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It's great to be given tools to hack your productivity, but if your to-do list is a mile long and you don't know where to begin, you may need to approach your tasks from another perspective. Let's talk about the two ways you can categorize tasks. Is it Important? A task that is defined as …
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I have another productivity tip for you today, and this time it's all about frontloading your work. What is it? Frontloading your work is when you schedule the bulk of your work during the beginning of the week, and the beginning of your day, effectively getting everything done earlier than it needs to be done. …
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Let's start here. Overwhelm is a huge thing that Managers experience, because you are ultimately responsible for your car wash operations. Who will do all the things if not you? We all feel this way sometimes, but there are ways to combat overwhelm that WORK. One of the easiest is to narrow down your to-do …
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Hello and welcome to the new year, lovelies! I am so excited to start 2019 because I have so many projects going on, and I just can't wait to start tackling them so I can bring them all out to you.
What we are talking about today is combatting overwhelm in a way that will not only give you clarity and focus but also bring you the results you are working so hard for. After all, no matter how many stories you write, none of them will make you feel more like an author than the ones that make it to publishing.
I get it. Words are deceptively hard. There's so much that no one tells you about getting that first draft written, and trying to learn the craft while writing a novel is soul-crushing. I've been writing for over ten years, and during that time, I've come across a lot of different people who are ultimately failing themselves …
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For those of you just tuning in, November is the National Novel Writing Month, and if you were thinking about participating in NaNoWriMo this year, I have some pretty good tips on how to prepare yourself for success. I have no small amount of knowledge of NaNoWriMo, because for about three years, I participated in …
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It's #Preptober for #NaNoWriMo and I wanted to talk to you a little bit about project management. I think it's important in light of the National Novel Writing Month that we all know how to objectively plan how to work on our projects every day. Once you figure out a few key things about your writing habits and capabilities, planning out how long it will take you to complete any given project will be only too easy.
If you've been along to the blog by now, you'll probably know that I have a full-time day job that I do in addition to my writing, because I simply can’t afford to stay at home all day. I wish. When I was first starting out, I would read all these respected authors and their …
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Last time I talked about the Pomodoro technique and why it utterly failed for me. If you missed the post, go check it out. No seriously. Go. In the briefest recap ever, I loved the idea of Pomodoro and kept attempting it over and over without success, then I assessed why I kept failing so hard …
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