Simply Helpful

Exciting News! 🚀

I’m excited to announce that I’m now accepting new clients through Simply Helpful! If your business needs help with system creation and refinement, clutter organization projects, or short-term project management, I’m here to provide the support you need to streamline and succeed.

If your team is stretched thin, or you are looking to optimize your processes for greater efficiency, let’s connect! I’d love to discuss how I can help your business complete projects and refine systems for smoother operations. Reach out directly to schedule a free consultation.

Today I want to discuss a staple of Simply Helpful time management: time blocking. What is time blocking, you ask? It’s so simple yet so powerful.

You simply start by creating an action list for the day, or for the week. These are the important tasks that, once completed, will frame your week for success. You put these items in your calendar first. You MAKE time for them and fill in the rest of your week around those tasks. For example, you know that you need to blog, make follow up calls to prospective clients, send thank you cards to current clients & send invoices. You block a certain amount of time to focus on each of those items throughout the week. Maybe Tuesday you block 2 hours making phone calls to prospects and Wed you block 1 hour to send Thank You cards.

Making your calendar with the tasks is the easy part. The hard part is holding yourself to the tasks at the given time!

I admit, sometimes it feels so good just simply creating the calendar and having the intention of completing the task and then, sure enough, the time comes and there is something so urgent and pressing, (like the dishes for you work at home folks) that seem to take precedence over whatever is on my list at the moment. DO NOT FALL INTO THIS TRAP! You must stay faithful to the process for it to work.

Yes, at times there are true fires to put out at the time a task pops onto your calendar. There is a big client that MUST meet with you during your time block to update your CRM with the new business cards you have collected for the week. That’s going to happen. Then you re-schedule the time block, just as you would a meeting and stick to it. A good rule of thumb I have is once I have re-scheduled an item twice, I “can’t” re-schedule it again. It becomes concrete and I HAVE to stick with it the third time.

So, give it at try. See if it helps you really bust through some of those important yet mundane tasks that fall off the radar. See if it helps you to minimize your ADD tendencies where something shiny de-rails your concentration and you end up mixing your billing time with your prospecting time and your facebook time.

As a reminder, I offer free one hour consultations if you are curious if Simply Helpful can help you with your business or project. Simply click the link below we can schedule some time to talk.