you achieve great heights.  

Vision boards help you set goals in two ways:

1.      Tap into your receptivity and imagine all that could and can be. These visions include color, feelings, words, or sensations.

2.      Unlock your space of intention and find your deepest desires by engaging in expressing, exploring, and representing them. 

To do...

Having dreams and goals is an incredible thing; it keeps you motivated and gives you purpose. But without a well-thought-out plan, a goal rarely executes well. Planning is a fantastic way of staying focused on your goals and achieving personal greatness. 

Vision boards are helpful and inspirational tools that make your dreams and goals feel more accessible. These boards can be a fun art project that maximizes your motivation and pushes you to try harder.

Vision boards are like a sacred visual space that displays all things you want to achieve in...

A vision board is a physical reminder of things you want to achieve in a specific timeframe. Typically, vision board ideas include photos, words, and virtually any other visual displays.    

These boards act as a visualization tool to help you hit your personal, professional, and material goals. By placing visual representations of your dreams in one space, you can look at them daily and even activate the Law of Attraction.

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In a survey of business professionals, when asked they consistently feel they waste approximately 2 hours a day, which translates to 10 hours a week, etc.  Let’s not focus on how much time is actually wasted as the focus needs to be on what you can do with the wasted time to generate even more money, work less, or do other things you really want to do.  

Use a time log to help you know where you are actually spending your time during the day. Periodically use this time log for a 2-week period of ti...

Today we are talking about a fifth way of the 5 ways to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Stick to Your Time Blocks.

The only constant thing in business is change. New activities arise every time that may require some flexibility or adjustments with your plans. Always pay attention to your priorities and set different hours to attend to these occurrences.

Make sure that you communicate your unavailability to everyone when you are dealing with your high priority tasks. This will help tunnel your focus an...

Today we are talking about a fourth way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Account for Every Hour. 

When managing your time effectively with time blocks, ensure that every hour of the day is accounted for. This allows you to function at the highest possible level and complete every important task on your list.

As a general rule of thumb, you want to set time blocks for 30, 60, or 90 minutes. Some people can work in 4-hour time blocks, but I haven’t seen many that can d...

Today we are talking about a third way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Plan Your Day.

From your waking hour, it is essential to plan each hour of the day. Doing this allows you to focus on essential hours of the day where you perform optimally. Depending on their relevance, plan your first one or two crucial tasks in the block of time where you function the best.

Pay attention to your slow hours (non-primetime) and work on tasks that require little to no...

Today we are talking about a second way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Highlight Your Priorities.

What are the activities you need to carry out before the week runs out? What activities have a direct impact on the goals you have to achieve in the following week?

Highlight your most important goals and allocate time blocks to achieve these tasks first. For your top priorities, work to stick to 2 or 3 per day. This will allow you to dedicate your focus and attention more ef...

Today we are talking about 1 way to Increase Your Business Efficiency with Time Blocks, which is to Develop Your List. 

At the beginning or end of every day, it is essential to take stock of what you have done previously. You should know where you are with each task, and what you need to accomplish for the next day.

At the beginning of a new week, start by writing out everything you need to achieve during the week. When writing this list, pay attention to deadlines, meetings, and upcoming pro...

There is a shift in work ethics requirements from how much work is done to what results are produced at the end of each day. Because of this, multi-tasking has been exposed to present sub-par results in all tasks carried out simultaneously. 

Placing a tunnel focus on few tasks and getting the best results through time blocking is the best choice for everyone.

Over the next 5 days, we will explore five ways you can improve your time management skills with time blocks, so tune in tomorrow for the first one.

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Effective time management is where time blocks come to the rescue.

The challenge you, as an entrepreneur, face is your inability to streamline your focus into a few high payoff tasks without getting distracted by other tasks to be completed.

Lack of focus becomes a problem because when you split your attention into all the tasks you have to complete. You won’t be able to complete any of them while doing this. As a business owner, new tasks can spring up daily, and you’ll need excellent time management skills to car...

As a business owner, the only real challenge you have is time. Time is a factor that stands against you due to its limited availability. There are only twenty-four hours in a day (8 to 10 hours for sleep, transportation, eating, and other chores to do). Due to this limited time, learning to manage your time effectively is the best way to reach your goals.

Time has a powerful impact on your overall results. At the end of every day, it is important to take stock of what you were able to achieve. Also, pay attention to h...

The Art of Effective Delegation to Increase Your Productivity 

When it comes to delegation, you must first, look at delegation of tasks to someone as an investment and not an expense.  If your current earnings as a business are only covering your business overhead and your personal expenses and not much else, unfortunately, you’re not in the ideal financial situation to delegate tasks.  However, sometimes it takes delegating to increase your revenue.  Consider the investment in a person or people and do your best to find a way to make...

You may find this hard to believe… Most business professionals have a difficult time understanding exactly how to stop wasting time.  When you’re self-employed, it’s easy to take a “short break” to surf the internet, check email, return a call, talk to a peer who stops by your office, or read blogs, but those “short breaks” can easily turn into hours of wasted time each day.  This includes unnecessary chats with colleagues, long lunches, or non-focused or misguided meetings that do not accomplish goals and resolve issues.

The success of your business depends on your ability t...

How Can You Be An Even Better Delegator and Accelerate Your Results? 

When overwhelmed with too much to do or you realize you aren’t spending enough time in client acquisition / revenue generation activities, you just might need to consider being a better delegator. 

Some Questions to Ask Yourself as it relates to delegation are:

·         Does delegating make sense for me to grow my business?

·         Does my business have the revenue to delegate?  If not now, when?

·         How much time am I spending on activities that are slowing my gro...

Many simple and effective resources get created when I'm coaching my one-on-one clients.  An issue or situation comes up and I create a resource tool to help them get an even better result.  In this example, my business owner coaching client wanted to better hold his support team accountable, so I created a performance assessment tool. This enhances regular communication with each team member about their specific performance of what they are responsible for (whether they are internal or virtual).  It lets the team member feel good about their progress and it helps the business owner feel more confident abo...