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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 Really Get Your IM Business Rocking

      A lot of the time, people at the starting or bottom end of the internet marketing online business chain are not doing much but learning. Some of us become professional learners.

      We’re stuck in a state of mad desire to get a business happening and complete inertia – the more you learn the more confused you become and the more you realise there is to learn. We flick from forum to website to article in search of the Holy Grail that will lead us to internet riches.

      Well, here’s the news folks.

      The riches are right in front of you. What you need to do (and I’m talking to myself here as well!) is to buckle down, have a plan and stick to it until you get results. Then continue working it.

      Doesn’t matter whether it’s Article Marketing, Video Marketing, Information Product Creation, Freelancing, Google Adwords or whatever. Every system works. There are people whoRead More »How To Really Get Your IM Business Rocking

      Eat That Frog – Time Management

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        Cute, isn’t he?

        Why is it that the phrase is to get the monkey off your back when you’ve got an outstanding issue that is hanging around but to eat the frog when you need to do the thing you don’t want to do? Maybe that’s the elephant in the room! Ok, I’ll stop mixing metaphors.

        Maybe eating a frog is less unappealing than eating a monkey.

        Either way, I’m in the position of having to eat something.

        For the past two months I’ve been avoiding a couple of unpleasant / uninteresting / too-difficult tasks. Tasks relating to closing off my previous business.  I really can’t avoid them forever, as much as the child in me wants to! They just HAVE to get done and no amount of wishing and hoping on my part will make them go away or obviate the need to do them.

        So, today is the day.

        Today I get to eat thatRead More »Eat That Frog – Time Management