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Create a Dashboard to Make Your Life More Productive

Guest post by: Michael Farrell

Article Overview: Exceptional success in any business, especially in an entrepreneurial business, is the result of strategically directing ever-increasing amounts of your time to the highest value activities, reports Mike Farrell with aspenIbiz. Read this short post to learn how to tame the tangle of bills, finances, medical records, and health care costs by visiting only a few website dashboards instead of 20 so you can spend your time on the very best business activities and opportunities.

Create a Dashboard to Make Your Life More Productive

Tick ... tick ... tick ... as time marches on, you still can't find enough time? You know the mantra that "time is money"; some will even say that "time is time and money is money."

No matter which mantra you subscribe to, learn how to maximize your time, even your personal time, and achieve peak productivity by using these disciplined productivity strategies and many of the new web services dashboards that can cover every aspect of your life.

You can essentially hire a robo-accountant by using a personal finance manager from Mint dot com. Around since 2007, this personal finance manager shows all the money you make, all that you spend, and how you can handle it better. You begin by entering all the info for your bank accounts, loans, credit cards, and various investments. As you use your credit card and take care of bills, the amount you pay is assigned to a category so you know where your money is going. Numerous other features include simple graphs and upload of cash purchases using a smart phone app.

Next, you can replace that inbox (or shoebox) that is overflowing with bills, frequent flyer updates, magazine subscriptions, and other boring but important pieces of information by using an automatically "sort the mail" tool from Manilla dot com. This tool gives you a great visual snapshot of a Bill Reminder, when your frequent-flier miles expire, when your magazine subscriptions are due, as well as product warranties.

Another major hassle is watching expiration dates and daily deal sites so keep your coupons in order by using a tool from CityPockets dot com. This tool lists your vouchers from any of the 30 major sites like Groupon, Living Social, and others in one place. Expiration dates for all those deals are prominently displayed and email alerts are sent before they spoil. Expect to see in the Fall of 2011, new versions of the mobile apps that will allow you to buy coupons for nearby deals.

You can learn how to understand those baffling medical bills and decrease health care costs by using a tool from Simplee dot com. It shows you charges, in a neat format, that are the same for every bill regardless of health care provider. It helps you understand what is covered by your plan versus what should be out-of-pocket expenses, how many appointments each family member has had, and what doctors are charging in total.

What dashboard services like Simplee and Mint do for bills and finances, you can use a tool from Avado dot com to aggregate your medical records and keep track of health-care related appointments, lab results, immunizations, medications, and allergies.

Finally, just like the fuel gauge in your car showing how much fuel you have in your tank, these dashboards can help you see how close you are getting to empty. Email alerts can serve as a kind of "check engine" light warning you about upcoming bills, doctor appointments, and expiring subscriptions and coupons. The messages you get about avoidable penalties, nasty finance charges, and astronomical interest rates can help you keep money in the bank. They are your collision-avoidance system.

None of these dashboards covers every aspect of your life and signing up for all of them could be overwhelming. Depending on where you most need help, be strategic and pick or more of these services to sort through your biggest piles of paperwork.

Exceptional success in any business is the result of strategically directing ever-increasing amounts of your time to the activities you are very good at and very excited about. Learn to use these dashboards for your personal life so you can grow your business by directing increasing amounts of your time to those highest value activities and responsibilities of only the very best business opportunities.

This blog, and related posts, will continue to provide a blueprint for making money online with Internet Marketing. You will find step-by-step road maps for various parts of the Internet Marketing business. You will find material that provides an entrepreneurial game plan generating a new approach to work, family, and lifestyle. You will find tools, education, training, and support. And you will find a community of like minded entrepreneurs that are using the Internet to get out of debt, build wealth, and secure their financial future forever.

Many high profile business leaders, including the Oracle of Omaha, suggest that if you don't focus on being an online entrepreneur, being self-employed, or being a small business owner, it will be a very tough road in the months and years ahead; actually they say, it will be an uphill battle.

This suggestion is attracting current and former doctors, CEOs, and other members of the corporate workforce that are seeking a way to leave their established and lucrative careers. They are in pursuit of new opportunities in the world of Social Media and Internet Marketing so they can generate income, prestige, independence, and financial rewards that exceed the levels obtained by most in their previous careers.

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