Goal Setting & Achievement Podcast: Business|Productivity

[[:encoded, "One of the most difficult challenges of sticking to your goals personally and professionally is changing your behavior. Goals like improving your health, reaching a milestone, or revising daily routines aren’t easy. In fact, studies show that our brains don’t like change, are wired for laziness, and have a limited capacity. Ouch! And we often fail because we don’t practice the correct steps.\n\nAs with any process, there’s an order to follow. For example, when administering first aid, it’s vital to work sequentially. Before caring for an injured or ill person, you should call for help. Then you check for breathing and a pulse to determine if CPR is needed. Next, if a wound is present, you must attempt to protect yourself from bloodborne pathogens before trying to stop bleeding.\n\nOr let’s say you’re painting a room in your house. Obviously, you need to choose your paint color (will it be Arizona Dust? Blissful Blue? Soft Candlelight? Gallery Gray?) and purchase the proper amount. You should then prep the area. You’ll likely move furniture, tape off the trim, and cover the floor with a drop cloth. After all, you wouldn’t want to open that fresh can of paint on unprotected carpet! Putting in the time for preparation saves you a big headache (and extensive clean-up) later on.\n\nLikewise, there are steps to changing behavior in order to successfully reach your goals. Let’s take a closer look at what’s required.\n\nAwareness in Changing Your Behavior\n\nTo make any significant changes, you’ll first want to understand what’s going on in your brain when trying to stick with your goals. There are six possible stages that you’ll go through:\n\n1.\tPre-contemplation. At this point, you’re not interested in making any changes. In fact, you don’t consider your actions as problematic or lacking, and you’ll likely continue in your normal everyday behavior. You’d probably feel defensive if someone approached you and suggested change.\n\n2.\tContemplation. By now, you’ve contemplated, or thought about, making changes. You’re open to suggestions but a bit ambivalent. And you may not be entirely sure that you want to move forward. Often, this stage lasts the longest because spurring yourself to action can feel like an overwhelming battle.\n\n3.\tPreparation. Here, you’ve committed to change. You’re researching resources and strategies to be successful. You’re preparing to move forward with changes. You actually take the needed steps to reach your goal. I should point Unlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Running your own business is not always easy, as you already know. There are challenges from the start, and you’re constantly being faced with fires to put out. Developing a success-oriented mindset can help you change your perspective and take your business to the next level!\n\nYou can accomplish a lot more when you feel like you can do anything you put your mind to. Having confidence in yourself changes your mindset from “I’m not sure I can do this” to “I know I can do this; I just have to figure out how.” Perspective is everything, and when we can control our outlook towards challenging situations, we can harness a positive mindset and unwavering determination to accomplish goals that we set for ourselves.\n\nLet’s explore six tips for how to develop a success-oriented mindset.\n\n1. Regularly Take Yourself Out of Your Comfort Zone \nOne of the ways to gain confidence and to grow is by regularly taking yourself out of your comfort zone. Do one thing each day that makes you uncomfortable, whether that’s eating something new, trying a new workout, or testing out a new marketing initiative.\n\nTaking yourself out of your comfort zone could also mean delegating more tasks to employees that you would normally take on yourself! To develop a success-oriented mindset, you need to be able to let go of some aspects of your business, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel.\n\nI believe successful people are comfortable with being uncomfortable all the time. That is how they got to be successful. You too can learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable; however, you might have to initially get outside your comfort zone a bit. \n\n2. Never Stop Learning\nA success-oriented mindset is synonymous with a growth mindset. The determination that drives you towards success is also one that pushes you to learn along the way. When you run into things you’ve never faced before, having a growth mindset allows you to ask questions and explore, so you can discover new solutions, and this, in turn, helps you on the path to even greater success.\n\nLearning new things doesn’t need to be restricted to business topics—it could be learning a new skill, learning how to navigate through a new city, or learning how to focus on and solve a challenging situation.\n\n3. Set Smaller, More Achievable Goals\nIf you start by trying to tackle larger goals, you may get discouraged if you don’t reach them as soon as you’d like. By setting smaller, more achievable goals, you caUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Today we have a special guest with us who I think you will find to be extremely knowledgeable in helping us save in taxes, so we keep as much as we possibly can to grow our business and maybe even pay ourselves a bit more.\n\nJoel Sandoval, CPA, is a successful entrepreneur and tax mastermind. He has a passion for helping business owners maximize their profits by reducing their taxes. His firm has clients all over the United States which he meets with virtually on a regular basis to ensure he is doing everything he can by being proactive. Sandoval Tax CPAs, on average, save business owners anywhere from $30k to $50k in taxes EVERY year. \n \nHere are some questions I asked Joel that you will benefit from by listening to his interview:\n1.\tWhat's the number one reason that most small business owners are overpaying in taxes?\n2.\tWhat can small business owners do differently with their accountants to help them pay less taxes?\n3.\tWhy do most small business owners wait until the last minute to think about taxes?\n4.\tWhat would small business owners do if they are behind on their taxes?\n5.\tWhat are some of the options for small business owners that can't afford to pay their taxes at tax time?\n6.\tTalk a little about any new tax laws that might be affecting us.\n7.\tTalk about SEP IRAs and how they benefit business owners.\n\nFor a Joel Sandoval’s Tax Secrets FREE Tax Assessment for Business Owners, go to https://help.sandovaltax.com/taxsavingassessment Now! Get your Free Tax Assessment today.\n\nYou can find my interview with Joel Sandoval at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/, https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573, https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id305208343, and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.\n\nSubscribe and get notified every time a new episode is released.\n\nGet a daily Accountability Minute single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the \"right foot\", by subscribing to The Accountability Minute at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ or subscribe based on your country and podcast platform preference.\n \nThe Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB \nThe Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx\nThe Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i\nThe Accountability Minute on Alexa in UK: https://amzn.to/Unlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Now that you know how to work on manifesting your desires to get things done because I have talked about them over the past four days, you may need to, or want to, try 4 steps that I’m sharing over the next few days, to help with your manifestation. \n\nStep #1 is to answer the questions, Where are you in your life right now? What have you done to get to your current station or situation? The desires you’re manifesting come from who you are as a person and where you’ve been. Manifesting on the future requires you to reflect on your past. \n\nTune in tomorrow for Manifestation Action #2 to Get Things Done.\n\nIf you get value from these Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it and always love to hear from you.\n\nSubscribe to my high-value proven business success tips and resources Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) \n\nTake advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. \n\nWant more from The Accountability Coach™, subscribe to more high-value content by looking for me on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries, or by going to https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573. \n\nSubscribe to my YouTube channel with business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach)\n\nConnect with me on Linked-In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) \n\nConnect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/)\n\nConnect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/)\n\nConnect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) \n\nGo to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. \n\nAs an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance.\n\nCheck out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. \n \nAim for what you want each and every day! \nAnne Bachrach\nTUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Productivity versus procrastination is the ever-present angel and devil on our shoulders. The one voice in your head telling you that you should be more productive, and the other voice whispering devilishly to go ahead and watch another episode of your favorite show, that task can wait. But procrastination doesn’t always have to be a negative thing, despite its bad rap. In fact, there are ways you can use it to your advantage!\n\nJohn Perry, an emeritus philosophy professor at Stanford, proposed an idea in 1995 called structured procrastination. His belief was that people who procrastinate are still doing useful things—they just need to learn how to be intentional about the little things they do to put off larger tasks. He argued that by putting structure around everything you do, important or not, you could trick your mind into getting the larger tasks done.\n\nLet’s explore 7 simple ways you can utilize structured procrastination to turn procrastination into productivity.\n\n1. Put Off Morning Tasks by Time Blocking\n\nIf you aren’t a “morning person”, it can be hard to get started in the morning, especially if you start your day early. Instead of diving into a larger task right away, try doing some time blocking as your first small task. Time blocking is blocking off time on your calendar for all your tasks, even breaks! It helps you to structure your day, so you know exactly what to work on in a given time block, so you don’t need to waste your mental energy thinking of what to do next.\n\nYour time-blocked calendar could look something like:\n\n•\t6:00am to 6:30am – Work out\n•\t6:30am to 7:00am – Shower\n•\t7:00am to 7:30am – Coffee and light breakfast\n•\t7:30am to 8:00am – Time block calendar\n•\t8:00am to 9:00am – Make prospecting calls\n•\t9:00am to 9:15am – Prep for client meeting\n•\t9:15am to 10:15am – Client meeting\n•\t10:15am to 10:30am – Finish any actions from client meeting\n•\t10:30am to 11:00am – Respond to emails\n•\t11:00am – 12:00pm – Make prospecting calls\n•\t12:00pm – 12:30pm – Eat Lunch\n•\tEtc.\n\nHaving a laundry list of to-dos can be overwhelming, so setting aside a specific time for each activity takes away the burden of deciding when to do that task and makes you more intentional with how you utilize your valuable time.\n\n2. Break a Larger Project Down into Smaller Tasks\n\nAs you’re blocking time on your calendar, you can break larger projects down into smaller tasks which makes them much easier to do and you feel likUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Today we have a special guest who can help us bring our vision for what we ultimately want in business and in life, into reality.\n\nHeather Hansen O’Neill is an international keynote speaker, behavioral expert, author of Find Your Fire, Teams on Fire!, and coauthor of the new Amazon best seller- Where’s the Office? Moving Today’s Leaders from What IS to What CAN BE. She stimulates vibrant energy, focus, and action for those who want to collaborate effectively, lead change, and achieve massive results.\n\nHere are some questions I asked Heather that you will benefit from by listening to her interview:\n\n•\tTell us about the blocks that keep business owners from moving from what IS to what CAN BE?\n•\tHow do we know which of these judgments, assumptions, fears, and beliefs are holding us back?\n•\tTell us more about how becoming conscious of/releasing these limiting beliefs can help increase confidence and ultimately sales?\n•\tWhy do you think people keep making the same mistakes? Or falling into the same habits and patterns?\n•\tYou have 3 questions you ask about beliefs. What are they?\n•\tAre there tips to releasing negative beliefs?\n•\tWhat tips do you have that we can use right away to help us be even more successful by igniting our inner fire?\n\nGet Heather’s App: Get Fired Up! Which can be found in any app store.\nYou will find a free quiz (and much more) that will help them find their Fire Style-Discover your Fire Style, so you can use your strengths to energize your relationships, your career, and your life!\n\nYou can find my interview with Heather Hansen O’Neill at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/, https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573, https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id305208343, and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.\n\nSubscribe and get notified every time a new episode is released.\n\nGet a daily Accountability Minute single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the \"right foot\", by subscribing to The Accountability Minute at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ or subscribe based on your country and podcast platform preference.\n \nThe Accountability Minute on Amazon's Alexa in the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Accountability-Minute-Anne-Bachrach/dp/B07F5H2KGB \nThe Accountability Minute on Alexa in Canada: https://amzn.to/2MpvUmx\nThe Accountability Minute on Alexa in Australia: https://amzn.to/2vQqI4i\nThe Accountability MinuUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "As a business owner, there are many areas of your business that demand your attention. You have emails to check, team members to respond to, finance and business operations tasks to attend to. Being able to manage your time and resources effectively will help you to be even more efficient, and ultimately even more successful.\n\nEstablishing a streamlined workflow by putting systems in place will help you to know exactly where to find what you need, and drive up productivity across your business. We looked at many different apps and tools, and here is a list of six of the best time management tools for business owners that we found in today’s environment.\n\n1. Toggl\nThe first step in increasing efficiency is figuring out where your time is going. Toggl is a time tracking app that has a simple, easy-to-use interface and integrates with many different project management platforms. You can integrate your Google Calendar to track the amount of time you spend in meetings each week, and set up auto-tracking to trigger time entry suggestions based on the software you’re currently using.\n\nTop features:\n•\tUnlimited projects, clients, & tags\n•\tSimple but powerful interface\n•\tIntegrates with apps like Notion, Trello, Slack, & dozens more\n•\tIdle time detection\n\nPricing: Free for up to 5 users, $9 per user / month after that\n\n2. Notion\nNotion is an extremely customizable all-in-one workspace for you and your teams. You can create a company wiki (a type of knowledge management software: an updatable source of internal company information), collaborate with others on a content calendar, use the Kanban feature to manage tasks, and much more. It can take some time to set up Notion the way you want, but once you do, you’ll have a centralized system for your documents, projects, and future initiatives.\n\nTop features:\n•\tFlexible system to customize however you need\n•\tExtensive template gallery with community-sourced templates being added often\n•\tEasy collaboration with internal teams or clients\n•\tProject management, wiki, and task management in one\n\nPricing: Free for individual users, $8 per user / month for teams\n\n3. Google Calendar\nYour Google Calendar can be a powerful tool for managing not only your meetings and events, but your tasks as well! By using a time blocking strategy and designating specific time blocks for checking emails or working on specific projects, you can be sure that you’re using your time more wisely.\n\nYou can alsoUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Daniel Alfon is the author of Build a LinkedIn Profile for Business Success. Daniel joined Linked-in in early 2004 and publishes Articles, interviews, and exclusive content about advanced LinkedIn strategies to help people get more leads without paying for a premium account or ads. I like this aspect for sure and I think you will also.\n\nHere are some questions I asked Daniel that you will benefit from by listening to his interview:\n\n1.\tWhat approach would you suggest business owners take about their LinkedIn presence?\n2.\tHow should I write my profile headline?\n3.\tWhat does the best profile template look like to get someone noticed? \n4.\tWhat is the best way to search for people who would be possible prospects with a free account? \n5.\tHow does the anatomy of a perfect introduction look like?\n6.\tHow can we send out mass emails to people we are connected to, to generate potential interest for speaking with them? \n7.\tWhat exactly is the difference between the free and paid version? \n8.\tWhat other services on Linked-in should people use and why?\n9.\tWhich common mistakes should we avoid?\n10.\tHow often should you share on LinkedIn?\n\nComplimentary Resources from Daniel Alfon \nOur profile headline is the single most important real estate on Linked-In. This cheat sheet contains examples, formulas and how-tos which will help you improve yours.\nhttps://www.danielalfon.com/#freebie \n\nSharing frequency: Linked-In Article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140326164811-212135-how-to-optimize-your-sharing-on-linkedin/\n\nProfile Makeover Guide: https://www.quora.com/LinkedIn-What-makes-a-LinkedIn-profile-great/answer/Daniel-Alfon\n\nWant more, get Daniel’s book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Build-LinkedIn-Profile-Business-Success-ebook/dp/B00N18B2RS/\n\nYou can find my interview with Daniel Alfon at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/, https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573, https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id305208343, and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. Subscribe and get new episodes as they are released.\n\nSubscribe and get notified every time a new episode is released.\n\nGet a daily Accountability Minute single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the \"right foot\", by subscribing to The Accountability Minute at https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ or subscribe based on your country and podcast platform preference.\n \nThe AcUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Sleep deprivation and the resultant tiredness can have a significant impact on your performance. With the stressful and demanding routines we all have, catching eight hours of sleep often becomes a challenge. While we try to make up for that with energy drinks and loads of caffeine, the temporary kick does nothing to improve our performance. \n\nIf you thought your slacking performance was a lack of skills and not from the effect of not sleeping well, then you may need to rethink. \n\nImpact of Sleep Deprivation on Your Performance\n\nWe’re living in an always working and hyper-connected world. Due to this culture, we spend more waking hours at work, which has a detrimental effect on the quality and quantity of our sleep. Several studies have explored the damaging consequences of a lack of sleep among professionals, especially business owners and they all conclude the same thing. \n\nThe findings prove that sleep deprivation can ultimately hinder our ability to perform at optimum levels at work. It also has devastating emotional and physical side effects that ruin work performance and personal lives as well as our health. \n\nAll in all, it is safe to say that if you’re not sleeping well and enough, you are on the path of self-destruction. Let’s take a look at several ways your lack of quality sleep can be affecting your performance. \n\n1. Low Productive Capacity of Sleep-Deprived Business Owners \nBy not sleeping sufficiently and soundly, you make way for a major loss of productivity and quality of work. It worsens your working relationships and causes significant gaps in your communication, learning, growth, and concentration. \n\nA sleep-deprived entrepreneur develops multiple negative attributes, including a short-temper, memory lapses, declined problem-solving ability, and more. When you go to work in a state of sleep deprivation, you’re not in the best disposition and are more prone to reactionary outbursts and moodiness. \n\nYou must note that when your temper and reactionary outbursts occur too frequently on your behalf, it sours your work relationships. This has a ripple effect, and the bitterness in working relationships keeps spreading till it impacts your entire organization. Clearly, that is never a good thing for your business and team members, and can even lead to grave consequences like contract termination with clients, loss of a potential clients, and losing good team members, etc. \n\nThere are multiple serious problems sleep depriUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform

[[:encoded, "Jessica Bledsoe is the co-founder and CEO of Pav*r, a digital calendar time management application. A graduate of the University of Louisville, Jessica has a proven entrepreneurship track record and nearly a decade of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Jessica was the recipient of the 2019 Rising Star award by Women in Tech and is passionate about helping others use technology to improve their daily lives.\n\nHere are some questions I asked Jessica that you will benefit from by listening to her interview:\n•\tBased on your experience, what needs to change with how we leverage our time?\n•\tWhat are your recommended 3 steps we can take today for making time for what we really want?\n•\tWhat is the research behind what makes our goals work vs. flopping?\n•\tExplain the process of your Intentional Calendar Mapping Method?\n•\tWhat are your best ideas and suggestions for helping us achieve our annual goals, whether they are business or personal?\n\nTake advantage of Jessica’s Free 3-day Challenge using the Intentional Calendar Mapping Method: https://getpavr.com/challenge/ \n\nTo help you be even more effective and efficient, so you can achieve your goals at an accelerated rate, you can delegate more to your team members than you have or might think possible. Stop holding on to things that can be done by someone else and do only those activities that you can do and can’t be done by anyone else. Stop doing revenue generation / business development avoidance activities and delegate more! You should be doing only those activities that only you can do and nobody else can. Successful people are excellent delegators, so work at being an even better delegator and be even more successful. \n\nDownload my Free Delegation Exercise to help you identify more activities to delegate, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/delegation-list-sample/.\n\nTo download my complimentary Time Log Exercise and help you and your team members be even more time efficient, so you are in a higher probability position to achieve your goals, go to: https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/time-log/. Simple instructions come with the exercise to help you know how to complete the time log.\n\nDownload my free audio training about how to Focus on your High Payoff Activities and Achieve Your Goals using Effective Time Management and the special report called 10 Power Tips for Getting Focused, Organized, and Achieving Your Goals Now, by going to https://www.accoUnlock a blueprint to creating and having your ideal business and ideal life by scheduling your free consultation with me today! Want more proven business success tips and resources? Subscribe to my blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. I’m the author of many books, including, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, The Power of Visualization, My Gratitude Journal, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, and The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on your favorite platform