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10 Tips to Make 2012 Productive, Profitable and Blessed
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Article Overview: Here are a few tips that will allow you to free up time and energy for 2012
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10 Tips to Make 2012 Productive, Profitable and Blessed
This is the time of year many professionals set goals and resolutions for the coming year in hopes of making the coming year better than the year before.
Unfortunately, most goals are forgotten within a short period of time.
Often this is due to trying to do too much with too little.
Here are a few tips that will allow you to free up time and energy.
1. Evaluate online subscriptions to determine if you need to continue receiving them. If you don't need them, unsubscribe. This one action will save you lots of time by eliminating unneeded emails and clutter in your inbox.
2. Use the first hour of your day to monetize your business. Most people dive right into emails first thing in the morning. This may likely be one of the greatest time wasters in that emails tend to get us sidetracked very quickly, sucking up valuable time and energy.
3. Write a "to do" list at the end of each workday for your priorities for the next day.
4. Think about the next 12 months. Commit to one project per month that will generate revenue for your business. I personally like to develop at least one new information product per month. It can be a report, a homestudy course, a teleseminar, a webinar or an MP3. By committing to one project per month you will be amazed at the momentum you will gain as well as the revenue you can generate.
5. Commit to investing a minimum of 3 - 5% of your revenues to your learning and studies. I personally invest about 10%. You cannot possibly be at the top of your game unless you are at the top of your knowledge base.
6. Join a mastermind group that will stretch you personally and professionally. Mastermind groups are an essential part of your business growth.
7. Determine all the tasks that must be accomplished to run your business. Once you have a list compiled determine what you can outsource and what you absolutely must do yourself. Make a commitment to outsource those tasks that are time suckers and would be much more cost effective for a virtual assistant to do than for you to take your time to accomplish. This will free up your time to do what is most valuable for you, your business and your customers and clients.
8. Commit time for family and friends. So often we get caught up in growing our businesses to the detriment of our personal relationships. Granted, growing our business is important but the growth need not prevent us from enjoying family and friends. After all, when all is said and done it is our family and friends who are with us through thick and thin.
9. Take personal care time. This is an area many entrepreneurs fail miserably. If you don't take care of yourself you won't be much good for very long.
10. Give thanks. Give thanks for all your blessings, both personal and professional. Give thanks for the opportunity to express who you are by way of your business. What an amazing blessing it is for us to be able to create an incredible life as a result of a successful business. Not only can we live an extremely comfortable life, we are able to contribute time and money to our communities and organizations we believe in, we are also given the opportunity to leave our legacy.
It doesn't get much better than that.
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- How about:
Tips for managers to handle employees more effectively?
Tips on how to deal with difficult customers?
Tips on how to deal more effectively with suppliers?
The only three I have in mind right now, but will try to come up with something else.
Chris
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- Interesting 2012 report, should be a part of everyone's reading for 2012
Re: Quote of the Day - "The only people witho
- Thanks for sharing this Evan, there are some very powerful quotes in there, I particularly like this one:-
You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
regards,
Mal.
How to you re-fresh yourself?
- Productive time improvement is about increasing the time that you, your staff or your organisation has available for front-line service delivery; and making sure that time is being used to best effect - "working smarter" by:
- doing the right things - (eliminate unnecessary work)
- the right way - (use standard, streamlined processes)
- with the right people - (right skills, availability, location)
- using the right tools and equipment.
But we all will agree that somewhere we don't follow these and give ourselves a break.
When I give myself a break, I
a. play online games
b. chat on Internet
c. Listen to some soft music
What you do when you are not "working smarter"?
Re: I really feel great today because . . . . .
- May-09-2012
today is my mom's birthday.
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