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Masterful Time Management

Its eleven o’clock and you realize that you didn’t get everything done that needed to get done for the day and you must be awake at six-thirty to be on time for work tomorrow at eight am. You go to bed and toss and turn thinking about all the things that you forgot to do during the day and are tired when you wake up the next day because of your lack of sleep. This is just another day in your life, looking like all of the preceding ones. When does it stop? It will stop when you decide it stops, hopefully after reading this article.

Why do some people accomplish more in a day than some of us do in a week? And some of us accomplish more in a month than others in an entire year? We all have the same twenty-four hours in a day, so how can some people do magic with these twenty-four hours while others watch in awe? The answer is masterful time management.

You must learn to tend to business, not to busyness. Place more value on results and less on putting in time or effort. If your goal is to produce x number of widgets in y amount of time, is your time most effectively spent putting together the widget, or can you delegate the assembly of the widgets and earn more money doing something else. You must focus on your highest pay off activities. There is the old story of jar and you have to put in a bunch of rocks, gravel, sand and water. In what order do you put them in the jar? Well if you put in the water first, then the sand, followed by gravel and finally the rocks, chances are you won’t be able to fit the rocks. If you reversed the order, everything would fit nicely in the jar.

What does this story have to do with time management, everything, if you do things in their order of importance (big rocks first) everything fits nicely into your day and the smaller less urgent and less important things tend to fit in just as nicely. So the story was great, but Louis, I need help, put it to me in English…right? OK, there are three important keys to masterful time management.

The first key to Masterful Time Management is to prioritize. Why do so many people say “Well, I would do that, but it is just not a priority now” or “When I find the time I will get around to that.” You must decide what is a priority and what is not. You must also not hope to find the time, you must make the time. To begin get out a sheet of paper and list all the things that you must do in the next year, month, week and day.

Under each place an A, B, C, or D next to each where A is the most important thing that must get done and D being the least important. Your list may have just a few items or be many pages long, however long it is, is ok. This will tell you what you must do and after a while of mastering your time, you will be able to do a lot more in less time.

Look at each item and write a plan on how each of these activities is going to get done. This will be like an instruction manual for your life or like the recipe for a great meal. Please make sure that the steps are spelled out, because if things are not done in the correct order, rarely can we run before we can walk.

This brings us up to our next step in the process which is delegation. Delegation is simply assigning a task to another to have completed. What do you delegate and what do you do on your own? I once heard someone say “The less I do the more I make.” Well if you do not like mowing your lawn and you make thirty dollars an hour and the kid down the street will mow your lawn for twenty dollars, I would suggest working an extra hour and give the kid his twenty to mow your lawn. Not only do you help the economy, but you are also helping yourself manage your time effectively. Never step over a dollar to pick up a dime. That is why the wealthy can afford to have someone cooking their food, cleaning their clothes and taking care of their house. It is just not cost effective for them to do it themselves, they would be taking from the economy to do these things themselves. Support your local economy and figure out what is worth you time and what is not. How do you figure out what your time is worth? A good gauge is how much do you make per hour? A better gauge is how much do you want your time to be worth…and do the things that someone whose time is worth that much would do. Don’t forget, people are in business to serve you and those who think govern those who labor. Are you a thinker or a laborer?

You’ve prioritized your activities, you’ve delegated the things that are not worth your time to do, now for the third key to masterful time management…scheduling. “I have a date book” you say. Keep it in the drawer because the following will revolutionize your day to come. Go back to your list of things to get done for the next day, week, month and year. Begin with all the things that have A’s next to them and work on them until they are complete before you work on the B’s. Do the same with the B’s before you start the C’s and the same with the D’s.

Your daily must do list should be comprised of the working parts of completing your weekly must do list. The same goes for the weekly, being made up of the action steps for the monthly and in turn for your yearly things to accomplish. When you begin to plan you day, time becomes your friend. You must plan your work and work your plan, because if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. UPS drivers have 340 time saving movements when delivering packages from which hand buckles the seat belt to accelerating on the gas, how is that for micro management?

Sometimes working on the biggest rocks first is not as fun to knocking out some of the other gravel type tasks. If you are in an office and had to call back that one customer that you have been putting off for days, would you rather call him first thing in the morning or keep putting it off hour by hour until it is time to go home and you never make the call because the same thing happen day after day. If you called him first thing in the morning, the rest of the day is yours to enjoy without having to worry about making that call.

The same goes for a relationship would you rather marry someone and not really love them and stay married and have a miserable life, or would you rather address the issue immediately and enjoy the rest of your life. Now that’s time management. People fear scheduling many things that they know must get done, but are comfortable knowing that they can do it later. Sometimes it doesn’t mater if you go over the fence or just jump back down, you just can’t stay on the fence for the rest of you life. When you decide to get off that fence, there are many more options out there for you. There is also the old saying of “Poop or get off the pot.” I find it appropriate to mention this only because too many people are comfortable not scheduling things because if they stay in their comfort zone, they cannot fail. In reality the longer they push things off, they are constantly failing.

Start with your next day and look at the activities that must get done. Starting with the A’s than the B’s through D’s set times to accomplish each task. Ask yourself, “How long should this task take?” Once you answer that question, get a day planner and write in that task in the appropriate time block. Make sure you have scheduled all you’re A’s before you work on the B’s through D’s. You may be asking what if I don’t get to all my C’s and D’s before the day is over. Every day, transfer them to your next day and eventually you will finish everything. There are many computer programs that do all this for you automatically. I personally use Microsoft Outlook and Act, there are many out there that work just as well. I suggest you find the way that works best for you, but you must implement immediately.

Every night before you go to bed you should know what the next day will look like and when you will be doing what. These tasks should all be broken down into blocked time. Please don’t forget to schedule time for yourself to have some fun. A secret that I learned some time ago was to enjoy your work somehow by being creative with your activities. (Please check out my article, Balance In Life – No Longer A Balancing Act) The only time when we are bored doing something is when we lose interest in doing what is boring us, so find something exciting in all tasks and you will suddenly find energy. Maybe you can make a game out of what ever you are doing and challenge yourself. It is great to want to do a lot of things but never sacrifice quality for speed. If you put in a gallon’s worth of water in an eight ounce cup, you have wasted most of your water. Don’t be like a Chinese dinner, initially feeling full and satisfied, but hungry again and looking for substance soon thereafter. Make sure you are doing things that are aligned with your values, beliefs and rules. Make many mistakes, but only make each one once. When you master the three keys of Prioritizing, Delegating and scheduling, you will be a master in time management.

No one is perfect, so anticipate problem in all of your tasks. Handle one thing at a time, because when your focus is not 100% on the task at hand, you are cheating yourself and not utilizing your energy to its fullest. Have you ever heard the phrase if you need something done, give it to a busy person? This is because busy people know the value of the three keys of masterful time management and know how to get things done. Bad habits aren’t done by bad people, just the unbusy. When you have a full schedule, you will not have time to waste and be unproductive. Time wasters will slowly realize that they have to schedule time with you to try and waste your time.

When you are working…work. When you are playing…play. If you are thinking of work at play, or play at work, you will not get the most abundance out of what you are doing and not be using your time as effectively as you should be. Is it in your best interest to pick up the phone when you are in the middle of things? Do you run your business or does it run you? If I challenged you to turn off your cell phone and computer for a week, could you handle it? Don’t react to things, plan for them. Yes I am suggesting that you schedule time to return telephone calls and e-mails. Do you read junk mail? Do you wish you had all the time you wasted reading junk mail back? What could you do with that time now? Here is you chance to decide, and schedule because you can decide not to read junk mail anymore.

I am also going to mention a few more things that may open your eyes to new possibilities of gaining a few extra hours a day for you. Do you watch sitcoms on television? Would you wait in line for over an hour to save five dollars? Have you ever arrived at an appointment only to find that the person you were meeting with had to reschedule? This is my pet peeve so I will give you some quick tips to prevent this from happening (for more on this topic see my article, Commitments If You Make ‘Em Keep ‘Em). Any time I set an appointment, I ask the person to call me the morning of to confirm and I ask if they can’t see me to call and reschedule. This is done when setting the appointment, so the responsibility falls into their lap if they can not see me. This will prevent 95% of your no-show’s, the other 5%usually have their heads in the clouds so high, you may ask if it is really worth you time to meet with them.

You have learned many things in this article about time management that should make you more productive and earn you a few more hours in your day to enjoy. In closing I would like to share with you some statistics I found rather surprising. Is there an area in the following list where you could free up some time for yourself? You should be able to make cuts of up to at least 50% in this list of wasted time. The amount of time the average American in life spends…

1,086 days “sick”

3 years in meetings

8 months opening junk mail

17 months drinking coffee and soft drinks

2 years on telephone

5 years waiting in line

9 months sitting in traffic

4 years cooking and eating

1 and a half years grooming

1 and a half years dressing

7 years in bathroom

12 years watching television

3 years shopping

1 years looking for misplaced items

24 years sleeping

Louis Lautman, he is a business consultant, life coach and peak performance expert. He is the president of International Sales University, a sales training company based in Miami FL. He runs extraordinary public and private seminars to create breakthroughs and transform your life. Louis can be contacted at 813-380-7467 or louis@InternationalSalesU.com. Check his website at louis@InternationalSalesU.com.

About the Author

Louis has been in sales his whole life, originally from New Jersey; Louis got his start in Professional Sales knocking on 50 doors a day in NYC. Louis has made over 10,000 cold calls in person and on the telephone. He has been a top sales rep, sales manager and sales trainer for the last 10 years.

He has given over 1,000 presentations, workshops and seminars. He has been successful selling everything from cars, mortgages, real estate phone service to his personal favorite…hair replacement systems as well as his own books and audio programs. His audience calls him “Motivating,” “Energizing” and “Inspirational.” He has traveled the country for the last few years training sales people in the top Fortune 500 Companies, Network Marketing Companies and hosting public seminars. Through his sales wisdom, ability to relate to his audience and keen understanding of human nature, Louis is a must see at your next sales meeting.

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How To Generate Your Very Own MLM Leads?

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) home based businesses have very little to do with the selling of products. The very reason they are called MLMs is that those levels are what makes all the difference. The difficulty with MLM schemes and home based businesses is the building of as big of a downline as possible. Downline members are basically people who you refer to become part of the MLM sales team below you. These members then have to do the same, with more members in their downline, and each member in the downline at that level have to keep doing this before profits really begin to look like profits.

One way to find prospective downline members (or recruits) is lead generation. This is not as simple as it sounds and needs some amount of planning. Naturally, it is not going to be as easy as people seeing the advertisements about your home based businesses, its products and getting excited enough to sign up instantly. There are millions of MLM home based businesses out there with the same products and payouts. Most people considering joining an MLM scheme will have questions. At the very least, you should be able to answer all of these questions without repeatedly emailing backlinks to a FAQ page. To that end, you must familiarize yourself as much as possible with the MLM distributor, the products, and the compensation plan.

You have to have a comfort level with the knowledge about your own home based business so that when you talk to people it shows through. You might generate a ton of leads but if your answer is not satisfactory, chances are you will not convert most of those leads. Some sort of appointment calendar or planner should also be kept diligently so that follow-ups are not missed. It can take several callbacks before people will be willing to invest in your MLM home based business. You are basically selling, and selling can take convincing many times over.

So once, you know everything about your MLM home based business and you have the few basic sales tools in place it is time to start generating leads. To begin with, make a list of everyone you know, friends, acquaintances, relatives, anyone with a computer and an internet connection that could be a prospect. Start with these people. If you make mistakes in your sales pitch, they will forgive you and since their answers will be more candid, this will make good practice for later on. One important thing to do upon discovering that someone is not interested in your MLM business is to ask him or her for a few names of people who might be. This way you can build a healthy network of contacts. Sometimes they may hesitate to give you the names, so just ask politely for only the names of the people they feel they can give you without any trouble.

Start collecting business cards, email addresses, and phone numbers. This is for the purpose of making cold calls because you never really know who might be interested. Cold calling is one of the most difficult things to do for any fresh salesperson. It might be uncomfortable in the beginning but keep at it. All it needs is confidence. There is no trick to it. Then there are the MLM trade journals, another good lead generation source for home based businesses. People considering MLMs are already reading these journals. Sometimes it is a nice touch to include a press release, along with your advertisement. Naturally, the first rule of advertising is that your ad should be unlike all the others in order to get attention.

Most affiliate programs will have a hidden cost for those who don’t know better. That is the purchasing of MLM leads. The trouble is there are probably dozens of people out there with the same leads and the competition gets tougher. A lot of companies will have a list of emails and phone numbers for people who in the past might have shown interest in MLM opportunities. Purchasing leads for MLM home based businesses is finally a matter of how good you are at converting those leads.

There are a lot of people out there and a lot of websites that are in the business of nothing but selling leads. Therefore, before buying leads for a MLM home based business make sure that the leads are relevant and that a genuine company of good repute is providing them. A list of emails and names can be sold many times over, make sure you are getting fresh leads only. Do some background research on the company selling leads. The Do Not Call registry has phone numbers that you should not buy. Checking for those numbers is up to you. The company selling you the numbers is not required to do this.

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Alvin Blacknall’s a successful network marketer that’s helping others achieve financial freedom. Discover how you can join a successful team of entrepreneurs.

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Ezine Marketing and Solo Ads to Gain Unlimited MLM Traffic

One of the most effective ways to get more MLM traffic to your site is through the ezine marketing. You can have more downlines fast and easy if you can get the best ezines or newsletters for your MLM advertising on the internet.

Ezine is actually an online magazine or popularly known as newsletter. It is a magazine that contains information and usually is sent out straight to the subscriber’s email address.

There are a few reasons why you should be advertising your solo ads on other ezines:

1. The publisher of the ezines have strong relationships with his or her list of subscribers. When the subscribers totally trust and believe in the publisher, your site will be highly targeted as you are advertising in the newsletter. It would be even better if the other MLM marketers would listen to their upline or leader.

2. It is very direct when the newsletters are being delivered. The publisher will send an email as a broadcast to the list of subscribers. So, when people click on your ad, they will be redirected to your main page of your site or blog.

3. The broadcast is a very fast and easy way to get traffic. You will be able to get tons of traffic in short amount of time. You can spend less to generate more traffic and increase your sales for your MLM products.

However, these are the important things you must look out before you buy any solo ads:

1. You need to research the background of the newsletter owners to check if they did the broadcasting before that provides ads in the newsletter. You would not want to be used as the tester for their newsletter in case they haven’t tried this method before. Make sure you do a full background check so you do not waste your precious money on some useless advertising.

2. Sometimes, cheap doesn’t mean good. It simply indicates that when you come across a ‘too good to be true’ offer, such as ‘get more than 100,000 traffic for only $100’, you should beware as it might turn out to be a scam or fake. These people behind the exaggerated claim are trying to make quick money rather than concentrating on building the traffic for you. Usually spammers are the ones who would be doing this, so be careful.

3. To reduce your work and utilize the newsletter advertising better, you can ask the publisher to endorse your MLM products rather than creating an ad for the purpose. Besides, they are sure to know the best way to promote the MLM product effectively.

There are too many ezines publishers out there so it is impossible to get the right one on the first go. However, you will learn to distinguish ezines that can really draw good quality traffic to your site and ezines that are doing badly in the same job. The key is to try out different publishers so you do not risk losing everything in one place.

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Ezine Marketing And Solo Ads to Gain Unlimited MLM Traffic