Books Read this Week: Great by Choice & Tell Your Time

by on December 10, 2011

Great by Choice by Jim Collins & Morten Hansen is a must read for all business leaders. It proves their theory that businesses can succeed in times of choas if they posses these 3 qualities: fanatic discipline, empirical creativity & productive paranoia. It also discusses the concept of luck, which has never been researched before. All of the concepts are different from those found in Good to Great. If you love business, you will love this book!  Purchase the book Here!

 

Tell Your Time by Amy Lynn Andrews

Tell Your Time by Amy Lynn Andrews is a short 30-page book you should make time for. It is a workbook to help you better manage your time. Amy gives you examples and steps by step instructions to allow you to take complete control of your life. This book is only available as an ebook. Download it here!

Currently Reading: ProBlogger, The Raggamuffin Gospel, Pick Another Check out Lane, Honey. View all the books I plan to read by the end of 2011.

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My Weekly Goals

by on November 29, 2011

Impossible Goals

I love having written goals! It helps me to prioritize my week. I am still working on making my goals specific, measurable, have a time limit, they need to be mine & they need to be in writing.

Last weeks goals:

Personal Goals

1. Call my out of state friend, Sarah, who I have not talked to in a while.

2. Read/Listen to the following books:

  • Tell Your Time by Amy Andrews
  • Erasing Hell by Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle
  • Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey

3. Come up with a list of 10 books that I want to read. See post here.

4. Back-up my entire computer.

Home Management Goals

5. Move my office from our bedroom to our now freed-up spare room.

6. Clean the oven & microwave. I learned never to do the self-cleaning oven mode when it is cold outside because the house became smokey which meant I had to open the windows and freeze.

Business Goals

7. Decide on a domain name for my husband’s new mountain biking blog & purchase it. We decided on TrailVisionUSA.com

8. Set-up wordpress for the new mountain biking blog & teach my husband how to use it.

9. Write a post on “Cost Effective Coupon Printing”. Read Post Here.

10. Write 2 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

This Weeks Goals:

Personal Goals

1. Read: Great by Choice by Jim Collins.

2. Decorate for Christmas & put up Christmas Lights

3. Start looking for cheap hotels to book for our vacation in January

4. Cancel my old health insurance.

Home Management Goals

5. Move my office from our bedroom to our now freed-up spare room.

6. Keep up on laundry this week & put away all the clean clothes from last week.

Business Goals

7. Work with my husband to layout home page & side widgets on his new mountain biking blog.

8. Write 2 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

9. Write a blog post on my favorite grocery/coupon apps.

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL by the end of the year

1. Triple my monthly page views & Facebook fan likes.
**Help me get started by liking CouponFocused on Facebook.

What are your goals for the week?

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Magazine Recipe Book

by on November 28, 2011

Magazine Recipe Book

We all love to receive magazines, but after you read them they usually end up laying around. I love this idea to create your own recipe book with all of your cooking magazines.

I receive Everyday with Rachael Ray & Taste of Home Magazines. As I read them, I tear out all my favorite recipes. The leftover magazine goes directly into the trash and the tore out recipes go into my custom recipe book!

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Books Read this Week: EntreLeadership, Poke the Box, Erasing Hell

by on November 23, 2011

Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey is a great handbook for businesses. Specifically businesses that sell products and have employees. It covers everything from decision making, marketing, hiring & firing, selling skills, inspiring employees, delegating, and more. Most of the topics covered offered are basic common sense, however, Ramsey offers some great financial advance which he is best known for. Overall this book is easy to understand and would be easy to put into practice.

I listened to this book as an audiobook on my iphone. It is a great way to get “reading” done while cleaning, driving, and getting ready in the morning. It is available to download at Barnes & Noble or at itunes…

Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches - Dave Ramsey [Read more…]

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10 Books I Plan to Read by the End of 2011

by on November 20, 2011

Books to read in 2011

As Dr Seuss says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

I want to go places! To help me get there I plan on reading 10 books by the end of 2011. As I finish them, I will be giving a review of each one.

      1. Entreleadership – Dave Ramsey
      2. Poke the Box – Seth Godin
      3. Erasing Hell – Francis Chan
      4. Tell Your Time (ebook only) – Amy Lynne Andrews
      5. Great by Choice – Jim Collins
      6. ProBlogger – Darren Rowse & Chris Garrett
      7. Pick Another Check out Lane, Honey – Joanie Demer & Heather Wheeler
      8. The Raggamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning
      9. The Purple Cow – Seth Godin
      10. Word Hero – Jay Heinrich

What books are you currently reading?

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My Weekly Goals

by on November 14, 2011

Impossible Goals

I am so proud of everything that I got accomplished last week. I decided that I would not let any excuses get in my way and therefore, I was able to accomplish a large part of my to do list. I started listening to Dave Ramsey’s Entreleadership, in the book he says that our goals need to be specific, measurable, have a time limit, they need to be mine & they need to be in writing. This week you will see that my goals are much more specific.

Last’s Weeks Goals:

Personal Goals
1. Go to bed by 11:30pm every night. (For a while I wasn’t getting to bed until 2am)
2. Research and download an audio book.
3. Call a few of my out of state friends who I have not talked to in a while.
4. Sign-up for new health insurance.
5. Book our caving adventure for our vacation in January.
6. Research possible community serve projects for my small group for December. –> I decided to delegate this task.

Home Management Goals
7. Get the floor swept & mopped.
8. Clean out all expired coupons from my coupon box.
9. Steam clean carpets.
10. Create a meal plan for this week.

Business Goals
11. Get Business cards made. – In the process, it in now in someone else’s hands.
12. Write 3 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.
13. Start a blog for my Hubby. He wants to create one about mountain biking. – We picked out the blog platform we want to use.
14. Create a community forum for our church website.
15. Write 3 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.
16. Write a post on “Cost Effective Coupon Printing”.
17. Create a Black Friday website for my hometown: Grand Junction, Colorado

My Goals for this week

Personal Goals

1. Call my out of state friend, Sarah, who I have not talked to in a while.

2. Read/Listen to the following books:

  • Tell Your Time by Amy Andrews
  • Erasing Hell by Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle
  • Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey –> Almost done

3. Come up with a list of 15 books that I want to read.

4. Back-up my entire computer.

Home Management Goals

5. Move my office from our bedroom to our now freed-up spare room.

6. Clean the oven & microwave.

Business Goals

7. Decide on a domain name for my husband’s new mountain biking blog & purchase it.

8. Set-up wordpress for the new mountain biking blog & teach my husband how to use it.

9. Write a post on “Cost Effective Coupon Printing”.

10. Write 2 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL by the end of the year

1. Triple my monthly page views & Facebook fan likes.
**Help me get started by liking CouponFocused on Facebook.

What are your goals for the week?

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My Weekly Goals

by on November 7, 2011

Impossible Goals

My goal achievement for last week was mediocre. I only accomplished about 1/2 of what I set out to do. This week I plan to stay focused and get things done. I am also going to challenge myself to have a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) to accomplish by the end of the year.

Last’s Weeks Goals:

Personal Goals

1. Go to bed by 11:30pm every night. (For a while I wasn’t getting to bed until 2am)

2. Research and download an audio book. Any suggestions?

3. Call a few of my out of state friends who I have not talked to in a while.

4. Sign-up for new health insurance.

Home Management Goals

5. Get the floor swept & mopped.

6. Clean out all expired coupons from my coupon box.

Business Goals

7. Get Business cards made. – I started designing them, now I just have to get them printed.  At least it is a start!

8. Write 3 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

9. Start a blog for my Hubby. He wants to create one about mountain biking.

10. Create a community forum for our church website.

 

My goals for this week, in addition to finishing those from last week.

Personal Goals

1. Book our caving adventure for our vacation in January.

2. Research possible community serve projects for my small group for December.

Home Management Goals

3. Steam clean carpets.

4. Create a meal plan for this week.

Business Goals

5. Write 3 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

6. Write a 3 part series on “How to get Coupons for cheap”.

7. Create a Black Friday website for my hometown: Grand Junction, Colorado

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL by the end of the year

1. Triple my monthly page views & Facebook fan likes.
**Help me get started by liking CouponFocused on Facebook.

What are your goals for the week?

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My Weekly Goals

by on October 25, 2011

Setting weekly goals is vital for me to actual get some stuff accomplished each week. Here is what I plan on completing by the end of the week:

Personal Goals

1. Go to bed by 11:30pm every night. (For a while I wasn’t getting to bed until 2am)

2. Research and download an audio book. Any suggestions?

3. Call a few of my out of state friends who I have not talked to in a while.

4. Sign-up for new health insurance.

Home Management Goals

5. Get the floor swept & mopped.

6. Clean out all expired coupons from my coupon box.

Business Goals

7. Get Business cards made.

8. Write 3 blog posts for EpicChristianLiving.com.

9. Start a blog for my Hubby. He wants to create one about mountain biking.

10. Create a community forum for our church website.

 

What are your goals for the week?

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