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Women Executives, Professionals, Entrepreneurs and “open-minded” men: Do you ever feel torn and overwhelmed trying to meet the demands of  your job, spouse and family in a constantly evaporating pool of time?

Does this sound familiar?

If this describes your life and you’re motivated to change, then you’re in the right place!

We all know the importance of  living a balanced and productive life, yet many of us find it difficult to master. The Time Management Strategies, tactics and activities on this site will help you create the time you’re looking for, to do more of what you want and end each day with a sense of accomplishment too.

You’ll find effective Time Management Tips, Success Stories, Tools, Pdfs and Articles that will help you develop the Time Management Strategies and skills to create and save more time.

• I’ll share successful Systems for taking control over your time.
• You’ll learn efficient, effective Time Management Strategies and Techniques to find extra time in your day.
• You’ll discover how to handle time management without stress so you can re-focus and accomplish your goals.
• I’ll teach you how to reduce and eliminate distractions to save more time.
• You’ll learn how your habits actually sabotage your best efforts at managing your time…
• all this and more…

Why should you listen to me?

Let me share a story with you…I have been in business for 32 years and I’ve been an executive coach for the past 20 years. I am an entrepreneur and the founder of two businesses. I’m also a busy mom with two active teenage boys and a husband who travels extensively for weeks at a time. I’m also a paid professional singer on weekends and I volunteer for a number of local organizations.

I’m the one responsible for keeping things going smoothly with all our schedules, driving the kids to school, keeping track of after school sports and activities, managing my own schedule and my businesses. It’s important to note, I don’t work 14 hour days, I generally keep weekends open for family activities, I work from a home office and I don’t have a full time assistant. It’s a lot to handle and could become overwhelming, but I’m able to do it with relative ease.

Now, I share this at the risk of sounding like I’m bragging, but that’s not my intention. I want you to see how I’m using effective time management strategies to get the important things done so I can enjoy my family and we can have a comfortable life together, I can enjoy my work, and still have time to do the things I’m passionate about.

How do I do it?

Over the years, I’ve developed a specific MINDSET as well as Personal Time Management Strategies and SYSTEMS that essentially allow me to create more time for the things I need and want to accomplish.

I’ve been the Assistant Editor of a regional magazine. I was the Production Editor for the Marketing Division of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Committee. I’ve been a Product Manager and Marketing Director for  major U.S. Commercial Banks and Directed the Career Management and Executive Education Divisions at Harvard Business School, managing relationships with thousands of Corporate Executives and Recruiters.

Through trial and error and many mistakes, I’ve learned a FORMULA to set goals, manage multiple projects, lead teams, manage and coach executives, run a household, manage two businesses, raise a family and simultaneously manage my time successfully and without a lot of stress, using the time management strategies I developed and share with you here.

Learning effective Time Management Strategies and Skills was not easy. It took me YEARS to figure out the formula that was right for me…

…A formula that allows me to achieve maximum results and productivity in my business and personal life, without compromising my nature as an effective entrepreneur, a compassionate human being, and a feminine woman, wife, mother and friend.

Believe me, I haven’t always been so successful with my time!

My career in commercial banking is a good example. My bosses and mentors were men. I thought I had to act like them and mold myself to fit the roles they were modeling for me to be successful.

I put in the 14-hour days. I had little personal life and was totally consumed by the job. I read all the popular books on business and time management strategies and enrolled in courses to keep up and try to get ahead.

I was stressed out, overwhelmed, and my health began to suffer.

Then something happened to change my life…

I was distracted by everything that was going on at work one day and while driving home from a conference, I had a serious car accident that almost took my life. That was a turning point for me. I began to look at time in a totally new way. I realized that all my attempts to be productive and successful had almost succeeded in helping me lose my life.

Not only that, I realized I didn’t feel a sense of purpose or passion about what I needed to be doing with my life. All the time I had spent devoted to my work life had left me disconnected from my intuition and my feminine nature. I had had lost track of the true meaning of my life, my time and its value.

Since then, which was many years ago, I’ve had a continual awakening in how to stay within my grounded personal energy while consistently improving my time management strategies, moving toward my goals and getting things done.

I reclaimed my personal power and my connection to something much bigger in this world. I found my purpose and embraced how I think about my time and how I use time management strategies in a whole new way…life opened up for me and around me, smoothly, and with grace and certainty and it continues each and every day!

These experiences helped me develop the “inner” tools and time management strategies to stay organized and focused, grateful, and engaged in my life.

I’ve developed a frame of mind–a way of thinking, that helps me successfully keep things on track and use the time management strategies I’ve developed to free up my time and reach my goals without becoming overwhelmed or giving up the things I love to do. This mindset helps me stay focused, calm and centered to move through my day with ease, no matter what life throws into my path.

Don’t take my word for it.

Here’s what others have to say about working with me:

“This is the longest stretch of time where I haven’t felt stressed about my life. You’ve helped me with that. As issues have come up, you’ve given me guidance and helped me find answers to reasons why things are happening…” Cheryl Byrne

Here’s what another client has to say:

“It’s been a long time since I felt a lot of chaos in my life…it was you who helped me to the other side. Thank you.” Karen Carney

I’ve been a mentor, educator, consultant and corporate executive for 32 years. I’ve delivered seminars and taught hundreds of executives at Harvard Business School. I’ve presented at conferences, consulted to and assisted in the development of executive education and corporate training programs for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Over that time, I’ve perfected processes and developed the time management strategies to successfully choose how I spend my time and my energy. I help other executives do the same.

” Kathryn McKinnon is a hidden jewel and when you find her, you know she has appeared at the right time in your life. I needed help healing recurring aches from stress and arthritis. In a few short weeks, after working with Kathryn, those issues disappeared. It is my distinct pleasure to recommend Kathryn, for her coaching for life and business. I have seldom seen anyone who cares so much about helping people to succeed and gives so much from the heart. I may not have known that I needed Kathryn to help me discover the best ways to reach my career and business goals, but somehow her energy brought us together when I needed guidance in that area too. Choosing Kathryn has given me unique ways and perspectives to learn new time management strategies and to be successful in my life and my career.” Roberta Chadis

On this site, you’ll find Client Success Stories and the same strategies I teach my clients to help them create order out of chaos and become more successful with their lives, career and their time.

“Your process made such a difference for me. It really helped me solve some of my biggest issues and I’m in a really good place now, thanks to you. You moved me here. The time management strategies and tools you gave me and the way you supported me really helped. You challenged me and brought me to this place. I might have discovered this on my own, but you knew where I needed to go to bring me to different realizations and challenges. I still use the tools you gave me every day.” Cheryl Burns

Jordan Rich from Boston’s WBZ Radio says: “Kathryn is terrific and extremely perceptive. She guides you through a learning process that allows you to gain insight into what’s going on in your life.”

You can learn and use these time management strategies to free up your time without having to wait 32 years or make the same mistakes I made.

Here are some of the Proven Time Management Strategies you’ll find on this site to help you effectively manage your time:

Develop the Right Mindset–

Do the Right Things at the Right Times–

Systemize and Take Control of Your Time–

Use Your Time and Your Learning Style to Your Advantage–

How to Find Extra Time in Your Day–

How to Let Go of Stress and Overwhelm–

How to Leverage Your Time to get the most out of it–

Reduce and Eliminate Distractions to save more time–

Use Sleep to Save More Time—

Create New Rituals to Help Triple Your Time Each Day—including a Guided Meditation for Releasing Stress

Get Started With Kathryn Today —

Programs, Products or Coaching

• If you’re ready to change your life, take back your time and learn some new Time Management Strategies, then the first step you need to take is to sign up for my FREE EZINE. This is a publication where I share my SECRETS as well as my best tips, tactics and time management strategies. When you sign up, you’ll get the First Chapter of my book, Triple Your Time Today!

• Go ahead and sign up NOW. Signing up will also put you on my list to receive my blog with detailed articles and case studies about Creating and Saving more time to enhance your life and career!

• Take your time IQ Test to identify where you need the most help managing your time.

• Then Browse through my Store. I have Time Management PDFs, reports and even a Guided Meditation to help you relieve Stress—all these will help you get started.

• If you’re ready for some Personal one-on-one coaching, you can fill out the form on this site for a complimentary introductory coaching session with me to see if my process fits with your personal and professional needs.

Want to know more?

Sign up now for my FREE Ezine where I discuss all of this and more in detail and pick up a FREE Chapter of my newly published  book, Triple Your Time Today: 10 Proven Time Management Strategies to Help You Create and Save More Time!Start learning How to Create and Save More of your Precious Time Today. It’s a great way to get started at a super low investment of your time.

Take advantage of this special invitation today!

Love and Success,
Kathryn McKinnon

McKinnon & Company
Executive Development and Coaching for Success with Your Life, Career and Your Time

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