Free C.A.S.H. can buy you 6 hours a day [How to be an Original]
The last two days something really interesting is unfolding on some blogs I follow (and some I didn’t follow yet). It’s something like a pub crawl between blogs, with online entrepreneurs and freelancers challenging eachother to put each other’s lessons in practice.
Christine O’Kelly (Self Made Chick) was put “On Notice” by Dave Navarro (Freelance Folder / Million Dollar Leverage), when he decided to start a 30 trial by putting the lessons of Christine’s e-book into practice. Christine in return shouted out to Dave to “Show her the money“, taking up a similar trial with the time management lessons of Dave.
Both of them are pushing themselves to improve, and openly challenging, praising, questioning and discussing what they experience. It’s a lot of fun to follow and read and discuss along. More great people are following and discussing, like James Chartrand (Men with Pens), Monika Mundell (The Writers Manifesto), Michael Martine (Remarkablogger) and Naomi Dunford (Ittybiz).
E-books
I somehow missed the fact that Christine published a 26-page e-book “How I Built A Profitable Freelance Business for Under $50 (And How You Can Too!)â€. I got my copy, but have yet to read it (probably tonight).
I did download and read Dave Navarro’s e-book “How To Turn Your 24 Hour Day Into a 30 Hour Day”. Sign-up for his newsletter to get your copy. It’s a small e-book as well, but it really rung a bell with me. Dave touches on some points that I had discovered in recent months as well. He talks about not getting started, about keeping focus and eliminating distractions, about keeping yourself accountable for your goals and about having too many goals. So he got my attention!
Now where’s the cash?
Well the C.A.S.H. is a four-step program Dave discusses in his book:
- Clarity - identify your top priority using a checklist
- Accountability - review progress on a regular basis
- Strategy - adjust your strategy until your done!
- Honor - honor the process, by starting over
That’s in a nutshell where the cash is, and how you can find your 6 hours. If you want to know more about it, download the book.
My top priority? Plan my days!
Well, it’s been staring me in the face for a while now. When I used the simple checklists of Dave, they pointed out to me that I’m doing pretty good at my time results management already. My single top priority is to plan my days though. Planning my days is something that I have not been doing, but with a tendency to overcommit and a tendency to underestimate the time needed to complete a task, it’s quite essential.
So I created my own daily sheet to plan my day. Basically it’s a sheet of paper with a timetable divided into 30 minutes segments, with a column for my planning, a column for my actuals and a column for remarks. I’ll put it up for download soon.
I’ve only been working with it for a day and a half now, so it’s hard to say that I have achieved results with it. I have noticed some thing already:
- It has made me more aware of how I spend my time and on what.
- It works as a focus tool, reminding me when I’m not working on the stuff I planned.
- It’s going to be a great reference to learn about how much time certain activities actually require.
And Dave’s convinced that most people who feel that they overcommit, are actually underplanning. So if I get this down, maybe I don’t feel overcommitted anymore.
I’ll keep you posted!
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Free C.A.S.H. can buy you 6 hours a day
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