Maximize Your Time To Maximize Your Profits

By Kirstin ODonovan

The Entrepreneur's Guide To Time Management is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs who need to learn how to manage their time effectively and transform their results. Entrepreneurs learn everything from how to identify their time thieves, how to create and manage a workflow system, how to develop effective behaviour patterns, goal setting and overcoming procrastination and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kirstin ODonovan
• Release date: Jan 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301019120

Kirstin ODonovan

Kirstin O'Donovan is a "multinational" business coach from South Africa, author and founder of TopResultsCoaching®, an international company providing coaching services in nearly a dozen countries. With over 8 years working in the field of coaching and personal development, she provides her expertise to help entrepreneurs and small business owners and directors to improve results and performance. She also serves top level, corporate executives in Spain, providing coaching and skills training. Kirstin provides executive training, workshops and seminars for multiple international organizations in performance and time management, motivation, team development, negotiation and communication skills. She also writes for various international publications in small business and personal development. Kirstin, a certified NLP Practitioner, holds various qualifications, certificates and credentials related to personal and business coaching. She is the author of 'The Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management' and Co-Author of 'The Confident Woman' and 'There is GOLD inside YOU.'

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Time Management

By Kirstin O’Donovan

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kirstin O’Donovan – Founder of TopResultsCoaching

Kirstin is a Productivity Coach who specializes in Time Management.

Her past experience included working as a Project Manager for a company specializing in the field of Personal Development, Self-Improvement and Goal Setting, where she honed her personal development skills and in which field she has been furthering her studies over the last decade.

Kirstin also has extensive experience in Office Management where she developed and refined the skills of Time Management, Business Organization and Productivity.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OBJECTIVES OF THIS GUIDE

INTRODUCTION

MINDSET AND ACTION

-- What Does Your Attitude Towards Time Management Mean?

-- Self Limiting Beliefs And Negative Programming

TIME MANAGEMENT FACTS

AWARENESS OF CURRENT TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

-- Identify Current Behaviour

-- Why Do You Need To Do This?

COMMON CAUSES OF BAD TIME MANAGEMENT

-- The Twenty Most Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

-- Solutions To The Top Twenty Mistakes

DEVELOPING KEY SKILLS IN TIME MANAGEMENT

-- The Four P’s Of Your Personal Time Management System

---- Put Together And Put In Order

---- Prioritizing

---- Planning

---- Performing

-- Creating Systems And Structures As You Work

---- How To Start Getting Processes And Checklists Into Place

PROCRASTINATION

-- The Science Behind Procrastination

-- Common Reasons Why You Might Be Procrastinating!

---- Fear Of Failure

---- Fear Of Success

---- Lack Of Interest In The Task

---- Positive Emotional Impact

---- Being Instructed

---- Other Reasons

-- Ten Tips To Help You Overcome Procrastination

-- Analysis And How To Move Forward

ACQUIRING MORE EFFECTIVE BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS

-- How Habits Are Formed On A Neurological Level

-- Nine Tips On Changing Limiting Habits

-- Moving Forward

---- Stages You Will Go Through When Changing A Habit, Going For A Goal

GOAL SETTING

-- Four Common Reasons People Don’t Set Goals

-- Fundamental, Instrumental And Complementary Goals

-- Guidelines For Setting Goals: Smart Guidelines

-- Breakdown Of The Major Goals For The Tasks

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

CONCLUSIONS

OBJECTIVES OF THIS GUIDE

-- To identify and overcome limiting behaviour

-- To increase overall productivity and efficiency in your business

-- To create more time in the week

-- To learn key skills to transform your results

-- To stop feeling overwhelmed and reduce stress

-- To achieve your objectives and goals quicker

-- To master the way you manage your time in your business

INTRODUCTION

How to use the workbook

This workbook is divided into different sections. Each section consists of theory followed by practical exercises that need to be completed before moving to the next section. If you really want to see results, you need to work on the exercises and take the actions; reading the theory alone is not enough and won’t get you the results you want. I have decided to go deeper into some time management topics rather than just brush over many topics.

Please always contact me if anything isn’t clear, or if you are really struggling with a certain concept. I do offer a free 30 minute coaching session – you can apply for it by emailing me at [e-mail]

Before you start

Starting your own business has many challenges because you have to start off wearing many hats as an entrepreneur. It is no surprise then that one of the most common challenges most aspiring entrepreneurs face, considering all you have to take on as an entrepreneur, is time management. How to effectively manage time is a voluntary skill that is learned. Nobody is born with these skills; the majority of people have shocking time management habits. Sadly, you may not be aware of just how much this lack of management undermines the results of your business and even impacts on your personal life.

When starting out, most entrepreneurs go from working a few hours to suddenly working 12 hour days, feeling overwhelmed, stressed out and exhausted too soon. The once clear line between the personal and work life becomes blurred. You didn’t become an entrepreneur to work 12 hour days; a clear benefit of being an entrepreneur is to be able to dictate your own working hours.

When you become an entrepreneur and you are in charge of your own time, the way you use your time is going to have a direct effect on the results that you see in your business and how much money you make. Remember, we all have 24 hours in a day, nobody has more hours, but some of us do achieve much more in a few days than the average worker does in a week. You do not need to work 12 hours a day to get more results, you could get the same results in 8 hours, if you managed your time more effectively, and this has been proven over and over again.