SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR TIME CHALLENGES

Mastering Time Management: Essential Tips and Strategies for Freelancers

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | April 6, 2023 |

  This week, guest author Ezgi Aydın of BeforeSunset shares time management tips and strategies for freelancers:   Importance of Time Management for Freelancers Time management is essential to the success of freelancers. Freelancers must successfully manage their time to fulfill deadlines, finish several jobs, and keep their clients’ trust. Without effective time management, freelancers…

Productivity Tips – Photo Organizing Resources

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | March 30, 2023 |

  It can become overwhelming when you’re trying to figure out where to even start searching for photo organizing resources. The list below will give you a springboard to figure out what direction you might want to take with your photo organizing project. In last week’s post, I shared five considerations for getting started with…

Productivity Tips – How to Organize Your Photos

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | March 23, 2023 |

  A client of mine is struggling with what has the potential to become a huge time suck:  organizing family photos  I’m an avid (amateur) photographer, so I understand how some folks can amass a huge, overwhelming quantity of photos if the process of culling and organizing is not implemented along the way. If you…

Time Management and The Luck of the Irish

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | March 16, 2023 |

  With St. Patrick’s Day landing on a Friday, there will most likely be a few more St. Paddy’s celebrations than usual. You’ll also probably here an often-uttered phrase: the luck of the Irish The word “luck” is sometimes used to describe how a person lands a successful job or manages difficult situations with finesse…

Improve Your Productivity Through Financial Planning

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | March 2, 2023 |

  You might be asking yourself, “What does financial planning have to do with productivity?”   Great question!   The answer is: More than you realize! If you look at surveys and studies about sources of stress for individuals or couples or families, at the top of the list almost every time is MONEY.  …

How to Stop Phone Addiction – 4 Tips

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | February 23, 2023 |

  Last week, we discussed how to stop phone addiction – specifically, the emotional and mental aspects of phone addiction as well as what questions to ask yourself in order to help you assess your current situation. This time, we’ll examine four tips you can implement to begin curbing your addiction.   Remove Temptation If…

How to Stop Phone Addiction – Face the Facts

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | February 16, 2023 |

If you’ve begun to read this article about how to stop phone addiction, it might be because your significant other spends more time looking at the screen than you, or perhaps you haven’t seen your teenager’s eyes in a week, or maybe you realize that your phone controls you.   Today, we’re going to focus…

AI and Time Management – Is it here?

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | February 9, 2023 |

  Has the type of AI that can help us with time management arrived yet? A lot of clients and workshop participants ask me what online platform or software they can purchase that will schedule their days for them, shift and reprioritize as needs change, and make sure they finish everything they’re supposed to.  …

What do groundhogs, candles and patterns have in common with time management?

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | February 1, 2023 |

  In one of the workshops that I present on my foundational framework for time management, I discuss the importance of patterns.   Quite often we see or hear or experience the same things over and over and over again, yet we don’t do anything to change it or possibly even prevent it. Why is…

How to Be Successful with Lunar New Year Resolutions

By Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO® | January 26, 2023 |

Happy Lunar New Year! Lunar New Year’s Eve was celebrated on January 21st this year to ring in the Year of the Rabbit (or Year of the Cat in Vietnam). The celebration continues for 16 days. Whether you celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or Gregorian New Year (many countries’ traditional January 1 kick…

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