Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Stop Procrastination, Increase Personal Productivity




My latest Squidoo lens discusses how to improve your content
creation by removing the barriers to personal productivity.
The barriers are identified as:

  • procrastination
  • information overload
  • activity focus
  • lack of clear goals
The three building blocks of personal productivity
online are identified as:
  1. focus
  2. discipline
  3. leverage
The Squidoo lens identifies strategies in each of these
three areas to help you build personal productivity through
creating content online:
http://www.squidoo.com/improve-personal-productivity


Related Posts:

Building Social Equity 2.0 - the road to success
Internet Marketing Success - the road less travelled
Branding: how are your perceived in the marketplace?
Just Do IT!...Take some targeted action

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid100. He provides free resources
for Squidoo marketing on his Squidoo authority
site:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

What Are You Going To Do To Improve Your Productivity in 2010?















Well, here in Australia it is New Year's Eve - with 2010
fast approaching.

It's the time for New Year Resolutions to cover all aspects
of your life (so that you can achieve some balance).

However, I just want to focus here on improving personal
productivity in your online business.

I've been reading some great resources lately to help
me overcome information overload and to improve
my productivity.

Here's two of them:

Scaling Yourself 
(a superb blog post from Pro-Blogger, Chris Brogan,
that lists the ways he has been trying to improve his
productivity - we all suffer from the same temptations!!)

IM Productivity Secrets
(New membership site from Lance Tamashiro &
Robert Plank that addresses the issue of Information
Overload.  Focus is on time management for productivity
improvement - with free email course and excellent
hints in the sales page.)

My 2010 Goals and Activities

Well I've been thinking of how I'm going to put some
of these ideas into practise. So here's my first cut
(it's not New Year's Day yet!):

GOALS:
(allowing for my full-time job as an
organizational consultant):

1.  Build my Joint Venture with Squidster (Anne)
and Chef Keem (Achim)
(focused on helping small business to brand themselves
effectively through social media)

2.  Use my Internet Marketing expertise to promote
my HR consulting business, Merit Solutions:
http://www.squidoo.com/merit-solutions-brisbane

3.  Focus on promoting (via social media) 
two Affiliate Products/Services that I can personally
vouch for:
12 Second Commute 
(A suite of Internet marketing tools - I have known the CEO
for a couple of years and I can vouch for his generosity,
genuineness and quality offerings which I have used
since 2006.)
One Week Marketing Plan
(PotPieGirl's marketing plan incorporating Squidoo,
article marketing, blogging and other social media. I've
proven the effectiveness of this plan though marketing
the product itself using PotPieGirl's approach.)

4.  Produce 3 E-books/Reports
(linked directly to goals 1 & 2 - one is well on the way)

5.  Write 3 Blog Posts per week
(incorporating both this blog and my JV blog)

6. Provide a free, fortnightly webinar on
Squidoo and social media marketing, for
12 Second Commute members.


RESOLUTIONS:

1. Create one piece of original content per day
(blog post, article or e-book chapter)

2. Write original content each day before
processing email 
(to avoid getting side-tracked)

3. Spend 5 minutes each day accessing the power
of concentration system:
http://powerofconcentration.net/

Well that's my focus and goals for 2010- what's yours?

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid100. He provides free resources
for Squidoo marketing on his Squidoo authority
site:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

New habits can be personally transforming

I used to often find that I would spend two hours
each morning just processing my email.

I would handle enquiries, delete unwanted email
and explore new products, programs and marketing
ideas.

The latter activity would eat up my time as I followed
one link to another...to another...etc.

At the end of two hours, I would be frustrated that
I had not achieved anything and wasted a lot of
potentially productive and creative time and energy
(I'm a morning person).

However, I have since developed the habit of
using my best creative time for writing.

I think about what I want to achieve each day in
terms of output and start with the activity required
to achieve the outcome.

I then fit email processing around the available time
rather than the other way around.

This new habit is bringing me closer to achieving my
current goals.

Gradually, I'm building a routine that is productive
and rewarding (a difficult task given that I'm not
a routine person).

The problem with developing new habits is that
you have to unlearn old habits (which by definition
are "ingrained behaviors").

It's one think to change our beliefs and assumptions
about our daily routine, it's another to get our
behavior to line up with these new insights.

The payoff - new habits that can be personally
transforming and bring you closer to your goals.

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo
affiliate marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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