Have you ever thought to yourself that there aren’t enough hours in the day, or felt overwhelmed at the tasks facing you? If you have, this article can help you!

• Clarify your goals and strategy. Be very clear about your aims and ambitions, both short and long term. Write them down. Once you know what you really want to achieve (and why) it’s easier to make decisions about what needs doing, and to plan accordingly.

• Focus on your top priorities. You’ll be more productive and profitable if you identify and.focus on the areas most important to your business. Work on the fundamentals first. The Latin word ‘fundamentum’ means foundation – so take action, build strong foundations and the rest should follow.

• Schedule time. Literally write an appointment in your work planner (you do have one of those, don’t you?) to set aside a realistic block of time for your priority actions. This reduces anxiety over not having enough time and keeps you focused.

• Say no! Consider Jim Rohn’s suggestion. “Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.” Always check your schedule before committing to anything new. Don’t allow others to divert you from your objectives.

• Create supportive systems. This includes systems for filing, management information and communication.

• Take a reality check. Will your current activity have a positive outcome, or are you doing it to avoid something else? Ask yourself – will doing this take me towards my goal? As Peter F Drucker observed “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

• Delegate! It’s tempting to do something yourself when you think you can do it faster and better. But consider the long term – delegation now will save time in the future, and if done appropriately can motivate your staff, boost their confidence and help them develop their skills.

• Repeat your success. Remember the last time you went away on holiday, and how you got so much done in those few days before you left? What strategies and techniques did you employ that made you so effective and focused? Can you repeat them? Alternatively, imagine you are going away tomorrow and work through today accordingly.

• Balance your life. Formally schedule personal activities too, so you make time for family, friends, your health and fun because having a balanced life reduces stress and increases energy levels. Time management is really about life management!

• End the day. At the end of the working day, tidy your desk, make notes about what needs doing tomorrow and prioritize those tasks. You’ll worry less that evening and be prepared and focused the next morning.

And a final thought. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.”

And lastly remember all  directed activity produces results – its irrelevant whether the results are good or bad. Results are important.

Doing something is always better than thinking about doing something

Resolutions for 2011

Do something that scares you every day (not as in jumping off a cliff naked – more like making that sales call or confronting that late bill or going for a check up or…)

Be open to being open. Talk to the newcomer, say hi to the stranger, open your new website now, wear odd socks, get out of your comfort zone

Raise the bar on your personal goals

Raise the bar on your business goals – but within the realm of sanity.

Base all resolutions from where you are Now. Not where you told everyone you would be, not where you ‘should’ be, not where you would like to be. Where you are – start at ground zero. Then move forward

Finish the project. Finish whats started. Complete the course. Read the manual. Finish whats started

Create opportunity in your self and others. Find things that create opportunity as oppose to that which cannot fail.Find things that allow you to bring along others on the journey – for their sake,not for yours.

If you haven’t already – start a journey. Could be to a place – somewhere that doesn’t speak your language or have your customs, or it could be your life, maybe its stopped, start it up – enjoy the rush of making it a journey

allow fun to be a factor

Don’t buy another marketing course – until – you finish the ones you have. Finish the project. Finish the course. Watch all the videos, take notes. Become the ultimate student.

Add value.

Expand your circle of influence.

Add Value

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Focus is not a talent that you cannot learn. (how many negatives is that?)

Its the ultimate weapon to success. But its not a talent. Its a thing that can be learned

If you think back most times when you are successful the focus was natural , inevitable.The focus was natural because you enjoyed or believe in or were absorbed by whatever the project was. And the outcome, in your mind was inevitable.

But when you are trying to succeed where you have only failed, or have no inbred desire.The focus must be learned.,And can be learned.And is the factor in remaking a project a success.

Now lets say it is a business project, a making money project. And although you desire the outcome – say Financial Independence, you have no feeling or natural aptitude for the work involved. It is something you know has to be done, but it something you enjoy perhaps or feel you have a ‘talent ‘ for.

The first thing to do then is to consider if there is another business where you would enjoy the work more. Another form of the project that would engage you. It is very hard to succeed at something you don’t like, even if you think you want the outcome.

There are many ways to create financial freedom, an ongoing income in your life – don’t leap at the first one you see, or the one that ‘the sell’ gets you. Consider the work, consider the length of the work involved.

Step back from ‘the pitch’ or the hype. Consider the work and the length of the work.

No matter what ‘they say’ – true financial rewards (unless you are robbing people – a very popular sport in many financial circles these days) – require work, dedicated effort over time. Focus over time.

Focus can be applied to any work, its a learned experience. And perhaps the result will drive you enough to focus at length on something that doesn’t engage you. Perhaps. Many driven people have op problem with the work.

But if you are not ‘driven’ or desperate and just ‘would just -” like” the result. The find an approach, a work habit and work effort that engages you.

And then do it. Focus on it. Make the plan, follow the plan. And stay focused on the plan.

see this outline

That’s how you succeed. Always.

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UPDATE – First Read this – John Reese new focus

Prospering

Online Dictionary: to thrive, succeed, etc., or cause to thrive, succeed, etc. in a healthy way

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):   . To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain. They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper. –Milton

Doesn’t that sound good ‘Long time shall dwell and prosper“.

To thrive (in a healthy way).

live long and prosper

I like the concept of prospering. Success with a healthy moral component, perhaps.

Everyone wants to succeed, to make it. Who wants to prosper? It sounds more on-going that succeeding doesn’t it. Like its a life thing as opposed to an immediate thing. “Ok so I succeeded in doing that – now what?” But if you have prosperity or are prospering, its ongoing. Makes a journey out of effort.

Everyone wants just enough;

“I just want enough to be (fill in the blank)and  happy, comfortable, taken care of, that all”

And then when we have that- well we want more.Just enough more.

What if the goal was ; “I want to prosper” ?

That suggests something ongoing, and also something interactive. You cant ‘prosper’ and leave your friends and neighbours in the ditch. That creates success perhaps, but not prosperity. Prosperity suggests we raise ourselves and everyone else up at the same time doesn’t it?

America was once known as a prosperous nation, now its..what? The richest? The most powerful?. I would  like to be in a Prosperous nation wouldn’t you. It implies the nation is powerful, successful, of course, but also a nation that lifts up others.

How about a goal of prospering? When asked whats your goal in life – you can say – I wish to prosper.

How do you prosper?

Well prosperity is not necessarily about how much wealth/stuff/gold you can acquire, as much perhaps about how much good will you can build.

Prosperity is not so much about getting to the top. Maybe more about pushing your potential

Prosperity is not so much about being Number 1. It suggest more that you are part of a community that has become enriched through effort and mutual concern for wellbeing

Prospering isn’t working till you drop. But a balance of effort, goodwill and achievement.

To succeed – you win. You overcome. You beat the rest. You destroy the challenges. You kill the opposition.

To prosper – you are in a mode of constant achievement. You are aware you are part of a group, a species perhaps. You realize success only works if somehow your success has enriched others.

Its not that tricky to succeed – you just keep going. Its not complicated. Its just hard dedicated work towards a goal.

To prosper, perhaps, requires ongoing realization that one person making it alone, is one thing, but when you reach down to bring others along, even if it seems it will slow the journey, is something beyond imagining

“Money is everywhere” Frank Kern

“I deliberately cultivate an attitude of financial abundance – literally there is money just lying around my house, everywhere – the kids play with it”  Frank Kern

So if you are not super rich dude Frank Kern – will it work for you?. If you are reading this from some coffee shop on a stolen laptop – for instance – can just ‘thinking abundance‘ make you rich?

Think and grow rich right?

Not, exactly.

Even in the U.S the country that worships money and allows the rich to basically steal money from anyone and everyone – becoming wealthy is hard (unless you, or your parents-even better- are already wealthy- see Donald Trump))

It takes work. Dedication and a manic fixation on a long term goal.

But that’s all it takes, I might add, not luck, not talent, not the correct DNA (you have the correct DNA, always). It just takes work, time dedication and a manic fixation on a long term goal.

However.

Abundance in a general sense -is everywhere.

We live in an abundant universe, and the only reason we don’t see it, is because we consciously or unconsciously restrict our access to abundance.

Now by abundance I don’t mean great wealth (though of course – see above- it is available) I mean there is available to you and to me whatever we need at this particular time to achieve whatever it is we have our heart set upon.

If you are trying to make a round the world trip and you don’t know how you will get all the visa or money or time or…anything. But you do know you are going to make a round the world trip. You will.

If you want a house. I mean really set that as a goal. But you have no money or security (ninjna) and forget bank bailouts. You will, secure a house. And keep it. If that’s what you really want.

If you want a relationship (that is be in a position to SHARE your life – not make a slave of someone to your life) you will find it.

If you want to create an Internet business that makes your job redundant, and you really want that. Its yours.

But do not confuse abundant thinking with wishful thinking. I wish I had a Mercedes, I’m not going to Do anything about it, I just wish.

Do not confuse abundance with greed and selfish desires.I wish I had a relationship with someone where I did nothing and they did everything and worshiped me.

By Abundance I do not mean I want to be THE KING OF THE WORLD forever and be worshiped.

Those things are never available in any true sense.

It is an abundant universe for anyone, anyone, who allows, others in (to Mentor and guide). Who allows correction in their ways, when it becomes necessary.Abundance is available especially when what you want  in some way benefits not just you but others.

There is limitless availability of everything you need to create the life you want, whnen that life gives, offers, some value to others.

When you go after a goal that truly benefits others, as well as yourself -that is when you see the true power and amount of abundance available in this universe.

I kid you not.

SEE ALSO: -George Gilder  on Abundance in the economy

You have just bought the course and downloaded all the information. You hurry through a few pages of the manual and scan a few instructional pdfs, glance at the video presentations -but really why bother?

You know, you truly know, for the first time, this is for you. This is your future!

Making money at home.

Making money in your underwear.

No more job, you hear me? No more job!

You know all the ‘pitch’ (case study) headlines. You’ve read through them at least ten times; -

‘four legged blind boy with no hands makes a million on the internet’.
‘Homeless dude creates fortune while living in an abandoned car’.
’16 year old student makes 5 million in fifteen seconds with his first launch, and he got it wrong!’.

You cant wait, cant wait to get your own business going.

So you sort of do some stuff, almost as they told you, well close enough. You buy a domain name, find a web hosting service, copy and paste the landing page, they gave you (they gave everybody), and you publish it. Its up! Its live!. You are on your way…

Nothing.

Now its a week later your credit card is maxed out to Google or Yahoo Pay Per Click advertising, and three people have clicked on your page and bought nothing. Not even opted-in. In fact you’re pretty sure they got to your site by mistake…

You hear overnight success – and you’re a failure

You hear videos going viral – and you’re stagnant.

You hear – $1 million in a week – and you’re into the bank for your mortgage and its been five weeks…

Reality check.

Some facts: -

Opt-in rates for a free item from an unknown are maybe, maybe 3%

Opt-in rates for a cold (that is, first time to website) buy – less than 1%

The chances of you getting it right the first time – less than.05%

The chances you will not quit in disgust?

Well that’s up to you. Totally. Completely. Up to you.

That’s when goals and dreams and reality collide.

A dream is a motivation. A goal is something concrete to work for. But expectations can kill you. Kill -your business, your ambitions, your drive..

Be aware expectations have nothing to do with actual success or failure.

If you dream is lets say to create financial freedom through an internet business, and your goal is to have a business up and running in a week, starting from zero. Its (probably) not going to happen.

All businesses take time. All things of value take – effort and time.

Never mind the four legged blind kid that had overnight success. (how many legs do you have? are you blind?)

And expect it to cost you.

A degree, a basic business degree is going to cost you at least $10,000. An MBA around $40,000. Are you prepared to spend $2-3000 learning? Over time? How much is financial freedom worth to you?

Are you prepared to fail to succeed?

Are you prepared to put in time? A degree is 3 years minimum (yes that does include extensive partying). To learn a trade like plumbing or carpentry takes minimum two years.

Are you prepared to have realistic expectations and give your self, a year at least, learning curve?

Are you prepared to do this while keeping a full time job.( 9 -5 you earning a living, after 5 you create a life)

Expect little except effort.

Accept your dream as a worthwhile lifetime achievement.

And then, whatever takes, make it happen.

Then have always the expectation of success. Understanding work and effort and time are the ultimate necessary ingredients. And the ultimate guarantee for success.

(The homeless guy in the car? – it took him 5 years- and he wasn’t really homeless and his car had WI-Fi)

This is really what sets the USA apart. I live in Canada, and though we share the same landscape and border, the Canadian mentality is more…what shall we say…more compromising. An American (stereotypically) is driven, ambitious, aggressive and believes ‘I can do it,my way god darnit’. A Canadian is more live and let live and lets just all get through this together.

In business that tends to mean that Canada has less per person productivity than the USA. Not because Canada is less smart or less anything in any real way, except one. Risk.

The stereotypical Canadian will minimize risk (see our banking system which didn’t collapse in the economic meltdown, because fat cats and monopolies that they are, they dont like big risk)

Now this is generalizing and going for risk after all has allowed the USA to virtually bring down the entire worlds economy, and allowed China to put itself in a very important position economically and possibly will have irretrievable hurt the US in terms of its number 1 ranking for all time – but, thems the breaks .

Anyway…

Lets get back to the entrepreneur before I ride off in all directions at once

Its a fact, in terms of business, in terms of lifestyle – a successful entrepreneur has everything else beat hands down (except A list Male Hollywood actors perhaps ) (Oh and politicians – a free ride all the way – but -)

But an entrepreneur, the concept of an individual making it without the safety net of a job or big company environment, is risky.

Most people have jobs because jobs are easier. To get.But jobs have no life attached to them.

Most people ‘work’ because they dont like the risk. Most countries dont do as well ,productivity wise, as The US because the population avoids risk.

Be the cowboy/cowgirl. The wild spirited one. Its risky, but its a great life.

Why?

Entrepreneur – The true possibility of financial freedom at best and the reality of financial control of your life, at worst.

If you do not control the engine of your income, you have no control. If you have a job, you can be let go fired at any time for reasons that have nothing to do with your work, or accomplishments.

If you have a position with a financial ceiling – a job, a tenured position etc, then you can only make what is given , not what you can earn.

However -If you create your own business, and you keep at it until it proves successful, and it has scale (that is your earning ceiling is only limited by your ambition) then you have possibilities.Then you can create a lifestyle second to none, because you can have an income stream, independent of you time input. Financial freedom. And an income stream not in the hands of a boss or board.

However it will be in the hands of a marketplace, so: -

Top 3 things to look for in your entrepreneurial search: -

1) Make it something you want to do. Really want to do – this is how you are going to spend most of your waking hours, make it something that drives you .

2) Make sure your business can scale. Up. Examine the marketplace you want to be in, can it sustain you making millions? You might not ever want to make that much. But if you felt like it, could you?And in bad times will that marketplace sustain you?

3) Make sure, I repeat, make sure, you can get you time back out at some point in the future. If it will always take YOU working at the thing to keep it going, and theres no way to back you time out – you have a job, you are the boss and the employee. You have income, but no life.

4) Realize Risk is all. Not money as much as time and emotional commitment. You are going to have throw everything you have got behind the project. And when it fails (It might) be prepared to throw everything you’ve got into the next, and the next, until you make it work (it will)

Risk as in attitude, not as in throwing your family’s saving at something with no safety net. Not risk as in craziness without thought. Risk as in; no-one else believes in it, no-one else sees it, no-one else is prepared to work this hard, no one else can see how it will possibly work -

What do they know?

5) take advice only from those who have what you want. Again I repeat take advice only from those who have what you want. It doesn’t matter if its your parents, your best friend, your rich neighbor, if they do not have what you want – in this case, creating an income stream that is self sufficient unto itself, and that can make them millionaires. They have no say.

After all these days Frank Kern can make 1 million or so in an hour – and GM and top wall street financial institutions are bankrupt.

If you are not American , then absorb their driving spirit enough to make your life financially free.Believe in becoming accountable for your own future. Absorb the risk

When people are financially free they can help others. You have time and money. Its good to send money to Haiti or Chile, its better to go down there and help with your own hands,  put the ‘aid’ directly into the right hands.

Its good to care about your kids. Its better to have a life where you can be with them when they need you because you have created time in your life.

The entrepreneur is a French word – but its  Americas gift to the world.

Take the gift.

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It is worth the time to build, to create, to play with the dream. Your dream.

If nothing will fail and money is not a concern – what would you do? How would you live? Where would you live? With who (whom?) would you live?

Goals are the concrete foundations you need to allow the dream. You can write down the steps to goals, you can chart a path to goals – but why are you doing all that work?

The dream.

Your dream.

If there is no emotionally charged dream for you – you will drift and never work hard enough.You need a dream to direct the work muscles.

Freedom is a dream. Free from what you ask? – well what ties you down?

Money is not a dream, its a goal – but what you may use the money for is the dream.

Money all by itself turns ugly and corroded. It turns in on itself, and makes you turn in on yourself. Power is ego run amok. Power leads to the abyss. Its not a pleasant (or short) fall when you get there.

But money buys (in the western world) dreams. Money can buy freedom. Money can buy you the right not to worry about money. The right for your family not to worry about money and get on with the important things in life.

Money also buys disaster of course. Unless you have a dream. Money does not t have to a goal for your dream. What is you dream?

The dream, something that’s working years for, something that motivates you, deep inside, something that charges you up emotionally. If its all glitter and no emotion – it wont last. It wont drive you.

So?

If all was possible – Where would you live? What kind of house? How many. Do you need a house? If you have or want a family they will certainly want shelter. What kind? Where.

A few details to consider for your house.

How much land is around your house? Is there an ocean or mountains? Do you have horses? Goats? Chickens? sculpted grounds – wild land.

Inside your house. Is it in a warm country? Does it need windows? Is it in temperate lands. How many rooms? Wheres you secret hideaway inside the house where you can just.Sit?

How wide are the corridors? Enough for two people to pass by comfortably – 6 feet? Wide enough for two people to pass comfortably and have side tables and flower arrangements? 9 feet? Alcoves in the hallway?

Are the rooms big enough so you can walk behind the furniture? Or is everything against the wall? Your taste. Your dream

Do you have a shack on the Western Hebrides? Lanai? Fiji? A boat?

A mobile home instead?

A floating home?

Where would you live?

Who would you live with? What kind of relationship do you want with your friends. Your spouse? Your children. In an ideal world. (that you can create).

What work would you do? You will have to do something to stay sane. But not 24/7. Not in your  dream.

Travel?

Work for charities? Make movies? Make music. Finance a sick person? Finance homeless people. One person. End poverty on your street, in your town, in your country? Or pick a country end poverty there.

HOW MUCH WILL THIS ALL COST?

Write that down.

Now find a way to make that money appear.

And have your dream

Here is the way Frank Kern approached it for instance

and here’s how he did it, again just as a for instance

BTW UPDATE – Frank Kerns Core Influence (above were extracts)  FULL DVD now available on-line here -  link

Vital:

If you have a long term goal; -then anything that helps you move to that goal is a  Vital Action, everything else is at this time,is not vital. Of course life must go on, there are things have to be attended to.

But from a filling a calendar with activity perspective -prioritize the Vital – the things that make a difference long term, things that help you move to your goal.

Urgent

The challenge is of course the Urgent things that fill our lives. Urgent things are activities that clamor for our attention – NOW.

The cell phone ringing, the email that pops up, the ice cream that must be eaten before it melts, the neighbors barbecue you must go to right now, the… (well you get the idea)
Those activities that have immediate obvious return or reward – and make you feel like you are accomplishing things, when in fact you are , to coin a phrase, ‘merely wasting time’
And energy
Universal energy may be infinite – ours is not.

Focus on the vital with your energy

Think about this – All systems that survive function on Vital activities first and then worry about everything else.
When there is a challenge to your bodies’ systems, injury, virus etc, the body shuts down everything it doesn’t need to fight the attack, and then only when health is back does it relax its grip on the rest of its systems.

You sleep a lot when you are sick because the body shuts down all non essential activities, like- staying awake and blundering around using vital energy.The body needs that energy to fight.

That’s how you achieve anything in your life.  Athletes call it going into ‘the zone’– focus on the vital only, all else is ignored.
A great athlete tends to be one who can summon tremendous powers of concentration to complete the race or the tennis match or the golf swing. Focus on the Vital, first.

Now you are not an athlete (lets say) this is not an Olympic event you set as goal (lets say) so you have to fit things around your priority work.

That’s why you use a calendar and day planner. Create spaces where you only focus on the work at hand.

And done even worry about the next step, or the next week, or the challenge coming up when…

Focus only on what has to be done NOW.

Everything else may be urgent or important– get to the dry cleaners, pick up milk, answer the phone, fix the dent on the car – but none are Vital.

However its not an excuse to leave your spouse or partner with all the work suddenly (or is that always?) – learn to Prioritize.

Make sure that the Vital tasks in your calendar and DONE. Then cope with the rest.

for more details see – ebook Time Control