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Easy Tip on How To Be More Productive

    “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain, American Writer Gee, we seem to try and complicate everything for ourselves, don’t we? We have thousandsof planning tools, software, to-do-lists, project tracking methods and so it goes. When it all comes down to it, it really is this simple. Discipline yourself.

    Writer’s Block: How To Put It Behind You

      From time to time, I get writers block. For some reason, the ideas simply don’t come. There I sit just staring at the screen……..nothing happening. Or I just write something, delete it, write something else, delete it again. I suppose anyone who writes will get writers block at some point. Here are ways I manage to break through writers block. Change the Method If you work on your computer most of the time, use a pen and paper instead. Try moving to a different desk. Just write down some words, any words or brief ideas. By changing scenery and a… Read More »Writer’s Block: How To Put It Behind You

      Can You Speed-Write? How Fast Can You Write?

        One thing you can be sure of when it comes to having any presence online: you need lots of content over time. Now some of that content can be audio or video or graphical images. Most of it though, will be text. That means words. And plenty of them. Website copy, sales copy, eBooks, Reports, Blog Posts, Articles, Social Media posts and so it goes on. There is a way to learn to write faster so you can get more produced. Know what you are going to write about ahead of time. This is where a content or editorial calendar… Read More »Can You Speed-Write? How Fast Can You Write?

        Double Your Income : Double Your Time Off

          If you could design your ideal life all over again, would it have more work days or more free time?

          Dan Sullivan’s technique for substantially increasing your income is based on increasing your time off and working more intensely when you are at ‘work’. For entrepreneurs and executives the principle is to develop and train others to progressively require your input less and less.

          To get more free days or time off, plug it in your diary and make it non-negotiable. Schedule in the days and weeks you want off ahead of time.

          Sullivan allocates time according to three types:

          1. Free Days – a period from midnight to to the next midnight when you are not accessible to work and do no work related activity. No ‘checking in’, no checking emails, no reading professional magazines or books, no mobile phone or cell phone. ThisRead More »Double Your Income : Double Your Time Off

          How To Be More Productive, Part 4

            Ok, so my notes from the Helen Raptoplous call have identified:

            1. each day do four things you can complete towards your main current project
            2. then do the regular things you need to do consistently – daily, weekly, monthly activities
            3. then, if scheduled, do your block period of focused attention on a big project
            4. finally, if scheduled, take the day to plan, flesh out ideas or build systems

            That’s kind of the priority order of undertaking actions every day to progress.

            A key plank in this methodology (in my view in any time management or productive endeavour) is to have accountability.

            Robert Plank introduced us to this concept in one of his courses where he encouraged us to set up an accountability membership site. The idea was to buddy up with someone, declare your fourRead More »How To Be More Productive, Part 4

            How To Be More Productive, Part 3

              Last time, I shared with you the steps beyond ‘the four things’ formula that Helen Raptoplous talked about on the call. They were, taking consistent action on your regular tasks, scheduling blocks of time to work on bigger projects, and dedicating a day or two to for planning, ideas and systems.

              Personally, as we went through the call, I found Helen’s presentation of the information a little confusing and overwhelming. Robert Plank’s explanation of his system was way too simplified when I first heard it and so initially I didn’t get it; but when you do get it, it’s brilliant in it’s simple effectiveness. Helen’s method accommodates all those other things you need to do in business beyond the 4 Things.

              What I did like about Helen’s call was that she stopped 3/4 of the way into the call to get people to brainstorm all the projectsRead More »How To Be More Productive, Part 3