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Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Owning an Internet Home Business is meant to be work. If you are thinking of getting into business on the Internet, forget the ads that you see that say you are going to make thousands of dollars, and never have to work to get it, and on top of that, never have to work again. Those are scams and unfortunately, the Internet is infested with them. Here are some keys you need to know, if you hope to own a successful Internet Home Business.
Tip Number 1 Decide...
•Balance and Sustainability: The Dynamic Duo Of Time Management
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
I think we are all looking for a happy balance in life. A balance between our business or job lives and all of the rest; lets call it our personal lives. How we manage our time, Time Management, is where we will find the tools, systems and methods to help make this separation happen for us. This is a two-part process; we want to find the happy medium between what is basically work and fun, and then when we think we have the right mixture, we need to see...
•Original Content is a Must for Owners of an Internet Home Business
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
If you own an Internet Home Business, you need to have access to, or be able to create original content if you want to be successful. That is the bottom line; compete with the big boys, or pack your bag and go home. I am relatively new at this game, building an Internet Home Business, but I have learned the hard way that if you want to have a successful business, you need the edge of having original content on your web site. Here are a few reasons why this...
•An Internet Home Business Needs Attention, Time, And Resources To Flourish
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
The number one reason an Internet Home Business fails is because their owners fail to treat their businesses as businesses. Sounds odd, but it's true. After dealing with thousands of owners of an Internet Home Business, this is one trait that seems to come through, more often than not. I think the fact that they operate from home leads to this problem. Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the saying goes.
Operating from home is a major advantage, but you lose...
•Time Management: Doing The Right Thing, At The Right Time, All The Time
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Someone asked me what Time Management meant to me. I said that it was doing as many right things at the right time, as often as you could. It seemed as good as a definition as the others I have given. Managing our time is the most direct link there is between success and failure. The more times I have to look at how I manage my own time, the clearer that connection becomes. Time Management is the road we all must follow, if we hope to be happy and...
•How Time Management Helps You Separate Being Productive From Being Busy
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
One of the values of a good Time Management System is that it helps you separate the good use of your time from the less effective uses. This comes into play when we have to deal with days where we are busy, but not productive. From the onset, being busy is not what we want; running around working hard, at whatever comes across our desk is not a recipe for success.
Being Busy
The days where we worked hard, ran hard, accomplished things, and still ended...
•Learning To Dump Key Priorities is Crucial to Your Time Management and Success
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Proper Time Management deals with what you do, and when you do it. I sometimes put the word "proper" in front of Time Management because, whether we know it or not, we all practice it. Some of us make the right choices about what to do and when to do it, and end up being successful and happy. Others make bad decisions and end up where they would rather not be.
I want to discuss a part of the process that is sometimes overlooked and because of this, it...
•If You Want Better Balance And Sustainability, Try Investing In A Little Time Management
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Time Management will give you two things that may be missing in your life; balance and sustainability. I have been working with Time Management issues for more than 30 plus years and I learn things about time and how to manage it every day. It's funny how you can give more than 2,000 seminars on Time Management and find a new way to say the same thing. I guess the question is; is finding a new way to say the same thing a good or bad thing? You are the...
•Spend Time On Driving Traffic To Your Internet Home Business
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Every one reading this has at least one Internet Home Business, many of us have a few, some of us have lots. I wonder how many of us are missing a crucial piece of the puzzle in our sites that make all of the time and effort we spend on getting people to our sites a waste of time?
First, let's look at a few harsh realities of doing business on the Internet. The first reality is this: out of a hundred people who own an Internet Home Business, less than 2%...
•An Internet Home Business Needs To Build a Relationship With the Search Engines in Order to Survive
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
I write about owning an Internet Home Business because I own one and I have 30 plus years experience working with people who have worked from home long before computers were commonplace in homes. Owning an Internet Home Business has an added dilemma to the process of actually taking an idea, a concept, and making it an actual business, the problem of traffic and that relationship with the search engines.
Even though I have worked with thousands of people...
•Goal Setting is Not a One Time Process for Owners of Internet Home Businesses
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Owners of Internet Home Businesses have to pay attention to this fact if they expect to benefit, long term from the process. At this time of year, at the beginning of a New Year, we all get caught up in making new years resolutions. Statistics show, that over 90% of New Years resolutions, do not make it past the second week of January!
Goal setting, to be effective, has to be integrated into your day-to-day operations. That is right, day-to-day operations....
•Work From Home: An Introduction
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
I have spent a large portion of my life working with people on establishing them in their own business, working from their home in a large percentage of time. The lure of working from home is huge, the conveniences are massive, but there can be a down side. I want to review some of the advantages as well as some of the pitfalls you can experience. First, let's look at some of the advantages:
You can not get more convenient than waking up, rolling out of...
•Internet Home Businesses Goal Setting, Define Long Term Goals
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Internet Home Businesses need to accurately define long-term goals if they want to get the greatest return for the time they invest. This step, defining long-term goals really sets your business up for getting ahead of the curve, and then staying there. Unless you are one of the rare people who are set up exactly the way they want to be, are getting exactly the right results for the effort expended, then the way to get on track is to get this activity under...
•Goal Setting For Internet Home Businesses - Make Your Goals Measurable
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Internet Home Businesses need to make their goals measurable and also define those goals as long or short term. As I continue with the process of helping you establish your goals, you will notice that the process seems to be long, involved and requiring a substantial amount of time, do you want the good news or the bad news first?
The good news is, you are right on all of the accounts, the process is long, it is involved and it will require a substantial...
•Internet Home Businesses - Establishing Deadlines
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Ever tried to run a race, and not know where the finish line was, that's the same thing as establishing a goal, then not having a completion date on it. Internet Home Businesses, like all of the rest of us, need to make sure that goals they set are goals that get achieved; one of the ways to do this is to make sure all the goals you set have deadlines attached to them.
Establishing Deadlines
· Make the dead line in writing. This helps to at least make it...
•Goal Setting For Internet Home Businesses - Set The Goals, Put Them In Writing
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Internet Home Businesses require Goal Setting as much, probably more so than most other types of businesses. Why? Simple, for those of us that operate from home, our distractions are only a few feet away. Our families, pets, visitors, family obligations that crop up, PLUS, we have all of the traditional distractions that "normal "businesses have. Couple all of that together; Internet Home Businesses have a tougher road to hoe than most. Here are 2 starter...
•Internet Home Businesses Goal Setting, Every Goal Must Have A Start Date And An End Date
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Internet Home Businesses Goals need to have a start date and an end date in order to have a sense of relevancy. Setting goals without a start date or an end date is like saying to someone; I'll race you to corner, then walking away. Unless you know when the race will start, the invitation does not mean anything. It's the same with setting Goals. You have to have the start date, as well as the end date to make them have any sense at all.
Start Date
This...
•Internet Home Businesses Goal Setting, Define Short Term Goals
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Internet Home Businesses need to know the difference between long and short-term goals, and the impact on their business and profits. The first thing we need to do is determine the definition of long term and short term, without a definition, or a way of separating the two; we are really spinning our wheels.
Short Term Goals
Let's work on this one first. Before we do, we need to take a look at the difference between goals and Priorities. We could spend...
•Internet Home Businesses Need To Be Treated With Respect
Copyright (c) 2010 Bryan Beckstead
Most people think it's strange that I refer to Internet Home Businesses as needing respect. The thought processes is that an inanimate object cannot be treated with respect. I disagree. Businesses are not inanimate to begin with; at least they shouldn't be treated as such if you want to be successful. Internet Home Businesses need to be treated as if they were living breathing entities if you want to achieve anything close to your and their potential.
I...
•Working at Home and Working From Home, Is There a Difference?
? Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Yes. And the difference can and will make a difference in how you approach each one.
Let's first have a general understanding of the concept of working from home and at home. Depending upon your personal circumstances, you will have certain conditions that your are trying to meet when you pick an opportunity, a job or a business that can be operated from your home versus leaving your home and performing any of the three I have mentioned outside of your...
•Working From Home Can Be A Very Time Consuming Task...If You Let It
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
One of the many advantages of working from home is the potential savings you can experience when it comes to saving time. I have 35 plus years in the business of working with people on how to make the best use of this precious non-renewable resource; time. This article is not about time, it's more about pointing out the risk that starting a work-from-home business or opportunity does have the potential to be a real time waster. Here are some points that I...
•How To Turn Your To-Do-List Into Your Done List
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
To Do Lists have received a bad rap, and it's not the list's fault. There is nothing wrong with the concept. The problem is with the execution, or should I say the lack of execution, on our parts. There are some "experts" out there who say To Do Lists are a waste of time and are outdated and they are not worth the time it takes to write them up. They state as fact that almost all of the people who use a To Do List, (TDL), never finish what's on them....
•What Does White Space and getting More Done have to do with Each other? Find Out.
What Does White Space and getting More Done have to do with Each other? Find Out. Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Burned out, stressed out, under achieving people are not happy people. Unhappy people are not productive people. When you put those four qualities together, you are talking about the vast majority of the people out there. Not only are we talking about the vast majority of people, we are talking about those people having these qualities, not occasionally, not once in a...
•Working Too Hard Guarantees Your Productivity Will Suffer. Find out Why
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
This is a lesson I learned along the way. I'm not sure when but at some point I added it to my personal arsenal. Once I added it to my personal arsenal, I started to add it to my clients' arsenal and then to the seminars and then to the systems, policies, procedure for the franchisees and so on and so on. It was a big hit with everyone, especially me. I have a habit of thinking that hard work can overcome many deficiencies and that holds true in most...
•Top 3 Traits Of People Who Get Things Done And Get Great Results While Doing Them
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
People like lists, just ask David Letterman. Here is a list, not finite, not exact but some good habits to adopt if you want to get more done and achieve better results in the process.
Have Adopted A System
This seems like an obvious thing to do but about only 17% of business people/business owners have a clearly defined way of doing business, definable by a system that they operate by. I have talked about the value of rote uniformity, the value of not...
•That's How We Have Always Done It
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
When you hear these words, run for the hills. I cannot think of a worse reason for continuing to do something than for the simple reason that it's always been done that way. This really opens up a hornets nest, the main response is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Part of me agrees with that, the emotional side, part of me disagrees with it, the intellectual side.
The Breakthrough You want to see the breakthrough, either in yourself or your people,...
•Those Who Strive for Results Sometimes Actually Get Them
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Get in the game. If you want to get results, you have to get off the porch and get in the game. When I get up in the morning, it does not take long before I'm looking at what I have planned out for the day and how I will go about turning those plans into reality. I have a one-two punch ready to roll out every day, plan your plan then work that plan.
Before we proceed, I have to clarify that last statement, the statement about having a one-two punch ready...
•Thinking Slows Down Your Productivity
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Wait a Minute Here
I thought I might get some of you to take a second look. Let me explain.
Stressed out people are not productive People
There are many ways to get stressed out. I will just address one or two here, as they pertain to this topic. The heart of any attempt to get more done and be more productive lies in you investing time in planning, preparing and getting organized prior to expending any energy. When you add all of this preplanning...
•Are You Leaving Your Opportunity To Be Successful To Chance?
? Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Are You Leaving Your Opportunity To Be Successful To Chance? Without These, You Are
I interchange the words happy and successful. Happy has a personal connotation where successful has a business or professional connotation. Either way, you don't want to leave your chance to be successful and or happy to chance, you will be doing that without these.
Standards
"Standards" is the word I use for how we determine when we are happy with our results. It's a...
•Two People Doing the Same Job Destroys Productivity. Here's Why.
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Productivity is all about getting the maximum amount of production from the minimum amount of activity. That's why two people doing the same job destroys any pretense of getting value from either person's involvement. Let's look at the classic example.
You have been planning your day's activities, in advance, as you should. You have decided that you want a specific person in your organization to perform a specific job and you have also time activated that...
•Do You Want To Be Successful? Have You Drawn Your Line In The Sand Yet?
Do You Want To Be Successful? Have You Drawn Your Line In The Sand Yet? Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
You have started a new business or gotten a new job and you are now reevaluating the results you are currently getting and all of these activities lead to the same place. Sooner or later you are going to have to draw a line in the sand.
What do I mean by this?
I believe that in order for any of us to be effective, successful and to give ourselves a fighting chance to achieve as...
•Three Situations You Want to Avoid if You Want to Get the Job Done
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Number One Time Activate your job in your Day Planner. If you do not how to Time Activate or you do not have a Day Planner, you need to find these tools or ones just like them if you want to get the most out of your production.
A Quick Tutorial On Both.
A Day Planner is a binder, book, program that allows you to organize, collect, write down your agenda for each day. Your Day Planner also has an hour-by-hour breakdown of your Priorities for the day and...
•Want To Increase Your Productivity? Here Is How To Start
Want To Increase Your Productivity? Here Is How To Start Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
This always a tough one to deal with. How to start something that you do not know really exists. Increasing your production, getting more done, accomplishing more in less time, these are all goals we want to obtain. How we go about achieving those puts us in no mans land. Let's map out an initial plan.
Lay the Proper Foundation
Before you can attack your production issues, you have to make sure...
•The Myth about Multi-Tasking
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
When someone says to me that they are a great multi-tasker, I have a hard time not laughing in their face. Saying you are a great multi-tasker is a lot like saying you are a better driver when you're blindfolded with your hands tied behind your back. Let's break this statement down and see how irrational it is to say you are better at doing a number of things at once, than you are doing them one at a time. Sounds a little strange already, doesn't?...
•Power Time Management Irrefutables - The Five W's
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
What are the 5 to 10 absolute necessary activities that you have to do to ensure your success and happiness?
Those are going to be your Power Time Management Irrefutables. You have to be serious and you have to be brutally honest with your self. Fudging this list is sabotaging all of the things you will be doing for the rest of your life. It will be like trying to run a marathon with the bear already on your back from mile One. Not a very promising...
•From a Humble Beginning- A Time Management Irrefutable Secret to Success
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
It was a Saturday morning in May when I realized that I was not as smart as I thought I was. This happened about 35 years ago but it is as fresh in my mind as if it was yesterday. I was operating one of my franchise organizations and this franchise was in the Lawn Care industry. In this business, there are certain days in the year where you can make 10 times the amount of money than other days. One of those golden days was any Saturday in May. On those...
•Your Power Living Life List, PLLL: Physical Layout
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
The simple explanation is, anything that works for you is great. After all, this is a tool that is meant to make you successful; a vehicle that will help you achieve what you want in life. If you actually use it. You will use your PLLL if it's convenient for you to do so. With this in mind, here are some guidelines.
Written Format
Most of the suggestions here are just that, suggestions. This one is not a suggestion. It is not a PLLL if it is not in a...
•Remember, If You Lay Down in Front of a Door...
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
You can't blame people for using you as a doormat. What does this possibly have to do with increasing your productivity, accomplishing more and moving closer to reaching your goals?
People generally start off with good intentions. They want to use their time wisely, they want to get as much done as they can, and they want good things to happen for themselves. The problem occurs between the wishing and the doing. People have to have a way of taking those...
•Successful People are Drivers, Not Passengers. Become a Driver
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
When Donald Trump walks into his office, do you think he is a driver or a passenger? You do not even have to know what the terms means to know the answer; he's a driver. He is a successful person, do you think he got there being passive and sitting back, like a passenger, or do you think he got where he is by taking the wheel, and going where he wanted to go?
I use this analogy a lot in my material, drivers and passengers. I use it because it's accurate...
•Your Power Living Life List (PLLL): How to Start
Your Power Living Life List (PLLL): How to Start Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Over the past 30 plus years, I have had the privilege of working with a great many people from all walks of life. Despite the wide range of demographics I could categorize them all by saying every one of them would have benefited from establishing their own PLLL. Life is a journey, not unlike taking a very long car trip. Imagine taking this car journey without a road map. Every day you get up and you...
•What is a Power Living Life List (PLLL)?
(PLLL)? Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Do you mean, besides being the most important tool in your arsenal to gaining back control of your time and increasing your productivity what else is the Power Living Life List (PLLL)? It's a number of things:
· Look at it as a To Do List, for the rest of your life, starting from today.
· It's also a wish list, a wish list of all the things you want to do, for the rest of your life.
· If you won a million dollars, what would you do with the money?...
•Think Twice - Act Once
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
I stole this from the carpenters; "measure twice, cut once". Thanks guys. The longer I work on a project; there is always something that comes to the top to make my understanding and grasp of the subject better and better. This section is one of those improvements.
Before and After
If you are going to take think twice/act once philosophy literally and only limit your self to thinking twice, then it's once before you act and once after. The reason I...
•Better Productivity is all About Getting your Head Straight.
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
Is your Head Straight?
Did you ever see the movie Cool Hand Luke, the one with Paul Newman? There are a number of scenes where the Sheriff tells Paul Newman, the prisoner who keeps escaping, that he has to get his head straight, so he will stop escaping. I made this connection, as tenuous as it may be, with almost all of my clients. I don't have any that continually try to escape from jail, that I know, but the connection is there nonetheless.
In every...
•Learn How To Break Up Large Tasks And Get Them Done
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
First, so there are no surprises, there is no secret formula to breaking up large tasks. You just do it. The fact we are here is the biggest step you will make in this area. Large overpowering tasks are just a collection of many smaller jobs all joined together. Start thinking like this and you are well on your way.
I have a seminar example I always use when I'm dealing with this topic; its true and it happened to me. I use to operate my business from...
•Learn How Successful People Get Ahead of the Curve
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
If you can get ahead of the curve, you are well on your way to becoming successful. I'm using the term successful to cover a lot of things we would like to be; happier, richer, less stressed out, thinner or fatter. The list is endless. You can decide what constitutes successful for yourself. I believe you will agree, what you find here will be important to achieving whatever end result your are personally aiming for.
What does getting ahead of the curve...
•Increasing Your Productivity - How to Get Started
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
The fact that you are here is a good start. The fact that you are here indicates that there is a search on, from you, to explore and find a way to better yourself and to get better results. My position in this area has always been a two-pronged approach, to start with.
Get Control of Your Time, and then make the best use of that time.
Getting control of your time deals with proper Time Management (T.M.). Without a good handle on managing your time,...
•Get Better Production by Following Theses Two Maximizers
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
I specialize in Time Management and Productivity Maximization. It would only be fair to say that dealing with Time management issues is easier than production issues. The main reason is that when you are dealing with time, the concerns are the same for everyone. When you develop a way for someone to deal with a time issue, the same solution will help the next person. When it comes to production issues; the individual person's own work habits, planning...
•Better Productivity is about Locking and Rocking
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
"I'm sorry I didn't have time to get to your order today". There is not a person on the face of the earth that has not heard that from someone in their lifetime. It's a classic excuse. Unfortunately it's absolutely false. The person who just told you they did not have your order ready when it should have been because they did they did not have time to get to it was making the excuse we all make. At the end of the day, this poor clerk had probably...
•Have a Do Not Do List
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead
We have all heard about a To Do List; now let's look at a Do Not Do List.
Increasing your productivity hinges on your ability to not keep making the same mistakes over and over again. The people who learn from their past mistakes are the people who will move forward much quicker than those who do not. There is a saying, "If you do not learn from History, you will be forced to repeat it." The reason this saying is particularly important to us is twofold....
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