Comments on: My BS Revealed: Time Management Tricks for The Overachiever

By: Christine OKelly

Christine OKelly — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:09:13 +0000

Hi Don - Great to meet you! I love connecting with others in similar industries. You’ve got an awesome blog and I just subscribed!

By: Making Sales Making Money

Making Sales Making Money — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:41:35 +0000

Christine , I work a similar niche , great tips on this post, definitely will be back ,

By: entrepreneurbug

entrepreneurbug — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:40:27 +0000

Hi Christine I came across Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week blog and book earlier in April 2007. The key thing about the 4 hour work week is manage the outsourcing and implementing of a management system.

I also like the idea of his using the calculator on his blog to cost how much it really to enjoy the pleasures or experiences as a reward.

By: cokelly

cokelly — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:49:57 +0000

Thanks so much Julie! I’m going to look into that Stumble Upon error right now

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:21:19 +0000

Great post. I just stumbled upon your site today - love it. I’ve signed on for your newsletter and feed. I tried to add it to my stumble upon favourites but there was an error. Just thought you might like to know. It gave me an error 404 - the page not found.

By: cokelly

cokelly — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:24:27 +0000

How cool Margie! I can absolutely see why this would be true. In my college senior year I took 7 classes while working 2 part time jobs. It was ROUGH and I didn’t nearly have the time I had in the past to dedicate to each class, but still managed to get an A in every one of those classes while spending less time (but more intense time) focused on each task. — Great point!

By: Margie

Margie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:07:18 +0000

Somewhere out there is a study about how athletes at DIII colleges (the ones that don’t give athletic scholarships, mostly small liberal arts schools) actually get better grades during the semesters where their sports are “up” and it is for precisely this reason … the less time you have to do something, the more efficiently you will do it. Great post!

By: cokelly

cokelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:22:41 +0000

Thanks 5691gerg! I used to work for an internet start up where EVERY time we started a project and felt we were ready to move ahead, we would “80/20 it.” Sometimes it seemed absurd to cut out so much “important” stuff. Sometimes they would “80/20″ what was already 80/20′d and that didn’t always turn out so great!

But that company moved faster than any other company I have ever seen and made tons of money in the process. Why am I not doing that with my own business?!? I think the reason is that I have gotten “comfortable” with my freelance situation. While I was growing it, it was fun, but now that I’m maintaining, I’m bored stiff. I need to reassess and do new things with the same fervor I had when I started my freelancing business.

I think writing these things and sharing stories with everyone is helping me to break out of this automatic pattern and start being more conscious about what I’m doing.

~ Christine

By: 5691gerg

5691gerg — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:35:39 +0000

Awesome post and terrific comments. Thanks everyone.

cokelly’s comment about 80% is BS and 20% is cruitial actionable items is right up the 80/20 marketing rule. That is, 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers.

Plan. Focus the plan. Cut out the fat. Move on it. Repeat. Thanks for the motivation.

By: cokelly

cokelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:02:13 +0000

Those are SUCH great points Jeff! Who among us hasn’t spent HOURS searching for the “perfect” template - even when we already have a perfectly good one! I just found myself creating additional tasks yesterday and about 15 minutes into it realized… BS - this is not necessary!

Building a business is kind of like what they taught in high school English class - write your story (essay/paper/report/etc) and then go back and cut half of it out.

When building a business we could probably cut out 80% of our original ideas of “perfection” execute the actions of the critical remaining 20% and be much better off for it.

Thanks for coming clean along with me about your own BS - I love it!

Christine