Goal Setting For Internet Home Businesses, In February?
Why the heck would some one who owns an Internet Home Businesses want to read a post on a Blog about Goal Setting in February?. Maybe because they want to be successful. I received some positive response to my posts in January and I wanted to finish off the series. Before I go on, I want to address the point about goal setting in February. Most people set up goals at the beginning of January and then they move on, they leave the goals in the dust till next year when they do the whole pointless process all over again. If you operate an Internet Home Business, and you want to be successful, you need to integrate your goal setting into your day to day activities. For more on this, visit, www.powertimemanagementsystems.com
A quick note, as some of you may know, one of my key goals for this year was to post on my 3 main blogs, EVERYDAY. This blog being one of them. How am I doing, not as well as I would like. Since the beginning of the year, I have had two major legal issues come that have taken up way too much of my time. That time was stolen from my key goal, the blogging. This is the classic situation of someone, myself, being taken off his Agenda and moved to working on an other Agenda. Yes, the classic, working on the urgent, not the important.
I would say that under difficult times, I have been able to do about 80% of my goals in regards to this goal, the blogging. This goal is really important on a number of levels, I show this importance by making sure this stays on the front burner, gets Time Activated into my Day Planner every day and I work hard on making the time for this to happen. I will get closer to 100% and I will get 100% compliance on this, that is what a number 1 a Priority deserves and gets, if you are serious about making it happen.
One more point, before I get totally off track. As with everything, you get better at it the longer you do it. I am not talking about the actual blogging, I am talking about the process of getting the time to do the blogging. I estimated that it would take me less than 3 hours to do the 3 posts. I make my posts between 600 and 800 words, article size. this way, my readers get some meat, and the post can double as an article latter on. I also use the posts as outlines for content in my Power Time Management Systems, www.powertimemanagementsystems.com , never hurts to double up on the output from a single source of time outlay.
I am getting better at spending the first 3 hours of the day for this task alone. I find that if I can do all 3 pots at the same time, I can stay focused and get them done better that way. that was the plan from the beginning and that part is working well. The trick is to not let other tasks creep in there and separate the posts, when this happens, I get off track and by the time I get on track, the day is gone and so is one of the posts. I usually get two of them done, the last one gets lost sometimes.
I challenge myself daily to get this goal done, I win more times than I lose, this sets up a positive feel for the day. the days I win, I am positive, upbeat, and always get more done the rest of the day. That is one of the reasons I set the first 3 hours of the morning to get this important goal done. I know that I will usually have a winner right off the bat, and I know that will help me for the rest of the day. If you own an Internet Home Businesses, try this momentum builder. It works best when you know that what you are setting up for the first task of the day will more often be a winner for you. Small victories build up over time and the momentum you build can help immensely.
I always say, Time Management is more about self management than managing our time. They are so closely intertwined that it’s impossible to separate them. Have a great day.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Businesses, Internet Home Business Ideas and Opportunities
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