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Time is all we have. Wasting time damages your health and your quality of life. I’ve reorganized my life around being more efficient with my time, which includes these mantras:

1. YOU ARE A QUEEN, OR KING — OR HERO.

So assume the role. Delegate what you need to. Your job is to say, “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” or “YOU’RE FIRED!” or “UP UP AND AWAY!”. How are you supposed to save the day otherwise?

2. IGNORE HATERS

Stalkers, Trolls, and people who don’t believe in you don’t deserve your attention. CUT them out, have your PR person manage them, CROWDSOURCE a team to shut them down, or PAY them to write more reviews of you. (All of these worked for me.)

3. MANAGE EXPECTATIONS

Avoid misunderstandings and complications – Set expectations for how you spend your time with people. Time-manage Mom and Dad by telling them to check your Twitter.

4. CRITICAL PATH

Choose your friends and eliminate the things that don’t matter.

5. GO DIAGONAL

I once learned in 7th grade geometry class that going on a diagonal path is faster than going 5 blocks up then 5 blocks across. So learn the shortcuts through the streets. Now that we have Google Maps, it’s even easier.

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6. ASK YOUR ASSISTANT

Hire an assistant. And get HeroEx to do your deliveries on the cheap

7. FIND THE REAL EXPERTS

Need an expert? If you want to find an expert on social media, for example, there are 15,740 of them on Twitter. Pick 1 or 2 people at the top of the food chain you need to talk to now, and go for the bullseye. Or if I wanted to talk to an expert on Ecommerce, I’d ask HeroEx advisor Jeff Holden, who ran the consumer side of Amazon.com for 9 years.

8. WATCH YOURSELF

“Shake ya ass, but watch yourself. Shake ya ass, show me what you workin with!” – Mystikal

Know yourself and the things you do that waste time. Now turn them off, shut them down, get rid of them. You know yourself best.

9. DAILY MEDITATION

I  meditate daily at SCLA – even for just 1 minute. 60 seconds of Ommmmm on a regular basis helps me focus on what’s important (and get to the critical path I mentioned above). I was inspired to do this by one of my best friends and Russell Simmons.

10. MONEY WINS

Can’t decide which one to pick, and all things are equal? Pick the one which brings in the cashflow for you, your boss, your company, your nonprofit, your family, your customers. We all work for the President – $ George Washington $.

BONUS

11. MINIMIZE INTERRUPTIONS IN YOUR DAY

Every time you get up to pick up groceries, to go out for lunch or dinner, to pick up office supplies, to grab Starbucks – you interrupt your normal workflow. It takes 20 minutes to readjust back to what you were doing before you got up. So plan your day to minimize this – or do it all at once.

"IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT BEYONCE HAS ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME!" - Kanye West

Need help getting more done, so you don’t interrupt your day? Ask us at HeroEx – we’ll come to the rescue and deliver almost anything you want in 1 hour

Just before we hit 2010, Violet Blue (San Francisco Chronicle) released her top 10 sexy geeks 2010.

She describes our CEO Marissa as “firey, effervescent, and gorgeous.”

Check it out here! The news was also picked up by Laughing Squid, Aston Martin News, Serpica Naro, and others.

Keep watching as Marissa stirs up controversy, conversation, music videos, and a media storm in 2010!