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Plan Your Day Around Your Energy Levels – RFM039

By Heather Cameron Leave a Comment

Your Energy Levels

We are all different, we all have different energy levels at different times of the day. If you want to increase your productivity start plan your work by matching your highest energy times with your most important tasks. Following a few simple steps, you can develop your own magic formula to increase your productivity and grow your business.

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ~ Stephen Covey

Listen to this week’s Ready for More! Podcast weekly tip where I share 7 steps to help you develop your own magic energy level formula.

If you like what you hear please come and join the Ready For More! Women Business Owners Circle, we are a group of 40+ women entrepreneurs helping each other reach for our More!

Highlights:

7 Steps to create your own energy levels formula:

  1. Map out your energy levels over a 24 hour period (1=sleep, 2= low, 3=medium, 4=effective, and 5=power) or use Productivity Flourishing Productivity Heat Map
  2. Schedule our Power Hours during your highest energy level times.
  3. Plan your critical tasks during your Power Hours times (creative work, strategic planning, CEO level work, etc)
  4. Schedule other tasks (email, social media, making phone calls, meeting prospects, website work, etc) during your level 3 and 4 energy times.
  5. Know what tasks re-energize your and plan those during your 3 and 4 energy level as they can bring you back to 5 energy level
  6. This is a framework to use in planning our time/week. Conflicts will happen and that’s OK
  7. Monitor and adjust. You might be surprised that your energy levels are actually different than you expect.

Useful Links:

  • Productivity Flourishing Productivity Heat Map
  • Planning your Power Hours

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Filed Under: Ready For More! Podcast Tagged With: #planning, #readyformore, productivity, Ready for More

Midweek Spark: Just Choose One!

By Heather Cameron 3 Comments

Change a Habit

One what, you ask? Well, one change to habit! You’d be surprised how one small or large tweak to your daily business activities can make a huge different in your results, your sense of accomplishment, and control of your business.

Successful entrepreneurs often follow similar work practices and develop common habits that help lead them to success. No matter what type of business you’re in, you have business operations to manage, people to deal with, a brand to build, and a reputation to maintain. The habits and practices you bring to your business can either help you achieve success or cause you to needlessly struggle.

Today, I’m challenging you to pick one new habit you’d like to establish.

To get your ‘gears turning’, below are 7 suggestions that can make a huge difference in your business.

    1. Turn off the alerts! – You do not need to be checking Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, emails, text messages, and whatever else that seemingly interrupts you every second of day. Turn the alerts off and check them no more than once an hour. If you feel you need an urgent means of being contacted, then use only one media source but turn off all other alert. For me it’s my business phone, I leave it on so that anyone can contact me in case of an urgent matter. The rest is off when I’m trying to focus.
    2. Book an hour a day to work on your business! – Already, I can hear “I can’t because…” going through some peoples’ head.  I’d like to suggest that you are your business’s most important client. If you can focus on working on your business for an hour a day just image where it can go. This needs to be sacred time; would you cancel or reschedule time for your most important client? Personally, I find this to be one of the most important habits/strategies I’ve formed, which has made an improvement in the development of my business.
    3. Book social media time! – Even better, delegate social media to someone else. We all know we need a presence on social media, but if you’re not careful it can eat up a huge amount of your time. Imagine the increase in your productivity and business growth if all the time you put into social media is redirected towards working on your business undisturbed. So allocate a maximum of 30 minutes a day to social media, perhaps 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at the end of the day. Schedule “social media” time and stay away from it for the rest of your day.
    4. Take lunch! – Take a break from your day to recharge your batteries. Take 30 to 60 minutes to shut out distractions, get out of the office if you can, go for a walk, go to your favorite café and relax. You’ll be surprised what comes to your mind when you give it a moment of rest and distraction. Kind of like in the shower, some of your most brilliant ideas and solutions come from taking a break and letting your brain rest. I’m not endorsing that anyone should take up smoking, but a great example was a former colleague who was a smoker and had his best ideas on his smoke breaks. This was so successful for him; he often used the expression “let’s work that out on the back of the (cigarette) pack”.
    5. Set small goals that lead to big wins! – It’s important to have long-term goals to work towards, but your short-term goals will help build the foundation and momentum that supports business growth. Do not set goals that are so big you can’t see any progress. I suggest setting weekly or even daily goals that are measurable, so you can see your progress and quickly readjust to reach your long-term goals.
    6. Limit your networking time! – I know so many entrepreneurs, particular ones that are starting out who are out at networking events 3 or more times a week and volunteer for one or two organizations as well. I strongly believe that networking is important to your business, but it needs to be focused, planned, and limited so that you have the time to work on your business. You need to be strategic about when, how, and where you network. Just like social media, if not carefully structured, it can take a huge chunk of time out of your week and reap limited results.
    7. Plan the small stuff! – No matter what type of business you’re in, there are small and critically important things that often aren’t done because we don’t plan them into our week. Eventually, these things can become an unnecessary stressful, time consuming, and urgent situation. I know so many business owners who rush at the end of the year to do their accounting/bookkeeping, creating a crisis moment that was completely avoidable. To avoid the ‘pile of paper in a box situation’ plan once a week to do accounting. If you can outsource, great! However, I suggest you plan a day each month to meet with your bookkeeper/accountant to review the information, so that you are on top of your numbers. Accounting is just one example of many other activities that just sit on the back burner and are always nagging at the back of our mind, that if we just planned them into our month we’d be on top of them and would avoid them turning into a crisis.

These are just 7 small habits that you can incorporate into your day that can make a huge difference in your mindset and your accomplishments. You may have another habit that you’d like to create. My challenge to you is to pick just one habit (whether it’s one you create or one of the 7 small habits from above) to form over the next 21 days.

Which one habit do you commit to working on over the next 21 days? Please post below and let us know.

Filed Under: Business Basics, Mindset, Planning, Productivity Tagged With: business planning, habits, productivity, Time Management

Facebook Live: 5 Strategies to Stay Focused and Enjoy Your Summer

By Heather Cameron Leave a Comment

Are you looking for business building tips and ideas?

I’m live every Tuesday at noon (EST) on the Ignite Your Market Facebook Business Page.

Join me live or watch for the replays on my blog – The Spark.

Each week I’ll be sharing tips and ideas to help you:

  • Identify your market and opportunities.
  • Increase your productivity.
  • Connect with your client and prospects.
  • Ignite your markets and your businesses

Facebook Live: 5 Strategies to Stay Focused and Enjoy Your Summer

Summer is here! Here in Eastern Canada, it hot! Record-breaking hot! We’ve just celebrated Canada Day and summertime activities are in full swing – pool parties, BBQ, family activities, fun trips, vacations and just relaxing in the shade.

I don’t know about you but I get summer brain when it is this hot and I find it hard to focus. How are we as entrepreneurs supposed to maintain productivity with heat and so much other stuff going on?

With a few changes, you can make summertime a productive time for your business and still enjoy all it has to offer.

1: Let Yourself Relax!

Give yourself permission to enjoy summer. We all need downtime to relax, recharge and enjoy our loved ones. Decide how you will relax, do you want to take a vacation for a week or two with your family, or do you prefer to plan for long weekends? I personally like to plan for long weekends throughout the summer months, making each one seem like a mini-vacation.

2: Unplug!

Plan to unplug, turn off your devices and enjoy. It is so important to fully disengage from your business and allow your mind to rest. Unplug, relax and enjoy. You’ll come back to your business with fresh eyes and renewed energy.

If the thought of unplugging is overwhelming try it for small periods at a time and work up to a day and then a weekend. You’ll be amazed at how being unplug will actually help your business.

3: Shift Your Schedule

Consider changing your work schedule to take advantage of the wonderful weather. Perhaps you want to get outside during the cooler hours in the morning and work later in the afternoon.  Or you liked to work longer days for 4 days and create 3 day weekends. You have the freedom, as an entrepreneur, to shift your schedule so that you can enjoy the summer months and all the activities.

4: Focus on your Must Do List

We all have long to-do lists but do you have a must-do-list? Think about tasks as must-do to grow my business and serve my community and would be nice to do. These are the big tasks and projects that really matter, that you want to focus on.  Be really critical as you create your list, you’ll be surprised how short your must-do-list can be.

5: Batch Your Work and Create Online and Offline Work Times

Take a good look at what you want to accomplish and batch your work together and schedule it. For example, batching social media post and scheduling then can be a real time saver. What other things can you batch to save time?

Take advantage of the weather and change up where you work. Consider batching your work between online work and offline work. This will allow you to be productive in a variety of locations. Offline activities can include brainstorm, planning, and creating new things. Online work often includes emails, social media and research.

Getting offline allows you to free up space to think differently about your business, to focus on the big picture and assess your day to day work.

With some extra planning for the summer, you can maintain or even increase productivity while enjoying the summer months! As a bonus, you might form new habits that help you with your business in any season.

How do you stay focused and enjoy your summer?

Filed Under: Planning, Productivity Tagged With: planning, productivity, summertime

Facebook Live: 5 Steps to Create Your Monthly Power Goal

By Heather Cameron Leave a Comment

Are you looking for business building tips and ideas?

I’m live every Tuesday at noon (EST) on the Ignite Your Market Facebook Business Page.

Come join me or watch for the replays to be posted on my blog – The Spark.

Each week I’ll be sharing tips and ideas to help you:

  • Identify your market and opportunities.
  • Increase your productivity.
  • Connect with your client and prospects.
  • Ignite your markets and your businesses

Facebook Live Replay: “5 Steps to Create Your Monthly Power Goal!”

 

It is the beginning of a new month, imagine what you can accomplish if you focus on ONE business growth goal this month. Imagine what you can accomplish if you spend One Power Hour a day working on one goal. That is 20+ Power Hours in a month.

Step 1: Identify your ONE GOAL

What is the one business growth goal you want to focus on this month? Look back at your 90-day plan and year’s goals. It is important to check back with your overall vision of where you want your business to grow before setting your goal for the month. This is an opportunity to make sure you are on track and to do any course “corrections”.

(If you don’t have a 90 plan or year business vision/plan then it is time to create one. Perhaps that is your One GOAL for the month.)

  • Make it a stretch goal but not out of reach.
  • Make it a S.M.A.R.T. Goal so it easy to remember, focus on and measure your results.

Step 2: Formulate your ONE GOAL into a number

Now, the whole point of having ONE GOAL is making it easy to remember. If you want to take it up a level from a S.M.A.R.T. Goal then make it a single number.

Some examples:

  • Increase your revenue by 15%
  • Want to publish a book, then write 20,000 words this month
  • Grow your list by 100 new subscribers
  • Enroll 20 people in your new program
  • Publish and share 10 blog posts
  • Secure 2 new partners

Step 3: Break it down to Weekly/Daily activities

Break down your One Goal for the month into your recipe for success. Aim to have small steps that can be done in one Power Hour. Then schedule one Power Hour per day that is 5+ focused hours per week and 20+ per month. Imagine what you will accomplish with that type of focus on 1 business growth goal.

Step 4: Keep your ONE GOAL top of mind

Put in on a piece of paper and tape it next to your computer screen. Write it at the top of each page in your planner for the month. Add it as a popup reminder each day on your calendar.

Keep asking yourself, have I worked on my One Goal today? Is what I’m doing more important than working on my One Goal? When will I focus for one hour on my One Goal? You get the idea.

Step 5: Check in weekly to see if you are on track and do any correction in your plan.

It is so important to check in at the end of a week to reflect on how well you’ve been work towards your goal. Think about the progress you’ve made, do you need to change anything in your plan, what will you work on during the next week?

If you want to see real movement towards your business goals, you need to focus on them, break them down into manageable work items and reflect on where you are going.

So what will it be? What will your ONE GOAL be for this month? Please share below.

Filed Under: Mindset, Planning, Productivity Tagged With: business planning, power hour, productivity

Ignite Your Market Challenge: Set One Business Growth Goal to Focus on this Month

By Heather Cameron Leave a Comment

The Ignite Your Market Weekly Challenge’s goal is to create simple but powerful actions that you can do each week that will help you:

  • Identify your market and opportunities.
  • Connect with your client and prospects.
  • Ignite your markets and your businesses

This Week’s Ignite Your Market Challenge: Set One Business Growth Goal To Focus on this Month

Have you set big business goals at the beginning of this year but you’re not seeing as much progress on them as you’d like? Do you have a vision of where you want your business to go but you haven’t broken it down?

There is amazing power in focusing on accomplishing ONE BIG GOAL at a time. Imagine what you can do if you spend One Power Hour a day working on one goal. That is 20+ Power Hours in a month.

This week’s Ignite Your Marketing Challenge is to “Set One Business Growth Goal to Focus on this Month”. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you focus on ONE goal. The more specific the goal the easier it is to achieve.

What will it be? What the most important thing you want to achieve that would have the biggest impact on your business? What would make you jump for joy at the end of the month when you are celebrating achieving your goal?

Don’t know where to start, watch the Tuesday Facebook Live replay “5 Steps to Create Your Monthly Power GOAL“.

What will your ONE GOAL be for this month? Please share below.

Filed Under: Planning, Productivity Tagged With: business planning, power hour, productivity

Facebook Live: 5 Steps to Create Your Power Hour!

By Heather Cameron Leave a Comment

Are you looking for business building tips and ideas?

I’m live every Tuesday at noon (EST) on the Ignite Your Market Facebook Business Page.

Come join me or watch for the replays to be posted on my blog – The Spark.

Each week I’ll be sharing tips and ideas to help you:

  • Identify your market and opportunities.
  • Increase your productivity.
  • Connect with your client and prospects.
  • Ignite your markets and your businesses

Facebook Live Replay: “5 Steps to Create Your Power Hour!”

Imagine what you can accomplish in your business if you focus on working “on” your business for 1 hour a day, your Power Hour.

Imagine if this hour is your most important hour of the day. Personally, I find this to be one of the most important habits/strategies I’ve formed. When I consistently do a Power Hour a day I see so much more momentum in my business and improved quality of my work.

The 5 Steps to Create Your Power Hour are outlined in The Power of an Hour! blog post.

Do you book daily Power Hours in your schedule? Do you treat them as scared time? If not when will you start? What is getting in your way? Please share below.

 

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: Focus, productivity, Time Management

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