Category Archives: Productivity and Time Management

How to Eliminate Distractions

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Close your eyes, sit back, and relax for a moment. I’m going to assume that you’re working right now or that you were in the midst of working.

Listen for a moment. What are the noises that you hear around you? Are these typical noises for your workday? Do you hear noises from the street, from the other people in the café, or noises around the house from your family?

Now, open your eyes. Take a look around your desk or whatever environment you’re sitting in right now. Is it cluttered? Can you easily access everything you need to access?

Open up your web browser. Do you have a ton of tabs open right now? Have you found yourself wasting time on social media sites?

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Chunking Projects

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How long is your to-do list? You’re in business for yourself, so I’m sure it’s about a mile long.

Are you where you thought you’d be in business at this point? It’s probably the case that you thought you’d have some bigger projects completed and that you’d be further along at this point.

It’s no wonder it’s hard to get anything done and complete projects. There’s only so much you can handle in a day. It’s overwhelming and so it’s much easier to just put it off.

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Accountability Partner

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Who do you have to support you and hold you accountable in your business?

I might already know the answer to that question. If you’re an online marketer or you have your own business, then you might not have anyone by your side—no one to support you or hold you accountable.

It’s easy to feel like you’re all alone in your business. From your current perspective, that might even seem preferable. You like being alone—you like being able to make your own choices and do your own thing.

However, that comes at a cost. Sure, you don’t have a boss breathing down your neck and that’s a great thing. You get to do what you want to do. You get to build wealth in your business in the way you see fit

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Why You Procrastinate

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A huge part of managing your time better is understanding that you procrastinate and why you procrastinate.

In surveying many of the professionals and entrepreneurs I work with on a daily basis, I hear time and time again that procrastination is the biggest issue when it comes to time management. People get frustrated with themselves because they have a bad habit of procrastinating. They don’t want to procrastinate, yet it’s their default.

Consider whether these statements are true for you:

Do you put projects off, even though you know you should be working on them right away?

Do you find that you get nervous about starting a project because it seems way too difficult to finish?

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Beating Procrastination

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Make a To-Do List

This might seem like a very obvious time management trick. Maybe you already successfully make to-do lists all the time. But, many people do not. If they do, then they often do so inefficiently.

If you don’t tend to make a to-do list every day, think about your reason why. How do you know what you should do each day? Maybe you just have all your tasks swirling around in your head. If that’s the case, then you’re setting yourself up for failure right off the bat.

You need to get your to-do list action items out of your head and down on paper. If you have too much swirling around in your head, then you won’t know what to do first, and you’ll constantly be worrying that you’ve forgotten something (and maybe you will have). It’s exhausting to have everything you need to do taking up your brain-space every second of the day. Get it down on paper instead, and you’ll probably feel instant relief.

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