The Accountability Coach: Business Acceleration | Productivity

[[:encoded, "Rarely is anything an overnight success. It can take years of hard work before it pays off, and that can be a hard truth to accept. But there are tips and tricks, or habits really, that you can implement into your daily life to pave the way to a successful future for you and your company.\n\nThese tricks, that I’m about to share, are a mix of productivity hacks as well as personal life hacks to help you perform at your best and build an extraordinary legacy. With practice, they’ll become second nature, and allow you to free up your mental bandwidth to tackle the tasks that will grow your business exponentially.\n\n1. Prioritize Taking Accountability\nAs a business owner, you’re responsible not only for your own outcomes, but the outcomes of the people you hire. A great leader has insight into the day-to-day operations of their business and has the ability to empower their team as well as step in when needed. Additionally, you can’t expect your team to take accountability for their actions and decisions if you don’t set an example first.\n\nTaking accountability in everyday situations helps you to learn how to take responsibility for your destiny overall. You are in charge of your success, and when you get into the practice of taking action instead of making excuses, you’ll go further than ever.\n\n2. Take Care of Yourself\nGreatness can’t be achieved when your body and your mental health aren’t performing optimally. The idea of hustling 24/7 and wearing burnout as a badge of honor is outdated. In order to succeed, you need to take care of your body.\n\nThat might mean incorporating a consistent workout routine into your day, whether that’s early in the morning or later in the afternoon. Some people prefer to start their day by getting their body moving, which may actually promote greater productivity.\n\nPay attention to how your body feels throughout the day. Are you getting enough sleep? Or are you powering through on a bad night’s sleep? According to a 2016 business school study, leaders who prioritized sleep were perceived as more charismatic.\n\n3. Turn Off as Many Notifications as You Can\nPhones can be the primary way in which you do your work, but they can also be incredibly distracting. Turning off notifications to the apps that you don’t need to be looking at can help you focus and be more productive.\n\nEven if you use social media for your business, block off some time each day on your calendar as the designated time to engage with your socUnlock 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, "I think you will find my guest to be extremely knowledgeable about relationships as it relates to getting and keeping clients as well as in our personal life, so you can be on the path to accelerate your business results and ultimately enjoy having the kind of business and life you truly want.\n\nFor over 20 years Dr. Alexandra Stockwell has shown men and women how to communicate with clarity, vulnerability, and power, in order to create meaningful collaborative relationships in both professional and personal contexts.\n\nShe is the bestselling author of “Uncompromising Intimacy” and host of The Intimate Marriage Podcast. Dr. Alexandra has been featured in the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Business Insider, FOX NEWS NYC, just to name a few. Disruptors Magazine recently named her one of “30 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2022.”\n \nHere are just a few of the questions I asked Alexandra that you will benefit from by listening to her interview:\n\n•\tWhat are some of the important differences in how we engage in business relationships vs personal relationships?\n•\tHow do we become even better listeners?\n•\tWhat is the most important thing to make relationships with clients successful?\n•\tWhat is the high performer’s key to a successful relationship in business and in their personal life?\n•\tWhy is compromise the worst relationship advice ever?\n•\tWhat can a business owner or leader do when a staff member doesn’t want to be held accountable, seems to be unhappy, or not performing to your standards?\n\nDownload the first chapter of her book, Uncompromising Intimacy, that will help you with business and personal relationships by going to https://www.alexandrastockwell.com/book/. \n\nSubscribe and get new episodes as they are released.\n\nAim for what you want each and every day! \nAnne Bachrach\nThe Accountability Coach™\nThe Results Accelerator™ \n\nGet 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 https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries.\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\nIf you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. 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, "Managing a team is not an easy feat. People aren’t plug and play templates—there’s no formula for the best way to do it. The best managers lead with empathy and kindness, communicate clearly, and empower their team members.\n\nAs a team leader, it’s your job to inspire people and help them reach their goals and their potential. Continue listening to learn how to improve your team management skills and reach success together using one of all the six tips I’m about to share with you.\n\n1. Lead with Empathy\nIn Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Twelve and a Half, he talks about how empathy is a central part of how he operates. When you leverage empathy, he argues, it “makes you a better business person, CEO, manager, or leader.” To motivate your team, you need to understand them, and to understand them, you need to lead with empathy.\n\nIf someone on your team makes a mistake, instilling fear in them and being angry with them immediately can lead to more mistakes. They lose the ability to learn from their failures and will approach future challenges with trepidation, not from a problem-solving perspective.\n\nInstead, take the time to understand what happened and where they were coming from. As a business owner, you’re ultimately accountable for anything that happens under your watch, so understanding your team can help you to better understand how to guide them to better outcomes.\n\n2. Clearly Communicate Goals and Expectations\nEffective communication includes clearly communicating things like deadlines, tasks, and deliverables. When your employees know exactly what’s expected of them, they have a better chance of success. The goal for you is to set them up for that success.\n\nDon’t assume that someone knows what their role entails. You may have a different picture in your mind than they do of what needs to be done. To avoid any confusion, write out a clear job description, but here’s the trick—check in regularly and continue to communicate what your expectations of them are. Have an ongoing process to reassess performance and make sure you’re both aligned. Once you can clearly communicate these goals, it’ll lead to the next tip, which is to provide honest feedback.\n\n3. Provide Honest Feedback\nProviding feedback, especially negative feedback, is not an easy task for any manager or business owner. But it’s much more beneficial to both you and your team member for you to provide honest feedback that’s delivered with kindness, than to dance around the subject 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, "We are all looking for ways to streamline our efforts at work – after all, who doesn’t want to get more done in less time? The idea of working smarter and not necessarily harder is not a new concept. It is one that the business and self-help industries have spent years tackling through thought leadership and research. \n\nUnfortunately, many people falsely assume that smart work can completely override the need for hard work, which simply isn’t true. It takes hard work to learn how to work in a smarter fashion. It takes hard work and discipline to implement new business strategies and perspectives. \n\nIt is only when working hard and working smart find a symbiotic relationship that true power in business productivity and effectiveness are found. With that said, I’m going to talk about 3 principles that you need to implement in order to strike a beautiful balance between the two.\n\n1. Delegate Non-Essential Tasks\n\nThis one should be a no-brainer, but time and time again people get stuck in the rut of doing things that aren’t the best use of their time or their talents. Outsourcing mind-numbing or repetitive tasks can be an immediately effective and a smart way to free up your workday time, so that you don’t have to work so hard to complete everything on your, probably lengthy, to-do list.\n\nIf you could cut that list of daily obligations from 10 things to 6, would you find yourself less stressed and with more bandwidth to truly pour your heart and soul into your day’s workload? Chances are good that that answer to that question is a solid, “yes!” But yet so many people refuse to let go of those things that someone else could easily handle.\n\nPerhaps it is because of a need to feel in control, or worry that the person handling those tasks would not do it properly. Regardless, if you put in the hard work upfront of hiring the right person for the job the first time around, you will be saving yourself an incredible amount of time down the line. \n\nDownload a Free Delegation List Sample Exercise to help you identify more activities to delegate, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/delegation-list-sample/.\n\n2. Avoid the Siren Call of Multi-Tasking\n\nWhile multi-tasking tricks our minds into believing we are getting more things done at one time, we are actually just taking longer to accomplish small tasks, while simultaneously overloading our brains and producing subtle levels of stress that our bodies struggle to release. \n\nScientificaUnlock 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, "I think you will find this guest to be a wealth of information related to helping you be as healthy as possible, so you can perform at 100% and be on the path to having your ideal business and ideal life. \n\nOlly Wood has worked with world leading experts in exercise, nutrition, and biochemistry to develop a more holistic, scientific, and sustainable approach to health and performance.\n\nOlly got his start in the trenches of the health world as a Physical Therapist in a big box gym. After 7 years of working with primarily high-performing business owners, he saw the extent to which stress, inflammation, and lack of focus on recovery was ruining any progress they were making. Olly’s goal is to help professionals on the pursuit of growth and improvement, to make sure they don’t leave their body and energy behind. \n \nHere are just a few of the questions I asked Olly that you will benefit from by listening to his interview:\n\n•\tHow can busy professionals integrate healthy habits into their lives?\n•\tHow does a healthy body help prevent burnout?\n•\tWhy does most health advice get it so wrong?\n•\tWhat are people doing wrong with exercise as they get older?\n•\tHow do stress and mindset come into personal health?\n\nJoin Olly’s 5-Day Challenge today by going to https://themetaproject.co/. \nWomen: Upgrade Your Gut Health to Drop 5-10kg, Elevate Mood & Get Back Your 20yr Old Energy for Good. A full 5 day \"mini-series\" walk-through to elevate your body, energy, and overall health in a smarter, more sustainable way.\nMen: Upgrade Your \"Second Brain\" To Drop 5-10kg, Elevate Mood & Get Back Your 20yr Old Energy for Good. The full 5 day \"mini-series\" walk-through to beat andropause and elevate your body, energy, and overall health in a smarter, more sustainable way.\n\nYou can find my interview with Olly Wood 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 new episodes as they are released.\n\nAim for what you want each and every day! \nAnne Bachrach\nThe Accountability Coach™\nThe Results Accelerator™ \n\nGet 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 https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on mUnlock 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, "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