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On the Ask Canada Immigration Lawyer Evelyn Ackah podcast, host Evelyn Ackah speaks with Vaida Rissanen, a time management expert. Vaida shares her background in applied mathematics and how she transitioned from being a scientist to starting her own business in time management. She discusses her 12-week-to-success program, which is tailored to the unique needs of legal professionals. Vaida explains how she helps her clients with time management, email overload, and reducing stress. She also shares success stories of clients who have achieved record revenue, paid off debts, and decluttered their homes. Vaida emphasizes the importance of mindset and implementing systems to improve productivity. She offers a special offer to podcast listeners who reach out to her. The podcast concludes with a reminder to focus on personal growth and character development.
Vaida Rissanen can be reached through:
- LinkedIn - Vaida Rissanen 🇫🇮 | LinkedIn
- Facebook - Facebook
- Instagram - Vaida Rissanen (@vaidarissanen)
- Website - Creaplan Consulting
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Here are the key points from Evelyn Ackah's podcast interview with Vaida Rissanen:
- Background:
- Evelyn Ackah introduces Vaida Rissanen, a productivity and time management consultant.
- Vaida has a background in applied mathematics and a PhD in applied physics, which led her to focus on creating efficient systems for businesses.
- Journey to Time Management Consulting:
- Vaida moved from academia to various business roles, where she discovered her passion for time management.
- She founded her company, Creaplan, in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help business owners, particularly lawyers, achieve productivity and balance.
- Key Components of the 12-Week-to-Success Program:
- Vaida’s program focuses on setting goals, effective day-to-day and week-to-week planning, and managing calendars.
- She emphasizes starting the day with the most important tasks to avoid reactive and unproductive work patterns.
- Tailoring Solutions to Individual Needs:
- Vaida customizes her approach based on detailed client questionnaires and individual needs, accommodating various personal challenges like ADHD or being a parent.
- Fundamental principles remain consistent, but specific tools and techniques are adapted for each client.
- Common Challenges and Solutions for Legal Professionals:
- Common issues include balancing production work with CEO responsibilities, managing overwhelming email volumes, and disorganized calendars.
- Vaida’s program includes effective email management techniques and prioritization strategies to reduce self-created fires and stress.
- Success Stories and Impact:
- Clients have achieved record revenues, cleared significant debts, and experienced reduced stress and increased control over their schedules.
- Vaida highlights the importance of foundational skills and maintaining a healthy work-life balance for sustainable success.
About Calgary Immigration Lawyer Evelyn Ackah
Evelyn Ackah is the Founder and Managing Lawyer at Ackah Business Immigration Law. With offices in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver, we work with individuals and business owners from all over the world who want to cross borders seamlessly. For more information on immigration to Canada or the United States, Ask Evelyn Ackah at Ackah Business Immigration Law today at (587) 854‑3821 or email Evelyn directly at contact@ackahlaw.com.
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Transcript
Evelyn Ackah:
Good day everyone. This is Evelyn Ackah from the Ask Canada Immigration Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm really excited today. I have my friend and colleague and time management expert with us, and she is called Vaida Rissanen.
Hi, Vaida. How are you?
Vaida Rissanen:
Hello, and thank you so much for inviting me to be here.
Evelyn Ackah:
I am so excited. And tell us again where you are, because people want to know.
Vaida Rissanen:
So I am in Finland, and a five hours drive to the Arctic Circle.
Evelyn Ackah:
Oh, my goodness.
Vaida Rissanen:
So now we have like 24 hours daylight.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow. I need to come up and see that one of these days. It's incredible.
So Vaida is a productivity and time management consultant, and she provides expertise with strategic planning, project management, executive coaching, and business consulting. And she is the founder and CEO of her own company called Creaplan. I have worked with Vaida before. So full disclosure, I adore her. I think she's an incredible resource for lawyers as well as all business people that struggle with time management, and I thought it would be great for her to join us on our podcast to talk about her services and how she works with attorneys all around the world with respect to their time and their priorities.
Before we begin, I just want to give a quick bio. It will be in our show notes. Vaida is a specialist dedicated to empowering attorneys, owners, and partners in their journey from busyness to ultra productivity. She has a singular focus on fostering thriving, profitable businesses while preserving healthy work-life balance, and she offers a comprehensive 12-week-to-success program tailored to the unique needs of legal professionals. I completed that program, and I know some of her other clients continue on with her in different capacities.
So Vaida, welcome. And tell us, to start with, how did you get into this?
Vaida Rissanen:
So I have a background in applied mathematics. I think in numbers and systems all the time. Originally, I'm from Lithuania, and I moved to Finland where I live now because I got a position in PhD in applied physics. So I was actually researching the climate, and I was a scientist in Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow.
Vaida Rissanen:
And that, I did for about five years, and I realized that I don't see myself long-term in academia. I don't want to be professor or do anything academic work. So I walked away, and then I did various different roles. I was a marketing analyst for a very big music company, and I was also in the car import. I was negotiating and buying and importing cars and delivering them to client. I absolutely loved it. I was working with my now ex-fiance. And while I was doing that business work with him, it was his business, I saw from inside the real world of inside the business, inside running a multimillion euro firm, and I realized that there could be systems that would ease the owners and also the team's productivity. And I was naturally really good at that. Even at university when I was like 22, now I'm 38, I set the goal that I want to finish with the honors. It's called the Red Diploma. So I made a plan, what grades I need to get in these two years, and I did it.
Evelyn Ackah:
Great.
Vaida Rissanen:
So it was kind of early age I was very planning oriented. Everything was a plan. And that led me to see that the skill set, the knowledge, and the interest in time management is something that I can really have my own business around, and I have got support. Creaplan is basically ... stands for create the plan, the company, because that's what you need to start. And I started my business in 2021, in January of 2021, and over three years.
Evelyn Ackah:
Ah, in the midst of COVID.
Vaida Rissanen:
Yes. Yes. And I think finally I found what I like to do and where my skill set is serving me well, and strong skill set. Yeah.
Evelyn Ackah:
That is so interesting that you found your way from science to the science of time management. I love that. I think it really shows that you have an affinity for that type of organizing structure, right?
Vaida Rissanen:
Mm-hmm.
Evelyn Ackah:
Because you see things that way. So when you were talking about the inspiration to create Creaplan and to become a business consultant on productivity and time management, how did you get out there and find clients? Who were your first and second and third clients? How did that evolve? I think that would be interesting.
Vaida Rissanen:
So before I started my company, I was six years building network marketing. I built two companies. I'm no longer doing the work, but what it taught me, it taught me obviously a lot of sales and follow-up and being very good, thick skin growing, just people who say no.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
But my very first clients were actually the cross leg, how they call it, the competitors' leaders that I taught the systems to keep their business on track, and they were my first clients who paid me the money when I started my business. I was very grateful. So even though I billed the big businesses and I hit the career levels, again that was the plan, but these were my first clients before I started to work with attorney owners.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm. Tell me why you focused on attorney owners, because I think it's such an interesting niche. Why wouldn't you work with any kind of executive? Is there something about us crazy lawyers that we need more help?
Vaida Rissanen:
I would say that the field picked me than I was looking after. When I got my very first attorney owner, I didn't know what paralegal was. Like I said, I didn't know a lot of the verbiage. I am not in the legal field. I've never been, so I was as far as I can. So I literally didn't know a lot of the things when my first client explained to me. And the first client came to me via ... I did the five-day free training, and then she recommended me to others and then to others. I know among our group of people, that is one client that really then introduced me to so many, and that's how I then decided that the legal field is really a great field for me, I love working. I feel that attorney owners, they are very analytical, to the point, and we match the energies. I love that.
Evelyn Ackah:
That's right. I think you're right. And I think you know too, as an attorney owner, or lawyer in Canada, as we say, owner, there's so much stress because we're balancing being legal practitioner, some of us who still do that, and then also being the CEO of our companies, of our businesses, and that just adds so much time to our schedules. And so I think we really need the help.
Can you walk us through the key components of your 12-week-to-success program and how it helps lawyers and owners and partners overcome just the busy busyness of life? Because I've gone through it, and I think it's also about doing it and then implementing and implementing. And that's where sometimes I think we fall short, is we're just learning the newest and latest, but we're not always adapting and adopting it fully.
Vaida Rissanen:
So what my program is geared towards, I work one-on-one with clients. I don't have a group program. I don't know if I ever have, because I really love working.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yet.
Vaida Rissanen:
Yeah. I really love working one-on-one.
Evelyn Ackah:
Okay.
Vaida Rissanen:
But what my program is geared towards is installing a strong planning basics, because that's what a lot of people they are missing. So I focus on three pillars that kind of has this foundation. So first of all, on the goal setting or identifying the project, so we have to know where we are going. You might be very good with calendaring or to-do lists, but if you don't know what you want to achieve in the next quarter or this year, you will still be mostly dealing with the routine reactive things. So I teach people how to easily map out any plan, any project that they want, and to make it in the actionable plan so we know the next steps, we are not overwhelmed by the big idea. And mostly, because attorney owners, they're so busy with the clients, they don't have the time to work on the business, and they have it in their head but not really mapped out on the paper, so to say. That's kind of the number one.
The number two is, how do we effectively plan our days and weeks? How do we prioritize? Because not everything on the list, even if we do the list, is of equal importance. So that's kind of the planning, the day-to-day, week-to-week planning.
And then the third part is, how do we deal with the calendar? So with the big thing, what I see people do is they start their day. The business owners, they start their day with the meetings, emails, and then they hope that at some point in the day they will have the uninterrupted couple of hours where they can do this important thing. Usually that never happens. And in between meetings, the Zoom calls, it's in those pockets of time it's very, very difficult to do anything major. And that's how people run their calendar for weeks, months, or years. So we kind of change that where we start our day with the most important work first. It's the most difficult thing to do for not only lawyers but for everybody, but this is critical if we want to really change the foundation of how do we execute our business.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yeah.
Vaida Rissanen:
And this is what my program is built on, to help install the foundations. I'm very passionate about foundation. Not the very advanced things, but really the basics. Because with the strong basics, you can go very, very far.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yeah, I love that.
Vaida Rissanen:
[inaudible 00:10:58] need advanced.
Evelyn Ackah:
You don't need a lot. I mean, I think you use, whether it's motion I think ... Is that what it's called?
Vaida Rissanen:
Notion.
Evelyn Ackah:
Notion or Asana and a notebook. It's about having the systems in place. That's what you definitely taught me, is to actually use the systems we have. Because we have so much technology, it's a lot of lawyers don't use them or know how to use them properly. So I think that that's a really valuable insight that you're providing.
And so in your experience, as we know, we're always running around with our hair on fire. What are some common challenges that legal professionals face when it comes to time management, and how does your program address the challenges? What do you think are the most common excuses we make as to why we're not more organized?
Vaida Rissanen:
So I would say a couple. I would say several. So one is that a lot of attorney owners that I work with, and you probably can relate, they're still in production half or fully, so they don't have the time to work as a CEO on the business. So that's one thing.
The second challenge is with emails. So some of the attorney owners, they're saying that they get like 200 emails, and they spend so much time in the email. So as we go through the programs, like second part of the program, we also implement effective email management techniques where it's not only how do we structure the emails, the inbox, but also how do we deal with those emails. Because nowadays, emails became like instant messaging, and we drop everything and we go to answer, even though we have a lot more important work to do.
And the third one I would say in general, the calendar. So I go back to the point what I mentioned, that the calendar is so disorganized in a way that we have meetings over meetings, over meetings, whether they are in alignment to where we are going or whether not, that it's not possible to do a lot of work. And what a lot of attorney owners say to me that all they do is they deal with the fires. They spend their days dealing with all the next fire they need to put out, and we kind of minimize. With a lot of techniques that I do, we reduce those fires. Because honestly, saying a lot of the fires are self-created because we remember something, then we didn't write it anywhere. We forgot, and then we remember when it's already too late. We have to drop everything, what we do, and then now it's fire.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm. I agree. I agree. What you've taught me was definitely building in that time. I've had to really teach my executive assistant. I'm still working on it, because sometimes I'll be like, "Well, can you do this consult? Can you do that?" It blends into the time that's been set aside for me to do my deep work. So I know that you really believe in the importance of finding time for deep work -- I read the book as well at your recommendation -- and understanding that work that adds real value. So it's so hard even with the people around us to keep that time for ourselves. That's something I find, is still training and finding the capacity to say, "You know what? This is absolutely unshakable. I need to keep this time." Because it's so easy to let other things fall into our schedules without approval or without consent.
So how do you tailor your productivity solutions to meet the unique needs of individual clients? For instance, what if somebody has ADHD? Do they have a different need? Or ADD, do they have different struggles with the calendar? Or if they're a parent, and they also run a business? How do you tailor it based on each individual client?
Vaida Rissanen:
So some of the things, they fundamentally stay the same whether you are a parent or you have ADHD. I had, I think, three clients with ADHD, and the system worked.
Evelyn Ackah:
Okay.
Vaida Rissanen:
So fundamentally, things, they stay the same. If I can tell to you that, whether you're a parent or ADHD or a busy entrepreneur, if you learn to get your most important work done first thing in the morning, that will be beneficial no matter if you started a vacation or you are running three businesses. So those fundamental aspects, they stay the same.
Now, before I start to work with the client, I have a extended questionnaire. You mentioned, how do I tailor the program? And that questionnaire helps me to see not only what tools they use, because I always adapt to the tool that client uses, not to add more tools unnecessary to learn, to how even they feel. So I see which aspects of my program they have the most struggle with. And even I now offer longer duration. If I see that we need more time, then it's not going to fit in the 12 weeks that I have. And that usually always the guess is right, because let's say we have a very, very busy calendar that couple of weeks may not even be enough to deal with that calendar.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm.
Vaida Rissanen:
When I work one-on-one, I see that client's situation. For me, it's very easy to see the missing aspects, and then we a little bit tailor the program.
Evelyn Ackah:
Okay. No, I like that a lot. So can you share some success stories? Because obviously, I think the people that we know who've done this program, including me, they're looking at it as well as not just time management and better enjoyment of life, quality of life, but also growing their businesses. So what kind of direct impact have you seen with some of your clients in terms of how they've been successful in the program and how it's affected productivity, and obviously further down the line, their growth as a business owner?
Vaida Rissanen:
Mm-hmm. So first of all, when I work with the client, my primary focus in the beginning is the revenue, to help client achieve the revenue they want. So from these numerical achievements, a lot of my clients reach record revenue month, record revenue quarters. I just had four clients now who achieved their goals of May where we overpassed the May revenue goal.
Evelyn Ackah:
Great.
Vaida Rissanen:
I have clients who pay off credit cards. I had client who paid off $70,000 for the first time in the client's adult life.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow.
Vaida Rissanen:
So a lot of clearing the debt. Now I have client who paid five out of 11 debts this year.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow.
Vaida Rissanen:
So these kind of more numerical. Now more I would say abstract, people, obviously they feel less stressed. They feel more in control. I had one client who was saying that, "I have significantly so much more time that I am now tempted, and I'm afraid that I would now do the mistake to add more on the plate." So I say to people that even though the system works, you run into the risk of burning yourself, because now you are so productive and so effective that you are tempted to add even more on that plate, and it's ultimately the same thing.
So I also had two spouses saying that ... One spouse was saying two years ago that I saved their marriage because now the partner is at home. So partners are able to spend more time at home with their children having weekends off, not working any longer on the weekends, sleeping longer. That's kind of why I start my program with finding out how much people sleep in the first place and really putting that let's sleep more, because if you are not sleeping, you cannot really be that effective.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes, you can't be productive. Yeah.
Vaida Rissanen:
I had one client who went through the decluttering part of the program, and she decluttered the whole house. They put the house on sale. They sold it in two months.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow.
Vaida Rissanen:
So it's many different results.
Evelyn Ackah:
That's great. It must be very satisfying to know that you're a part of these people's successes, whether they're personal and professional. It must really feed that soul or that part of you that is looking and receiving and seeing the results of your hard work. That must be really great for you.
Vaida Rissanen:
I love it. And always somehow when I speak about this time management, even now I'm shaking, because it's always when I speak about the topic I'm shaking myself, so it is. I love. Because obviously I'm in Finland, we have eight to 10 hours difference between, depending where people are, in Florida or California. So I always wake up every morning, because I have my system accountability, so people are sending me pictures of their to-do list.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
So I wake up with those pictures. Why did I paid off the debts? Why did I hit the record revenue? And it's just sometimes I have also ... We are humans. You have sad days, and my clients really lift me up. We just recently lost our dog three weeks ago.
Evelyn Ackah:
Oh, I'm sorry.
Vaida Rissanen:
And I was just saying to my client that I feel really ... It was difficult
Evelyn Ackah:
Of course.
Vaida Rissanen:
And working with the clients just lifts me up myself. Working, seeing how they achieve their goals also re-inspires me to work on some really big goals that I have.
Evelyn Ackah:
Good. Good.
Vaida Rissanen:
It's kind of this synergy, and I get the energy from the clients a lot.
Evelyn Ackah:
Oh, my god. Well, I think it's incredible what you do. I think for us, at least in the circle of lawyers that you and I know, we're always looking for the next best thing, how do you do better, how to achieve, how to improve our lives in any possible way. And so what I really like about your program is it's not just about the next shiny object, because I think a lot of us are always looking at the latest and greatest, but we haven't even fully maximized our programs or our technologies or our systems that we have already in our firm. So what I think you really brought to us and to me was the sense of let's use what we have. We use Asana. Let's use what we have. We have your calendar. Let's use what we have as opposed to let's go get more and more and more, and then just cluttering up our minds with more and more stress.
Do you find that your employee, or sorry, your clients have less stress too after the 12 weeks? Do they feel like their stress has been lightened?
Vaida Rissanen:
12 weeks not always is enough, just because of many things are happening in many different clients' lives. But as I work longer term or some people they need, I sometimes work like four or six weeks or eight weeks, depending what that client needs. I recently had the client that we worked I think eight weeks, and it was significant. That was the client who said that I will have so much more time that I don't know what to do with it effectively. So it does. Although, also it's how people implement the system, because it's also the timing has to be right.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
The match needs to be right. Their life circumstances also may impact. It's hard to be productive if something difficult is going in life.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Vaida Rissanen:
So as much as I can say that yes, we go there, it's not always. I cannot say that it's always after 12 weeks.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes. Yeah.
Vaida Rissanen:
Some clients I work with for two years just because they want that accountability, they want to stick with it. We have touched different areas, and it's all okay. We are just going and doing.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yeah.
Vaida Rissanen:
I cannot say that everybody hits that mark after 12 weeks.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, I agree with that.
Vaida Rissanen:
But that's definitely part of it, that it's a result of the program to also reduce the stress-
Evelyn Ackah:
It's fascinating.
Vaida Rissanen:
... which is important also for me.
Evelyn Ackah:
Oh, it is. I mean, for health and everything and well-being. How did you come up with that 12 weeks versus 16 weeks versus eight weeks? What was that magic for you that you thought this is a really good three-month period? Is it just the quarterly basis that you were thinking about it on?
Vaida Rissanen:
When I started my business, I hired the coach I worked with for 16 weeks, and she helped me to build it. So she helped me to really dig into what my clients need. I interviewed a lot of people, like 43 people I interviewed before I even launched it.
Evelyn Ackah:
Wow.
Vaida Rissanen:
For me, I look at it logically. What logically makes sense? And that program did not change that much after we created. I've tested of course, and then I adapted, but it's a logical way. And 12 weeks, it's kind of where people ... It's short enough that you achieve significant results and keep the momentum, but long enough the opposite. Short enough to keep the momentum, long enough to achieve the results.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes. Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
And then after that, people get to know me, they see the system. I many times extend with the people or on different offer, but that felt for me that it's a good number of weeks where people can stick to.
Evelyn Ackah:
Okay. I think that's very helpful. So in terms of email management, which as you already alluded to is overwhelming these days. Everybody should have somebody helping them with their email because it's just such a waste of time. It kind of sucks up our days. And people use their emails sometimes as their to-do list. How do you help professionals manage the email overload?
Vaida Rissanen:
So first of all, it comes to mindset. It's very important to understand that email work is the same work. And I'm very happy that you brought it up, because now a lot of people who are listening, they can hear it.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm.
Vaida Rissanen:
The email work is the same work as any other work you have. What now email has turned into, it's instant messaging. So while we send the email, and we do not expect people to answer within 24 to 48 hours, we drop everything and right away go into that email. And it's even better if we have all the notifications that's coming on the phone, and then it's a tab open so I don't forget or I react right away.
So when we work with the email, we work in two different stages. First, we work externally to organize. So we organize the folders. We reduce the incoming email flow. Because I've noticed that a lot of attorney owners, they use the same email to register for all the newsletters, and I think it's a big mistake. Because it doesn't matter how good you are, if you get 200 emails and 70% are marketing, it wastes so much of your time.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes, it does.
Vaida Rissanen:
So we deal with that first to reduce the incoming flow of emails, and then we work internally. So I have the system to teach, what do you do when you finally are ready to work on those emails? What do we do? How do we deal? When do we deal with them so that we are not always reactive and slaves to the inbox?
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I know. It's a lot. I think you're right. I mean, having help now with my executive assistant in my inbox and my calendar separating what's urgent, what can wait, it's definitely helping. I don't think it's perfect. There's a work in progress, I would say, because you're always trying to train and create better systems. And we use SaneBox as well. We're trying to just get rid of all those things that we don't need to look at. But I think limiting time where you check through the day, maybe a couple times, two, three times a day for short periods of time.
That's something else that you've shared is the worthwhile practice versus being in it all day long, because it does add to anxiety. And I think lawyers as a whole tend to have more anxiety, because we don't want to miss anything and we have deadlines. That's a natural way of practicing, is to be worried about missing any deadlines. So the way that you've helped so many attorneys with organizing, time management, email management, I think also helps them to maybe reduce the anxiety that they carry and that pressure, because they're in full control of their schedules. They know where they have to be and when they have to be. So I think this has been an incredible practice for you to be sharing with us.
I know I benefited from it. I'm still using it best I can. I love my planner. What was it, the Passion Planner?
Vaida Rissanen:
Yes.
Evelyn Ackah:
That's the other thing that you introduced me to, which is really nice just to have a beautiful book that you can put your activities in and helps keep you organized in addition to the electronic. I like the physical. I think a lot of people like to write things out as well.
So Vaida, are there any last-minute tips around who would be your ideal client? Where do they have to be in their life to be able to connect with you and maybe start their own 12-week program? Is there a time that you think is always better for them, or just anytime is good to start?
Vaida Rissanen:
So I would say that if you are not on the track for your revenue goal, if you feel overwhelmed by your calendar, if you feel that you are always reactive, you have these great ideas that you want to work on but you never get that time. If you are running multiple businesses, it's very important to be organized when you're running multiple businesses. I know some attorney owners, they have other businesses.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
So that's also if you work very long hours, weekends, there is a better way. So that's obviously a right time to work to go through the program.
Evelyn Ackah:
Mm-hmm.
Vaida Rissanen:
On the other side, if you just want to be good with productivity. So one thing, what I want to say to your audience, is that as much as we speak that I am the productivity coach, you not necessarily want to be more productive. It's not what you should be after. You should be after to be more effective, because productivity sufficiency, it's doing the thing right. You could be very good at managing emails, but how those emails are moving the needle forward. So productivity is from the factory, from production where we put the machines and they do faster, quicker in the same time. What you want to be, you want to be effective. Effectiveness means doing the right thing, so doing the thing right and doing the right thing. Effectiveness means that you identify what's important. You know your priority. You work strategically on your goals, and you use your time wisely. You not necessarily work 10 hours. Maybe you work like five, four or six, but you do way more than other people who are just spinning in the week.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's very good. I think everybody could benefit from your expertise. I high, highly recommend you, and that's why I wanted you on our podcast, because I feel like you're offering an incredible service, and these days where people feel like they're just overwhelmed with everything. And I even love how you teach us how to block off time even with our phones, with our iPhones, and to do different things to kind of stop that reactionary behavior. It definitely helps with being more effective as a lawyer, as a business owner. So I want to really thank you, Vaida, for being on the show because you've definitely given people a lot to think about.
And those of you who are interested in reaching out to Vida, we'll have all of her details in the show notes, her link to her website and email to contact her if you'd like to learn more about her 12-week program. And if you're ready to sign up, I highly recommend it. And if you'd like to speak to me about my experience working with Vaida, I'm very happy to give a testimonial as well.
So I want to thank you, Vaida, all the way up there in Finland for joining us on the Ask Canada Immigration Podcast. Is there anything else you'd like to share before we wrap up today?
Vaida Rissanen:
So I would love to just add ... Thank you, first of all. Thank you so much for having me here. And if you are interested to speak with me and you reach out, and you tell them that you heard from the podcast, I give you a special offer as a thank you.
Evelyn Ackah:
I like a special offer.
Vaida Rissanen:
As a thank you to really having me here, and as a thank you for those of you that you reach out. So feel free to reach out. Even if you don't know if you are ready, even the financial situations may not be where you want to be, feel free to reach out. Schedule the call. Let's talk. I would love to hear from you, and I would love to see with wherever you are, is there something that I can help to start changing the way you do your business?
This is the last thing, what I want to leave from my side. Ultimately, you want to think about that. This is maybe not a nice thing to talk about death on the podcast, but when you will die, the things you take with you are the memories and the character.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
And what you want to spend your time with, you want to spend time sharpening, changing your character.
Evelyn Ackah:
Yes.
Vaida Rissanen:
And that's what we do.
Evelyn Ackah:
I think the people that work with you are very much growth-minded people, and not just financially or revenue, but even personal growth. People who see opportunities as opposed to problems, you know? I think that's the kind of person I think that probably would gel the best is those people who view that they want to build their character, improve their lives. I always feel like what's going to happen when I'm on my deathbed, did I spend enough time with my children and my husband? Was I present? Not just how much money you made, or did you build a business? So I think being able to incorporate all aspects of our lives is really what your program focuses on, and I really value that. So I want to thank you once again. I love that you made an offer.
And for any of you who are listening to this, and you'll see all the information to contact Vaida directly at Creaplan, reach out. And if you do, just mention the Ask Canada Immigration Podcast and find out what your offer could be. And I hope that you've enjoyed this podcast and that you share it with your friends and family and colleagues so that we can get more people learning about how to use time effectively and how to enjoy life more.
Thank you so much, Vaida.
Vaida Rissanen:
Thank you so much.
Evelyn Ackah:
I really appreciate it. Okay.
