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Morning or Evening - When are you Most productive?

30/5/2017

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Are you a morning person?

Or does the thought of an alarm sounding off at 6am make you want to slam your hand on snooze button?


Mornings are the time when we’re at our most productive.

It’s quiet, uninterrupted time.



Sounds ideal and we probably all know that we really should get up early. 

I certainly do that nowadays.

But it wasn’t always this way.

For many years, I was firmly in the "I-hate-mornings" bracket.

So what made the difference for me?

It was book called Mindstore by Jack Black


I got this book at the airport on the way to a holiday in Egypt.  I bought it because I had trouble getting to sleep and definitely trouble getting up in the morning.

The chapter on sleep takes you through a series of steps to get you to sleep but also to "program your mind" into waking you up at any time in the morning.  I followed the process and by the end of the holiday I had taken a huge step towards sorting my sleep issues.

By using the techniques every night when I got back home, I had once-and-for-all fixed my sleep issues for the rest of my life.


I can now decide in advance the exact time that I want to wake up and even if it's 6:11am I can wake up at exactly that time.

​As Jack says in the book, It Only Works (IOW)!


When I combine this with a decent routine, it becomes really easy to wake up early.

Because in order to consistently wake up early and become a morning person, you need a morning routine that you look actually forward to waking up to.

An amazing morning routine. Not just one that seems perfect on the outside, but one that feels good for you will work wonders.

My routine is:

6am - Wake up naturally (No Phones!!)  and exercise or walk for 30 minutes

6.30 - 6.40 - Meditation.  You can use Headspace for this.  Or you can download the Headspace App


 6.40 - 7am - Open my Log or Journal for the Day - You can get one here at Amazon

7am - 7.50am - Work on your immediate Goals or your business

7.50am to 8am - Send out emails for the day

By sending out your requests to the world you are taking control of your day and not reacting.

You now have the rest of the day to work on Your Goals.

By doing this consistently your productivity levels will SOAR!

Oh, one final thing - no phone 1 hour before bed and for at least two hours after getting up!



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You Don't Need to Get it Right But You Need to Get it Going

29/5/2017

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I have recently been working with people who are embarking on Social Media training.

It's fascinating stuff.

Social Media is here to stay and it's something that every business must embrace sooner rather than later.

​Embracing means engaging and engaging means reaching out to new and existing customers. It also means creating or enhancing your digital footprint so that people/customers can find you and know what you stand for, they need to know your reason why you do what you do.


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Many of the people who attended the training are adults and business owners.

They are used to working for themselves and getting the job done.

However, there are a few people attending who could advance quite quickly if they stopped being so pedantic and got on with it!

I'm taking about the need to find the ideal blog post, the ideal image and to make sure that every word is spelled correctly and there's a full top at the end of every sentence.

Now there's nothing wrong with an attention to detail but in the fast moving world of Social Media, blogging and the internet, it's far better to get something out there than sit and wait on the perfect image or logo.

As all the best internet blogging and marketing advisors say (including Seth Godin), you don't need to get it right but you need to get it going.  Ship It. Then sort things out later.
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12 Pillars of Business/Personal Strategy YOU Should Think About Every Day

22/5/2017

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Over the course of time, I have  realised that the majority of people I interact with don’t fully embody the 12 pillars of business and personal strategy  introduced twenty years ago.
 
As a quick fix “intervention”, I’m sharing the basic foundational thoughts of the pillars here … and at a later time I will find an audio from past seminars that delve deeper into these strategic ideals.
 
Think about these 12 in relation to your own business…

 


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They include:

1.) Continuously identifying and discovering hidden assets in your business.
2.) Mining cash windfalls each and every month out of your business.
3.) Engineering success into every action you take or decision you make.
4.) Building your business on a foundation of multiple profit sources instead of depending on one single revenue source.
5.) Being different, special unique, and advantageous in the eyes of your customers.
6.) Creating real value for your customers and employees for maximum loyalty and results.
7.) Gaining the maximum personal leverage from every action, investment, time or energy commitment you ever make.
8.) Networking/masterminding/brainstorming with like-minded, success-driven people who share real life experiences with you.
9.) Turning yourself into an idea generator and recognized innovator within your industry or market.
10.) Making “growth-thinking” a natural part of your everyday business philosophy.
11.) Reversing the risk for both you and your customers in everything you do (so the downside is almost zero, and the upside potential nearly infinite).
12.) Using small, safe tests to eliminate dangerous risks and adopting funnel vision instead of tunnel vision in your thinking.

 

Source: 
http://www.abraham.com/12-pillars-businesspersonal-strategy-think-every-day/​
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