If you're anxious to start boosting your net profits from day one, here are five simple steps to save you from costly trial and error.

Step 1: Benchmark.

You cannot get to where you want to go without knowing exactly where you are right now. You need specific and accurate measurements to ensure efforts you put into systems development will yield exponential returns. Start with a benchmark.

Step 2: Innovate.

Brainstorm — develop different approaches to get best results from process you're developing a system for. Listen to people with most direct experience with current process. Don't just think outside box. Tear it apart, if need be, and start from scratch.

Step 3: Implement

Select best option you come up with, put it in writing and implement it! Don't toss out all other options just yet. Keep them on “back burner.”

Step 4: Review, Revise, and Adjust.

Review your progress on a scheduled basis. Compare your current tracking results with your initial benchmark and make adjustments as necessary to optimize your results.

Step 5: Write It, Share It, Repeat It — And Profit

The overall concept of SOP, implementation and results, must be accurately recorded during steps 1 - 4. In this final step you'll distill system to its simplest form and put it in writing for publication in your systems manual.

Now that you have a system to help you develop systems, you can set yourself up to experience freedom of effective delegation and optimized profitability. It's up to you to step up, take action, enjoy, and profit from it.

If you're serious about getting systems to set you free faster, with less trial and error, send me an e-mail. I'll personally send you unabridged "action-report" version of this article complete with coach's notes and tips to get you started — free! Just send me an e-mail at JPM@RPMsuccess.com and put "Systems Action Report" in subject line, let me know your first name and I'll make sure you get a copy.

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Recognize that winners make decisions that create future they desire, while losers make decisions that create present they desire.

Make shift from a short-term focus to long-term and you'll find you can create time in many areas where there appeared to be none.

Coach's Tip: One way to succeed in improving your time-management skills is to find someone who you admire and would like to emulate. Ask to interview them and find out how they schedule their days. Discover how they use their free time and then do what they do. Seek out top people in your field and ask them, "What books do you read? What advice would you give me to help me win in my game?"

You may just be surprised at how happy top performers are to help you.

Poor performers hang around people who are going nowhere and emulate their thoughts and actions, or lack thereof.

Dr. David McClellan of Harvard found that if you associate with a reference group (friends, associates, coworkers, family members, etc.) who are not success oriented, that choice alone can stop any possibility of you being successful in life.

Your choice of whom you associate with personally, business-wise, or socially is one of most important choices you'll ever make in your life. If you associate with turkeys, and act just like them, you'll never learn to fly with eagles.

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