Time Management - What Really Works?

Have you ever wasted hours and hours surfing the Internet or watching online videos? Or perhaps wasted hours reading books on time management or spent countless amounts of money on systems that are supposed to keep you on schedule for the rest of your life? If you haven’t, you must have a boss who threatens or terrifies you if work isn’t done on time. The rest of us, particularly those of us who work at home, have only ourselves to answer to if deadlines aren’t met, or possibly the bill collector if we are really bad at it.

Let me let you in on a little secret that may change your life; new time management techniques or courses are not the answer.

Self-discipline is the key and has been since the beginning of time. Do you think the world became polluted all by itself? No, of course not, big business was disciplined enough to keep making money no matter the cost to the world. But I digress, that’s a whole different subject.

Am I saying that you should never take a time management course or learn new methods? No. I’m saying that you should not look for a magic bullet or solution there. Without self-discipline nothing else will matter much. Discipline is the key to any time management plan, diet, exercise regimen, or project.

Now that we’ve established that self-discipline is the most important element in time management, how in the world do we attain that elusive quality?

One useful technique for some people is to give yourself a reward for good behavior. Having something pleasurable to look forward to if you stick to your plan can be a strong motivation and is all some individuals need to be productive. However, some people slip back into their old habits after a period of time. For them, here is what happens. They start saying to themselves, “so I don’t get that reward, I’ll survive.” Then it’s good-bye time management.

So if establishing a reward for yourself does not work for you, then what?

Think back to your childhood. If your parents or teachers were believers in spare the rod, spoil the child, you learned that discipline meant pain. Misbehaving meant pain. Let’s go with that analogy.

Avoidance of pain is a more powerful motivator than desire for pleasure.

In order to keep to your time management plan, make failure painful. No, I don’t mean, hit yourself or get someone else to beat you up. Hit yourself where it really hurts, your pocketbook or your free time. Ask your life partner, friend, or employee to make a deal with you. If you don’t keep to your new time management schedule, you will owe your partner something.

For instance, promise your partner that if you fail in keeping to your schedule, you will cook dinner every night for a week or you will clean up the dishes every night for a week. For a friend or employee, promise him or her a bonus at the end of the week if you don’t keep to your schedule. Now if you don’t stick to that productive schedule you came up with you will pay dearly.

One failure or two and you will become a highly productive time management machine.

You will probably do better if you set this up to be daily rather than weekly. Most people need at least a month to make a plan into a habit. Give yourself at least two months of reward or punishment. Then you are on your way to writing your own book about time management with your newly found time.

In upcoming posts we will discuss what needs to be included in a good time management plan.

Huge Marketing Shift Coming. Marketing Tutorials To Prepare You.

Which do you think is more valuable?

1. Knowing what successful marketers used to do.

or…

2. Knowing what successful marketers ARE doing right now.

Easy right? Why would you want to read the news from a year ago when you can read today’s news?

If we want to be successful we need up-to-the-minute information. We need to know what’s working now.

I make it my business to monitor the pulse of the Internet and stay abreast of what works today.

For instance, at the dawn of the Internet banner ads were a very effective form of advertising but then surfers started to get banner blindness and the click through rates suffered, eventually making banner ads less than a good deal.

This later resulted in a tremendous lowering of the cost of banner ads and now they have become a very good deal again if you know how to negotiate the price, but that will have to be another post.

Anyway I was just told about something that only a select group will know about.

On Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 someone who has sold over $50 million dollars online, is going to reveal the reason behind the sudden change in the way he does business…

…and I want to know why, don’t you?

So here’s the inside scoop…

I’ve been told that the only people who will be able to listen to this call are people who have joined the early bird list for a new site called Marketing Tutorials.

It’s free to get on this list and you’ll also get to watch an interesting 28 minute video just for signing up.

But the most important thing to remember is that you will also get access to this exclusive webinar. Here is the link:

http://z30.com/tutorials

Warmest regards,

Ellery

P.S The general public will not be told about this so the only way you’ll get the info is by being on the early bird list for Marketing Tutorials. Click below to see it:

http://z30.com/tutorials

 

 

Free $100 Bills and Economic Stimulus Package

Jeremy Burns has launched Version 7 of his super successful Source Code GoldMine.

That’s 10 hot products with full Private Label Rights ready for you to grab, slap your name on and sell for big profits.

These sales have sold out every time for a long time and this time Version 7 is going to sell out MUCH faster!

Why?

Jeremy is giving away crisp $100 bills!

Well not literally but he has priced the first 200 at $100 less than he ever has before.

But as I’m writing this almost half of the first 100 are gone already so you better check it out quickly:

http://z30.com/goldmine

Jeremy decided to try to help counteract the down economy as well as give you 10 ways to generate lifetime income in the process!

Pretty cool huh?

Jeremy is only doing this for the first 200 people who get through the doors on opening day after which the price will increase from $97 to $197.

If you’ve been looking for a way to get started online and start raking in the cash, this is certainly your ticket to doing so.

One look at the products in Version 7 and you’ll be convinced…

http://z30.com/goldmine

I haven’t had a chance to review this new package but I’ve bought most of Jeremy’s packages before and they are always high quality and you just can’t beat 10 high quality PLR products for only $97.

Warmest regards,

Ellery

P.S. If you aren’t one of the first 200 people that grab their package, you won’t be able to get the $100 fast action bonus so make sure you get moving…

http://z30.com/goldmine

Updated Stock Market Terminology for Laughs

CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO – Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER — What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW — The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.

And my favorite:

PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.

A big thank you to http://bigpicture.typepad.com for these laughs.

I’m very grateful that I was 100% in cash before this 40% sell off which naturally makes it easy to laugh. My sympathy goes to anyone who suffered through it and my apologies if it was not a laughing matter to you. Still I hope you can see the humor in the new financial terminology for 2008.

Warmest regards,

Ellery

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