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Leveraging Time

wtci — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:40:37 +0000

A new article by practice-coach Lynn Grodzki looks at managing time and energy in private practice. One tip:

A system taught to me years ago by coach and entrepreneur Jeff Raim, helped me think about time management in blocks. His calendar had three types of time blocked out each day: “work” “buffer,” and “spirit.”

Work means activity that brings you both joy and money.

Spirit means time that replenishes your soul and increases your energy.

Buffer is a catch-all phrase meaning everything else.

When Jeff showed me this system, I blocked out my calendar and realized that my days were mostly work and buffer time, no spirit blocks showed up. This has changed and my time feels better managed and I am much more energized.

The rest is here.

The Business of Therapy

wtci — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:33:09 +0000

Article by Joe Bovanese in the current Psychotherapy Networker about therapy and facebook. His four rules:

It is possible to maintain good boundaries on Facebook, if you follow four simple rules:

1) Go to Privacy Settings and review every item carefully. Facebook now provides 17 variables you can set.

2) Segment your list of friends into Personal, Family, and Business acquaintances. This way, you can post things that pertain to each group, and reduce the amount of irrelevant posts the other groups see.

3) Don’t accept a friend request unless you know the person.

4) If friends’ posts are too frequent, boring, annoying or upsetting to you in any way, you can “defriend” them, and they’ll be gone from your Facebook experience. If for some reason you want to keep them on your Friend list but can’t stomach their chatter, you can hide their posts.

The rest of the article is here.

Too Busy to Get Clients

wtci — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:17:46 +0000

From practice-grower, C.J. Hayden:

“I don’t have enough clients,” one of my students told me. “I’d love to put more effort into marketing, but I’m so busy, I don’t have the time.”

This independent professional’s dilemma might seem humorous, but it’s no joke. I’ve heard this complaint repeatedly from professionals and small business owners. You’d think the solution would be easy – just drop whatever else you’re doing and spend more time on getting clients. But making that adjustment is often not so simple.

Five too-busy-to-get-clients situations explored in the rest of the article, posted here:

http://www.getclientsnow.com/too-busy-to-get-clients.htm