4 Quick Tips for Getting More Organized and Productive
A lack of organization can really hurt your ability to perform any job well. Being organized with your Internet Marketing business is particularly important because you’re pretty much on your own and every lost minute is lost money. Here are some great tips to get organized today!
Clean Your Desk
The first tip to get organized today is to clean your desk. A messy desk can cause you to lose things, and this will waste a lot of your time. But more than this, a messy desk is psychologically damaging and can hurt your performance in every facet of your Internet Marketing business. You may doubt this, but it is very true.
Make a List of What You Want to Accomplish
The second tip to get organized today is to make a list everyday single day. You want to plan everything you need to do each day and then check off each task as you complete it. This way you will know exactly what you did or didn’t get done. It is amazing sometimes what we realize when we hold ourselves accountable.
Block Off Chunks of Your Time
While you’re making your list you should also block your day. In other words, you want to assign tasks to specific times. For example, from 1:00 to 1:40 you might write a blog. Assign a task with a time and make sure that’s what you’re doing. This will help keep you on task and not get sidetracked with other things.
Always Work Toward Accomplishing Goals
The last of the 4 tips to get organized today is to always work toward accomplishing goals. Everything you do should be working toward accomplishing a specific goal. If it isn’t then you’re just wasting your time. Way too much time is wasted doing things that are not actually getting us closer to a specfic result. Try and work on things specific to your task or project at hand and stick to those tasks untill your goal is complete.
Follow these 4 tips to getting more organized and you will be amazed at how much more productive you will be and how much you can help improve your Internet Marketing business.
I read a recent article about a poll that was done over the phone asking 900 people several questions relating to Obama and current Government related questions.
Some of the results surprised me to say the least. The question I ask below is at the very bottom of the article. You can read it here:
http://TwitPWR.com/7lr/
I decided to see if one of the questions results were anywhere near accurate to my Twitter followers and my blog readers.
Please make me proud and show you are smarter than the other 900 people polled.
I posted a tweet on Twitter yesterday that got me thinking.
The story is about a 6 year old who has a simple blog that has pictures up of Ben 10 Toys. I know nothing about them at all, but I guess they are popular to some degree at least. The kid JUST puts pictures up of his favorites that are found throughout the internet from other sources. You can find the blog post here on the story http://budurl.com/6yroldblog
The crazy thing is that the blog is getting a lot of traffic and not just traffic, but people who want to buy the items pictured. The thing is, they are not for sale, they are just posted pictures.
Like I said before, you can read more about the story at the link above, but the point I want to make is that sometimes people overcomplicate things.
I mean realy, can it get much simpler than that? This simple blog was created with just pictures added and is getting a lot of traffic. Not just traffic, but buyers Wanting to spend money.
The post goes on to explain how you could do the same and I encourage you to do it.
So, here is the thing. Don’t just go read it, do something about it. Either read it and use that method or at the very least Take Action on whetever it is you have been planning to do.
If a 6 year old can get traffic to a blog with nothing but pictured from other sources, what is your excuse?
Don’t overcomplicate things. Everything does not have to be perfecty planned and laid out to get started with Internet Marketing. If you have been wanting to get started, just do it. It does not matter how simple it is, just Take Action.
I am as guilty as anyone at this. So many times instead of just Taking Action on an idea, I try to overcomplicate things and make it perfect and add a million extra’s to it and by the time I am done adding to the idea it is a huge project. Then that huge project can seem daunting and another simple idea can come along that seems like a great quick money maker. Then that quick easy money maker can grow in size just like the last one and the process can repeat itself.
So, my point is this. Keep it simple and take action. Just make sure to do something. It is better to make money on a simple idea than it is to keep building on an idea and never get it done or launched.