Having goals is a necessary part of managing your time. But you bc,
Take it to the next level and make sure each day is managed to the best of your ability. Don’t wait until you’re facing a crisis to begin managing your time. Proper time management is a lifestyle and the result of your daily habits. The most productive day is a day without a crisis. Here are some things you can do to get the most out of your 24 hours.
I serve from home. I share my tips in blogs, podcasts, presentations, social media and in everyday life. Being focused on Personal Development, mindset and transformation is my jam. I must have a system where I can focus myself to achieve this and it’s not easy in the early stages. It takes major focus, practice and patience to begin a lifestyle as such. If you are a coach, consultant or have your own Solopreneur business, being productive is a challenge, especially at first when no one is there to hold you accountable.
Productive Daily Rhythm. Getting up early enough for a good, healthy medittation and exercise. You are preparing yourself and your body for a productive day, so give yourself needed fuel. This might also be a good time to check your inbox (instead of throughout the day) to see want urgencies await you. Adjust your schedule accordingly. Yyou did review your daily schedule the night before, right?
Prioritize tasks. The most important (top of the list) to the least important (bottom of the list). Getting urgent work out of the way will bring you a huge sense of accomplishment and relief without overwhelming yourself with unnecessary to-do’s. We have already discussed how multitasking wastes time and reduces productivity, so complete one task at a time.
Schedule Breaks. Breaks are not time wasters. They will give you an added boost to get more done. Taking a five-minute break every 30 to 45 minutes is perfectly reasonable. You gain back the time by being able to focus better.
Reward Systems. Studies indicate that 78 percent of people would be more productive if they were rewarded. Be your own rewarder. Plan treats (dinner out, time with friends, a movie) contingent on sticking to your schedule. Something as simple as a gooey dessert can be a great motivator. You need to play fair and not indulge in the treat if you didn’t produce according to plan.
Periodically take a look at where you are going, and, if necessary, take a detour. You manage time and life when enjoying the return on your efforts.
Take 1-3 months while you are attending school to plan and prepare your brain and physical environment for the big transition. Take care of your mental by no circumstances shall you stay up all night after you are tired and your body has shut down. Pick a cut off time for your studies and go to sleep. Your brain and body will thank you later. Here are some tips to help you prepare for the process.
Attending online school showed you that you can start an online business and earn an income from teaching what you know. Pay attention to the things you are learning and how you can apply this or relate this to your life as a Solopreneur. Keep the end in mind as you navigate the possibilites of getting what you want by working less, but more effective, than you have imagined. Although, you have an idea of what you want to do, you will be spending the next steps figuring out. But don’t worry, it will all come together through persistent pursuits. Through persistence, your life experiences and the people you continue to learn from beyond your education will be significant.
Since, in todays digital age, many people are moving towards online learning. In order to manage this effectively, you must be disciplined to the process. If you are still a student in school, this is also a time to start working on your Solopreneur Business. This is something you love right now, start thinking of and putting into action your own right now.
Keep a flow between classes and your business: Determine how long each class will be some ranging from 8-12 weeks on average for college. Focus your brain to maintain a consistent vision everyday during the duration of each class. Don’t take too many classes at once. Two is the recommended maximum for those who are responsible for children of all ages or work outside of home. Even two classes will seem like your world is falling apart.
Daily Planner used to record your due dates from the syllabus
Pre-Set up Study Space and a backup study space as well because it will help to move around every few weeks to revive your energy if needed. This is where you get all your school and office supplies needed.
Risk Management. During those planning weeks, foresee andmanage all risksthat may interfere (these can become your excuses and stumbling block to quit, which is not an option). Risks include unmanaged home, no schedule for children, eating, no babysitter if needed, a plan to keep your internet connection, things chipping at your time that you can’t afford when school starts. You can’t be everything for everybody anymore, you need to focus on you.
Scheduled Times Out: Hanging with family and friends. No random outings unless you are celebrating a completed assignment.
Celebrate: every week save those things you like to do for yourself, catching up on shows, cooking favorite meals, sleeping in once a week or whatever brings you joy, save those things for use of celebrating your weekly accomplishments no matter how small they were.
Be prepared to spend 3 hours per week on communicating with your class room peers on discussion posts. This a huge part of your grade, do not take this for granted. Use this time to learn how you will be communicating for your business.
Recommended Supplies: I recommend one 5-Subject Notebook, at least two one subject notebooks, 1 pack of loose paper and a pack of colorful pens for each class. I say colorful, because black and blue can make you feel dull real quick. However, switching colors keeps it interesting and easier to read and also brings out the creativity in you! (That’s Simple Valuable Information)!
A 3 ring binder for loose leaf notes and print out. Never throw away anything you write during the duration of the class. Loose leaf paper can be used for research notes, writing down sources and side notes. But do not throw them away. You may look for that information later. This practice gives you offica assistant skills you need for your business.
A Mason Jar for your pens.
Prior Access. Don’t forget, most online classrooms allows one week access prior to the start date. Take advantage of that time.
These small recommendations will help you to get started. Look out for more tips about Solopreneur Management, follow, THINK Like a STAR Coaching on fb and follow share-rel christina on social platforms.
You are becoming more consciously aware. You are growing and developing in understanding. You may want to fix everything right now. Then that little voice says don’t lean too much towards your own understanding. You can’t fix anything. One of the principles to success and self mastery is to separate the good parts of yourself from the negative.
IN RELATIONSHIPS: You may very well need to get out of that situation or learn to transmute the negative energy into something positive. This can be done with persistence and time. When the situation is mentally and emotionally toxic, you have an opportunity to master yourself and your emotions.
The truth is that you have to master your emotions through challenges and pain. There will always be a test available until you do master yourself. You have to actually be in the middle, not just observing. If your relationship environment is with someone who displays neurotic behavior patterns consistently AND you do not, this may be the test that sets you up for self mastery in all areas of life.
On the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus explained, the Principle of Personal Growth. He said, “Let it grow together and when it grows, start removing the bad parts.” If you start removing the negative parts now while it’s growing, you may pull the roots also.” Wait until you see it clearly and can separate the good from the negative parts without destroying the positive.
The environment causes other things to grow into your mind such as negative thinking, negative learned behavior and negative patterns begin to appear. They become attached to you. But as you learn and grow, you start removing the negative parts because your roots are strong enough for transformation.
When your emotional vibration stays at a low state for prolonged periods of time, you begin to live in permanent moods that will be accepted within yourself as a fixed habit, The habit becomes part of your nature and in most cases, impossible to recover from. You will always behave this way when you don’t pull the negativity out.
Here to help you pace yourself as you change your emotional vibrational state while suffering in toxic relationship environment. This can be relationships at home, work, school, friends, family, etc…….
Here a 5 Things to Master:
Emotional Detach yourself from anything that you can’t control. (Only love what you can control).
Put yourself first when it comes to your emotional needs. (Make yourself happy first).
Do not accept anything that causes you to feel unhappy. (Don’t accept fake love).
Do not compromise your needs for the wants of a toxic person. (Don’t avoid confrontation about your needs).
Tame your ego from needing to have its way. (Don’t fight over offense, fight for the principle).
When your emotional vibration stay low for a prolonged time, you won’t master yourself, you can’t escape a poverty mindset and you can’t become a vehicle for change. On the opposite side, when you raise your emotional vibration and learn to master yourself on a high emotional vibration, you become a match for the blessings attached to that higher frequency. There is a saying going around that says, ‘if you run away from one toxic person, there are five more around the corner.’ The point is to pick a one and learn how to master yourself. During self mastery, you see problems as opportunities. Take the opportunity to turn yourself into a high emotional vibrational match through each adversity and feel your life change from the inside out.
Why should create and define a purpose in relationships ? An undefined purpose can destroy you. It can make you do things that you don’t enjoy or find meaning in.
At some point in life, maybe ten years from now, you’ll regret not having purpose and the time you spent aiming to define one later. If you run after an undefined purpose relationship, you will realize it sooner or later. In the beginning, it may seem like you are doing things right. But at some point, you will realize everything is wrong.
You look around and comfort yourself by saying that everyone else is doing it or worse off have no relationship. Yet, deep inside, you lack contentment and fulfillment. Then, you have an awakening, a time when everything comes crashing down. You realize how you can’t make this right no matter what.
You think to yourself, “What have I done wrong,” “How am I even in this situation?”, “How can I make my life more fulfilling?” “Didn’t I spend my life, learning and working to avoid this?” Maybe you did not establish purpose. A relationship with no purpose is an open door for heart break.
If you define your purpose in relationships, only then do you find meaning in it. You have to listen to yourself. What is your inner being saying to you? Did you create purpose for your relationship?
You can’t listen to what’s comfortable. Don’t be afraid of being judged. Don’t be someone you don’t have to be.
Your true purpose is something you want, something that you have thought of. It”s just what you want. Even if you ignore or fail to define this, you will be reminded everyday at some point of what you really want. It will be miserable and you will act it out in some way. It could be taken out on yourself or onto others. It could negative effect your life and difficult to correct. Accountability to yourself and what you want in life be the next step.
Lessons Learned: I realized that I had gotten into the wrong relationship. The relationship had neither purpose or direction. Although I had created purpose and direction for myself during the relationship, I was the only one who had. After a long while, I had realized that my life was being pulled in different directions, forward, stuck and backwards. When you choose a partner who doesn’t have a definite plan or definite aim in your life, you will live in a whirlpool. A whirlpool goes around and around with the same waves never changing. It appears that you are moving forward but after a long whole you will realize that you are going in circles and nothing improves.
When you have a definite aim and defined purpose in relationships only will you realize that you are in a whirlpool and have to find a way out. That’s not easy but necessary for your growth a development.
The beauty of having a definite aim and purpose in relationships is you are a true person. You will have to drag yourself if you have no purpose. Instead, you’ll just drain your good energy and your passion could get lost. You can find yourself using your energy to be okay everyday and not using it to better yourself or situation.
When you define your purpose, you do everything fearlessly. When you don’t create purpose, it is often due to fear. The fear of being rejected by a person you care about.
However, when you create true purpose, you do it with love. There’s no fear of letting anyone down. You know you’re doing it for harmony with another.
How Can You Define Purpose in Relationships?
If you want to define purpose for your relationships, you need to listen to yourself only. Spend time with yourself and learn yourself.You’ll find what drives you in harmony with others. If you care enough for the other, you’ll find things that excites them. The most important thing is to be in harmony.
Don’t fear failure but be ready to face it. Don’t fear rejection but build the resilience to face it. Love doesn’t always lasts. People might tell you that you have disappointed them, but when two are in harmony with each other, solutions emerge. If they don’t emerge, you may be in a relationship that has no aim or purpose or even worse, a false purpose. Have the gratitude to appreciate love when it’s there and gratitude to let it go when love and harmony decides to leave or refused to appear.
You might be wondering, “How do I know I am defining my purpose?” To find this, see if the relationship makes you feel fulfilled? Is the other person adding value to your purpose and are they providing harmony for you?
If you’re following your true purpose, you’ll feel inspired by it every day. You’ll find new things in it to love every day. An undefined purpose will show flaws very soon and very often.
Define purpose to your relationship. If you have defined purpose in advance, you will always notice when things are off much faster and won’t waste time unaware of manipulation that could be difficult to detect early on.
Defining your purpose will give you a clear indication about your next move. This will ensure that you aren’t going in pursuit of anything against your core values.
James MacNeil says, “Whatever you love brings you peace and joy. That is living on purpose”. The philosophy behind this is to let yourself in. Allow yourself to be true to you and you won’t need to find yourself. Your true self will just appear in front of you. You automatically know what’s right and what’s not for you. This is the way to work towards your true purpose. Just be yourself and never accept anything that makes you unhappy.
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