November 2017 « Confidence Coach

The Time Management Lie

Here’s the lie that so many people believe: You can manage time.

Nope, sorry — you can’t. None of us can. We can only manage ourselves. You can’t stop time, can you? You can only be self-disciplined. We can’t rewind time. Time continues on month by month, year by year; but we are given the ability to make choices about it every single second.

So what’s your time plan? Are you leveraging your time — or is your time leveraging you? If you’d like to talk about our popular time solution, reach out. We’d love to tell you about it.

by Scott Ballard , November 26, 2017

When is Your Prime Time?

Science, research, history, and plenty of personal experience all point to the fact that each of us have a peak ‘thinking’ time during our day. We have a time when our mind is working most efficiently, we get the most done, and we’re most productive.

Think about your own day and the times when you’ve had breakthroughs for your business: the times when you’re thinking the most clearly. When is that usually? Is it early in the morning? After lunch? Or maybe after you’ve taken a long walk in the afternoon? When is your energy the best for building your business?

Now, have you ever thought about putting your most important tasks or goals into that slot of time every single day? This is a simple way to leverage your best thinking to get the greatest results for your business. Use it, and create an unfair advantage against your competition.

If you’re not sure when your prime time is, set up a free coaching session with us — we’ll help you figure it out.

by Scott Ballard , November 19, 2017

Do You Believe You’re Worth Investing In?

One thing that we’ve discovered over the years is that people who achieve the most are the people who have a plan and a strategy to invest in their own personal development on an ongoing basis. How are you investing in yourself to create more value in your business? As a CEO, executive, entrepreneur, or business owner, what books are you reading? What seminars or workshops are you attending? What online courses are you watching? What coaching are you receiving in order to get better at what you do? As you think about 2018, and you put together your goals and plans, how will you plan to invest in yourself this year? Personally, I’ve invested well over a quarter of a million dollars in myself in these last six years, and that investment has more than paid off. Let us know how you’re going to invest in your own personal development, and sign up for a free coaching session to see if we can help.

by Scott Ballard , November 12, 2017

Your Four Time Zones

Today I’d like to talk to you about time. Yes, we’ve talked about it before, and we will continue to do so, because time is by far the greatest asset in your business. Today, I want to help you find further clarity for how you think about time and it’s impact on your business, your personal life, and your future. There are four zones of time in your life. What I want to propose to you is to look at your life and categorize them; then, with that newfound clarity, see how much time you’re spending in each one.

Zone 1: Fluff. This is all the time you spend doing things that aren’t helpful: worrying, watching the news, social media, idle chatter, distracting other people — fluff. Things that add no value to your transformation or your future.

Zone 2: Low Value. This is busywork. Errands, shopping, repetitive tasks you do that are necessary, but have small value and low return.

Zone 3: High Value. These are activities that actually make you money. Sales, revenue, high dollar investments.

Zone 4: The Lifetime Value. This time has the greatest value from now until the end of your life. These are things like building relationships, learning new things, developing new services or products, personal spiritual development, physical health — the most valuable use of your time is Zone 4.

My coaching challenge to you today is to get out your calendar from yesterday, or from all of last week or month, maybe — and take an inventory for how much time you spend in each zone. Are you really spending your working time in 3 and 4? Or is it more 1 and 2?

If you’d like a better result out of your time, if you want to spend more time in Zone 3 and 4, reach out today — and we can show you how. It’s amazing the transformation this can make.

by Scott Ballard , November 5, 2017