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7 Common Misconceptions About Finding Your Purpose
7 Common Misconceptions About Finding Your Purpose
Finding one’s purpose in life can sound like a deep and complicated task. To make matters more convoluted, you’ll probably have beliefs that were foisted upon you since childhood, either by your parents or other adults.
Following your passion by finding your ‘why’ or purpose is something pretty much every human being aspire to, because it promises a life of fulfilment because you re truly doing what you want to do.
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The truth of the matter is that finding one’s purpose is a simple process of thoughtful introspection. Once you dispel the misconceptions and lies that surround this topic, you’ll find things much simpler.
Let’s look at the common misconceptions…
You Have To Create It
You don’t have to create your purpose. It already exists. You just need to find it… and you’ll only find it by asking yourself introspective questions about what makes you truly happy and fulfilled.
We live in a world where self-help gurus will tell you to ‘hustle and grind’ so that you make millions and live up to your full potential.
But what if that’s not what you want? What if you only want an income that’s comfortable but you want more free time to volunteer and make a difference to your community.
Then that might be your purpose. Your purpose is determined by your feelings and desires. Not goals or external influences.
Everyone Only Has One Purpose
Different people are born with different talents and desires. Some people may be good writers and sing well too. They may excel at both talents and they’ll need to choose one that they feel they were ‘born to do’.
You’re not only given ‘one purpose’. Your purpose in life may change as your belief systems change. What you thought was important once, may seem trivial now.
For example, you may have loved surfing before and felt that it was your purpose to ride the waves and become a surfing instructor. However, a trip to an African village may have made you feel blessed and suddenly now, you think that surfing is no longer that important.
You’d rather volunteer and help the less fortunate in the village. You get more satisfaction and a sense of achievement that you never had before. This could be the missing piece in your life.
Your purpose is closely linked to what you feel is important to you and what motivates you to get up daily and get going with enthusiasm.
Some ‘Callings’ Are Better Than Others
Measuring your purpose against other peoples’ achievements is a pointless and depressing endeavor. You may be a painter who creates magnificent works of art. But if you compare yourself with a doctor who saves lives, you may feel like painting is trivial in comparison.
However, what you fail to realize is that your art brings joy and wonder to many people – from the person who buys your art to everyone else who gazes upon it.
No one purpose is better or more rewarding than the other. All that matters is that you do what’s right for you.
It MUST Be Your Job
Your purpose doesn’t have to be your job. A lady may be a waitress at a café, but feel like her purpose in life is to raise well-balanced children who grow up to be successful adults.
On the other hand, another lady may be more career-oriented and feel that her purpose in life is to grow her company so that it positively affects thousands of lives while making millions of dollars in return.
Your purpose is not tied to dollars and cents. It’s not your job, your career or your achievements. It’s more subtle than that.
It Requires Immense Sacrifice And Pain
If you need to struggle and force yourself to sacrifice for it, it probably isn’t your purpose. Very often, when you discover your purpose, there will be a sense of excitement and ease to it.
The work may be hard, but you’ll willingly do it because it’s what you want to do. There may be sacrifices involved to achieve your aim and meet your purpose BUT you’ll handle the hurdles with grace.
Discovering and following your purpose in life is a pleasant process and while it may be challenging, it shouldn’t be depressing or cause you to despair.
You Need To Be Religious
Purpose doesn’t have anything to do with your religion. While millions of people claim to have discovered their purpose in life after ‘finding God’, this is not a necessity.
Finding your purpose is a personal journey towards self-discovery. You can go the spiritual route, or you can self-reflect and do some journaling until you realize what it is you truly want to do. Therein lies your purpose.
It’s A Non-Profit Endeavor
You don’t need to be a solitary monk eking out a meagre existence on the mountain top just to be on purpose. You can be a millionaire too and still feel like you’re following your calling.
For example, a successful plastic surgeon who makes millions may truly love what he does. He enjoys enhancing his clients’ appearances and seeing the happiness and increased confidence in the patients once they see the results.
By helping others, the surgeon feels like he’s living with purpose. Since plastic surgery requires a high level of skill, he charges accordingly and his wealth is a by-product of his efforts.
You can follow your purpose and make a lot of money at the same time. There’s no rule that says you need to be broke to be on purpose.
And this training proves that!
These 7 misconceptions are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many others out there.
What’s most important is that you realize that discovering your purpose is a journey that’s done inside you – and has nothing to do with the distractions/expectations of the world outside you.
Once you understand this, you’ll find your purpose and shine.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
– Pablo Picasso
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10 Things To Avoid When List Building
10 Things To Avoid When List Building
As useful and as popular as list building is, there is a chance of having some problems when not used properly.
Incorrectly using it may have consequences that can be dangerous for your business or simply make your customers feel uncomfortable.
In this article, let’s look at 10 things you should not do:
Don’t Think About List Building As A Once Only Task
List building is an ongoing effort. The process might be getting from A to B, but it hardly ever ends, because your mailing list needs to keep growing over time. You can’t just create a mailing list with your first contacts and then just set them up for your newsletter.
What you really look for when you build a mailing list is to keep the influx of new subscribers coming, engaging them, and making them bring new people. You have to reinvent what you do with your mailing list from time to time and care for it. After all, this is your business!
Don’t Think About Your Mailing List As A Short-Term Recruiting Tool
You just can’t set up an offer to give something free for signing up to your mailing list as a method to lure in prospects, because you’ll end up with a mailing list full of people deleting your messages after having got what they wanted from it.
Make It Personal
One of the key words that successful marketers, salesman and saleswomen alike use for closing a deal is the word YOU. Subscribers already gave exclusivity by granting you access to their inboxes. What they want is for you to talk to THEM individually.
What you have to do is sell in a personal manner, even if you’re forwarding a promotional sales message to your 20,000 subscribers. Don’t just talk about the product and the market. Talk about how YOU can benefit from getting what YOU are being offered.
Don’t Focus Entirely On Marketing Somebody Else’s Product
Let’s face it, if you don’t own a product, you’ll be perceived as less trustworthy, as far as marketing efforts go. If you just focus on selling products and nothing else, especially if those products are from a third party, you’ll be end up being seen as another internet marketing robot.
That’s why you need to offer something that comes from you, something that you worked on that you don’t have to ferociously advertise and maybe even lie about in order to make a quick profit.
Don’t get me wrong; affiliate marketing is a great online business model, but you will be much better off in the long run by creating your own product and then having affiliates promoting your offer to their lists!
Don’t Buy Lists Of Email Addresses
This is a big no-no. Never, ever buy email databases. An email address coming from a mailing list for hire is surely receiving lots and lots of unwelcomed emails on a daily basis. If you send them an email without them knowing who you are, your message will get dumped as spam along with the others.
If they’re receiving unknown email for the first time, they will see you as an invasive, untrustworthy source of spam. They will block you and trash you in front of other prospects, so this practice will not pay off, even in the short term.
Don’t Take Email Addresses From External Websites
Don’t just go to a website or social media site and take email addresses and start mailing them without permission (and, yes, people will do this). Remember that a mailing list is built upon the interest and trust of prospects, and by sending them unsolicited correspondence is just out of touch with that fact.
Just like with email addresses taken from a mailing list that you bought, you’ll end up blocked and with a bad reputation, plus with ever tightening laws on data privacy, it is illegal. Try not only to be careful, but to completely avoid these kinds of practices.
Don’t Flood Your Subscribers With Email
This is kind of an obvious and valid point, but companies and individuals alike tend to forget that people don’t like to be inundated with email.
It is good to engage your subscribers with news, offers and contests, but there’s a fine balance of how many times a day you should message your subscribers.
Of course, this will depend on the kind of activities and products that you promote, and we recommend keeping newsletters limited to a daily basis, mailing offers and promotions two times during the day and mailing contests at random intervals.
Remember that not messaging enough can turn out to be as bad as messaging too much. You can end up losing subscribers and worst of all, customers, to the competition.
It’s all about balance and emailing daily or every other day should be fine. You may want to send a couple more if you are promoting a launch but do this sparingly.
Don’t Send Out Information Without Value
This is also something that some marketers and especially business owners without enough marketing guidance end up being guilty of, emailing the wrong kind of information.
This pitfall can be as simple as promoting poorly selling items, thinking it would sell, or by promoting the wrong kind of content to the wrong audience. Therefore, it is important to know who you are targeting certain email content to.
Internet marketers are notorious for this. They rarely provide educational content to help their readers but are constantly promoting products to their list.
This churn and burn model is an awful way to conduct business, because you are constantly needing to find new subscribers to replace those that are leaving because you are not providing value!
Instead, try offering value and building a tribe; it’s much easier to keep someone on your list once they’re on it!
Don’t Make Your Mailing List A One-Way Channel
One of the most prevalent, yet most harmful practices in email marketing today is making email a one way communications channel. What this means is that companies use it to message customers and prospects, but not offering them a way to communicate back.
This is bad for business, because if customers feel that they don’t have an effective way to directly communicate with a company, they might start looking elsewhere. Remember, that email is not only about advertising, but also about communicating with your clients.
Encourage readers to communicate with you. This has a twofold bonus; you are building an engaged list, and the likes of Gmail will reward you for this by ensuring your emails reach your subscribers Inboxes.
Another mistake is the reliance on auto responders. Auto responders send out an automated response to an inquiry or complaint from a customer, and then another one until the inquiry is resolved. As a business, you have to think twice about how this makes somebody think about your business ethics.
Don’t get me wrong; autoresponders are an amazing email marketing tool, but they need to be used correctly.
Don’t Trick Prospects
This is obvious, of course, but it is too often used as a cheap way for attracting prospects. You use a call to action to join your mailing list to enter a contest to get a big, sometimes unrealistic, prize.
While it is true that this sometimes works, it isn’t long term. If prospects don’t receive your promised prize, they forget about you as easily as they enlisted to your mailing list.
Also, most careful and educated prospects won’t just fall into this, so please don’t resort to underhand tactics as they aren’t sustainable long term, and you will get a bad reputation as one to be avoided.
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Is Your Self Doubt Due To Your Previous Failures?
Is Your Self Doubt Due To Your Previous Failures?
How many times do you think Thomas Edison failed in his attempt to bring light into our lives by inventing the lightbulb? Likely, he failed more times than we can count. Imagine how he felt when he worked so hard (during daylight hours or by candlelight) to find something that worked, came so close each time – and then failed with each attempt.
Then, finally it happened. One path Edison took led to the invention of the lightbulb and all other attempts were forgotten. We’ve been bathed in iridescence ever since. Edison and other successful entrepreneurs have all suffered from self doubt but trudged on through the lack of confidence to make their dream a reality.
Think about the times in the past (even as a child) that you’ve persevered through disabling doubts that you could do something, only to find out that it wasn’t within your grasp even though you gave it your all.
Either you shrugged and went on to something else or withered away in self-pity that prevented you from possible future successes. Virtually every successful person in the world has failed many times before.
It’s doubtful those failures are even remembered because the success is so bright that they aren’t visible. Online entrepreneurs are highly susceptible to self doubt. There’s so much to learn and so many ways to go about each venture that it may seem overwhelming – especially to newbies.
Rather than wasting time stewing over each failure and making yourself miserable, make a firm decision to move on – and then do it. Begin on the new project immediately by setting short and long-term goals and really dig deep into how you’re going to ensure it’s a big success.
Each success will spur you on to the next project – and the next, until you have some firm accomplishments under your belt. Next time a failure happens, you can focus on the successes you’ve had to break the cycle of self-doubt and begin again.
Before you begin a project or new venture, think about all of the possible scenarios that can happen. Make sure you include the worst-case scenarios along with the rewards that will happen when you succeed.
After you face your fears of “what if,” you can use those fears as challenges. Looking at fears as challenges rather than obstacles can only help boost your self-confidence and help you begin to see success in your future rather than failure.
Use Every Failure As An Opportunity To Learn And Grow
Most of us don’t think of failures as opportunities – but successful entrepreneurs know the secret to turning the knowledge learned in a failure into opportunities for growth and success.
Kids learn about winners and losers at an early age and may be taunted when playing sports or about the dismal results of a test. Some take the “loser” label and define their future self worth with it and are reluctant to take risks, while others become more determined to show everyone that they can win.
We hate the way failure makes us feel, but when we realize it’s not the end of the road and we have time to come back as a success, failure can actually be a learning experience.
What you learn from failure is invaluable to your future success. A close analysis of what went wrong with the failed idea or venture can help you make sense of the situation and learn lessons that will make you a true winner.
You may have to dig deep to find the reasons for a failure. Did you devote enough time to the project and were you prepared for the results? Could the failure be one that’s out of your control or could you have changed something along the way to strengthen the outcome?
Every failure can be turned into a unique opportunity to grow and learn – and every success might be detrimental to future successes. It’s a contradiction that’s difficult to understand unless you’ve experienced both the opportunities in failure and the dangers in success.
Being honest with yourself is the first step in turning failures into opportunities and learning experiences. Blaming failure on others or making excuses can only serve to dig you further into a state of denial.
When that happens, you don’t learn anything. If you don’t use your failures to find flaws in your thinking or how you managed a product or venture you’re likely doomed to failure.
Learning from past mistakes is a trait that every successful person on this planet has profited from. Remember, that every failure you experience shows that you tried. If you never fail at anything, chances are you’re not trying hard enough to succeed.
While none of us seek to fail, the process of life and how it works condemns us to some failures along the way. Your success will come when you seek to learn how you failed and figure out what you’re going to do next time to ensure success.
Trying To Predict Success Sets You Up For Failure
Some of us tend to doubt ourselves right out of future success with “what if” predictions we make. It could be named the “what if” syndrome. It’s when you’re mired in self doubt so much that you begin to imagine and predict obstacles and outcomes that aren’t even there.
The “what if” syndrome is especially prevalent after you’ve hatched up a brilliant idea for an online project that’s going to make you lots of money and help your fellow entrepreneurs.
You’re sure everyone will love it and want it. Then, self-doubt sets in and you begin to think of all of the reasons why it won’t succeed. You walk on the shadowy side of your ability to make things happen and talk yourself down or out of even trying.
You were so excited about the idea at first and it fired up your creativity to a point where you could hardly wait to begin. That lull – somewhere between the excitement of the idea and taking action to make it happen – is where self doubt takes root.
You may begin to think of past failures and how they made you feel or become highly sensitive to the fact that you’ve never endeavored something like this before. If you keep thinking about past failures or what “might” happen, you may come to a point in the project where a big wall is placed in your path.
Since your self-doubt has already been growing in your thoughts, the wall may seem insurmountable, and you simply give up. Just another failure to think about next time you have an idea.
Or – you can take another route – one that doesn’t ensure success, but that at least gives you a chance. Rather than giving in to self doubt, trust yourself and try it again. You’ve likely practiced this scenario many times before in your life.
Some attempts may have failed, but you’ve probably succeeded many more times. Bring a new attitude into the mix and think positively rather than giving in to the hauntings of past failures. Also, bring in positive people to surround you who encourage, rather than discourage you.
Don’t compare yourself to others whose successes may be greater or more profitable than yours. You may even learn from their stories of success. They’re bound to have had failures along the way – and overcame them rather than feeling defeated.
When you find yourself become mired in self doubt about your future success, mute the negative voices by focusing on the positive and living in the present moment rather than projecting yourself into a future of unknowns.
Whatever you want in life will require discipline to achieve and being able to reframe failure is a small part of that. And if you want to know more about harnessing the power of self-discipline, then check out the featured resource below for a free detailed report; download, read it and take action 🙂
10 Things To Implement For Successful List Building
10 Things To Implement For Successful List Building
If you have been marketing online for any length of time, you will know the importance of building your own email list.
You own your list, whereas you don’t own the social media platforms you may use to build an audience, and it can be taken away from you, and where would that leave your online business?
So, if you haven’t started already, start building your list and learn some email marketing strategies.
This article will cover 10 of the things that you can implement to grow your business with an active email list, and are a key to effective email marketing.
OK, let’s dive in…
Personalize Your Emails
It goes without saying that first impressions matter, and this is triple important for emails. Quick question: What would you do if you subscribed to a company’s email newsletter only to find out that their emails are kind of boring? Simple fonts, no backgrounds, no signatures, and so on.
What will happen is that you will ignore them, and eventually they’ll automatically end up in your spam folder. This is exactly what would happen to your emails if you don’t pay special attention to your email’s presentation.
Of course, you need to be careful and limit personalization to the subject line and the first line of the message, or your email may seem forced or fake. Also, don’t overshoot its design, just use something related to what you do as a business or professional.
Use Blogging And Landing Pages
Your mailing list will go as far as the means you use to market will take it. This means that you can’t just use a corner of your website to show a sign up form and call it a day. What you really want is to get traffic, and put your mailing list out there.
You can do that by having a blog dedicated to content outside your website, with carefully structured information that can be used to get traffic from wherever you can and then insert a landing page with a call to action to join your mailing list.
Make Good Use Of Lead Magnets
Lead magnets are teasers or incentives that you offer in a call to action to motivate your prospects to join your mailing list. The trick behind a lead magnet is giving away something that can only be obtained by joining your mailing list.
For example, giving away a free eBook, tips, or pieces of content that is not going to be published on the website and is exclusive, can be wonderful lead magnets.
Even if your prospects only sign up for the promise of a one-time free piece of content, they will be on your mailing list. From then on, it’s up to you to keep them engaged.
Use 100% Effort When Creating Your Email Content
If a personalization is the appetizer, then quality content is the full meal. You already sent emails, but what you really want is for your customer to read them and make use of its contents.
Creating quality content for your emails guarantees that your customers will be waiting for the upcoming email. Build up anticipation by creating special content from time to time, hosting contests, sending gifts to random customers, anything to keep them on edge!
Allow Guest Posting
Guest posting is a great way to make your prospects and repeated customers perceive you as a reliable source of information. By allowing guest posting and announcing it on your newsletter, you can have people wanting to read something from a different perspective.
It will also generate traffic by means of word of mouth. If somebody on your mailing list sees a guest post from somebody that knows someone is going to enjoy, they will forward that email to that person, so you’ll probably add someone to your mailing list!
Use Paid List Building Services If You Can Afford Them
While it is true that you can use some free services to manage your mailing list, it is also true that their usefulness will get limited as your mailing list grows. Not only will you be limited to a low number of subscribers, but your options to refine your list will be limited, as well.
That’s why we recommend using paid services to manage your mailing lists and to assist you in expanding it. In any case, you have to remember that the costs of email marketing are the lowest among marketing methods, and it also offers the biggest return of investment!
Give Away Stuff To Your Subscribers So They Reciprocate
There’s a simple yet all too often overlooked rule for email marketing, and it is simply about not offering something for your customer to buy during their first week on your mailing list. Instead, give them something like a gift card, or a free eBook.
By giving them something that they don’t have to pay for, you are in fact building up loyalty. This way, you’re teaching customers that you trust them by giving them a gift, and at the same time you’ll be teaching them to trust you back.
Study Your Customers So You Can Properly Target Them
You can use multiple ways to study your customer base and prospects. You can do it by using metrics, by visiting the kind of websites they visit, or by the kind of products and services that they buy, but you have to do it.
This will be helpful, because if you know your customers, you don’t have to offer them everything you sell. You only have to target them and give them what you know they want. Email each of your customer segments with what they’re looking for, and they’ll stick with you.
Work On Follow-Up Emails
You need to have a follow up email ready to be sent once somebody signs up for your mailing list. It is as simple as sending out an email welcoming a new subscriber and taking them to a start page with instructions and information about what he or she can do now that they’re signed in!
Run Periodic Maintenance Checks On Your Mailing List
You need to run a periodic maintenance check on your mailing list to know where your resources are going. It is just not worth it to have users getting your emails in their spam folders, or have dead addresses on your list. Make sure you do this clean up from time to time.
If you want to know more about nurturing you list, check out the featured resource below for a free Simple List Building report; download, read it and take action 😊
Stop Procrastination In Its Tracks And Get Your Time Back
Stop Procrastination In Its Tracks And Get Your Time Back
We’ve all heard the quotes when it comes to procrastination. ‘Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today’ or ‘Action today can prevent a crisis tomorrow’… and so on.
Yet, millions of people procrastinate daily. So why do we not do what we know we need to do?
The answer is simple. When you view a task as unpleasant and tiring, your mind immediately starts cooking up excuses to prevent you from being in discomfort. This is your self-preservation instinct at its finest.
Your mind is trying to protect you. While this is good when it comes to dangerous situations, for the most part it’s unnecessary and actually holding you back.
Knowing how to act is crucial to avoid procrastination. If you keep procrastinating, your work will pile up and your schedule will become a mess.
You won’t reach your goals or meet your deadlines. It’s impossible to have work-life balance when you’re always playing catch-up. So, here’s what you need to do to stop procrastinating…
What’s The Plan?
Make a list of ALL the things you need to get done. List them in 3 categories:
- Urgent
- Important
- Others
Get the urgent matters out of the way ASAP, then focus on the important tasks and finally clear the other tasks as and when you can.
Do You Have 2 Minutes?
Many times, you may feel like you’re not in the mood for an activity. This could be exercise or writing or cleaning your house, etc. Whatever the activity is, your mind is already making excuses for you to avoid doing it.
You’re thinking of skipping the workout. Or maybe you’d rather organize the folders in your laptop than write that blog post you need to.
Clean the house? Pfft! You can always do that next month.
Your mind NEVER lacks excuses and they’re all very plausible and highly convincing. Quite frankly, we usually don’t need that much convincing to procrastinate.
So how do you beat this problem?
Simple. Just give yourself 2 minutes to do the task. Tell yourself that you’ll just exercise for 2 minutes or clean the room for 2 minutes. It doesn’t matter what the task is. Just aim for 2 minutes.
You’ll often find that once you get started, you’ll usually go on for 30 minutes to an hour or longer.
It’s always the initial step of getting started that’s the most difficult. 2 minutes tricks your mental resistance because writing or exercising for 2 minutes is not as intimidating as doing it for 30 minutes or an hour.
Employ this technique whenever you catch yourself about to procrastinate.
Shorten The Deadlines
Parkinson’s law states that, “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
What that means is that if you give yourself 3 days to complete a job, you’ll take 3 days. However, if you gave yourself 8 hours to do it, you’ll rush and get the job done.
So, giving yourself shorter deadlines will help to motivate you by lighting a fire under your butt to get you moving. You can’t procrastinate when you have a deadline that’s approaching really fast. You’ll get the job done quicker than you thought possible.
You Get Motivation After, NOT Before
One of the cruel twists of life is that very often, you get motivation only after you’ve completed the work. If you wait to be motivated to do a task, you’ll be waiting a long time.
However, if you just go ahead and do it, you’ll gain some self-satisfaction and feel productive. Now you’ll have the motivation to quickly complete the next task and so on.
It’s this momentum that will keep you going and you gain self-confidence and a new-found respect for yourself. Now you’ll be truly motivated to keep up your winning streak.
Start doing first, and the motivation will come later – and you’ll not even think of procrastinating once you’re on a roll.
Avoid procrastination at all costs and know that it doesn’t change anything other than cause your responsibilities to pile up. Life begins outside the discomfort zone. Challenge yourself to get started today and right now.
And now you have mastered procrastination, let’s look at how you can use automation to make even more use of the time you have.
Automating Or Batching Tasks To Aid With Time Management
One of the best ways to increase your productivity and free up more time for leisure will be to automate your recurring tasks or outsource them. This could be done in a variety of ways.
Bill Payments
One fantastic strategy to stop wasting time at the bank will be to have your bill deductions automated. You could plan things out in such a way that money from your account is automatically deducted towards your outstanding bills.
Online banking is all the rage these days and yet thousands of people queue up at the tellers just because they’re not ‘tech savvy’ and don’t wish to learn something new.
If you’re working from home or you’re a busy entrepreneur, it’s these automated tasks that will save you precious hours and also prevent any hassles in your workday.
Chores
Instead of washing dishes by hand, you could use a dishwasher. Instead of drying the laundry on a line, you could use a dryer. There are many machines that will help to simplify your chores.
You could also create a roster for your kids where each one gets a specific chore to complete daily. It could be doing the dishes or vacuuming the house or one of the many daily chores that threaten to suck up your time.
It would be wise to hire a professional to do time-consuming tasks that can be tiring. One very good example is mowing the lawn. Rather than sweating it out and spending an hour pushing your lawn mower, you could easily hire a pro to do the job.
They’ll do it in a fraction of the time for a small fee. The amount you pay for the service will be worth every cent because your time is worth much more.
Emails And Work-Related Tasks
If you’re an online entrepreneur, there are tons of email management software and other tools that simplify your job. You can queue emails for an entire week that are set to be sent at a specific time and day.
The same applies to other activities such as scheduled blog posts, social media posts, etc. Automation is a time saver that you absolutely must use if you wish to be effective.
Which brings us to the next point…
Batching Tasks
Batching your tasks is without a doubt one of the best productivity hacks ever. So what is batching?
For example, if you’re planning to write 10 articles, batching will mean doing the research for all 10 articles at once. Then you’ll outline them all.
Once you’re done, it’s time to write them all. By batching your tasks in this way, you’ll be more productive and move at a faster pace. It’s similar to the type of labor specialization you see in factory product lines.
This principle applies across the board. Write all your emails at once. Schedule them at one go and so on.
Instead of doing each task from beginning to end and then repeating the process over and over, batching will save you countless hours in the long run.
Use the methods above to manage your time effectively. Time management is life management. The better you are at it, the more time you’ll have for yourself and the activities you really want to do.
And remember, one way to beat procrastination is to stay focused and many people struggle with this. If you want to learn more about staying focused, check out the featured resource below for a free detailed report; download, read it and take action 😊
