the pride of Africa's women entrepreneurs
Being an entrepreneur is hard, so it's important to surround yourself with lots of positive energy....
Adenike Ogunlesi, founder of Ruff 'n' Tumble (Nigeria)
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by Lori Milner
I have written many articles and run master classes about how to own your Time. This includes tools about dealing with procrastination, multi-tasking (which is actually a bad thing), anxiety and spiralling thoughts, planning, prioritising – this is just a few from my toolkit.
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by Alice da Silva
Not to be confused with the prison term reference, by ‘serving my time’ I mean that I visualize my time as a sort of pie. There is only a certain amount, which I can divide into slices and serve accordingly. And I try to choose carefully, because it’s easy to get distracted.
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by Saajidah Esat
Being productive is key to our success as entrepreneurs, yet somehow, amidst the endless list of tasks that we tackle daily, we still end up with that nagging feeling that we need to be doing more. Whether it’s finding new clients, setting up your online pages, managing them and then some, you appear to be one of the busiest women around, the one that’s always doing something.
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Teta Isibo (centre) at a fashion event in Kigali. Photo by Gael R. Van de Weghe
Get the ball rolling immediately....
Teta Isibo, founder of Inzuki (Rwanda)
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Guest Post by: Karen Wessels, co-founder and COO of VA Connect
Being an entrepreneur, particularly a solopreneur, is not for the faint of heart. It takes a certain kind of persistence, determination and whole lot of caffeine to be a successful solopreneur! As a woman entrepreneur myself, I understand only too well the challenges faced by women in the business world, particularly those involving time management.
As women entrepreneurs, how many of us start our working days by making endless action lists, noting all the tasks we are aiming to complete if we are go reach our goals? And, how many of us end the day by looking at those same lists and becoming disheartened by the sheer number of actions still remaining to be done? Where did the time go? How did we manage to seemingly achieve so little? Well, for all of you entrepreneurial list makers out there, here are a few tips to help you become more productive in your daily work-life....
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Minda Zetlin, author, speaker, and journalist on 'Productivity for Entrepreneurs'
Here's how entrepreneurs can avoid procrastination when tackling that big project....
- Minda Zetlin is an American author, speaker, and journalist whose work has appeared in publications from Inc. to New York Magazine to Computerworld. She is the author or co-author of several books, most recently The Geek Gap: Why Business and Technology Professionals Don’t Understand Each Other and Why They Need Each Other to Survive. She is the president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Check out Minda’s blog Marriage & Other Adventures about life, love, long-term relationships, and relocating to the Pacific Northwest.
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IDoneThis – makes our Essential App List for staying on track with your work or projects. It's really simple to use giving you a daily prompt to celebrate or share what you've actually managed to get done that day. A positive alternative to all those 'To-Do-List' apps that somehow manage to fatigue and demotivate us all. We use it at LoA and have grown to love it!
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