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Simplify Your Life

You could save lots of time if you focused on simplifying your life. When you simplify your life, you remove all obstacles that hinder your effectiveness.

Let’s take a look at what may be the situation for many people by looking at information overload in this picture:



Could this be the way your office looks? Have you lost all sense of purpose and direction? If so, you may want to change your focus. If you make a conscious decision that you are willing to simplify your life you have taken the first VERY IMPORTANT STEP to make life much easier.

An effective person only deals with things that BENEFIT his business. An ineffective person drowns in papers and lost opportunities because all overview is lost.

Can you SEE the difference between these two personality types?

Lots of people can agree that being effective is important, but taking the first steps is apparently “too difficult.” They can’t seem to grasp that action is taken based upon conscious decisions followed up by a willingness to make an effort.

All changes can be considered dangerous, but if you look at life as one long journey of exploration of new perspectives you might get a renewed zeal for COMMITTING yourself to change.

Let’s take 3 steps that could help you take the first important steps to get the process started:

  • Begin With Little Things<
  • Clean Up Your Desk
  • Use A Good E-mail Program

Begin With Little Things
Start by noticing all the little time robbers. Clean up your system tray. All needless programs take away your attention from focusing. Even e-mail notifications from your e-mail client can be distracting if they pop up every minute or so.

You need to invest your time seriously, and you need to treat your earning money online project as a business. It doesn’t have to be boring just because you want to take your business seriously. Au contraire. You can actually get extra joy from seeing that your efforts bring in real fruits.

Clean Up Your Desk
Your desk is important to getting the right results. Whether your physical desk – where your computer is – or your virtual desktop, the screen on your computer.

Clutter is an enemy to getting good results. Your memory is bogged down on your computer when you save everything to your desktop. At least do yourself the decency of having a folder entitled “To be examined” instead of saving all materials to your desktop.

Furthermore, getting papers cleaned up helps you maintain focus on what needs your attention, maybe payments or things that need to be handled within the day. All things that don’t need your attention could either be thrown out, or saved in proper order.

Use A Good E-mail Program
Personally, I would recommend Mozilla Thunderbird. It gives you an opportunity to filter all messages into folders in your e-mail accounts and helps you stay focused on what REALLY needs your attention.

By using the right filtering principles you can save lots of time. Invest 30 seconds in creating a filter and save ten seconds every single day. Even with mails that only arrive on regular business days, 200 mails filltered to your wastebin adds up to 33 minutes saved per year. That was just for one mail filtered taking you 30 seconds to do.

When unsubscribing doesn’t work, filtering trash away will save you HOURS every single week and will add quality to your working hours.

Just imagine how much time you could save by simplifying your life. What is your excuse not to simplify your life beginning today? I would like to hear your feedback on that because it would seem senseless not to grab this opportunity to start making real money online by making this commitment to simplify your life.

Building Trends

Are you the type of person who builds trends, or do you just follow along? Look at your browser. Whatis your starting page. For some it’s whatever was there from the beginning, and they painstakingly press F6 to go to the address line to enter the name of their favourite website. Many don’t know how to actually CHANGE their starting page, and quite a few wouldn’t listen if you told them.

You know why? Because they feel within their “comfort zone” when they can just continue doing what they’ve always done. They feel comfortable around same-procedure-as-last-year.

You shouldn’t be anyway near that!

If you want to build a SUCCESFUL online career, you MUST be a master of innovation. You MUST see trends, and build upon these. Don’t just go for passing mini-trends, but you should see CHANGES as they happen instead of just following along long after everyone else has long ago changed their behavior. You should feel INSPIRED by good changes, and should certainly make it a goal each day to change at least one thing for the better.

Not only MAJOR things, but even small details can be life-changing when done regularly. Try it. Within a few weeks you will see tremendous change when you begin to open up to the fact that you CAN learn new things.

Be inspired. Seize the day. Carpe diem. :-)

Action vs. Procrastination

Today, we’re going to look at taking action versus the art of procrastination. What is “procrastination”, you might ask. Fair question — certainly one that needs answering.

To procrastinate is to delay action. You want to look at something tomorrow, next week, next month. Tomorrow never comes with people who procrastinate.

What’s the cure for procrastination?
Well, taking action is the only cure that really works. You will never get out of your mess by delaying cleaning up, and you will never achieve success online by keeping that exciting e-book on your hard drive. You must read it on your screen, or print it so you can make notes and take immediate action as you’re inspired to put your new knowledge into practice.

So, on a personal note, how much have YOU taken action upon the content of this blog? Are you a procrastinator?

I wish all would take action and get cured for this tendency so you could begin IMPLEMENTING the good advice you’re being given. I want YOU to become succesful, but have you got the COURAGE to take action so it can become a reality instead of only a dream?

Carpe diem. :-)

Stop Nagging

Marriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines nagging in this way:

  1. to find fault incessantly : complain
  2. to be a persistent source of annoyance or distraction
  3. to irritate by constant scolding or urging
  4. badger, worry

Do you know anny naggers? Are you irritated by pessimism? Or, even worse, could YOU be a nagger?

These questions are meant to be personal. It should be highly important to each of us to know more about how we are perceived. When you try to communicate with others you should be UPLIFTING to your audience. You should ENCOURAGE those around you into action. Motivation is far better than any type of threat and you should learn how to bring about positive results.

If you want to increase your online income you NEED to examine yourself. Could you be more positive in the way you write, speak and talk with others? Could you make an extra effort – even when something fairly fundamental needs a third explanation to come across.

Be patient and appreciate your talents. It makes it much easier to SHARE. :-)

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