Planning and focus are the keys to being productive. I hope you enjoyed the video about staying focused on the task at hand. I think that so many of us have that problem, it was worth mentioning.
I looked up the name of the software I use that has all the configurable timers. It's called Action Machine Pro. I forgot to mention that it also tracks the timers you set up and their usage so you can create reports and see how much time you are spending on certain tasks.
What steps do you take to make sure you stay focused? I would like to know. Please take a minute and share by leaving a comment so other readers can benefit from your knowledge.
Some time soon, I will talk a little more about the planning process and give you some good resources to help as well. Planning and goal setting was the first module in Alex Jeffreys coaching program and with good reason.
Now, a little off topic. Below is a picture of Camilo Villega, who won the Honda Classic golf tournament last weekend. That is my son's head in the foreground just before he got his autograph.
Camilo Villegas, winner of the "Honda Classic" signing autographs.
It's good to see celebrities that don't mind taking a little time for the fans. It means so much to the kids. My son couldn't stop talking about it all night. We even bought him a frame so he could put the picture in it along with the autograph.
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It's been over a month since a made my last blog post and shame on me! I have already broken one of my new year's resolutions, which was to make a blog post at least once a week. Well I am going to make it up to you over the next month or two.
I still have to tell you about Alex Jeffreys workshop that I went to in Las Vegas. I think I will create a page dedicated to that instead of just making a blog post. We'll see. Please take a few minutes to watch the video below. I have some announcements about things to come and what I am going to be doing.
Please don't forget to leave a comment and let me know what topics you would like to have me cover over the next couple months. Also, show a little love and tweet this post or use one of the bookmarking buttons below.
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Well we're 23 days into the new year and things are progressing nicely. I have put some plans into motion and am moving towards some of those goals that I mentioned in my last post. That is, with the exception of making a weekly blog post. LOL
But that's OK. I am about to make up for that over the next few days. I am sitting in the West Palm Beach airport about to get on a plane for Atlanta and then on to Las Vegas. I am going to Alex Jeffreys second workshop and looking forward to meeting his new group of students.
Opps, looks like I am going to have to finish this in Atlanta, the plane is boarding.
Well, I didn't get to finish in Atlanta. We (my wife and I) got off the plane and by the time we got to the gate, the plane was boarding. Unfortunately, our bags didn't make the flight on time. So when we arrived in Las Vegas we had to wait until the next flight from Atlanta to get there and hour late.
(You'll have that sometimes. 
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Any way, everything went OK after that. We checked in at the Mirage and met up with a bunch of my fellow students who got here early for Mike Filsaime's bash that started Friday. Gary Simpson, Garry Parkes, Dean Holland, Dan Briffa, David Walker, Marcus Passey, and Paul Wilson were among my fellow students sitting at the bar well on there way…
My wife and I checked in then had a few but didn't do much else. We had been up since 3am EST and with the 3 hour time change were feeling a little tired. We did get up for a bit and prowled the casino for a couple hours but turned in early.
I'm finishing this post in my hotel room as we get ready to go have some breakfast. Stay tuned for some more "Vegas updates" and some videos. Today we are going to see the sites and will probably swing by the MGM grand for Mike Filsaime's networking party at 6pm.
Some of the Alex Jeffreys gang is going to rent "exotic" cars and cruise the strip. I think I'll pass on that and spend the time with my wife. The workshop starts tomorrow. They'll be plenty of time to network with my felllow students.
I am tempted to go with a few of the guys who are going to shoot machine guns and assault rifles. We'll see what the wife thinks about that. Any way, it's all about having fun. My wife is from South America and a place like Vegas makes a big impression. I think I'll be taking lots of pics and videos today.
Check back for another update tomorrow.
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Well, the year has come to an end and I am looking forward to 2010. Not only is this a time for planning the upcoming year, but it's also a time of reflection when we look back at our accomplishments as well as our failures. I mention failures because they are just as important as our accomplishments.
Failures are the way we learn. My mentor, Alex Jeffreys, likes to call it failing forward. The important thing here is that you made the effort and took action. Thomas Edison literally had thousands of failures before he found the correct filament to create a working light bulb.
Determination and tenacity prevailed and the rest is history. But I have found that it's not just enough to to take action. You need to take "intelligent action". This has nothing to do with how smart you are, it's about being focused and sticking to a game plan.
Concentrate on the things that are working for you. Shut out the distractions as much as possible. More than likely you are like me and still work a full time job. Your time is very valuable so must make sure that you are productive with the little time you have.
This was something that I learned this year and it has helped me immensely. I easily tripled my productivity compared to what I was doing before. Have a "to do list" of your most critical action items. Turn off your email, Skype, Messenger, or anything else that might tempt you to deviate from the task at hand.
Then "Get Er Done!"
Of course, this is not easily done if you don't have a clear cut plan of attack. That is why goal setting and planning should be your number one priorities. Not only do you want to plan on a daily level, but you want to plan on a weekly, monthly, and a yearly level.
These will be your New Year's resolutions for 2010. Start big and write down your major goals for 2010 in 4 categories. Personal, Entrepreneurial, Business, and Income. You can later go back and write down what you will need to do to accomplish each goal. Once you do that you will have a huge list of action items that you can begin to add into your weekly and daily schedules.
I am not going to go into detail right now because that could be a novel in itself. I am about to get to the main reason for this post and it's already getting long.
Last year I made a comment on Garry Parkes blog. Garry is a fellow Alex Jeffreys student that has actually gone on to become an employee of Alex's. He was one of the first people in our class to really start taking action and his blog kind of became a gathering place for all the students.
The comment I made was on December 31st, 2008. Garry's post was about setting goals and attaching some kind of accountability to those goals. One of the ways to do this is to publicly announce that you are going to do something. You will then feel compelled to do what you say or you might lose credibility.
So I listed my goals for 2009 for all to see and now it's time to pay the piper and see how well I accomplished my goals. Here is a snippet copied from the comment on Garry's blog. (the annotations in red are the results)
Personal
1. Vacation this year to vist wife’s family in Venezuela. was a great success, I spent 2 weeks there and the wife and kids were there for 6 weeks. I also took a trip to Las Vegas to Alex's work shop and will be returning in 2 weeks to the second one. This time my wife is coming along and we are going to have a couple days set aside just for us.
2. Lose 80lbs. target weight is 250, currently tipping the scales at 330. I have absolutely failed miserably here. I still weigh 330. My wife and I have joined the local gym and I have a good start on this years goal which will remain the same.
Entrepreneurial
1. Create systems for all my tasks and start outsourcing. I don't quite have all the systems created that I want but I have employed the services of a few people and currently have them working on some projects.
2. Find at least 10 serious JV partners. I hosted my own JV Giveaway and created a list of JV partners plus continue to seek out new adswap partners.
Business
1. Build a mailing list of 7300 subscribers. (that’s 20 per day) My list now stands at 6300. I am about 1000 short but that is OK. The last 3 months I have been reserving my weekend adswaps for people just starting out with small lists. If I had not done this, I could have easily surpassed my goal. I just ran the stats for December and I am averaging over 45 new subscribers per day. This number only continues to get bigger so I am very happy with these results.
2. Continue to write for the Profit Pulling Project, re-brand, and distribute. I ended up only writing a couple of articles for Garry's news letter. As much as I would like to, time constraints make it unrealistic for me at this time.
3. Write my ebook series “The Web 2 Whammy” which I will use to build my list and then monetize with a follow up video series. I ended up writing an ebook on JV Giveaways instead. I am giving it away for free to build my list and am monetizing with a OTO and by using integration marketing on my download and thank you pages. I have some big plans for 2010 but will discuss that later.
4. Spend at least 1 hour a day oil rig hopping. 1/2 hour for students and 1/2 hour with Comment Kahuna. Once again I have failed miserably in this respect. I have also been slack when it comes to posting on this blog and my traffic stats reflect this. Time is a big factor but I am not making excuses. This is one thing that I should make time to do.
Income
1. To generate a minimum of $50,000 with my online business this year. I haven't tallied up the exact figures yet but I would say it's between $15,000 and $20,000. Not bad considering I was figuring in a product launch that didn't happen and I only work at this part time. The majority of my income was from affiliate promos and a direct result of my list building efforts. If you build a list, you will make money.
So you see that you will not always reach your goals. That's OK. I do think that you need to make your goals realistic but yet at the same time you have to challenge yourself. Don't be afraid to set your goals high. Make your self accountable!
I would like to help you do that right now. I am challenging you to go out on a limb and post your goals for 2010 right here on my blog. Put them out there for God and everybody to see. If that doesn't motivate you to take action then I don't know what will.
Here are mine for 2010:
Personal
1. Lose 80lbs. target weight is 250, currently tipping the scales at 330.
2. Take family on week long vacation to Disney World
3. Go golfing at least twice a month. (driving range once a week minimum)
Entrepreneurial
1. Put together a team to handle all technical functions of my online business.
2. Become part of a master mind group. (or create one)
3. Begin investing in other income vehicles (stocks, real estate, etc..)
4. Continue to expand my JV base by attending live events.
Business
1. Continue giving list building #1 priority. New target is 30K by end of 2010.
2. Use PLR products to set up an affiliate program designed to build my list.
3. Post on the blog at least once a week. Start incorporating more videos.
4. Start a corporation for tax purposes and to insulate my personal assets.
5. Launch a product.
Income
1. To generate a minimum of $100,000 with my online business this year. This is what I need to do to be able to walk away from my current job and become a full time internet marketer.
Ok there you have it. Now it's your turn! Leave a comment and list your goals for 2010. Let the world be your "accountability buddy".
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Alex Jeffreys coaching program has re-opened! My friend and mentor, Alex Jeffreys is taking on a very limited number of new students. To sweeten the deal, he is going to give the first 100 students a substantial discount.
If your in a hurry, than click on the link and Watch The Whole Video.
Alex is offering the exact same, life changing, training that I received a year almost a year ago. By following his lead, I have established myself in the Internet marketing community and have a self sustaining, profitable online business.
Even though I have done better than most, (95% of people who try to make money online fail), I still feel that my success has been limited. This is because I work a full time job and have a family.
I am only able to commit about 5-10 hours a week to my online business. I want to be a full time marketer but I need to be able to replace a 6 figure a year income before I can walk away from my job.
I am not quite there, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. My online income continues to grow every month and becomes more consistent as I bring in money from various continuity programs. I have some things in the works that are really going to accelerate my progress.
Maybe I can catch up to some of my fellow students that were also in Alex's coaching program with me. There is a list of people that have actually quit there jobs and gone full time internet marketer.
People like Jit Uppal, Dean Holland, Michael Ottman, and Garry Parkes. There are a slew of others that have also seen success but aren't quite ready to go full time.
There may be even more that have quit there jobs but I haven't heard about it yet. All I do know is that a lot of people who were struggling and ready to call it quits, are now growing an online business that is actually generating cash for them.
You can do this too! But you need a mentor. Getting help from Alex was the turning point in my online career. If you don't join Alex Jefferys coaching program then make sure you get help from someone.
If you were in Alex's coaching program or in another mentoring program, please take a minute and leave a comment to share your experience.
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