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Make Running Your Business A Breeze With FreshBooks

Dec3

Updated to include 2023 end of year sale.

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The Reality of (Some) Accounting Software

A FreshBooks report based on a survey done in 2019, indicates that accountants think accounting software is too complicated for their clients to use without the help of an accountant. 

And, 68% of survey respondents agree that small business owners are intimidated by accounting software.

At the same time, 71% of respondents report using a QuickBooks accounting product.

However, FreshBooks is the #1 invoicing and accounting software designed exclusively for self-employed professionals and is ridiculously easy-to-use with invoicing, time-tracking, online payments, and expense management features.

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Improve Your Focus and Limit Distractions

Sep25
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 Keeping yourself on task these days is a challenge. There are SO many things competing for your attention.

You can maximize productivity by learning to limit distractions and stay focused. 

Getting distracted is a normal part of life, but you need to learn how to get back on track when you start to waste time or lose focus.

Create better systems and strategies to help you limit distractions and maintain better periods of focus and productivity.

Below are some tried and true methods, but you have to find what works best for you. Try some of these ideas and stick with the ones that work…

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Using a Planner To Be More Productive and Set Priorities

Feb28

Be more productive at www.xtreme-assistant.comDo you arrive at work in the mornings frazzled because of how your morning went from the moment you woke up? Do you struggle with work/life balance? Do you feel like you were busy all day, but you didn’t get anything done that needed to get done? Are you running on autopilot with no real focus or purpose?

Would you like to create a more stress-free environment that will allow you to be a high performer? Would you like to simplify your life while at the same time, get better results? Would you like to learn ways to be more productive and stop wasting time?

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Your Key To Success – Win Your Morning, Win Your Day

Oct18
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Do you go to bed at night with good intentions of starting your day off better tomorrow?

But then when the alarm goes off, you hit snooze again and again?

When you get up you’re in a rush and you’re grouchy because you’re late.

Then you yell at the kids and feel bad about that. You can’t find your car keys and that adds to your frustration.

Several blocks away from home you realize you left your mobile phone behind and have to turn around to get it, which makes you even later and more grouchy.

By the time you get to work, you’re late, exhausted, and have a bad attitude.

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Six Things To Do Instead of Multi-task

Feb17

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Man Clutter

It’s a myth that multi-tasking is the answer to getting more done in the same number of hours. And it’s actually creating habits that cause you to mismanage time.

Although, some people can juggle a phone call and typing a report at the same time, don’t think that if you do three things at once, you’re being more productive.

Actually, you create more potential for making mistakes because your attention is divided in several ways. Nothing muddles time management worse than trying to multi-task.

The human body and mind have limits and those limits cannot be extended by multi-tasking. Rather than depend on multi-tasking as your strategy, look again at some of the tried and true time management principles.

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