This post is going to teach you how to become a more productive person and you’ll get a bonus at the end as well so read it through.
From a professional standpoint, being an Internet marketer, blogger or working online in general isn’t perfect, it’s just better.
You have freedom, your own schedule and rarely have to answer to anyone.
The freedom can be a blessing and a curse for many of us. With freedom comes great responsibility.
Procrastinating and putting tasks off can be easy, especially when the weather is nice and the sun is shining bright.
The first thing I want to make very clear to you if you struggle with procrastination and productivity is this… You are not alone.
Every single person has to overcome procrastination at one point or another , so be light on yourself and find ways to overcome the issue of procrastination.
Another idea I want to put in your head is that procrastination is just a surface level problem, the root of the problem is much deeper.
With proper study and effective reprogramming, however, you can overcome procrastination and become incredibly effective when working online.
I’ve studied the areas of procrastination for the last three years, the following is a list of tips to help you be a more productive online entrepreneur, blogger, or self-employed individual.
TWENTY ONE TIPS TO BEING MORE PRODUCTIVE WORKING ONLINE
Exercise first thing in the morning –Studies have shown that exercise first thing in the morning can increase productivity as much as five times. The reason exercise is so effective is because of the oxygen that reaches your blood, brain and organs.
Get sleep – While cutting out sleep may be a necessity at times, a majority of the time you need to get adequate sleep. Adequate may be 5-6 hours, but as long as you follow this list, you’ll get healthy, natural and deep sleep that is effective.
Eat healthy foods with no sugars – Sugars produce the same effect on the brain as cocaine. Dopamine’s are released and white sugar is believed to have addictive components. Breads, pastries and cheap pastas all end up converting to harmful sugars. It’s also been shown that sugar causes a lack of concentration and produces anxiety which is not ideal for being an effective Internet entrepreneur.
Before you exercise get a piece of work done – The first thing I do in the morning is write a blog, email to my list, or article for a client. This helps to set your day up for success and gets your thinking focused in the correct direction.
Stay hygienically clean – This may sound obvious, but it’s important to take proper care of ourselves. Good hygiene practices helps to boost self-esteem and confidence as well as increase vitality. As online workers we need vitality for the required energy to succeed.
Use the Pomodoro technique – Using this technique changed my life, it consists of working in small increments to stay focused. The brain needs breaks every so often to categorize and sort through information. You can Read more about the Pomodoro Technique here and how it will help you increase productivityor watch the video below.
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Set your day up around rewards – Using a small reward to drive you is a great way to increase productivity. The brain works on a pain/pleasure stimulus response, by giving yourself more pleasure for tiny results you create the desire in the limbic part of the brain to succeed.
Schedule times for phone calls and emails – Instead of checking emails every hour, set a time once or twice daily to check them and give yourself an allotted time. This helps to free up anxiety from worrying about getting to unchecked emails and frees up more of your mental capacity for the task at hand.
Work in a different spot – Instead of working from home all the time, try going to a coffee shop or other area. Working in one spot gives no positive stimulus to the brain. More importantly, mental anchors get set in place to specific site, sounds and feelings. If you have a negative mental anchor to a specific area, every time you see it or sit there it will invoke a undesired state.
Drink more water – Water is the essence of life, along with breathing and food, water gives us the vital energy needed to be productive Internet entrepreneurs. Water also boosts the metabolism, which further increases energy levels and it removes free-radicals from the system. Free radicals are known to cause fatigue and mental anxiety that interferes with focus.
Create to-do lists in the right way – Massive to do lists rarely work, a more effective way to create a to-do list is to first brainstorm everything you need to get done on paper. Then each day pick just one or two of the brainstormed items to get done. For larger projects, break them down into smaller more actionable items. By making success easy you’ll gradually shift your consciousness from a failure consciousness to a success consciousness and you will easily succeed.
Do the hardest thing first – In the Power of Self Discipline by Brian Tracy he gives this piece of advice. The reason we want to do the hardest things first is because as human beings we are limited in our daily energy. As the day goes on we lose will power and momentum. By accomplishing the biggest goal first, the later goals become easier and easier which is ideal with a weakening will.
Meditate daily – Meditation is simply deep breathing exercise. Breathing is the most important function of life. Meditation also helps to calm the mind, weaken the ego and dissolved limiting beliefs. The blood is oxygenated and endorphins are released that lead to better focus and a more positive outlook on life.
Go on a media fast for 21 days – Television, radio and other forms of mass media have subliminally implanted suggestions installed within them. Media in the United states also tends to focus primarily on debt, war, famine, and other atrocities. Our sub-conscious mind creates reality depending on our beliefs and our beliefs are made up of conditioning. A man becomes what he thinks about all day long and what we feed our minds with determines what we think about.
Therefore, by feeding our minds with the negative influences of the NEWS and other forms of media, we set ourselves up to focus on those things and thereby produce them in our lives.
Read and Listen to audios daily – This tip is in direct relation to the above tip about avoiding media. Once we stop the conditioning that comes from society, feeding our mind with positive information is the next step. To become effective, productive, Internet entrepreneurs we have to metaphorically “empty our cup.”
Taking out the mental trash is important, replacing the mental garbage with high quality information is just as important. EVERY SINGLE Internet entrepreneur, blogger or self-employed person online I know reads and listens to audios every day. As Jim Rohn, Zig Zigular, Bob Proctor, and nearly every other person of influence has said, “You’ve got to work on yourself more than you work on your business.”
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Avoid complaining – Complaining puts us in an immediate victim mentality, we need to avoid complaining altogether. Playing them victim, explaining, making excuses and other forms of complaining disempowers us. Avoid of complaining of conditions as they are because it rests on you to change them. Instead, focus on the solution and solving the problem.
Be your own motivation – At some point in time you’ll have to learn how to motivate yourself. A good idea is to record yourself or write yourself a letter of inspiration when you’re in a state or power and success. Use the letter, audio, or video you make for yourself when you’re feeling down. This method will help you see that negative states come and go and help you get out of any mental funk.
Read your goals daily – First you’ll have to have clear and defined goals, second you’ll want to read them on a daily basis. The reason is, your brain needs direction of where to go otherwise you become like a ship without a captain. No matter how fast or hard you go, you’ll eventually meet shipwreck. Also, our brains generalize, delete or distort the information we take in. By focusing on goals rather than conditions we are able to generalize, delete and distort information in a way that is congruent to our goals.
Pay attention to how you feel – This is so simple, so obvious and most people never pay attention to this tip. Plain and simple, if something makes you feel bad, don’t do it. When we feel internal conflicts it’s because our actions are not in line with our beliefs and values. An important note to this is just because something feels bad doesn’t mean it’s bad and just because something feels good doesn’t mean it’s good. If you know something is the right thing to do and you feel conflict, or you’re holding yourself back from being a successful Internet entrepreneur because of guilt of having money or something, it’s probably because of your internal belief systems. The key to ultimate productivity as an online blogger or entrepreneur is getting our beliefs, our value and our actions in alignment. That means we’ve got to feel, do and say the right things.
Congratulate yourself frequently – Make sure and give yourself credit when its fair. Taking responsibility for our successes is just as important as taking responsibility for our failures. Congratulating yourself when you succeed also gives a positive, pleasurable response stimulus to your brain. Taking the next step on a project, starting a blog or going for a walk are all actions worthy or personal congratulations.
It’s important to remember that the hardest part of procrastination is simply to get started. Once you get started, taking more action becomes very easy and in time you’ll create the habits needed to be a productive worker online.
Keep a journal – Journals are a great way to document progress and record setbacks, emotional struggles and help analyze habits that are either productive or unproductive. Journals are also an excellent way to relieve stress. Another reason that writing is effective is because it breaks up thinking patterns. Writing takes the use of different parts of the brain and multiple representational systems so it shifts focus from any problems to the writing.
THE BOTTOM LINE ON BEING MORE PRODUCTIVE WHEN BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR OR WORKING FROM HOME
Productivity, procrastination and habits are all developed over time. Momentum is also hard to shift because a body in motion stays in motion. Momentum works in both ways, and if you’re going in the wrong direction, it may take time to shift gears into the other direction.
These tips on being a more productive online business owner are tips that I practice, I don’t practice all of them every day. But I keep them in my arsenal and use them to stay motivated and productive. Success online is simple, it’s not easy but it’s simple. Every result in life comes from our habits and our habits come from our thinking, work hard at developing the habits of success and your life will change.
The last tip I’ll give you today about being a successful Internet entrepreneur is this, make sure you know what success means to you and make success easy. For me, success is never giving up. As long as I am working actively towards my goals I feel successful. I still play, have fun and hang out with friends. When the time comes however, I get to work and keep a good attitude about it.
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