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Flooded with emails? Suffocated with too many meetings? A lot can definitely relate to this constant worry, which is frequently tripled up with swamped work. When everything is necessary, it is undeniably hard to prioritize which one comes first and takes your time. All of this pressure leads to one solution – time management. Founder and CEO of Real Life E® and named as one of the World’s Top 30 Time Management Professionals, Elizabeth Grace Saunders unquestionably got this covered as she breaks down the challenges people face with time management and how to deal with it one at a time. Elizabeth also gives some effective strategies in prioritizing meetings and answering emails.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Having a healthy work environment cannot be achievable without mastering the art of time management. In today’s hectic world, finding that balance is challenging, but once you discover your rhythm, there will be no room for toxicity. Kelli Calabrese, a wellness mompreneur and bestselling author, finds the calm in the chaos as she shares how entrepreneurs can juggle family, life, health, wealth, and more. As she reveals what not to include in your morning routine, Kelli gives life-changing pieces of advice to the people who say they don’t have time to be healthy and are stuck in self-sabotaging habits. Details about her book, Mom & Dadpreneurs, are something to look forward to in this episode.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Being busy isn’t synonymous to being productive. People are just busy but not productive when they are not able to achieve anything. However, you can save time and become efficient and productive with time management because they go side by side. Kevin Kruse, founder, and CEO of LEADx and New York Times bestselling author is an extreme productivity person and has written nine books around productivity and leadership. Kevin joins us to take a look into some of his books, particularly Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Your Business and 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. He shares his insight on the importance of time management on productivity, emphasizing that until we can manage time, we cannot manage anything else. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

A lot of business owners aren’t able to grow well because they’re not attracting enough prospects. Entrepreneur and bestselling author Judy Weintraub says getting a book published is a great way to attract more of your ideal prospects and enable you to grow your business. Judy is the Founder of SkillBites, a book writing and publishing platform designed to help authors get their books written and published easily and quickly. She joins us in this episode to talk about how to position yourself as an expert and how to do that at a faster pace through writing and publishing a book. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

How can a leader be effective and influential in a workforce packed with Millennials? Generations do come and go, and with that being said, how should leadership keep pace? Leadership coach of CEOs and business strategist John Dame uncovers the struggles leaders face in this Millennial age. In today’s generation where convenience is provided and job opportunities are easily given, he gives tips on how leaders could positively engage their people and have the right mindset in coaching to align corporate values and goals.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

People are always busy in their daily lives, living in this fast-paced world, but are they really productive? Our guest, Alex Genadinik, a three-time best-selling Amazon author, a business coach, and a successful entrepreneur reveals the top principles that stand out for him in his book, 20 Principles of Productivity. He shares how the process of elimination and mindfulness with self-assessment helped him to become more productive. He also pointed out that focusing on one principle at a time will make a tremendous difference. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Some of us just do not have it all together. We cannot be as organized as we want to be nor do we have the time to think about doing it. A self-confessed pig pen of organizers, Bearj Jehanian, author of Break Down the Walls to Success, introduces Trello, an easy to use tool that could help those who really need to clear the clutter of to-do lists, schedules, plans, and more. He talks about how putting stuff out from your head and into writing makes for better sleep which is a vital thing for all entrepreneurs out there. Take back your time with this great tool as you move on to things that matter more. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

There is so much noise in our everyday lives that cut across the way we go about the way we work. As entrepreneurs and business owners, it greatly helps to find that focus in order to perform our absolute best. Clarity coach Keara Palmay introduces us to sound therapy. With it, we can get into the zone and gather up the clarity we need in our minds. Keara presents how Brain.fm helped her achieve this. Different frequencies impact our states; and Brain.fm is a great tool that could bring you to your super peaceful place. Keara also talks about how it can reverse different types of challenges – from depression and anxiety, to sleep problems. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Some, if not most, of us are good at procrastinating. We are well aware of how much it affects our productivity, yet we find ourselves bending backwards delaying what we should be doing. Mike Vardy, author, host, and founder of Productivityist, has created a way to help us out of that hole and into our productive selves. He shares the concept of time crafting, showing ways to make things easier to focus and structure plans. Lastly, Mike presents to us the awareness to balance between urgency and importance while reminding us of celebrating our day just as much as we look forward to completing our tasks. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Time management is an issue that plays an important part in accomplishing things that we have to accomplish, targets that we need to hit, or goals that we need to achieve. Paul Gallagher talks about proper time management and how it can help in hitting our goals right. He is creating a movement to help others better manage their life by combining project management techniques with personal development. He talks about frameworks that you need, setting your targets right, and having goals in each area of your life. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

How many of us have a thousand emails sitting in our inbox, thinking that we’re going to get back to them one of these days? If you’re like most people, there’s a fat chance that you’ll never ever get to read every one of those emails. Frank Buck, author of Get Organized!, says everybody’s two biggies are losing weight and getting organized. Frank offers organization and time management solutions through his consulting firm. He shares what makes his book different from a lot of the other time management, organization, and productivity books out there. He also touches on digital task lists, Evernote, and where to start if you have a crazy unruly inbox.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Procrastination is often associated to being unproductive and inefficient. But what if you can procrastinate and still accomplish your tasks? Stanford professor Dr. John Perry celebrates his own procrastination which he believes gives him more productivity at the end of the day. He is the author of The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing. He shares helpful techniques for procrastinators to successfully achieve their goals. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Have you ever thought that there is power in negative thinking? More than positive thinking, illuminating the negative is equally essential in fixing problems. It lets you see what’s in the way. Sadly, people would often eliminate the negative rather than illuminate it which gets them into more troublesome situations. David Corbin, author of the book Illuminate: Harnessing the Positive Power of Negative Thinking, shares his unique techniques to confront, examine, and fix problems. Learn how facing the problem works along positive thinking, because that simple step that you often choose to ignore is mostly what can save you.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

We dream of big things. However, along the way we may feel like they are too much for us that we tend to get discouraged and shy away from them. Eventually, we lose sight of those big goals and force ourselves back to our little caves. Emi Kirschner – speaker, coach, author, and creator of the Tribe of Leaders Membership Community – talks about big goals and how we can keep ourselves on track and away from getting overwhelmed with them. Emi speaks about the barrier that is instant gratification and the need to see results fast which keep us further away from what we want to achieve. Find the value of taking small steps and being resilient in realizing our goals as Emi shares her own goals and some questions we can ask ourselves to start.   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Businesses are made upon big goals. Sometimes, thinking about these big goals tend to become so overwhelming that we end up being paralyzed by it. Self-confessed autodidact who has been helping education companies become more productive, Chris Danilo, helps people overcome procrastination and increase productivity in our business and life. He gives great advice on what we can do to tackle something that seems so big, sharing methods that are lean, agile, bite-sized, and actionable. Chris also offers ways that will open us up to move past the things that are blocking us from doing something great. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

It has become harder to get by without being involved in social media these days. In business, it has become such an important part that drives connectivity to numerous potential consumers. Talking about leveraging that power on social media to attract more people is Chris Voss, CEO of Strategic One Consulting, who is a recognized social media leader by Forbes, CNN, Huffington Post, and so many others. Chris shares some great tips on how to get your feet wet in social media as well as how to motivate people to click and explore Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Chris also gives his thoughts about automation and the need to avoid spreading yourselves too thin as entrepreneurs. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

The World Health Organization has declared stress a worldwide epidemic. It seems like more than ever, people are stressed out. Most people don’t realize the impact of stress on our minds, our emotions, and our physiology. It is, in fact, the root cause of almost all illnesses. Sara Wegwitz takes on the subject of stress and burnout. Sara is a registered nurse with a specialization in mental fitness, resiliency, training, and performance coaching. She helps individuals and groups to build confidence and transform the way they think through bite-sized training experiences. Sara shares some tips on how to beat stress and what you can do to avoid it. Managing stress and understanding these very simple things to do and actually doing them is an important part of taking back time. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

The world is changing, and so must the way we lead people. Greg Zlevor, CEO, President, and Founder of Westwood International, talks about reimagining ways to develop leaders. We need new leadership for generational differences, most especially now where people across generations meet and work in the same environment—from Baby Boomers all the way down to the Millennials. On top of all this, we have technology to contend with which has totally change human interaction. Thus, Greg gets down to how we can overcome all the changes and foster emotional intelligence and skills across employees—being present and not turning away easily when difficult issues arise. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

The way businesses work depends on the culture of the company. Being a team leader, it is important to establish one that works best for the company. If you don’t, then the culture will become something else that might harm the overall productivity and growth. business scaling strategist Shane Spiers speaks on how to do this effectively as he discuss another perspective of organizational behavior, putting forward the importance of clarity around your goals and how your team behaves around them in order to work efficiently and effectively. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

We don’t know when our last breath is going to be. We can get distracted in different ways that we have to continually remind ourselves of what’s important. We have to make a choice to be more purposeful so we can be more productive in doing things that we love and make the most of our time. Lynda West, known as the Oprah of San Diego, explores the concept of time blocking and focusing on what’s important. Lynda is a master connector, bestselling author of The Year of Fears, creator of the Finishit Fast Program where she turns procrastinators into actionators, and the Facebook Live queen having done 2,700 plus Facebook live videos. She reveals that spending time doing things that she doesn’t want to do is not something she wants to do anymore, and so she’s made a conscious choice to make sure that if she’s not happy doing something that she shifts either in her mind or actually remove herself from the situation and put herself into something that makes her happy. Lynda shares why time blocking is important and gives some advice on how to use it. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Part of building success is learning to create platforms. However, things change a lot in the different platforms and the biggest thing that you need to learn is to navigate the changes. Personal development expert and marketing specialist Kyle Wilson says to help navigate platform changes, you need principles and tactics. Tactics, like social media, change, but the principles don’t. The biggest mistake people sometimes make is focusing more on the tactics when it’s the principles that are bringing great value, building an audience, building relationships, connecting with the audience, and having great products and services to offer. Kyle says once you understand the value of bringing service and great products, you’ll retain the right customer and build that relationship. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

What if you could go back into the mind of the great Napoleon Hill twenty years before his Think And Grow Rich? Jeffrey Gitomer gives it to you as he talks about his new book, Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill. As the best-selling author of 15 books including the Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness, Jeffrey provides with clarity and expertise the great wisdom of Napoleon Hill that continues to transcend through time. Speaking of time, he talks about how Napoleon Hill values time as the most precious thing in the world and how to implement it in life. He takes us further into the book and teaches us how to concentrate deeper, how to have a better belief system, and how to be more self-confident that will surely take us into that path of productivity towards success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

There’s so much happening in the digital age. For many, they feel it gets harder and hence, they feel this overwhelm. Michael Alf, founder of High Performance in the Digital Age, has had a 25-plus year global career across various industries, continents and functions which has given him an unparalleled skillset and expertise to support today’s entrepreneur both inside and outside the corporate world. Michael is fascinated about people and how we behave, what drives us, and what motivates us. He created his podcast show, The Discipline Disruption Podcast, at the intersection between digital disruption and personal transformation. Michael discusses personal agility and shares five productivity hacks specifically to help you prepare and not just survive but to really thrive in this digital age. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

In business, the sales process connects us to people. It is the bridge where we can cross-over to present our products and hopefully make a difference in people’s lives. This is the kind of sales magic that Victoria Buckmann finds. As a certified Dream Coach, Higher Guidance Business Coach, Former Premier Success coach for eWomenNetwork, a hypnotherapist and Intuitive, she teaches people to be aware of their energies in how it affects the way they deal with business and selling. She shows how to shift your energy alongside the goals to actually get the results you want. By also shifting your energy to gratitude and clarity, you will see the most effective way towards the results. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Counter-intuitive to a lot of people, sometimes doing less could give you more. Ari Meisel is a great believer of this as he talks about his own take on productivity and how we should think a little bit differently. As an author, developer, consultant, productivity expert, and CEO of his company Less Doing, he teaches how instead of working harder, we should work smarter. He shares the common mistakes people do when it comes to writing to-do lists and document processes, why simplicity is very important and more efficient, and how do we make people replaceable without actually replacing them. Finally, he imparts the importance of the methodology—optimize, automate, outsource—and why it’s important. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

In our everyday lives, we are always hankering to finish a lot of tasks. Sometimes, we fall off and become too overwhelmed because we just can’t seem to organize what needs to be done first and how. Productivity consultant and bestselling author David Allen talks about getting things done, both the act and his book. He is a space guru and he teaches us the importance of clearing our head space before anything else to truly be productive. David also touches upon the topic on passion and goals, giving great insights and tips on how to achieve desired results. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

We love to talk about how busy we are. You ask people, “How was your weekend?” They’re going to say, “Same as usual, busy.” “How’s life?” “Busy.” It basically means fine. The state of being fine is defined as having a great deal to do. The issue of going around talking about how busy we are though is that we start to believe it. We start to believe that we don’t have time for the things that are important to us. Author and podcast host Laura Vanderkam has seen thousands of people at this point where people track their time. She doesn’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t have some time that can be used for personal goals if they want. It’s just about being mindful about figuring out some strategies and fundamentally about believing that the time is there because we look for it. Laura talks about time management and productivity, and shares some insight from her book, Off the Clock. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Marketing is undeniably an essential part of the business. It reaches potential clients and enriches your entire business. However, cracking into this specific process is not as easy as carrying a sign saying, “We’re here.” It’s about getting deep into building connections and relationships in order to reach goals. Business marketing mentor Tom Poland is the author of the book called Leadsology®: The Science of Being in Demand. He talks about how to generate leads through effective marketing where the means align with the client’s goal, putting forward the importance of listening to what the client really wants because failing to do so will only lead to inconsistent results. He also touches on the necessary aspects like LinkedIn and Facebook marketing, contracts, volumes, and outsourcing. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

We all know that life is not always sunshine and butterflies. Sometimes, we find it hard to even find that slightest glint of light. We feel hopeless and unhappy. As an expert in various fields and a poster child for diversity, Dr. Marissa Pei has a lot to say about how to overcome that sadness and turn it into joy. She talks about her new book, 8 Ways to Happiness: From Wherever You Are, showing us that no matter what your disposition in life, you can achieve happiness. By embracing the pain and struggles, you turn those into a positive experience that helped you grow as a person. She also touches on the subject of perfectionism and how being a perfectionist drains the joy out of life. Marissa says always aim for being happy 88%, move out of that perfectionism into joy, and don’t forget to start your day with gratitude. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Perfectionism is an obsession to work something to the end, to do one more thing, to overdo, to over function, to over-perform when it’s really not necessary and when it’s not adding any additional value. But how do we know when it’s good enough? In order to avoid perfection, we need to define ahead of time what’s good enough so that we don’t get caught up in perfection. We set those criteria so we can ask ourselves, “Have we reached good enough? Did we accomplish what we set out to do?” There are going to be a few errors but that’s okay. Learn the different strategies to help you to manage perfectionism so you can let go of perfection and find that as long as you did your best, if you know when you’re at 80%, it’s good enough. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Habits are key to getting where you want to go in a shorter amount of time. Everything we do is about the habits and the standards that we create. Those habits can be productive or unproductive habits. They run on autopilot, and that can be a good thing if you don’t have to think about doing the right thing at the right time. However, if it’s automatically doing what keeps you from getting to where you want to go, it’s inhibiting you from what you really want. Karen Huller, founder of Epic Careering and author of Laser-Sharp Career Focus: Pinpoint Your Purpose and Passion in 30 Days, talks about creating purposeful habits so you can get more focused on your goals, reset your priorities, and gain greater fulfillment. She says it may feel overwhelming to take make changes and adopt new habits, but it really doesn’t have to take a large investment of time and you can take it as a challenge and start with minimal incremental changes that can make a huge impact. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

If you are like me, you might be stubborn at times to listen to others advice or shut down because you are so stuck in your thinking. In this episode, I share three ways to be your own coach to help you get unstuck, overcome resistance and access new approaches to challenges or getting to the next level of success. One of these methods is one I use with my private clients and have never shared before. So listen to the end to hear about that powerful technique that is super simple and amazingly powerful to open up creativity, new approaches, and get answers to questions that will help you get unstuck and create greater direction and clarity. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

There’s are so many other areas in life when things don’t go our way, but that doesn’t mean we retreat. It doesn’t mean that we stop. Executive coach, leadership speaker and bestselling author Dom Faussette has been to hell and back, but retreating was never an option for him. He says when we’re faced with challenges, we should take the next steps and use all the tools we have at our disposal and engage. Dom is a military veteran and a prior police officer with ten plus years of corporate leadership experience. He now heads Think React Lead as a CEO, a company dedicated to pushing people past their limiting beliefs by bridging the gap between their mind and heart for increased success. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Emotions impact what we do with our time and how we show up for our time. We are driven by our emotions and it impacts everything that you do throughout the day. To bring the best of ourselves in the way that we show up with our time is to eliminate emotional distractions. It’s a matter of managing emotions and how we deal with the emotional side of our brain so that we can show up at our best for each and every moment. Learn how you can create awareness, manage your emotions, and let go of unproductive emotions so you can manage your time and be more productive. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

People easily get attracted to things and they want to try it right away to see if it works. They look at an industry or something that catches their eye and they say, “I’m going to do that.” They find out later on that their heart is just not in it. Strategist and consultant Keith Wayne MacGregor helps entrepreneurs and executives develop and achieve wealth-building, mission-based milestones by understanding what their purpose is. Throughout his career, Keith has managed private accounts of USD2M+ and worked in a variety of fields, including radio, television and film, international marketing and importing, investment capital and trust management, the art gallery business, and the dressage training industry. Learn more how you can discover and appreciate your true purpose so you can be of service to others and do it profitably. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

The most important part about selling is listening. Public speaking coach and keynote speaker Ben Gay III says if you’re a sales infiltrator and you listen, the prospect will almost always tell you what they want, how they want it sold to them, how they want to buy, and what they’re willing to pay. Ben has been called a living legend in the sales world. After 50 plus years in professional selling, he has been the number one salesperson in every organization in which he has worked. At age 25, he was president of what was then the world’s largest direct sales and network marketing company, having been personally trained by fellow sales legends J. Douglas Edwards, Dr. Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, William Penn Patrick, Zig Ziglar, and many other sales giants. One of the most famous, popular and powerful sales trainers in the world, Ben now writes, publishes, and produces The Closers series of books, audios, videos, newsletters, tele-trainings, and live seminars, a series that is considered to be the foundation of professional selling.

Many people get stuck and keep themselves stuck for whatever reason. When they find themselves unable to move forward, they stay where they are and continue doing the same things they were doing that got them stuck or is keeping them stuck. They’re called ditch diggers. They’ve dug themselves a ditch and can’t find their way out. If you find that you’re a ditch digger, the quickest and best way to get unstuck and to get out of the ditch that you’ve dug yourself into is to get into movement because when you get movement in your body, you release energy that’s stuck. Learn more about what you need to do to get up and move from wherever you are.

With all the busyness in our daily grind, we’re all looking for the answers on how to avoid burnout. Why do we experience burnout anyway? One of the most common reasons why people get burnout is because they say yes too much. We say yes to avoid conflict, or we want to be a nice person, or we just want to get through the day. When we say yes too often, we take on too many obligations that are not productive for us, that may not be in alignment with what we’re trying to do and don’t help us get to our goals. That’s when we experience symptoms of burnout and basically we get stressed. International speaker, author, and radio show host Dr. Emily Letran works with business professionals and entrepreneurs streamline their business, increase their profits and win back time from work so they can enjoy more time with their family, their children and pursuing other passions. Learn how you can leverage from her business strategies and tips on how to avoid using yes and focus more on no.

One of the challenges today is so many people are caught up in reactive tactical mode that they aren’t purposefully creating and approaching things in a way that would create greater productivity and greater results for them. One little tip that’s going to support you in getting more out of your week is a time management strategy called front loading. From a daily scheduling perspective, front loading is doing the most important things first at the start of the day or week. Give yourself the opportunity to give your attention and your focus in the beginning of the week because that’s when your energy is greatest and where you create the momentum and set the tone for the entire week. Learn a few tips on front loading to help you offset any procrastination and set priorities of things that needs to get accomplished.

In business, how can you create more with less? Terry Ogburn, renowned owner and lead business coach of Ogburn’s Business Solutions, talks about optimizing sales process by thinking more strategically rather than just tactically. Terry’s proprietary coaching system and personal devotion to the development of others has contributed to the success of hundreds of small to large business ventures. Terry began his business career in 1979 when he invested his last $118.42 to start an air conditioning service business. At that time, he had no car or truck, but he did have the knowledge and ability to build relationships. Ten years later, he developed his own business success program based on his experience and the teachings of his favorite business books, leading to the founding of Ogburn Business Solutions. Terry says if you want to be successful, find an industry that needs help, and get right in the middle of it, because if it’s messed up, you can make a lot of money fixing it.

A great influence on our productivity really often gets forgotten but is absolutely crucial is environment. How you manage your environment is paramount to how you show up for your time. There are lots of different triggers and things that are connected in our environment. We need to understand what triggers are in our environment and how that environment is influencing us, either in a positive way or in a negative way, and taking away from our productivity. Having a greater awareness on what things are detracting you from your productivity, what’s going on in your environment that is supporting you physically, mentally or emotionally, and also with the environment itself, is important so that you can then set an action plan for what you can do differently.

People always aspire to make changes and they want to grow but they struggle as they’re looking for something new in their life. Prosperity strategist Chris Salem believes it actually has to do with overcoming limiting beliefs. Chris has experienced much success over a 26-year career as a senior sales executive selling media, aircraft, investing in businesses, and implementing residual income platforms. Chris talks about how he’s faced similar struggles and having major setbacks and battling with his own demons. He shares how he found a way to address the issues that held him back from experiencing a higher level of prosperity where health and wealth are in alignment. This led to Chris’ mission to share and empower others to do the same so their businesses and personal lives could truly experience the meaning of prosperity on all levels.

Some people resist structures because they feel like it doesn’t give them flexibility. They fall off the wagon and don’t use those structures or frameworks. However, they realize that when things aren’t working for them, it’s typically when they’re not using the structures that they put in place. People need to realize that it’s really the structures that support you in your day-to-day life that help you stay clear of distractions and take back time. When we can create frameworks and structures, it helps us to stay focused and it’s there to support us have a big picture in whatever process we’re doing. There are structures for innovation, for decision, and for prioritization. Learn more about them and how these different structures support you in different areas of your life.

Motivation isn’t always what we think it is. A lot of people want to connect to what’s important to them and why it’s important. That can absolutely create a greater motivation and deepen it and spark the fire within to get really clear why it’s important. But sometimes, we understand our whys but we’re still not doing it. We can find strategies to help us move forward. Strategies are different for different people. You’ve got to see what works for you. Finding motivation is to find something that makes you excited and looking forward to something then go with it. It might not be what you think. It might not be the thing that should motivate you. What you have to find is that leverage that enables you to get past any excuse and move forward.

It’s not hard to succeed when a team is able to create leverage when they come together and collaborate. Creating leverage is important so that people can accelerate and exponentially expand results. Ridcardo Palomares is an expert in this space. Ricardo is a leadership expert, TEDx speaker, author, consultant, and explorer. He is an incredible speaker and has a unique and deep perspective around leadership and bringing and creating leverage for individuals and teams in getting to the next level of themselves. Ricardo says focusing on goals that gives the most leverage will help you accomplish things.

When things aren’t going well or we feel like we don’t have enough time, then we work harder. It’s an impulsive instinct because we’re not accessing the logical side of our brain at that time because we’re stressed, and when we’re stressed we go into fight, flight or freeze mode. That means that we lose access to the important logical part that helps us know how to solve problems. It keeps us stuck. We have to slow down and get perspective on our situation so that we can better solve problems. Learn some ways to be smarter in the way that you do things so that you don’t have to work harder.

Let’s face it: it’s getting harder and harder to escape overwhelm now than it was twenty years ago. We have more triggers in our immediate environment than there used to be. We absorb more information in a day than our grandparents saw in a month, and nobody is trained to deal with the sheer volume of information on the internet. Data is like oxygen. And according to Francis Wade, author of Perfect Time-Based Productivity, psychologists haven’t caught up with the changes that we’re undergoing on a daily basis. They’re moving far too slow to keep up. How, then, can you escape overwhelm? If you don’t have a structure to routinely keep you from being overwhelmed, then you’ll be falling right into the Zeigranik Effect over and over again, clueless about where it’s coming from. The level of frustration that people experience is just not right. It’s one thing to find yourself in pain and in overwhelm. It’s another thing to have the wrong idea about where it’s coming from and then solving the wrong problem only to see time demands come right back. Francis delves into managing time demands to escape overwhelm – for good.

Imagine being born eight weeks premature. How well do you think you’ll fare in the outside world? Now add cerebral palsy to the mix. Will you resign to the fate dictated by society, and simply give up on your dreams? Or will you wipe away the tears, scrape off the dust on your knees, and awaken the beast within? Nathan Todd lived this life exactly as described. As an individual with cerebral palsy, life has been a journey away from things that people take for granted, from learning how to walk. Even knowing what school would look like is very unique when you have a disability. Luckily, Nathan had a great support system in his corner who fought for him to be treated like everyone else and did not put labels on him. He graduated from high school and went on to get a college degree. Now he’s a coach and an author. If that’s not awe-inspiring, I don’t know what is! Also known as the Muscle Motivator, Nathan doesn’t only motivate in the gym and for your physical muscles, he’s also motivating onstage as a speaker and helping you to create that muscle in your mind. He’s got an upcoming book called “Awaken the B.E.A.S.T. Within” which is going to tell us about the steps to take and the tools to use for success.

Mitch Russo is constantly building something new. He enters a new field and immerses himself in it, gets good at it, and then rises to the top in most cases. Mitch is a CEO, a business leader and a business coach. He’s also a bestselling author, a podcaster, and an excellent photographer. As a CEO, Mitch loves helping small business owners and high net worth individuals find their way and get their life back on track through business accountability. Mitch shares that having accountability creates awareness of productivity and identifies distractions for business owners to then start taking action. Mitch reveals his journey in creating Timeslips Corp, becoming President of Chet Holmes, Int’l., creating Business Breakthroughs with Chet Holmes and Tony Robbins, and his passion project of building another software company.

When we say yes to too many things, we over-commit. That can create great stress, great frustration, and can have us lose integrity when we don’t show up to deliver. That integrity can impact not only ourselves, how we feel about ourselves, our confidence, the potential that we’re creating for ourselves and also spreading ourselves too thin, but it also has an impact on how other people see us when we’re not able to deliver the things that we committed to. It’s okay to go back and to have some discussion and take some things off your plate. Give yourself that permission.