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Important Notice, Internet Home Businesses, Classic Case of Doing What Was Urgent, Not Important

I have been preaching to thousands of Internet Home  Businesses over the years and one of my messages has been, get a plan, work your plan, and most importantly, do what is important to you, not was is urgent. The difference is, what is important to you will be set out in your plan, your Agenda, you will have Time Activated what is important in your Day Planner and you will be set to go. On the other hand, urgent things are ones that are usually tossed at you by other people and circumstances that crop up at the last moment, all factors that will destroy your effectiveness and productivity. I also say that Time Management is not a destination, but a journey. Here is why.

Yesterday, in real time, February 3rd, 2010, I got up at the regular time, had my Agenda planned out, everything was in place to have a productive day. Then I made my first mistake, I am embarrassed to admit it, but I did what I preach, beg ask and conj ole  the members on my site, not to do, www.powertimesystem.com, I checked my email!!! For those who know me and read my material, this is mistake number one. I have set up my days so my Power Hours, which for me, are the hours between 6:00 and 9:00, are set up and dedicated to doing my key number one A Priorities, posting on my 3 blogs.

I have done a number of posts lately about this important issue . Getting your number one a Priorities done on a daily basis has a massive positive impact on what happens daily and most importantly, how you feel about yourself and the results you get each day. Getting  these critical priorities accomplished, actually the ONE key Priority accomplished, and usually, you will be golden for the day. Internet Home Businesses require a firm grasp of Proper Time Management to be successful. This is one of those key elements we need to have in place if any of us expect to be successful.

The reason checking your emails, first thing in the morning is a monster mistake is that you are literally begging to be thrown off your Agenda of important task to do, and be shunted off into doing what is urgent. That is exactly what happened to me yesterday morning. Instead of driving my own Agenda, doing what was important to me, I read my emails and responded to what  other people thought I should be doing, what was urgent to them. I was a dead duck, by my own choice I might add. This next part is important to listen to. What I ended up doing, for almost the whole day was something that I had been dealing with for the past week, it was important and urgent, things can be both and it was something that I was going to deal with yesterday, but it was not my number one A Priority, and that is the issue.

Dealing with thousands of Internet Home Businesses owners has taught me this, how you perceive and feel about yourself  during the day, and especially at the end of it, greatly impacts your performance, that day as well as the ensuing days. In my case, almost from the get go, when I knew I had made a mistake in checking my emails, and further dug myself a hole by getting thrown off my Agenda, by my own choice, my day went from bad to worse. It put me in a bad mood, I do not light being stupid, and there I was , being really stupid, I knew it and it festered all day long. I was working on activities, but I really wanted to get my blog posts done, a bad mix of stress, anxiety and just being angry with myself. Does that sound like a conducive state to be in to get things done, be productive and have a good time doing it?

Proper Time Management is all about making us happier, more productive, allowing us to do more of the things we want in life. Proper Time Management is not some sort of academic exercise that is separate from our day to day lives, its the real deal and its what separates us from getting what we want to get out of life and not getting what we ant out of life. It’s that simple. Simple, but not easy.  Have a great day.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Businesses, Internet Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

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It’s February 1St, How are Those New Years Resolutions Comming?

Internet Home Businesses are tricky  to operate, even in the best of times. We all want to do well and I am sure, all or most of us made a series of New years resolutions too improve ourselves as well as our Internet Home Businesses around January 1st. I know I did. I am doing an assessment today on how well I am doing. I will go through my assessmentt here today, as a guide for you, as well as a real exercise for myself.

 1. I need to get my web sites better ranked on the search engines, along with the rest of the world:) My goal was to post on my 3 blogs first thing in the morning. These are my power hours, www.powertimesystem.com, so I reserved this time slot for what was my number one A Priority. So far, I am reasonably happy with my performance. Out of a 10, I would give myself a 7. On a few of the days, there were some events that I allowed to move me off my Agenda, I allowed these events to push me off doing what I had set up and I spent that time on other activities. These other activities were urgent, but not as important as what I had originally scheduled for that time frame. Always remember, urgent bad, important good.

  2. I made what I consider a rookie mistake. Getting pushed off driving your own Agenda is a cardinal sin, one that is devastating to your over all success. Many things that are wrapped up in having a successful day, and life, is wrapped up in having and driving your own Agenda. You may ask yourself this question, how does the guy who wrote the book, myself, allow himself to get pushed off HIS OWN AGENDA, if its so important? A good as well embarrassing question. Here in lies the reason Proper Time Management is not a Destination, but a Journey. It is not as much as Proper Time Management, but proper self management.

  3. Knowing the right way is not the same as having the ability to apply what you know on a daily regular basis. I may have a leg up on some of you because I certainly know what I should do each day, but there is the application of that knowledge that holds the real value. I guess the simple reason and explanation is that I am human with all the faults and foibles that come with that.

  4. This is why New Years Resolutions are pretty well a wasted exercise if you do not incorporate them into your daily regime. Sitting down one day a year and making some promises too yourself and that is the extent of it, is a waste of effort and time. Take my goal, one of many, to post on all 3 blogs on a daily basis. In order to turn this wish, that is basically what a resolution or goal is, a wish, I took that wish and Time Activated it into my Proper Time Management Day Planner. That means, there is a specific time slot in my daily schedule that says between 6:00 in the morning and 9:00, I will do nothing in that time slot but work on the 3 posts in my blogs.

  5. That may not seem like much, but out of 100 people, less than 5 will get to that step. Its part of a larger process, but having a Day Planner, having an Agenda, having Priorities, and Time Activating those Priorities in your Day Planner, puts you in the 5 % of the people who have a chance to make things happen. The days that I follow my own processes, are the days that I do my best work, period. If it was easy, we all would be successful, happy and content. There is a reason there are gaps in our lives and one of the reasons is that its damn hard to do the things we want to do on a regular basis.

  One quick point. My News Years resolutions are my daily Priorities. You have to integrate what you want to do into what you actually do on a daily basis, if you do not, they will just rot on some list or spread sheet you have on your computer. Unless your goals and resolutions see the light of day, daily, they have no chance of being achieved.

  Have agreat day,

  Bryan Beckstead, Internet home Businesses, Internet Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

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The Difference between an Internet Home Business and an Internet Home Hobby

One day I should sit down and figure out exactly how many Internet Home Businesses I have worked with over the years. I usually throw out the figure of 20,000, knowing that is too low. I guess it really does not matter, there have been a lot. The real significance is this, the larger the pool of people I can draw from, the greater the relevancy of what I have to say, at least that is the hope. Internet Home Business owners fall into two categories, those that have a real business and those that have what I call hobby businesses. Strap in, some people are about to get offended.

 Interacting with  20,000 plus Internet  Home Business owners has taught me that people like the concept of being in business more than the actual business itself. Let me explain. People have been led to believe that the way to get ahead and to make money, in some cases  huge amounts of money, is to start and operate an Internet Home Business. Fair enough, lets forget for a moment about the scams and just outright lies that are out there about 99% of these offers, lets just look at the people who want to better themselves and  to make some extra money.

 They get involved in a business opportunity and then what happens next is what separates the real business people from the hobbyists. They start the business, they put up a web site of some description, maybe, and then they wait and wait and then wait some more, they are waiting for the business to some how miraculously appear, it never does. There is a disconect between the start of the business and then the actuall commencement of the business. This is where the reality and  perception meet. The perception of what people think an Internet Home Business is  and what the business actually is.

  The Perception    What do people think is involved in operating and running an Internet Home Business and what actually is needed to be successful are two vastly different things. The Internet has bastardized what is involved in running any kind of business to the point that it is not even recognizable anymore. It is really a crime that these parasites are out there, and that people are misled as badly as they are. The claims, the promises, the  testimonials  about what someone will be able to obtain, always with no skills, no training, no effort, and especially doing nothing even remotely resembling work, are not based in anything remotely reasonable. They are just scammers without any moral compass what so ever.

 It is within this frame work that people look at what they will have to do, nothing, and what they will receive, wealth, happiness, freedom, all with in a matter of days, perhaps in a week at the latest. It is really hard to tell what people really think, deep down in side, do they really believe the hype, the ads, the testimonials?, they must, MILLIONS of people sign up and potentially start these Internet Home Business Opportunities, so there is a market out there for this garbage.

 Okay, we all know what we are talking about here, we are talking about what people THINK they are signing up for. An Internet Home Business that requires no work, no skills, no effort and no time to invest, in return, you get untold wealth, freedom,can quit your job and buy that Mercedes, all within a matter of a few short weeks. I think we all get the picture.

  The Reality

  Time for a wake up call. When reality rears its ugly head, it separates the hobbyists from the people who are prepared to do what is necessary to make their Internet Home Businesses succeed. This is where this post takes a turn. There are now two dynamics at play here, people who are not going to be successful, regardless of what Internet Home Business they are involved in, scam ot legitimate business it does not matter, they are going to fail because they are not prepared to put in the time, effort and work to make, it they are goners from the get go.

 Then there is the other group, albeit a much much smaller group who will sacrifice, work and dedicate themselves to being successful, it is this group that has another hurdle to over come. What do they do if they picked a scam and not a business that will give them a chance to have a legitimate shot at being successful? www.hhhmakemoneyonline.com, will give you that chance.

 I rambled a bit on this one. My point is this, nothing wrong with having an Internet Home Business and not making as much money from it as you wanted, as long as you are okay with that. Nothing wrong with having a business that is a hobby, something that does not make money but makes you happy and fulfills a need for you. You have to decide if you are happy with what you have and that you can live with the consequences. Its your business and its your life, you are always the ultimate judge.

  Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Businesses, Internet Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

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