time management

How to Boost Your Productivity and Manage Your Time Better

I find that as the planet raises its vibration, that we all have less time to do things than we did before. Here are some techniques I use to help me manage the time that I have so I can accomplish as much in a day as I can.

Do Stuff You Dislike First: I was reading a blog post tweeted on Twitter that unfortunately I did not bookmark that gave me a really easy way to boost my productivity. What you do is make up a list of all the things that you would like to accomplish in the next day. After you make up your list, order it in priority by placing the things you love to do at the top of the page and the things you would like to accomplish but don’t enjoy doing at the bottom of the page.

Then reverse the order of activities on the list and start the next day by doing the things you don’t want to do FIRST and the things that you love to do LAST. This is quite effective because we all are great about creating time for things we love to do and tend to put off doing the things we do not like to do. This way you begin with stuff that you don’t want to do and end your day doing things that you love to do.

Egg Timer: I always have an egg timer by my desk and if I am doing something I do not want to do, I will set the egg timer for 15 to 45 minutes and focus on trying to do as much as possible in that time frame. It becomes sort of a game and I can do anything for less than hour. And sometimes I get so much done and so wrapped up in what I am doing that I reset the timer after it goes off for another round.

Read Email and Play on Twitter at Certain Times of the Day for Certain Time Frames: My two biggest distractions right now to getting things done are reading and replying to the endless series of email messages I receive and getting sucked into the vortex of time also known as Twitter. I try to do each of these several times of day for less than an hour. That helps me to carve out large blocks of time where I can focus on getting things done.

About Bill Austin

Reiki Master Bill Austin is a spiritual healer, teacher, artist, writer and visionary living in St Petersburg, FL. He is the founder of several energy healing modalities and he specializes in distant healing, spiritual growth videos, healing art and healer training. He provides numerous free healing resources and a powerful line of energy healing products. Please follow Bill on Twitter!

Lady GaGa Should Put the Beef into Her Songs Rather than into Her Wardrobe!

Years later I still remember the slogan “Where is the Beef” more than the actual details of the presidential election it was used in (of course this slogan began as an advertisement for Wendy’s).

As I was listening to several of Lady GaGa’s new songs that I had ordered, a lot of the songs took fooorrrreeeevvveeerrr to get to the good part. I don’t understand why she couldn’t just cut the song short by a minute and just give us the good stuff. I mean people buy songs individually now so she doesn’t have to worry about filling up an album with meaningless noise.

And some of the songs raised issues for me around authenticity. The controversy around Born in the USA being a Madonna ripoff is one thing but the most disturbing disconnect with me is that one of Lady GaGa’s new songs sounds like a Country Western one and she is SOOOOOOOOOOO not Country/Western. And it was very weird to hear her sing “Ave Maria.”

I also was a tad irritated with her releasing Judas at the start of one of the holiest weeks for Christians. Why stir up people if you do not have to. Why can’t people just play nicely with each other. I do not feel that mixing up dance music and religion is ever a particularly good thing.

I was examining why this bothered me so much what I discovered is that it came back to my core principle of Honoring My Time and Energy. We only have so much time so we should all aim at filling the time we have with the good stuff rather than useless filler.

I usually read over one book a day and have done so since I was twelve years old. I feel that many of the books I read around healing, business, spiritual growth, etc. could easily be condensed into a book half the size of the published one. It is very irritating because I value my time and energy and would prefer to read two books in that same time frame as one book crammed to the brim and overflowing with filler.

I think partly that a lot of publishers and writers, in the United States, at least, feel that more is better and that the longer the book the more you can charge for it. When I am looking for books on a topic at a book store, I often gravitate toward the smaller ones because I often find that smaller books are more densely packed with the content I need than larger ones.

One of the things I love about Amazon is their ratings system saves me hours of research time. When I order books on Amazon I focus on the number of reviews and the rating. I only look seriously at books with over 50 reviews (because I think smaller numbers are often author driven) and ratings over 4 stars.

So Amazon honors my time and energy and enhances my personal productivity and I reward them with lots of business. He he he I do feel obliged to confess that I own stock in Amazon too to keep the FTC happy.

Generally I prefer to do business with people who honor my time and energy by providing high quality services and content. And I feel that companies that do this like Amazon will thrive whereas people who do not do this will flounder. The Internet rewards people who do this and brutally punishes those who do not.

And yes as much as the divine Lady GaGa irritated me with her recent album if she reverts back to creating FABULOUS songs like Monster, I will continue to buy them.

About Holistic Healer Bill Austin:

Bill Austin is a spiritual healer, teacher, artist, writer and visionary living in St Petersburg, Florida in the United States. Bill specializes in distance healing, spiritual growth, healing art and healer training. He is the founder of several Reiki healing modalities. He has trained healers in over sixteen countries and has helped people from all over the world to heal, grow, succeed and realize more of their full potential. Bill infuses healing and enlightenment energies into color healing art images and has created a line of self help book. You can click on this link to download a free Vibrational Color Healing Art E-Book. He offers a number of free spiritual healing resources on the freespiritualhealing.com web site.