How To Get More Done - Time Management

From: Thriving Business | Date: Fri, Mar 29, 2013
Subject: How To Get More Done

Trouble viewing this email, click here.   Follow Us On Twitter --  Join Us On Facebook --  Visit Our Blog Issue # 184 - March 29, 2013 Do you typically have a number of tasks that you need to get done at work each day? Do you then have problems getting these tasks done in a timely fashion because you waste your valuable time checking email, newsfeeds, Facebook, Twitter, and so on? If you are someone who can't seem to get enough done, you simply don't have the proper plan in place for how to be productive.  In turn, that always seems to lead you to one "lost work day" after another. In today's Main Essay, EarlytoRise.com and Financial Independence Monthly Editor Craig Ballantyne shares with you how to fix those time consuming habits so you can gain more productivity out of your day. In the Check It Out section, you will learn about the "secret sauce" to succeeding online.  It will forever change the way you view online marketing. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Thriving Business Newsletter. Cheers, Jynell Berkshire Associate Publisher ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. How To Get More Done By Craig Ballantyne In order to squeeze the most productivity out of your day – so that you have   the satisfaction of accomplishment, rather than the dreaded feeling of another 'lost day' – you really need to have a plan. And the plan not only shows you what you should be doing, but what you need to avoid as well. Both my private coaching clients and I have found that we can dramatically increase the amount of work we get done – and free time we have – when we script our day, and I'll show you exactly how to do that in a second. But first, there's a cool little secret "Millionaire's time management" method that I want   to share with you. I first heard this trick from Donald Trump's lead lawyer, George Ross. George himself is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and he learned this from Trump himself. Here's what George recommended. "Get a simple notebook and carry it around for the next three days. Break the page up into 15-minute blocks and write down what you are doing each day at those times." Let's say your workday starts at 8am. You'll set up your notebook like this: 8:00 8:15 8:30 8:45 9:00. Etc. And then you'll just make notes beside each time. You'll quickly identify your time wasting habits, as well as when you are most productive – that's what I call your magic time. The next step is to identify solutions for overcoming the time wasting and to increase the time spent being productive. For example, maybe you check your email every day at 9:30, and then you start cycling through news websites. That's a habit that must be broken if you want to build more productivity into your day. And that's where scripting your day comes in. As legendary small business coach, Dan Kennedy, says, "If you don't plan your day, someone else will plan it for you." So that's why I now script my day, and try to do so several days in advance. Each night, before you end your work day, you need to script out the next work day. Here are some tips on how to do this… •   Decide what you are going to get done. •   Assign blocks of time to it. •   Get it done & stick to your time limits. It's that simple. This also means blocking out unexpected calls and not allowing for anyone else to come marching in to your office to steal your time. You can, and should script your day from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep. Of course, you need to put in relaxation time, and free time where you can do whatever you want. But if you find the time 'gets away from you' at home and at work, and therefore you miss your workouts, you don't get projects done in a timely fashion, or you're missing out on family events, simply scripting your day will improve your ability to manage your time and energy. You also need to make sure you protect what I called your "Magic Time". This is where you are able to accomplish more in a short time than you would in a much longer time at any other point in the day. Essentially, your magic time is your most effective time of the day. For me, the time is first thing in the morning, and that's when I get my best writing done, and when I do it the fastest. Now you might not be a writer or a morning person, but there's something that you do better each day during a specific time of the day. Whatever it is that you are doing that is important to you, make sure that your scripted day includes a block of time set aside for your magic time. So again, at the end of each day, script tomorrow's day. •   Decide what you are going to get done. •   Assign blocks of time to those activities. •   Get it done & stick to your time limits. Now you have the five minute recipe for a more productive day and better time management. Craig Ballantyne is the Editor of Early to Rise and Financial Independence Monthly. He also coaches executives of companies with sales over $1 million. Later this summer, Matt Smith and Craig will be offering a new virtual private mentoring program for Financial Independence Monthly subscribers.  Your Thriving Business Assignment If you want to be more productive on a daily basis, here is what you do: 1. Get a simple notebook and carry it around for the next three days. Break the page up into 15-minute blocks and write down what you are doing each day at those times. You'll quickly be able to identify your time-wasting habits and when you're more productive. 2.  Continue to use the 15-minute block format for each work day. Schedule your next work day the day before and be sure to get everything you have scheduled done within the time limits you gave. 3. Also be sure you protect your "Magic Time," or where you are able to accomplish more in a short time than you would in a much longer time at any other point in the day. Check It Out! Do you know the secret sauce to succeeding online? It's invisible and it's powerful. It's called "authority", and Google is passing it out for free...IF you know how to ask. This man gets it 100%. Watch him explain it in this video. Look What Others Are Saying Many thanks for the helpful advice in your newsletter! I will put it to good use and eagerly watch for more great information in issues to come. Vickie Share Your Thoughts Let us know your thoughts on today's issue. Post your comments here.   Forward this email to a friend! Contact Us ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. 10412 Allisonville Road Suite 201 Fishers, IN 46038 USA Toll Free: 888-579-9922 Fax: 877-579-9933 support@thrivingbusiness.com     © Copyright 2013 ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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The Truth About Luck and Success

Is success the result of luck?  Or hard work?

Do you ever bet on lotto or other forms of lottery?  Do you gamble?

Do you consult the horoscope?

 
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Subject: The Truth About Luck and Success

Trouble viewing this email, click here.   Follow Us On Twitter --  Join Us On Facebook --  Visit Our Blog Issue # 166 - February 15, 2013 Hi J Some say success happens by hard work and dedication. Others say it happens by luck. The truth is it's a combination of both. Success and luck usually go hand-in-hand. It's the experiences you encounter in life that drive you to a specific action that defines who you are, both in your personal life and financial success. In today's Main Essay, Craig Ballantyne, the editor of Early to Rise and Financial Independence Monthly newsletters, shares his views on how setbacks make you lucky. It's these setbacks that drive you to great action and success. In the Check It Out section, you will learn more about the one secret to building wealth. Once you learn this secret, you can rapidly earn financial freedom. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Thriving Business Newsletter. Cheers, Jynell Berkshire Associate Publisher ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. The Truth About Luck and Success By Craig Ballantyne Luck has been in my corner since day one back in 1975. I was extraordinarily lucky to be born in Canada into a lower-middle class family. Lucky enough to have been educated in the years of the first home computer, to have come of age as the first Internet generation, and to have stumbled across the convergence of direct marketing and online e-commerce before everyone and their uncle knew about it. When I was a child I was lucky enough to have an alcoholic, underachieving, embarrassing father who gave me the first chip on my shoulder, one that compelled me to work harder, achieve more, and go further so that I could escape his shadow. I was also lucky that my mother had dropped out of high school and spent the rest of her life working for barely more than the minimum wage, never earning more than $28,000 in a year (an amount that I've made in a single day in my business on several occasions). I was lucky, because of her mistakes, that she would never let me make the same ones. And boy was I lucky to have went to grade school with patches on my knees, for this caused me great embarrassment and instilled in me the drive to do better, to excel in school, to get into the best program in college, to make the Dean's Honor List three years in a row, to get accepted into a Master's program, to study until 10pm on weekends so I could earn a scholarship to help me pay for 6 years of post-secondary education- and so that I'd never feel embarrassed like that again. It's as though I've had a horseshoe made out of rabbit's feet around my neck for these past thirty years. I've also been lucky to make friends with entrepreneurs like Bedros Keuilian, a real-life American Dream. Bedros was lucky to have been born in Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union) and to have a father that gambled his family's safety by bribing their way out of the USSR so they could arrive virtually penniless in America (legally). Bedros was also lucky enough to arrive in America in 1980 without being able to speak a lick of English. He was fortunate that his family was so poor that he had to dumpster-dive behind grocery stores for food. Without this luck, Bedros wouldn't have the burning desire that has allowed him to succeed and create a better life, so that as he often tells me, "My kids will never have to spend an hour of their lives in daycare." And I'm lucky enough to be friends with Matt Smith, another lucky young man from my generation who, like me, grew up with little more than an embarrassment of a father and a mother that spent the little money she had to take care of her children. Among Matt's lucky childhood experiences was the night when his mother scraped together a few dollars for a special Friday dinner of take-out pizza. That night, the Smiths were lucky to have mistakenly left the pizza on top of the car as they drove away (but at least she didn't leave any children IN the restaurant, *cough*, *cough*, Prime Minister Cameron). Eventually, the pizza fell off the car's roof into the middle of a busy intersection – where car after car drove over it – and this was a lucky break for Matt. Why? Because the Smiths' had no money to go and buy a replacement pizza. And so Matt will forever remember that night – and that feeling – as something he will never want to experience again. It's just another lucky motivator in his drive to do better and succeed so that his children won't have to experience that great fortune. That kind of luck leaves a burning desire that NOTHING – not even a life of iPhones, TV's in every room of the house, unending after-school activities, or 24/7 Internet and cable TV access – could ever top. My luck continues. I'm fortunate to know Isabel De Los Rios, one of the world's most successful nutrition experts, who herself was lucky enough to spend almost a decade as a sick, unhealthy, overweight, and unhappy young woman, so that she could truly understand the troubles that her hundreds of thousands of female clients go through. Isabel was also lucky enough to be down right broke when she applied to my Mastermind Group in 2008, having to borrow the money from her fiancé. It was due to her great fortune to be in these situations that she committed to working harder than almost any other person I've ever coached. This has allowed her to pull herself up from financial stress and into a business where today she has over 200,000 customers that have been lucky enough to get Isabel's help as they change their lives. Finally, we've all been lucky enough to learn from Michael Masterson, our mentor that was lucky enough to grow up in a poor household of ten children. He was lucky enough to have so little that it drove him to become the entrepreneur and mentor that we all came to know through Early to Rise. This is the luckiest group of individuals you might ever meet. We were lucky to have had the experiences we did because they taught us so much and drove us to great action. Without our setbacks, what would we have achieved? We have been part of the luckiest generations to have ever lived. What about your luck? Have you lucked out and been fortunate to have gone through similar struggles? Have you been given the inspiration to work harder than ever, to explore new opportunities to take control of your future, and that drive you towards financial independence? Are you one of the fortunate ones that were not born with a silver spoon so that you could learn the importance of adding value to the world in exchange for a fair return? Have you been lucky enough to fail again and again? Never forget that failure isn't bad. Failure isn't final. Don't let the fear of failure stop you from achieving the success you deserve. If you're struggling, keep hustling. Keep taking at least one big action step each day. Failure is good luck. Just listen to these experts. "Problems are in your life so that you can discover potentials that you didn't even know you had." – Barry Michels "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." – Zig Ziglar "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." – Napolean Hill "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill "Everybody in your situation has the same choice: you can rue your situation or you can dedicate yourself to changing it. Accept responsibility for your future. Refuse to complain, criticize, or condemn. If you want us to help you achieve your goals, then trust in and follow our advice. Stop doubting it. Stop denying it. Have faith." – Mark Ford I can only hope you've been as lucky as I have over the years. And the old saying is true, you know, "The harder I work, the luckier I get". So take that luck that you get and press it. Keep on pushing. It only gets easier from here. Craig Ballantyne is the Editor of Early to Rise and Financial Independence Monthly. He also coaches executives of companies with sales over $1 million. Later this summer, Matt Smith and Craig will be offering a new virtual private mentoring program for Financial Independence Monthly subscribers.  Your Thriving Business Assignment Here are five takeaways that Craig shared regarding karma in your business:  1.  Never forget that failure isn't bad. 2.  Failure isn't final. 3.  Don't let the fear of failure stop you from achieving the success you deserve. 4.  If you're struggling, keep hustling. Keep taking at least one big action step each day. 5.  Failure is good luck.  Check It Out! I want to tell you about the one secret to building wealth... …with this secret you can rapidly earn financial freedom. Here's a short letter that talks about the one secret. Click here to read it. In fact, this letter isn't just about money, it's also about acquiring wealth and power fast. No matter your age. Click here to read your "money, love and power" letter. You'll certainly find the advice valuable.  Look What Others Are Saying Thank you very much for helping me thrive in this beautiful world by posting very informative articles like this that changed my mindset! More Power and Blessings! :) Beth Share Your Thoughts Let us know your thoughts on today's issue. Post your comments here.   Forward this email to a friend! Contact Us ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. 10412 Allisonville Road Suite 201 Fishers, IN 46038 USA Toll Free: 888-579-9922 Fax: 877-579-9933 support@thrivingbusiness.com     © Copyright 2013 ThrivingBusiness.com Inc. All Rights Reserved. Contacting Us:  Please note that this newsletter email account is not monitored.  If you need assistance or have feedback for us, please contact us at support@thrivingbusiness.com or by clicking the link in the Share Your Comments Section above. 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The Ten Common Sense Commandments to Living a Better Life

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Subject: The Ten Common Sense Commandments to Living a Better Life

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Living a Better Life When I struggled with anxiety, I eventually learned that the only way to change things was one breath at a time. Slow and deep, inhale through the nose and down into the belly, and then slowly out through the mouth, making sure to exhale fully. Starting there, with that one simple step on my to-do list, I was able to turn things around physiologically and psychologically. Today, one of my best friends and an incredible leader in the fitness industry, Bedros Keuilian gives you a simple, proven, and powerful blueprint to living a better life. Craig Ballantyne Get rid of that negative self-talk. Change your mindset to one where you truly believe in yourself. Good News By Bedros Keuilian All too often we forget what we should remember and we remember what we should forget. It's officially 2013, and whether you hit your goals for 2012 or you missed them by a mile - forget them. If you did hit your goals in 2012, that's great, but it's not going to do you a lot of good in 2013. And if you missed your goals for 2012, then dwelling on that fact isn't going to help you make 2013 any better. Forget about 2012 all together. It's a brand new year and you have a brand new opportunity to make a massive impact in your community, in your business and on your personal development. But I sincerely hope you didn't make any resolutions this year. I just looked up some stats on New Year resolutions and found some interesting facts that confirmed my suspicions. First off, only 45% of people make resolutions. Within the first week, 25% have already broken their resolution. By six months nearly 60% have fallen off the wagon - the rest are unaccounted for. Those aren't reassuring facts. But this is something we can ignore. Here's why. This is a list of the Top Ten Resolutions made for 2013 are: Lose Weight Getting Organized Spend Less, Save More Enjoy Life to the Fullest Staying Fit and Healthy Learn Something Exciting Quit Smoking Help Others in Their Dreams Fall in Love Spend More Time with Family These should NOT be resolutions, they should be a way of life. That list of top ten resolutions should really be called... The Ten Common Sense Commandments to Living a Better Life. Everyone should just be doing this stuff, don't you think? It breaks my heart to think that people make these resolutions only to break them at an alarming rate - losing further hope. But instead we continue to make resolutions, more like spontaneous proclamations of how we want the future to look, only to fall short because resolutions give you a false sense of preparedness. Resolutions are a complete and total waste of time. That's my expert opinion. Simply saying that you want to be "more organized" in 2013 isn't going to magically make you more productive, increase your self-discipline or make you better at time management. You might as well wish for a pink unicorn because the odds of getting that are just as good. Resolutions don't work. So if you have them, just forget about them now. Just stop. I will tell you what does work and how you can achieve anything you want to achieve in 2013. Ready for some good news? Set goals. I know, I know, that's not profound. You were probably expecting something deeper than just "set goals." But the fact is, goal setting works, almost every time, if done right... ....and that's what I want to teach you. So let's go with #2 there on that list above - get more organized. If your goal was to get more organized, then reverse engineer what the outcome would be. In this case it would be to get all of your daily tasks done efficiently and on time. It would mean that you'd have to be better at time management and productivity. That's your outcome. In other words, if you were good with time management and productivity, and if you got all of your tasks done on time and efficiently, then someone might look at you and say, "by God, this person is really organized." So how wound you go about meeting this goal on a daily basis? You'd start each day with a list; an actual paper list with your things to do on it. If you have long term items like create a follow along fitness program online then that's not something that's going to get done in one day. For big task items like that you'd set a deadline, and then each day you'd work on a thing or two that keeps you on track to meet your deadline. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Now, the things on your "to do" list should be in order of importance. If you were organized, you'd ruthlessly guard your time and put your list first. No Facebook, no emails, no twitter or Youtube, and no checking the text messages or voice mails. You'd set a time when you'd do your list (ideally first thing in the morning, right after a workout), and you'd plow through your list without giving into temptations of the things that can suck your time and productivity away. You'd have your daily ritual and you'd stick to it. Each and every weekday would look the same way. For me, my list is to wake up, send out an email, hit Starbucks, get my workout in, go into my business headquarters, go through my list to things to do, and then come out of my cave and make myself available to my staff. Then make my list of things to do for the next day and head home. Nice, simple, routine. I don't know what your goals are for 2013. But I can tell you that if you write them down, and reverse engineer what the outcome would look like, and you create new habits and then take action on your goals each day - you will achieve them 100% of the time. I like those odds. Rate today's article [Ed. Note. Bedros Keuilian is the embodiment of the American Dream. Arriving in the United States from the communist Soviet Union back in 1980, his family went from being broke to eventually adding value to their new community. Today, Bedros helps over 45,000 fitness experts grow their businesses.  Bedros knows the American Dream is NOT dead, because he is living it right now. So are the folks in this inspiring video - watch it now.] Living a Better Life Good News Enjoy today's essay? With 5 being the best, tell us what you think and we'll do our best to bring you more of it. Rate today's article A New American Dream Sometimes all it takes is joining a community of like-minded and motivated individuals to give you that push that you need to accomplish your goals.  That was just what Forest Vance needed to improve his internet business,"I still did more revenue in these three days than I usually do in an entire month with my internet business. And overall, I'll have my best month online ever by far. Most importantly, I learned a TON from the experience, and I know what I need to do grow my business and get where I want to be." If you want to build wealth, hang around wealthy people. If you want to stop smoking, hang around people that don't smoke. If you want to have a good relationship with God, hang around people that have a good relationship with God. If you want to be fit and healthy, hang around people that are fit and healthy. If you want to be a good person, hang around good people. They ARE out there. They WANT to help. Be there, and let them. You'll find these good people in the ETR Transformation Contest here.

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Scary: 88% of Resolutions FAIL

Strategies start from personal mastery.  Habits can destroy a well plannned strategy.  Bad employee habits are the enemies of company leadership.   But can you change habits.

Can you make people succeed on their "resolutions?"

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Subject: Scary: 88% of Resolutions FAIL

Each year, more than 100 million people make New Year's Resolutions in the U.S.... ...and each year, more than 88 million people FAIL at accomplishing their goal. Almost 90% of people do not accomplish their goals - don't be one of them. Click below to discover how to avoid the common mistakes that KILL resolutions: ==>Click here to become one of the 12% that SUCCEEDS in 2013. To your success, Craig Ballantyne

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12 phrases to live by Craig Ballantyne

In the ebook that I got from Craig Ballantyne, he has 12 phrases to live by like:

l.  Sleeping from 9 pm to 5 am daily; 

2.  Opening emails only after 9 am.

But please note No. 7:


a) “Nothing matters.” – By this, I mean that arguing on the internet changes nothing…I
can only work towards the major, massive goals that I have set for my life…that I have a
vision of helping others, and there is no time to let petty arguments stand in the way.
b) “It will all be over soon.” – This servers me in good times and in bad.In hard times, or
during intense physical effort or discomfort, I know that it will all be over soon. A small
amount of suffering now will be forgotten later when I will enjoy the rewards of my
work. And in good times, I will remember that life is short, and I must make things count
now, and no matter how good things are going I must never let myself become soft and
lazy, because I have too much to accomplish in such a short time.

Focus on the goals, the obstacles will just like be blips in the radar.

Never be let down by small things;

Problems under 7b will sort themselves out soon. No use fretting over them or making harsh decision

Failure is good luck??! You are blessed

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Subject: The Truth About Luck

 You Are Blessed with Good Luck

 Success is all luck  , you know. Whether you see yourself as having good
luck  or bad luck  simply depends on how you look at it. Frankly, I think
you're blessed with nothing but good luck . I'll prove it to you today.

Craig Ballantyne

"Identify and replace all external authorities with internal strength and
competence. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious
mind and every aspect of your life." - Kekich #30

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The Truth About Luck and Success

By Craig Ballantyne

Luck has been in my corner since day one back in 1975.

I was extraordinarily lucky to be born in Canada into a lower-middle class
family. Lucky enough to have been educated in the years of the first home
computer, to have come of age as the first Internet generation, and to have
stumbled across the convergence of direct marketing and online e-commerce
before everyone and their uncle knew about it.

When I was a child I was lucky enough to have an alcoholic, underachieving,
embarrassing father who gave me the first chip on my shoulder, one that
compelled me to work harder, achieve more, and go further so that I could
escape his shadow.

I was also lucky that my mother had dropped out of high school and spent
the rest of her life working for barely more than the minimum wage, never
earning more than $28,000 in a year (an amount that I've made in a single
day in my business on several occasions). I was lucky, because of her