Tonight we surprised our STARTING YOUR VOICEOVER BUSINESS: Everything You Need To Know To Turn Your Dream Or Your Sideline Into A Business teleseminar series students with a bonus call:
“How To Get Things Done,” by…Well, by me.
This post is for to allow our students to share their “reviews.”
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This is GREAT! You’re a wonderful teacher and mentor! Learning so much!
Your style, application, frames of reference and approach are excellent. Very substantive — and happily, I have tried a few of the techniques you outline in getting things done — such as doing the ‘three things’ but now I need to actually keep consistent with that and also schedule objectives on the calendar so that my day doesn’t drift into a string of surprises. Thanks!
I found this Bonus class an actual bonus. I took away several things that I am beginning to use right now! 1. Take that first step. Then look around and find out what the next step is and do it. And keep doing this till it is done. 2. There is no convenient time, if I wait for the right time – I’ll keep on waiting, if I act then action happens. 3. Do at least 3 things every day to further my career in some way.
i’ll “get this done” before it gets away from me.
you always have something i can use.
thank you for putting in the extra time.
This was a very enjoyable class. Maybe not groundbreaking in scope, but an excellent reiteration of productivity and time-management principles. Here’s some specifics:
1. “You don’t have to know how to do something before you start doing it. Just identify and do the first step”
2. Accomplish more by doing less. Great way to articulate the idea of prioritization and only doing the really important stuff. Also, the “Eat the frog” concept.
3. “Action precedes inspiration” – what a great quote!
4. “Don’t sacrifice ‘good’ on the altar of ‘perfect’” – Brilliant. I struggle with this.
5. Fear of failure – nobody cares about our failure and people only remember the our successes. This is such a great reminder. Not necessarily true if you’re the CEO of an auto company, financial institution, or insurance giant, but very true for the rest of us.
6. Don’t be a seminar junkie. I think this may be related to perfectionism. Sometimes we fall into the trap of “I need to learn just a little more before I’m ready and qualified to start…”
Can’t think of anything else. I’m going to schedule my homework into my schedule now!
I thought you did a great job, thanks for the advice on scheduling my projects a couple of days before a deadline…Kudos..
Well I certainly learned a lot from the Getting Things Done seminar! I am one of those excuse people: “perfectionist, work better under deadline” types and just the part about dealing with those two excuses was worth the price of admission alone. Also your methods of dealing with your most productive part of the day and dealing with those times when you’re worn out really made sense to me and I’m going to start doing this immediately. And I can’t wait to check out those online resources you gave us!
This first entire week has been phenomenal and I can’t wait to see what you and Harlan have in store for the next three weeks!
Kudos on the format and execution of the call tonight! I’ve done corporate training in the past and as you probably know, one of the easiest things to do is to get so wrapped up in a subject that you quickly get off schedule. The discipline you show in respecting the schedule as well as everyone’s time (including your own which is practicing what you preach) is quite admirable and exceptionally professional.
I, being what I call a “recovering perfectionist” myself, saw many different versions of time management skills that I’ve learned in my sales career. And while all the information is very valuable, the encouragement, empathy and personal stories are probably AS beneficial. (not to discount the information but to credit the experience you have AND the sharing of it.)
Personally, I’ve been very, very impressed with this seminar so far and if you hadn’t mentioned it, I would have never guessed it was the first one of this kind that you’ve done.
Thanks for your ongoing work–look forward to next week!
I feel that it was very much worth my time to attend this conference on getting things done. I appreciate your transparency and sharing your heart on the subject. It was very real and felt genuine. Funniest line was about the cocaine and diet pills. I joined facebook and sent an invitation.
SUCCESS! Lots of great tips and website references. Great mix of "principles" and "practices". I enjoyed the lecture portion more than the Q&A.
Thank you for sharing your personal experiences. It is reassuring to those of us who have gone off track. I too was a Psychology major, but did not go to the Graduate level. Quite a shock to the parents when I came home from college and said "I want to be a DJ." Might just as well have said I'm going to join the circus and become a clown.
I got a ton from tonight’s bonus class, particularly the practical tricks and techniques segment.
I’m loving your tip to eat a frog and am looking forward to doing it tomorrow 1st thing. Yummy! Can’t tell ya what I’m gonna do, or I’d have to kill ya!
Also, picking 3 top priorities each day will help me feel accomplished at day’s end, not beat up by what I didn’t do.
Save yourself some energy tonight, and consider this your pat on the back for today.
Taking the next step!
I thought that the Weds Bonus Call had a lot of great time management and organizational tips.
I think that information like that is helpful not only to all of us who want to start a Voiceover Business, but to anyone in any kind of business.
I think it was a good stand alone call. Had this information been included in the more Voiceover specific calls, it might have been treated as an “aside” rather than as the foundation of good daily business habits.
The bonus class was really motivating. There were some truths that really hit home for me but I hadn’t been confronted with them before tonight. The idea of making a list of three things that you need to do, tasks that will get done as opposed to goals we hope will get done, is a great idea. I know I’m guilty of thinking that the more I put on the list, the more likely I am to be productive, but I see now that choosing three specific tasks will utilize my efforts more efficiently. You gave productivity guidelines and I know that will help me. Thanks!
The class was very helpful and I wanted to thank you Dan, and I know that everyone else did too! The call was still muted at the end and so we the gaggle weren’t able to say ‘Thanks and Bye’, but just know that I certainly valued all of the lessons I learned tonight about getting (important) things done and staying on point with the Calendar– I have three wall calendars throughout the house — so I just need to pick one!
Thanks so much again for a successful class night!
Here’s what I put on my blog about last night’s tele-class. I think it makes the point of what I think of your presentation.
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“As I drove back to Charlotte in the evening, I was able to listen to a truly fabulous tele-seminar led by Dan O’Day on the subject of getting things done. This was a bonus class added to the month long series of tele-seminars Harlan Hogan and Dan O’Day are holding this month. The focus of this bonus session was on Getting Things Done. This tele-class was so useful and valuable I truly cannot imagine how my time could have been better spent. It was, without a doubt, the most valuable set of things I’ve ever learned from Dan O’Day and given that he’s been part of 13 years of my professional growth and development, that’s saying a lot. If you ever get a chance to hear Dan speak on this subject, don’t missing it. Seriously.
Maybe if Dan gets enough email, he could be persuaded to make the MP3 of this tele-class available for purchase? I don’t know. But, if he does, grab it. Yes, it’s that good. I’m going to listen to the whole thing again tomorrow and since I won’t be driving this time I’ll be able to take notes. There will be lots of them.”
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