Let me take a wild guess. You don’t have enough time in your days, weeks, months…life? You have work to do and bills to pay and groceries to buy. You may have kids to take care of or friends to catch up with or family you need to call. Not to mention the fact that you haven’t been sticking to your workout plan, your last blog post was 2 months ago and you have 50 emails waiting for a response.
All this leaves you with a familiar complaint, “I just don’t have enough time.”
You don’t have enough time to start a side hustle.
You don’t have enough time to commit to your blog.
You don’t have enough time to read a book.
You don’t have enough time to start your own business.
A secret about time
You make time for what’s important to you.
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Have you ever had a day when nothing works? When everything that could go wrong does go wrong? When you get knocked down again and again? You know what I’m talking about. One of those days. Last week I had one of those days. Little by little, frustrations piled up. Disappointments with friends, clients and…
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It’s my birthday! And I’m starting to feel old as I enter the last year of my 20s. One of my friends likes to say that the 30s are the new 20s, but I think that’s something that people in their late 20s make up to feel better. I’ve always been terrible at answering the…
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Picture this scenario. Your alarm starts beeping, but you hit snooze a few too many times before getting up. As a result, your morning routine is frantic and rushed. You hurry out the door with your coffee and start driving to your meeting. But you’re running late. In order to make up time, you drive…
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I’m excited to welcome Monica Leonelle to the blog today. Monica is a Gen Y’er and a well-known digital media strategist and the author of three novels. She blogs at Prose on Fire and shares her writing and social media knowledge with other bloggers and authors through her Free Writer Toolkit. In our interview, Monica shares…
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Do you ever feel like quitting? I do. Almost everyday. Sometimes I want to quit trying to build my own business. I often want to quit exercising, especially when it would be far easier to stay home and watch TV. I want to quit practicing and perfecting. Some weeks want to quit writing and blogging….
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It’s easy to get stuck in a routine. It’s easy to avoid change day after day. It’s easy to let little problems build up until they become large problems. It’s easy to ignore simple warning signs that are telling you it’s time to change. It’s easy to go through your daily life without thinking about…
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It’s often difficult to do something well if we don’t know the reasons we’re doing it to begin with. People at work are thirsting for context, yearning to know that their efforts contribute to a larger whole. And a powerful way to provide that context is to spend a little less time monitoring who, what,…
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Are you running through life as a rugged individualist? I have a tendency to think that I can do everything on my own. I can find all the solutions. I know best. My own effort and initiative is enough to propel me through any difficulty. Can you relate? photo by: mali mish
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I’ll get to that someday. Once I finish all my research, I’ll start my own business. I’ll start that project when I have more free time. When the weather improves, then I’ll start exercising more. I’m too tired to think about that tonight. I’ll watch TV instead. Do any of these excuses sound familiar? Wait?…
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