How to Stop Failing at Meeting Your Goals
Setting goals is great – it feels so good to think about the future and make plans for the greatness you will achieve in the coming year. The hard part comes when you start looking back at the goals you set, and you realize you haven’t met any of them. Stop letting...
How to be more productive in your work
You start your day feeling excited about a project you’re going to work on for your business. You start working, and after a little while one of two things might happen: You get stuck on an idea and you’re not sure where to go with it; OR You get some sort of...
Using a Timer to Get More Done
A planner and To Do list are great tools for helping us be more productive, but sometimes we need an extra boost to keep us focused. I have learned that when a similar idea or concept pops up repeatedly in my life, that is a clue that I should be paying attention....
Multitasking is killing your productivity
These days, people treat multitasking like it’s a special talent; if you’re good at doing multiple things at once then that must make you a valuable and productive worker, right? Actually, that’s completely wrong. Multitasking isn’t making us...
First, Lead Yourself
Most of us have probably been in a situation where we worked with a group of people, and the project went well or terribly depending on the quality of the group leadership. In your business, whether you’ve got a company of 100, 10, or 1 – YOU are the...
I am Gwen Bortner, business advisor and operations strategist. I help women succeed in business without sacrificing happiness by identifying their true desires and aligning their business functions.