Much press has been given to the results of a recent 6-month Kaiser Permanente weight loss study finding that participants who kept a food diary lost more than twice as much as participants who did not. Weight Watchers has been proving this for years, but it must be an idea whose time has come! That’s an impressive number- think about it, TWICE as much! Big impact. If you want to lose weight, you’d be crazy to ignore the prospect of losing it 2x faster by simply keeping a food diary.

What can you learn? Take the “write it down” advice and apply it to your calendar. Do you think you might be twice as successful at getting things done if you wrote them down? Would it give you a reason to truly pay attention to what you are doing as the hours tick by? What about marketing- would writing down your marketing plan and goals make you more likely to add clients? You know that I believe it would.

Each time I coach planning, time management & time blocks, there is someone who just can’t quite believe that the technique can have a profound impact on their ability to create the work/life balance they desire.  When I find supporting data, I’m encouraged all over again. The potential gain is too great to ignore.

Bottomline - Write it down! Pay attention! Keep track! You WILL see results.

Now I’m going to have a lot of irrelevant search engine noise related to weight loss, but I think it’s worth it…

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