I’m doing a productivity webinar with Larry Port of RocketMatter tomorrow. It’s at 12pm ET. Time blocking is an extremely valuable technique, so if you’re someone who finds himself overwhelmed or frustrated with how you spend your time- it will be time well spent. There are some things I wanted you to know walking into the seminar.

Plan on paying attention. This is a dense subject, I use slides that you need to look at. I talk about time blocking because people tell me it changed their lives. Really. But it takes focus to “get” it. I’m trying to create an interesting presentation, but there is a high education component, which does tend to impact the entertainment factor! (and I’ll also try to talk slower, but, man….it’s hard)

Time Blocking isn’t something that only ”perfect” people do. Time management is messy and iterative. It’s a matter of finding what works for you and then doing it consistently. Don’t stay away if you think you can’t do this. You’ll learn something. Promise. You don’t have to do everything I show, just what works for you.

I’m going to be offering a free follow-up call to attendees. Info will be posted after the seminar. An open coaching session. I always do, because I want to be sure that you can put the concept into action. I want you to get full value. I respect your time. To be honest, very few people ever take me up on it, which means that it’s a terrific opportunity to get some spot coaching. It’s a conference call, I take questions, I’ll ask you what you’re coming up against, and so on.

I’m not a role model for marketing. I do coach marketing, so I want to be sure that you get the “do as I say, not as I do” flavor of my marketing. If you were doing this, I’d ask you to do more pre-seminar PR. It would have been in your signature line, on your posts, etc. There’d be a notice and link to registration on your site. I’d also ask you to have a free offer, a reason to send people to your site. You’d exchange a freebie for an email address, so you could build your “list”. For me, it might be a newsletter subscription. One of my favorite tips in the marketing book I’ll be giving away is “Always have a next step.” I’m offering the follow-up, so you’ll know where to find me, but you won’t have to give me your email address. While I don’t practice what I preach, just know that it’s because my biz dev focus is on building my coaching skills so I have good referral sources. If you’re in a high growth mode, I expect different action from you! [and I’m considering blocking time to get the dang newsletter production on my calendar…]

This seminar will be valuable whether you’re a lawyer or not, whether you’re solo or not. I coach partners in firms, I coach non-lawyers who are referred to me by lawyers. Everyone will learn something you can put to use in order to ensure that you’re doing more of what you want, and less of what you don’t want every day. RocketMatter is a generous sponsor of this webinar, there’s minimal promotion.

I’m nervous. Like many of you, I have a love/hate relationship with presenting. It’s not my core competency. Love to share the information that I think could just change your life; hate to be in front of the class. Virtual seminars, which are great for convenience, are especially hard because I count on a connection with the audience to save me when my presenting skills let me down! Hard to connect over the airwaves. You might have to put up with some umm’s, etc. I’ll try and keep the heavy breathing to a minimum. Note- preconference, instead of thinking “holy crap, it’s too much of me talking, I’ll put 100 people to sleep”, I’ll be visualizing two things: first, you, putting time blocking to use next week, thinking how much it will help you meet your goals; and, second, Larry telling me it was the best webinar RocketMatter’s produced.

Bottom line, see you tomorrow!