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Master Schedule Success

January 18, 2016 / Rick Morsovillo

Entrepreneurs Master Schedule Success, You Can Too

My name is Rick Morsovillo and I have discovered how many entrepreneurs with similar ideals and routines are able to master schedule success. This blog is part of a series on the truths that I have found on scheduling success. Be sure to read Master Success By Scheduling Your Success and Master Success Habits if you have not already done so.

Maintain 1 Master Schedule Success Calendar

It is absolutely critical to make sure that all of your meetings, appointments, and engagements are organized into one calendar. The last thing that anyone wants to do is sort through a variety of calendars, notebooks, apps, and tablets trying to figure out their daily schedule. Schedule yourself for success by managing your busy life in just one calendar. Oddly enough, your daily schedule will not seem as daunting and it will be much easier to understand. Additionally, this trick helps you avoid double booking! Lastly, think about how much time you can save by not having to sort through all of your calendars trying to figure out your schedule for the day.

Master Schedule Success Tip: Start today! Choose the device that you feel the most comfortable with. If that is a desk calendar, run to the store (after you finish reading this!) and buy a calendar. If that is your smartphone or computer, download an app and import your calendar. I use the calendar app on my phone and sync it with my calendar on my computer. Lastly, keep this calendar on you all day so that you can adapt when plans change and make sure that you never miss anything.

Master Schedule Success Through Teamwork

So many of the world’s most successful companies were launched through teamwork. Companies like Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Johnson & Johnson was founded by three Johnson’s, and Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Being successful is very rarely about complete independence from a team. Being successful is about working well with others, being able to accept other’s ideas, and collaborate.

Master Schedule Success Tip: Kickoff your lunch break with a quick email to your team updating them on your current project and ask them for feedback. This will help your team feel involved in the process, get involved in the project, and encourage them to share their opinions. Overall, it’s a win-win for everyone!

Again, my name is Rick Morsovillo and I am an entrepreneur from Springfield, Missouri. If you interested in learning more on scheduling success, read the next blog in this series entitled, Schedule Success: Greatest Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs. I hope you find this blog series helpful!

Master Success Habits

January 11, 2016 / Rick Morsovillo

Master Success Habits Are Powerful

How You Can Master Success Habits Through The Habits of Successful People

Many successful entrepreneurs have learned master success habits. They have developed their methods based on their own habits that have created success for them. Have you ever tried to incorporate their habits into your life? My name is Rick Morsovillo and I have discovered how to master my success by studying other successful entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs have similar ideals and routines which increases their success. This blog is part two of a four-part blog on the habits and routines of successful entrepreneurs. If you have not already done so, read up on the previous blog in this series Master Success By Scheduling Your Success.

Successful Entrepreneurs Master Success Habits By Feeding Their Brains

Tony Robbins, Motivational Speaker and Peak Performance Coach, has this to say about his daily learning habit. “Years ago I got hooked on a habit that turned out to be one of the most valuable of my life: reading at least 30 minutes a day. Jim Rohn, one of my teachers, told me that reading something of substance, something of value, something that was nourishing, something that taught you distinctions, was more important than eating. ‘Miss a meal,’ he said, ‘but don’t miss your reading.’ Remember: leaders are readers.”

Full disclosure: this one is tough for even me because I am not a big reader. However, I recognize that when I do read or listen to an audio clip it does reframe my perspective and give me new ideas for old problems.

Master Success Habits Tip: Listen to YouTube clips or podcasts of motivational speakers like Tony Robbins in the car on your way to work. Even if it’s just five to 10 minutes, it’s still habit-forming and you will get benefits.

Successful Entrepreneurs Master Success Habits By Practicing The Art Of Listening

In the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey writes, “most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” When a new situation arises, I find I need to hear what’s going on from every angle possible. Only then can can I assess it in its entirety and understand how I can bring it to positive resolution. I have learned that if I am crafting my response while the other person is talking, I usually miss a piece or it takes longer to bring the situation to a close.

Master Success Habits Tip: Get into the habit of delaying problem-solving mode until you can get a full picture of situations. Use phrases like, “I have to process this” to give yourself some time to think things through.

Again, my name is Rick Morsovillo and I am an entrepreneur from Springfield, Missouri. If you want to know more on mastering your success, check out the next blog in this series entitled Mastering Schedule Success. I hope you find this blog series helpful!

Master Success By Scheduling Your Success

January 4, 2016 / Rick Morsovillo

Master Success Meter

Is It Possible To Truly Master Success?

Have you ever wanted to literally master success, but wondered if you really could? My name is Rick Morsovillo and I have discovered that many successful entrepreneurs have similar routines and schedules which are an integral part in their successful everyday lives. This blog is Part One of a four-part blog on the habits and routines of entrepreneurs that have mastered their success.

Entrepreneurs Master Success By Having A Morning Routine

Author Laura Vanderkam recently conducted a study on the schedules of high achievers. She discovered that almost all of them scheduled their success. They got up early and had a morning routine. Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, is a huge advocate of taking control of your productivity in the mornings. Tony Robbins, Peak Performance Coach, calls that morning time “The Hour of Power.”

Getting up early and completing a morning routine has lots of benefits. Walking into a work day fully alert helps ready the entrepreneur for the demands of the day. Accomplishing small personal and professional goals before work is a mood booster and small pieces of evidence for achieving success. For example, my morning mood-boosting routine involves waking up and drinking two glasses of water, making a cup of green tea and then working out.

Master Success Tip: Consider scheduling time to achieve quick, easy personal and/or professional goals before work rather than after work.

Entrepreneurs Master Success By Knowing When To Schedule For Problem-Solving

Dealing with problems is a big part of being a successful entrepreneur. Some problems need to be handled at the moment they arise. Others problems can wait for solutions. To master success you need to get dialed into your personal problem-solving habits. My timing for problem-solving depends on both internal and external factors. There are times when I feel more prepared to be solutions oriented than others. For example, if I have not slept well, I will not deal with a problem until I am fresh. In these cases, I will allocate time the next morning, after my workout when I am fresh. Sometimes the solution requires collaboration. In these cases I have to be aware of my team and their schedules. There are other times when I don’t know about problems. Scheduling regular department meetings gives the team an opportunity to bring them up and allocate time for solutions.

Master Success Tip: Schedule status meetings with your teams. Know the internal and external factors that impact your ability to effectively deal with problems and plan accordingly.

Again, my name is Rick Morsovillo and I am an entrepreneur in Springfield, Missouri. Want More? Read the next blog in this series, Master Success Habits to truly master success. I hope you find this blog series helpful!

Maximizing Efficiency: Focusing On One Thing At A Time

December 28, 2015 / Rick Morsovillo

Maximizing Efficiency: Need For Simplicity

Efficiency without Multitasking

We live in a world where everyone puts more hours in at the office. This is compounded by the stress that we all feel when trying to accomplish more. Often times, we look towards technology to simplify our lives. Yet this same tool has a strong tendency to sap our attention and steal our time. I ask you this: Has maximizing efficiency ever been more needed than today?

Thankfully, we can all learn to become more efficient at work. Both as an individual worker and a company of workers. Management consultants, business professors, and efficiency experts tirelessly debate the merits of business-wide efficiency. Maximizing efficiency means lowering the cost of input for the produced output. Simply put, maximizing efficiency comes from the least amount of work with the greatest production possible.

Maximizing Efficiency: Killed By Multitasking

One great area to maximize efficiency is in your workforce. Increase individual productivity by increasing the amount of work produced in a given time. You can quickly create a more efficient production by encouraging your workforce to stop multitasking!

Recent studies show that it takes 25% – 40% longer to finish a job when you are simultaneously working on additional projects. No brainer, right? However, think about how often you are distracted every 10 minutes at work. An email here, text message there, or even a phone call from a customer and you are behind on your schedule. I encourage you to keep this statistic in mind and work on just one task at a time.

Efficiency Experts from The Energy project use psychological data on the fundamental human need for rest. One of their secrets is known as the ultradian rhythm which causes ones energy levels to rise and dip on a 90 minute cycle. Annie Perrin, VP of facilitation and programs, says “At that 90-minute mark, you have to think about some sort of renewal, to put fuel back in your tank before you start the next cycle.” Below is a list of a couple things I have found that help energize me during these times:

Eat a healthy snack
Enjoy a short walk (outside if possible)
Listen to a couple songs
Meditate

Efficient workers contribute to a much more efficient workplace. This principle holds true even when small companies are fine-tuned. You would be surprised at how quickly a minute or so saved on a single task can add up in the long run. Assuming the minimum loss in productivity, a 25% loss of efficiency due to multi-tasking adds up to 2 hours of lossed efficiency in a standard work day (60 minutes/hour * 8 hours = 480 minutes * 25% = 120 minutes). This ads up to 10 hours per week and 520 hours of lost efficiency per employee per year!! Maximizing efficiency in your work environment is achieved by taking breaks at the right time and discouraging multitasking.

Do you ever wonder how much efficiency may be lost in your organization? Perhaps it is time to rethink employee management. Perhaps it is time to introduce some new time saving breaks into your workforce efficiency.

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