Business: The Secret to Reducing Distractions and Getting Things Done

The Secret to Reducing Distractions and Getting Things Done

Written by David Brewster

Have you ever worked hard all day only to look back with wonder at how little you achieved? Or set up a fool-proof new system only to find no one – not even yourself - sticks to it? Or had a great idea that never saw repparttar

light of day? There is a simple yet powerful idea which can help you overcome all of these problems.

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Triggers come in a whole range of forms. The phone ringing, an interruption by a colleague, mail arriving on your desk, a computerised alarm – these can all be triggers. A sudden thought or idea can also be a trigger.

Our routines and habits act as powerful triggers. If you are in repparttar 106286 habit of having a coffee at 10 o'clock every morning, that habit is a trigger: it pulls you away from what you were doing.

Some triggers set us on repparttar 106287 path towards getting something done while others keep sending us off on a detour. We might say triggers can act for 'good' as well as 'evil'.

On repparttar 106288 'good' side, triggers are repparttar 106289 essential link between your documents – diaries, to-do lists, written procedures, etc. – and action. For example, items on your to-do list won't get done unless you have some sort of trigger which causes you to refer to repparttar 106290 list on a regular basis.

A New Beginning

Written by John Calder

A New Beginning

by John Calder

I am not known for "beating around repparttar bush", so I will get right down to it.

Many online entrepreneurs, business owners are killing their credibility by repparttar 106284 amateur way they are running their online business.

Literally millions of them set up shop on some free website host with some godawful web address that no-one will ever remember, uses repparttar 106285 free web builder, sets repparttar 106286 background color to blue and has red text.

Argh! My Eyes! Turn it off!

(You all know who you are).

Once said site is setup with all repparttar 106287 latest spinning graphic gizmos and centered text, that no one can read anyway, and of course repparttar 106288 obligatory banners that are forced onto repparttar 106289 site, said "business owners" set about promoting their creation.

Go straight to free submission services and happily put in their details and send repparttar 106290 link to a zillion search engines, directories and FFA's.

And wait...and wait...and wait.

Well you know how it goes...I'm not going into all repparttar 106291 "ins and outs" of promotion. My website has all that information for anyone that needs it.

Time To Get Serious.

To succeed online you MUST have repparttar 106292 bare essentials.

These being:

*your own domain name ( http://www.domains410.com )

*a reliable host ( http://www.aplushosts.com )

*a listserver, so that you can send unlimited non-spam email to prospects and customers (with host)

*an autoresponder (with host)

*a clear plan - if you do not have a clear idea of what you want to do online, wait until you do.

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