Sentences with phrase «instead focusing her time»

I'd rather instead focus my time and efforts on growing my business and let my backup retirement plan work automatically for me and with the lowest fees possible.

In the end she may be successful in doing so or may decide to remain passive instead focusing her time on other interests.

Not exact matches

«It's never a good thing when the markets are spending time focused on rancour and brinkmanship in Washington instead of being focused on what are some pretty reasonable fundamentals that we're getting,» said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Wednesday's testimony marked the first time Tsarnaev's lawyers focused testimony on him, instead of the brother, Tamerlan, a boxer turned aspiring jihadi who was died after a shootout with police days after the bombing.

«Instead of pecking themselves to death trying to figure out how to comply with all the state and federal regulations,» says Breslin, «we help our clients get ahead of the legal issues — such as vacation time, workers compensation and insurance, and they can focus on what they do best.»

If you include accomplished tasks and previous work into those agendas, then you can focus more on the results and planning ahead instead of naming every completed assignment — this is a huge time saver.

Instead, they focused on one task at a time — like turning to a potato sack maker for burlap and linen to create an early sample purse.

On Medium, publishers have full control over their content and spend exactly zero time, money, or effort on tech and hosting, instead focusing their resources on producing great content.»

Spend your time on things that matter — focus on the big picture and the long run instead of giving in to instant gratification.

To turn failure into a gift and grow through the tough times instead of just casually going through them, you must begin to start focusing on ways to actually resolve the situation.

Taking the time to fully analyze your situation in solitude, while focusing on solutions instead of problems, can revitalize your mind and help you focus on where you are headed, how you feel, and more important, how you view failure from that moment on.

Yes, there are good reasons why some startups should put working day - to - day on growing their business aside and spend the time instead looking for outside investment, including: gaining the financial and other operational resources they need to move forward; to increase their financial stability, focus (plus peace of mind) in the short - term if they've been growing on revenue, founders» savings and credit cards; and to quickly accelerate their growth in order to capture a massive market.

My experience has been that most people spend majority of their time focusing on yesterday instead of looking ahead and creating something new.»

In general, your time is best spent focusing on growing your business instead of handicapping someone else's.

Maybe it's time for the biggest burger chain in the world to downplay the hamburger and focus on chicken instead.

Instead, focus more time on creating quality content.

Think of all the time and energy you'll save if you stop beating yourself up and instead focus on the lessons you've learned and just move forward.

Instead, set aside a block of time during the week to turn off email and focus on your browser bookmarks.

Instead of focusing on how marketers can create great content for social media, this class more focuses on how exactly to measure your social investments in terms of time, cost and opportunities.

Instead of spending your time creating an elaborate business plan or relying on a focus group, entrepreneurs need to continuously test their business ideas and be willing to adapt quickly in order to stay competitive.

Instead of focusing on the geographic source of revenues, these managers say that they are targeting firms that have dominant niches or intellectual property that will allow them to protect or even expand their margins at a time of rising costs.

«Millennials will have an easier time focusing on things that matter to them financially instead of spending money for temporary satisfaction,» he said.

But Wehner said the company does not plan to monetize them any time soon, and that it is instead focused on building interactions between businesses and users on the apps.

I see you've been to NYC before, so I'll assume you'd like to skip the major tourist destinations (e.g., Central Park, The Met, MOMA, 9/11 Memorial, Empire State Building, Times Square) and instead focus on more local spots.

Instead of focusing on moving the business forward, my time was spent elsewhere, trying to make the firm look like a bigger entity than it actually was.

But instead of focusing on the actual development, we are spending our time cold calling and pitching clients.

Instead of worrying about market timing, homeowners can stay focused on the long - term tendency of real - estate prices to appreciate and ignore the media noise.

However, instead of focusing on how un-valuable a degree is, it's time to start prioritizing going student - loan free instead of ditching college all together.

Instead, spend your time focusing your thoughts and observe what's going on around you.

Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp..

Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp..

Ever since Sumner re-asserted control last summer with the Labor Day ouster of one - time favorite Tom Freston as CEO of Viacom, Shari has largely receded from any visible role, instead focusing on operating the 120 movie theaters owned by National Amusements.

Taking responsibility when things go wrong instead of blaming others isn't masochistic, it's empowering — because then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time.

Here's what happens: Instead of focusing on getting high - margin orders, salespeople realize it's all right to bring in a low - margin order now and then, so they waste their time doing just that.

When it comes to online shopping, a big problem is that consumers don't spend enough time doing different searches and instead they focus on Google searches to find the best price, experts say.

After you set some time aside, instead of focusing on goals, start to build systems that will grow your business while you work.

Instead of working solely on time management, start to analyze and focus on where your energy is going.

I can use that time to think about how to make things better for the company, instead of focusing on email.

«With the lifting of the ban on General Solicitation, entrepreneurs like me, and some of you, can focus on running and building the business instead of using that valuable time to raise money.»

So instead of it being a pie chart where I have to give a little bit of my time and energy to everything, every day, I'm learning to better communicate my current focus to people around me.

Dear friends and colleagues, This summer we saw an opportunity to provide greater clarity to entrepreneurs and our partners about the mission and focus of our work, which at times was obscured by references to «needles in haystacks» instead of our true inspiration, which is the gritty teamwork required to harvest hay from a field and stack it in a barn.

You prefer to focus on your life's passions instead of researching investments and spending time trading and rebalancing your investments.

Mr. Cowen, who is also an occasional contributor to the Sunday Business section of The New York Times, is more skeptical about a short - term takeoff, focusing instead on what he sees as a brightening, longer - term picture of the United States economy.

In an annual letter to shareholders, Dimon spent little time getting into his company's rock solid balance sheet and instead focused on the state of the United States of America.

The news comes at an interesting time of rekindled interest for the moon, which The Verge notes was largely overlooked during Obama's term to focus on Mars instead.

In each case, the dying lament having spent too much time seeking outside approval instead of focusing on their own feelings, values, and relationships.

Instead of becoming a bank from day one, we chose to focus our time and resources on product development and customer acquisition.

Since I know I have a solid investing strategy, I focus a lot more of my time on making money instead of tinkering with my investments.

Instead, they're encouraged to focus on getting their first restaurant running smoothly and take their time finding just the right sites before opening their second and third units.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week