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Day 2055 – You Have No Excuse For Not Reading

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I hate excuses. I hate when my tendency is to make them. Starting an email to someone saying “I’m sorry this took so long” kills me. I hate when people whine and complain and don’t DO anything about it. Seriously, if you hate your job, do something else or be thankful for what you have.

Ok, ahem, let me step down from my soap box and give you some practical tips I’ve used over the last week or so.

A list of tips for everyone who thinks they don’t have time to read:

– Take Facebook, Twitter, whatever off your phone and install/use your ebook reader. When you have the two minutes to kill in line somewhere, pull up the ebook reader and READ.

– Turn off the TV at the end of the day and READ. Want mindless entertainment? There are a ton of books that fit that bill. (But I’ll be nice and not give suggestions.) 😀

– Waiting for someone? Pull out the book in your purse, laptop bag or satchel and READ.

– Fun fact – the average person reads between 40-100 pages per hour. Even if you’re SUPPPPPPER slow and read 10 pages per hour, if you cut out that hour TV show each night, you’ll read a 200 page book in under 3 weeks. If you read your 10 pages every night for an hour, you’ll read about 17 200 page books in a year. If you can read 50 pages an hour, that’s one 200 page book every 4 days…..averaging that, you’re looking at about 90 books in a year.

– Accountability/tracking app – Goodreads. You can find your friends and share books with them, add books you want to read and find books you didn’t know about through suggestions.

– Listen to them! Books on tape are a great way to rack up the numbers. The last two weeks, I’ve gone down to a friend’s house in DC, which is about an hour from Bret’s school. So I’ve been listening to How To Win Friends And Influence People In The Digital Age. It also helps to pass the time of a long drive. This particular book helped me figure out a problem I was facing almost immediately. Great read!

– Read to your kids, spouse, dog, cat, invisible friend.

What’s your excuse? I’ll talk you out of it. 🙂

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Day 2042 – Business Productivity Tip

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I’ve been trying to do one thing in my business and work life recently that I think has really, really helped my productivity.

It all centers around my desk.

Each night, before I go to bed or when I leave my desk for the night, I clean up.

I stack up my client work in one pile.

I stack my calendar and to-do list in another pile.

I take the dishes upstairs.

I put away anything else.

I even close all of the windows AND Outlook on my desktop.

Then, when I sit down in front of the computer in the morning, I have a space for work and productivity already created. Having a spot for everything is HUGE.

I also keep important, but not “have to be soon” task items on my keyboard drawer.

It’s worked for me, maybe it can work for you!

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Day 2036 – What Should You Do With Your Life? (The PJs Go With The Post, Really!)

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I was going to post Bret’s story about his two year long journey to attempting a Guinness World Record twice. I even reread his story, edited it down (just a little), emailed it to him to review at school as a last check. That was going to be the post today.

But then something happened.

I’m listening to an amazing two week event. It’s called On the Road and Making Money (you can probably still sign up if this interests you!) So far I’ve heard about a half dozen calls and have garnered some really great advice. It’s set a fire under my butt to make big changes in my life and my business. It’s given me ideas for one of my clients. It’s only the first week and it’s already been life changing.

Today, I listened to a rebroadcast called “Take Your Business on the Road to Explode Your Ecstatic Brand and Attract High-Paying Clients” by Christina Morassi. My biggest takeaway was this – it is ok to be you and to share that in your business. I found myself listening with tears streaming down. My journey has definitely been on the road to fully embracing ME and not apologizing for it. It was more of a “preaching to the choir” talk.

It was awesome to be reminded it’s ok that:

  • I love to have a stack of 29 books from the library, 2 on hold and requests for 2 more (my current numbers).
  • That I LOVE puzzles and have completed over 700 on the Jigsaw World app on Facebook. (I listen to sermons/webinars/etc. while putting together puzzles, so it’s not ALWAYS indulging in fun just for fun.)
  • That I get giddy excited about PivotTables and Excel spreadsheets.
  • That I wear adult footed PJs.
  • That I cry at beer commercials.
  • That I would drive across the country and not take a shower until Nevada.
  • That I get so into non-fiction books about research studies it’s like I’m reading an intense fiction novel.
  • That I can get my heart broken, but still love on someone.
  • That Christ and following Him is the number one thing in my life. Even if it turns people off or causes me to “sacrifice” things/people/whatever.

So today, I want to encourage you to fully embrace who you are. Every single aspect of you makes you wonderful and uniquely YOU! It is OK to be you!

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11

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