Today I’m going to talk about the word ACTION. I know that when I started marketing online one of the things that was difficult for me was to stay focused. I was distracted easily. The more I studied, the more things I discovered, the more opportunities I was pitched, the more things there were that distracted me. I was spending a lot of time on my computer and reading books. I was searching around, checking my email, reading some blogs, watching videos, reading things, subscribing and finding new things to supposedly help my marketing efforts. But I eventually came to the realization, that while I might learn a thing or two, none of them helped me put food on my family’s table so to speak.
So I thought I was going through the ACTIONS that I could some-how say was helping to grow my business, my dreams and goals, and my goal of total freedom. I didn’t get the results I expected. What I wasn’t doing was using focused ACTION. One thing I recommend you do if you already haven’t is read the book by Tim Ferris called “The Four Hour Work Week”. It’s hard to believe that he only spends that little amount of time working a week but when you read, he reveals the ways he keeps his time organized, focused, efficient, and prioritized. It doesn’t happen over night. But there are ways you can learn to stay focused. Number one has got to be email. Learn how to implement the auto-responder feature in your email. This in itself will help prioritize your daily activities. Number two, is browsing and surfing. Keep maybe a dictionary and whatever software your using open. Nothing more. Turn your cell phone off. You can always call back. A quiet place where you can focus uninterrupted will put your workplace environment all together.
Now that you are situated in a good spot, you need to have a goal for what you want to accomplish. Work on it till your done. I’m not going to go into the details of goal setting, I’m sure you know all about it. I will say though, is you need to have it be in a realistic bite sized chunk of your total goal. The closer you can actually break apart your tasks the more manageable they will become.
Here is an “Inner Circle” secret. The more time you spend doing what you planned and the more you plan, the more successful you will be. So we’ve come full circle here. We know we need to take ACTION. Focused ACTION makes you much more efficient.
I’ll leave you with this my friend. Focused ACTION is much better than just ACTION and even bad ACTION is better than no ACTION. The bottom line, is you have to simply be like the Nike brand says, DO IT.
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