Archive for November, 2008

Online Success Organized is way easier than winging it.

Most often we attempt to get things done when not in an optimal state of being. I often attempt to do so much at the end of the day when I’m tired and barely lucid how much time it takes to get things done as I barely tap away at the keyboard I’m sure it takes me and hour for what would normally take me a few minutes.

To get the most out of limited time and resources it is best to organize our lives. The following tip and techniques are starting to have a great effect in my life and hopefully it may help you in yours.

First of all, DO HIGH-QUALITY WORK WHEN BEING FULL OF ENERGY. Go to bed early and wake up after you have gotten all the sleep you need. There’s no specific number. All people need different amounts of sleep (for me, it’s 9 hours per 24-hour period). Working tired is VERY expensive and time-consuming.

I know that many people will say “but I don’t have 9 hours to sleep!” You may need to manage your time more wisely. You are already on the right track by looking to work from home with your PC.

Here are some tips to save time:

If your job involves working with a computer, then maybe you can “steal some dead time” and do the things you need to move your business forward. Most people are “occupied” at work for about 8 hours – but they only do “real work” for 4-5.

Before you go to bed at night, note down on a piece of paper what you need to do the next day. As you do the tasks, delete them from your list. This will allow you to live your day in a more structured manner than you just “reacting” to whatever “happens”.

Make sure you stay away from other well-known time vampires like TV, telephone and Instant Messenger as much as possible. Don’t keep doing these things just because you have gotten used to them. Most people live their lives on autopilot and it’s really hard to break a bad habit once you have it. Wake up. Become conscious. Think of what you do.

Don’t check your emails 20 times a day. I know that we tend to check our emails regularly. We want to see if others care enough about us to email us. But, if time is a concern, only check your emails once a day.

Ask yourself: If I had only two hours a day to build my business, what would I be doing? I’m guessing that “reading forum threads” wouldn’t be on the list.

Get away from the freaking computer. Want a way to make more money with less work? Just plan offline. Then o to your PC and get them done.

Also, working while being hungry is VERY expensive and time-consuming. You have your mind in your stomach and not your PC. Eat properly and on schedule. Eat several times a day like a baby.

Never start your workday on an empty stomach. Although you believe that you “will eat later”, “later” won’t come simply because this marketing stuff is too addictive and interesting. Who has time for food, right?

If you already work from home full-time, make sure you take regular breaks. School classes last about 45 minutes. There’s a reason for that. The human brain starts to lose its focus after that. You probably know yourself better than anybody else. But don’t think that you are a superman (or supergirl) who can go on and on and on for 5 hours in a row.

Take a break. Go for a walk. Ride your bike. Drive your car. Watch something on TV (but don’t overdo it). Listen to some music. Eat a healthy snack. Do some exercise. Spend time with your children or spouse.

While you are working full throttle, it’s easy to estimate that you are working at your max capacity – every time you feel tired, you say “OK, I did the absolute best my body can handle”.

You are dead wrong.

There’s a reason world-class athletes take days off. Aspiring world-class webmasters should do the same as well.

Don’t just take breaks during the day. Take entire days off during the week. At least one. You won’t believe how refreshed you will feel – and how many good ideas you will be able to come up with once you do get back to work.

If you don’t take days off, your brain is almost certainly under functioning. Don’t let that happen to you.

Hope the blog post and video help you with organizing.

Obama and My Success Message:

Success: Recovering From Failure

As a Republican or Democrat we as Americans not “Ameri-cants” must rebuild our great nation and the same can be said for my business my families survival and many others depend on what we do from this day forth.

If you’re an hard working business owner or small investor who has been putting in whatever you could during the last few years…Okay, let’s say you’ve been giving it your all. Well, maybe not your *all*, but a good portion of your all. And you’re not seeing any progress. So now what? Are you doomed to failure and never to succeed? No! Keep reading.

One thing that you need to understand is that failure is an event, not a person. It doesn’t define you as a “loser” for the rest of your life—unless you let it. Failure happens to you—it isn’t who you are. You’re not a victim, but it also doesn’t define you. So when it happens (notice I didn’t say “if”), pick yourself up and get ready for the next event in your life.

You must adjust your attitude as you recuperate from a failure. You will rise to your own expectations. Psychologists call this a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” and we are suckers to believe our own words. So adjust your attitude to the positive side of things.

Remember the guy who came up with the brilliant idea to change Coke? Back in the 80s (for those of you who were mere babes during that decade), someone had a stroke of genius—or so he thought. The Coca Cola company decided to compete more with Pepsi, and changed the formulation of their signature product—Coke.

They called it “The New Coke.” It bombed. No one enjoyed the new taste and the calls were immediate to bring back “the old Coke.” After a few months of hemming and hawing, Coca Cola executives brought back the original formula of Coke and ditched the new stuff—and its creator.

So what happened to the guy whose idea this was? He left Coca Cola and began to look for new work. The trouble was, his name was well known in the business community and everyone connected him to the failure that New Coke was. He finally landed an interview in which he got a fair shake: the interviewer asked what he had learned through the problems the New Coke had created.

Naturally, he indicated that he had many lessons learned from the fiasco. He didn’t let failure define him, and he ended up landing the job for which he was interviewing. Good for him, right? But good for the company that hired him, too. They were willing to take a chance on a creative risk-taker who had a very public failure on his record.

Many of those who are considered to be “successful” have had failures dot their lives. Rush Limbaugh, the king of daytime talk radio, was fired multiple times from different radio jobs. He also filed for bankruptcy—twice. So you can see how Limbaugh didn’t permit failure to define him. Those failures were events from which he recovered and moved on. And you should take the same tact when confronted with something that didn’t turn out like you hoped it would.

The point in my life and in the lives of many more like me is that now with more knowledge experience and abilities my life is at a cross roads with a much harder time to accomplish inroads. I say this to pass on the fact that even this signals opportunity and not a disadvantaged during the recession and depression of the past greater amounts of wealth was placed in the hands of more new millionaires than ever before.

How?

By providing more value in smarter economical ways by empowering more people who seek to empower their own lives. We or you or me will improve the lives of others and create new wealth in America and potentially the world.

So lets head into the fact that we as Republicans may have lost a race but we can and will win as we work harder to lift up our fellow man with greater commitment and value. Congratulations Mr. President we too are ready to serve our country from the halls of American business.