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Every 90 days, sequester yourself someplace away from work and home and ask yourself three essential questions:. People check email on their phones times a day on average, he says. This is a serious train wreck happening slowly.

Cogent and complete messages require time at your computer. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. So how does he organize the hours of his week? Every 90 days, sequester yourself someplace away from work and home and ask yourself three essential questions: What are the two or three things you want to accomplish in the rest of your life?

What are two or three things you can do in the next year to move toward those goals? Given all that, what are two or three things you can do in the next 90 days that will be useful? His next suggestion will give most people the shakes: Take email off your smartphone.

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We had more time in the day. Then something happened as they were trying to dash out the door for their meetup. Neither of them could find their car keys. The trend quickly came and went because the key rings were clunky, uncomfortable and not the least bit cute. Seven months later, they launched their first product, the Big O Key Ring, an oversized leather wristlet in five colors.

We were starting a business venture and an adventure, so we combined the O with venture. Melissa Wayte, owner of Paper Affair, started carrying Big Os in after a steady stream of customers asked her whether she carried them. For seven years straight, it has been one of our top-selling items based on quantity and revenue.

She keeps a big display near her cash registers and says that some uninitiated customers ask if they are dog collars. Fads come and go, but Oventure continues to evolve and innovate, she said. A dream. So in January , they decided to rent a booth at the Atlanta Gift Show.

It indicates the support our husbands have given us for the business from the outset and to this day. All of those buyers — the ones that are still in business — are Oventure customers today. That includes Pam Kuhl-Linscomb, who owns an upscale design and lifestyle products store in Houston that bears her name. She liked the Big O because it combined a practical need with fashion and quality materials.

It also came with a coaching session with CEO Sara Blakely, who became their entrepreneurial role model. The gamble paid off. We just kept trying, again and again. She was so smitten that she bought one for herself and bought a slew of them as Christmas gifts. They also have a team on the ground in China to oversee production.

And two years ago, they hired a company in The Colony to do dedicated fulfillment and shipping. But when camera crews began to show up Friday morning, it was clear that something big was afoot. When he announced that Blake Shelton had agreed to headline the event, the gymnasium reacted as if the Knights had just won the state championship.

All proceeds from the music festival will benefit educational and community initiatives in Henryetta. Smiley N. His focus now is on helping Henryetta, which, like so many small towns, has been hard hit by the pandemic and economic setbacks, he said. I learned about the value of hard work. The ticket prices and how the proceeds from the concert will be distributed in Henryetta will be announced later, Fay said.

The festival will be at the picturesque Nichols Park, just south of town, which covers more than acres with a lake in the middle. Cheryl Hall , Business columnist. Cheryl, a journalism graduate of SMU, has covered business for more than 45 years and gets her phone calls returned. She's won numerous awards including several Katies from the Press Club of Dallas and a lifetime distinguished achievement award from the Society of American Business Editors and writers.

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