{"id":3106,"date":"2010-03-27T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2016-08-08T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T17:14:57","slug":"coaching-tips-to-increase-productivity-a-coaching-strategy-to-conquer-the-biggest-productivity-drain-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/coaching-tips-to-increase-productivity-a-coaching-strategy-to-conquer-the-biggest-productivity-drain-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Tips to Increase Productivity:  A Coaching Strategy to Conquer the Biggest Productivity Drain of All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the <a title=\"coaching tips\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/03\/coaching-tips-to-get-past-burnout-coaching-strategy\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>coaching tips<\/strong><\/a> I\u2019ve heard lately, this one tops them all. The reason is that the biggest productivity drain is email. It can keep you busy for hours, and at the end of that time you are no closer to your goals. What\u2019s the <a title=\"coaching strategy\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/02\/coaching-tips-accountability-coaching-strategy\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>coaching strategy<\/strong><\/a> to master this monster? It\u2019s about realizing that most of us are addicted to email. These <strong>coaching tips<\/strong> will help you control the urge to check your email and help you spend the time you need to on what matters most. Thomas Edison said, &#8220;Your success is directly related to your ability to focus on one task.&#8221; What a great <strong>coaching strategy<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<h3>Coaching Tips for Keeping Email At Bay as Part of Your Coaching Strategy<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One <strong>coaching strategy<\/strong> is to avoid looking at emails every day. Perhaps you want to skim your emails to look for anything urgent, but it shouldn\u2019t take more than 5-10 minutes for most of us. Most of the time the subject will tell us what it is, and even if it\u2019s not urgent we still find ourselves drawn like moths to the candlelight. Your priorities are your goals. Use these <strong>coaching tips<\/strong> to stay focused.<\/p>\n<p>Another <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching strategy<\/span> is to use more than one email account. Separate your business mail from your personal mail. You may even have different email accounts for different parts of your business. These <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching tips<\/span> can help you save valuable time you need to focus on your goals.<\/p>\n<h3>Use These Coaching Tips to Set Aside Time As Part of Your Coaching Strategy<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge around email is that it is there waiting for you at anytime, day or night. Email can steal hours a day away from productive time. One <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching strategy<\/span> to manage emails is to ask yourself how you would you like it if an employee used company time to check emails. It\u2019s robbery, right? The same goes for your own business. If you take anything home from these <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coaching tips<\/span>, it\u2019s to make sure you set aside time for you to work on your goals. No <a title=\"coaching strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesscoaching.typepad.com\/the_business_coaching_blo\/2009\/02\/strategy-failure-common-mistakes-in-strategy.html\" target=\"_blank\">coaching strategy<\/a> or coaching tips will be more powerful than deciding on what you want, and committing your focused attention to achieving it. Guard your time with your life and don\u2019t let it slip away into cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>Colette Seymann<br \/>\nJTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the coaching tips I\u2019ve heard lately, this one tops them all. The reason is that the biggest productivity drain is email. It can keep you busy for hours, and at the end of that time you are no closer to your goals. What\u2019s the coaching strategy to master this monster? It\u2019s about realizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[219,158],"tags":[1003,950],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-strategy","category-coaching-tips","tag-coaching-strategy","tag-coaching-tips","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18032,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/18032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}