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Planning Your Day When You Don’t Know How Much Time You Need To Do the Work

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They ask, “How do I manage my time when I have no idea how much time I’m going to need to do the things I have to get done? This often comes up after I recommend that they not try to manage their time on a to-do list, but instead, with the only two tools we humans have that help us actually manage time…clocks and calendars.

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Simple Structure; Immense Freedom

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Let me ask you a couple of questions: Do you struggle (generally, or time to time) with managing your time; juggling, and getting everything done? Most organizing methods (including those that help with time management) are written by left-brained people for left-brained people. The fences—your clock and calendar.

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Control the Time; Control the Work

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The problem is that “later today,” and “as soon as you can,” aren’t times you can point to on a clock and calendar. I’m the first to say that time management is deeply personal, and every one of us does it differently. It’s this: put everything on your calendar. Everything. Every task, every. Is that ok?” Stop struggling.

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Control the Time to Control the Work

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A friend who's a management consultant told me a story I'll never forget. He had asked his management consultant to tell him how to get the most out of the time he had. It doesn't matter if you use this consultant's method, or any of the thousand other time management systems out there. Manage time. What did he pay for?

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Raise Standards for Easier Juggling of Clients, Work, and Priorities

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Every week, I hear from at least one Virtual Assistant who struggles with how she''s managing multiple clients, to-do items, and deadlines. The wonderful truth is that there are many different ways of being, and at least as many different ways of managing everything. I get it—I really do. You just have to find your way.

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5 Best Tax Practices for the Worried Virtual Assistant

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Whether you’re a new or more seasoned virtual assistant, if you feel worried about managing your money and paying taxes, these five ideas are for you. He worked it out for me, I ended up with a payment plan I could manage, and then I got serious about getting out of debt with the Feds, and never landing in that same spot again.

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The 2022 Awesomely-Appropriate Holiday-Gift Guide for Colleagues and Clients

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It has a “twist, drain, trim” design that allows you to manage the maintenance of the flowers with great ease. They offer wall calendars, desk calendars, prints, sculptures and other art pieces, and cards. .” $50+ (framed is $115+) Insta: @twinkle_in_time. always made a mess. $32+ 32+ Insta: @thegrowingcandle.

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