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25 October 2013

Maximize your time to monetize your business by Carole DeLaOsa

Scattering your efforts makes for a longer day. For professional success, maximizing your time is critical.

Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of your day.

Start your day early enough to include breakfast and exercise. Breakfast improves your concentration and productivity. Eating one hour within the time you wake up is a perfect way to get your metabolism going and will refuel your body and mind so that you start your day with a blast of energy.

Have Goals

There are four reasons why you don’t have goals.

1. Fear- What if they come true? Or What if they don’t? - Both are forms of sabotage. We all have fear in some form or another. The opportunity is to uncover where the fear is coming from. To find out what might be holding you back, make a list of what comes up when you think about creating goals? Time, Effort, Repeat

2. You don’t believe they work. This is a form of sabotage.It does take time to first create them however that’s usually just the first time. Somewhere between 10-30 minutes, after which the maintaining should be about 10 minutes a day. They produce what your vision is when you are consistent in your actions. The best way to start is to have two types of goals, long-term and short-term.

3. You do not know how to effectively write them down.On a sheet of paper create a large T and on one side write your long- term goals. These could look like what you would like to see in five years or what you want accomplished by the end of this year. On the other side write short-term goals these could be from 6 months from now till tomorrow. The next step is deconstructing them to completion, or what I like to say “working them backwards”- Here’s an example : If you have a book you want to read by the end of the month,working backwards look at the amount of pages and divide it by the amount of days in the month. This process would determine how many pages you must read daily to finish it by the end of the month. That type of process can be done with most any goal or task.

4. You lack confidence in yourself. Think back to a time when you were required to complete something, and you did it. I think back often to being a single mom and going back to school to complete my degree- it took time, I persevered and I succeeded. Using this analogy you will have your go-to thought when life tends to get in the way

I strongly suggest writing down your goals. When you do they become written history and a point of reference. As you complete each one put a checkmark next to it you might also include the date of completion. I guarantee you will feel elated. As you write them down, revise them daily or scratch them off entirely. By doing this it narrows your focus and will save you time. Keeping you on track to finish and create more opportunities.

Submitted by :

Carole Delaosa

www.transition4you.com

23 October 2013

19 October 2013

Fifty-Year High School Reunion.-Seems like yesterday.

I graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1963. No computers, no cell phones, no internet, no email, no texting, no credit cards, no cassette tapes (let alone cds), and no cable TV.

How the hell did I survive? By playing ball every day after school. By riding my bike. By being active. Oh, that.

Back then, Haddonfield was a middle/upper middle class town of 12,000 with a high school of around a thousand kids. All smart.

DRESS CODE: If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.

It was a different time.

Kennedy was president. Our history teacher made everyone subscribe to The New York Times, and every day he assigned us reading. The thing I remember most were the weekly Kennedy press conferences. They published the entire text. Kennedy had an amazing sense of humor. I devoured every word.

Part of the reunion weekend included a Saturday tour of the high school. Amazing to think about how big it looked back then, and how small it looked today. It looked like a page out of Catcher in the Rye.

And on Sunday there was a memorial service in honor of our fallen classmates. Friends. Good friends. Happy and sad all at once. And the reality that age is setting in.

After the service almost no one left. We started talking about high school and some of the teachers and classes. Funny stories, escapades, sports teams, assorted social events, and recounting memories of our departed friends.

Within a few minutes, the talk took a surprising turn. Each person talked about a teacher that impacted them. So many of the stories were similar – we were grateful for the teacher or teachers that emphasized writing and grammar. English. (The language currently undergoing a complete overhaul through the mediums of email and texting.)

Personally, I had a teacher my freshman year that gave a grammar test on the use of words EVERY DAY. They’re, there, and their. You’re and your. They were lessons banged into our heads – until through repetition, every kid got it. Me included.

Little did I know that 30 years later it would be the foundation for my writing career.

How’s your grammar?

How’s your use of your and you’re?

How’s your use of to and too?

Are you aware of how important grammar is when you put your emails, texts, blog posts, Facebook posts, and tweets out into the SMS and cyber world?

My classmates and I sang a chorus of appreciation for the grammar lessons. Although at the time those everyday tests and lessons were being given, every student complained.

For a moment I flashed on what would be happening in the same situation today. Parents complaining about too many tests. Teacher’s unions balking about too many papers to grade. Kids texting and protesting about abusive educational practices. And pressure forcing a “testing policy” to be fair to everyone.

Talking with a friend of mine tonight about the grammar lessons from high school, he said, “Whenever I see a grammar error in the subject line of an email, I delete it without opening it.”

NOTE WELL: Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

NOTE WELL: It’s the little things. It’s the details. Your look, your image, your quiet confidence, your presentation skills, your knowledge of the customer, and your writing skills that include your grammar. And salespeople think it’s the big things. Like the price of what you’re selling and your sales techniques.

YOUR NEXT REUNION: GO! Not just to see the people, but also to remember and be grateful for the lessons that shaped your future.

My reunion was an affirmation that I got a great fundamental and foundational education – and then had enough sense to implement the information. I hope you did, and you do, too.

Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of twelve best-selling books including The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling. His new book, 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling, is now available. For book tour dates and information about training and seminars, visit www.gitomer.com or email Jeffrey personally at  

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