I just published a new blog over at BiggerPockets about how to use GQueues to manage all of your business and personal tasks. Put Your Real Estate Business Management on Steroids with “GQueues” It can be difficult to manage the various aspects of your business. Find out how you can use GQueues to track, assign and manage …
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I recently finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek (full review here). Among many things, it reminded me that I should not be checking my email constantly. I had heard this message several times in the past, but realized that I could improve my email habits. Before reading the book, my email habits were as follows: Good …
I had heard about “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss for quite a while, but it took me some time to get around to reading it. That was probably because I have ~200 books on my “want to read” list at any point in time, not because I wasn’t super excited to read it. Then …
I just published a new blog over at BiggerPockets about how to apply Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to your real estate business. If you are not familiar with LSS (or even if you are), be sure to check it out and determine how the concepts can help your business. Use Lean Six Sigma to Improve Your Real …
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I just published a new blog over at BiggerPockets regarding using free tools from Google to systematize your business. I explain some of the free tools from Google and show an example of using these tools to implement a common process flow for a real estate investor. If you have a business, invest in real estate …
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pod·cast noun 1. a multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc. Do you subscribe and listen to podcasts? If not, you should. Here is why. I realized several years ago that I spend a lot of time driving. As I always want to continue to learn …
My wife was always big on “todo lists”. She had lots of them and swore by them. So when I first arrived at the point when I could no longer track everything that I needed to do in my head, I started using post it notes for my todo lists. It was not long …
I first read Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary and Tom Poppendieck several years ago when I was introduced to lean. While attending a leadership training, the practitioner had us perform an activity involving building paper airplanes. She split the class into 3 groups, each with 7 people. She showed us how to build a …
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There are a lot of things in life that people need to know. How much an hour of a person’s time is worth is one of the most important ones, but the vast majority of people could not answer this question off the top of their head if they were asked. Do you know your …
Phase 1 – 1 Monitor (1994 – 2012) For years, I have used a single monitor and never thought twice about using 2 or more monitors. From the time I first started using a computer (I think I was ~10 years old), it was mostly for email, web surfing or games. Even as I started …