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How to Go From Frazzled To Fantastic: 5 Surefire Ways to Avoid Burnout in Your Life & Business

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Proven Life Management Strategies

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Time management is really life management. How you use your time controls everythingthat happens in your life. The success of your relationships, goal achievement, financial success, and even personal happiness, are all determined by HOW you use time.

All truly successful people are excellent time managers. They’re organized – they know where they are, and where they are going. As a result they get more done in less time, and have more free time to enjoy life.

Clarify Your Priorities
The first step in taking control of your time is to define and set your priorities.

High achievers are expert at separating out the essential from the less critical.

To get started, ask yourself, “What is the best use of my time right now?” Every action involves a choice between what’s more important. Doing one thing means not doing something else.

Separate the urgent from the important. Ask yourself, “What is the long term consequence of NOT doing this now?” Don’t do anything you can delegate.

Remember: Your aim in time management is to increase your return on energy.
Put lower priority items on the back burner.

Get Focused
When working on something, focus totally on your task. Get clear on your task: “What am I trying to accomplish? How am I doing to do this? Is there a better, easier, or more enjoyable way?”

Write It Down
There are several ways to designate which tasks are the most important. One way is to create two lists: a short-term checklist and a long-term, top-priority list.

Organized plans of action are a great time saver. Each time you make your planning schedule be sure to include some activity that works toward your long and short term goals.

Know Your Peak Productivity Times
All of us have work rhythms and certain times of the day when we do better work than at other times. The ability to stay focused plays a major role in saving time. To do this, you have to find the time of the day when you work at peak efficiency.

Block Your Time
An important part of effective time management is being able to set aside blocks of time when you will not be interrupted. This allows you to better focus on your work.

Organize Your Work Space
Organizing your time is easier when you organize your workspace. A cluttered desk creates stress and distracts you from focusing on the task at hand.

Don’t Reward Procrastination
Poor time management can be draining and energy zapping. Take procrastination: Procrastination is a learned behavior that is established through reward.

The moment you fail to do something and instead turn to watching television or some other “preferred” activity, you have rewarded yourself for procrastinating.

Change such a habit by breaking your task into smaller steps you can accomplish easily, then reward yourself for completing each step.
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One of Life’s Great Lessons – Learn to be Thankful for What You Already Have

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Is thankfulness a survival skill? Perhaps most of you would respond with, “No, Jim, thankfulness is not key to survival”, and I would tend to agree with you. Most of us have probably already solved the necessary problems of survival, gone beyond that and are now working to achieve our desires. But let me give you this key phrase, “Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.” I believe one of the greatest and perhaps one of the simplest lessons in life we can learn is to be thankful for what we have already received and accomplished.

Both the years and the experiences have brought me here to where I stand today, but it is the thankfulness that opened the windows of opportunities, of blessings, of unique experiences to flow my way.

My gratitude starts with my parents who raised me, gave me an incredible foundation that has lasted me all of these years and continues with the mentors that I’ve met along the way who absolutely changed and revolutionized my life, my income, my bank account, my future. I am also very thankful for the people, the associations, for the ideas, for the chance to work and labor, and to produce results, all of that has brought me to this place, to this weekend. I’m grateful for it all.

What a unique opportunity each one of you here has, so many of us; representing different countries, nations and cultures, to appreciate the uniqueness of our own experiences that has brought us all here, together, for these three days to learn new skills and sharpen old ones. For the countries we represent; we have freedom and liberty. These are extraordinary times, about eleven years ago the walls came tumbling down, in Germany, and it started a wave of democracy and freedom like the world has never seen before. We as a country and as a world have so much to be thankful for. Always start with thanksgiving; be thankful for what you already have and see the miracles that come from this one simple act.

Now thankfulness is just the beginning; next, you’ve got to challenge yourself to produce. Produce more ideas than you need for yourself so you can share and give your ideas away. That is called fruitfulness and abundance.
Here’s what I think fruitfulness and abundance mean – to go to work on producing more than you need for yourself so you can begin blessing others, blessing your nation and blessing your enterprise. Once abundance starts to come, once someone becomes incredibly productive, it’s amazing what the numbers turn out to be. But to begin this incredible process of blessing, it often starts with the act of thanksgiving and gratitude, being thankful for what you already have and for what you’ve already done. Begin the act of thanksgiving today and watch the miracles flow your way.

Jim Rohn is considered to be “America’s Foremost Business Philosopher”. He been delivering his life and work-changing seminars for over 39 years… addressed over 6,000 audiences and four million people worldwide… he is the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award… authored 17 different books, audio and video programs… and, Mr. Rohn is internationally hailed as one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

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The Best Kept Secret of the Rich

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“Time management is the Best Kept Secret of the Rich” ~Jim Rohn

Every time I consult with a leader or mlm corporate VP I try to stress the same point. “Repetition is the key to learning”. I am shocked at the number of intelligent, successful people who don’t really grasp this universal truth.

In today’s “do everything online” marketing world, it seems that many personal & business development truths of the past are being forgotten.

Methods consistently change, however personal development and business laws never do. They are the same today as they were 30+ years ago when I started and they will be the same 30 years from now. Truth is Truth!

That is why classic books like Think and Grow Rich are as true today as they were decades ago when first published.

Repetition always has been and always will be the key to internalization and learning. Companies and leadership groups that want to do all their training with webinars (that aren’t recorded) or through back office audio files all have the same argument. “They can listen over and over anytime they want” They don’t understand that this is just as much atime management issue for their people as it is an internalization issue.

Every network marketing distributor’s automobile should be a learning university on wheels!

When they are online they should be promoting their products or services.

Most distributors waste hours of valuable promotion time doing the wrong activities while fooling themselves into thinking they are building a business. Hanging out in “MLM Training” Forums, On Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and MySpace is NOT BUILDING A Business.

Yes, there is a place for these sites, and the right focused marketing activities will create prospects, but just “hanging out” anywhere or on any website is not a good idea.

LET ME GO SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC HERE FOR A MINUTE
While I am on the subject, companies that do 2-3 opportunity calls a week don’t get it either.

Those that are doing 2-3 a day are totally out of touch.

YOU HAVE TO GIVE YOUR TEAM TIME TO BUILD THEIR BUSINESS!
Most companies have the misconception that the more training calls, and webinars we do the better job we are doing at supporting our distributors. This is 100% false! The more you do the more confusion you create!

Any training that is not systematic and unified ultimately creates unproductive distributors anyway as we discuss in the Why the Masses are Confused Booklet.

Regarding opportunity webinars/conference calls you need ONE event a week .

You must create a culture, where all team members build for that event each week, with the goal and expectation to have at least one guest on the call with them.
Other than one Opportunity Overview event each week you also need a recorded opportunity/webinar that distributors can access 24-7 and a recorded product/service testimony webinar or call.

Anything more than the above will only create a distraction for your team. I know, I know “MLM Leaders” who enjoy being the center of attention, totally disagree with me on this idea.

You have to understand, there is no money in being Elvis! Most people who read this understand exactly what I am trying to communicate, because their upline and or company conducts so many online events and conference calls (that they are expected to attend) they don’t have time to build the business even if there were clear specific direction from all the training.

Okay, back to my original thought.

Here is my point. Online back office training is good thing, but don’t neglect providing training on audio CD or MP3 files.

Repetition is the key to learning and providing your training in audio format allows your people to maximize their learning and time by listening on their way to their job, or on their IPod while working out.
I had a consulting call a couple of days ago, with a client who had done 3-4 training calls with his team covering the same information. He said Dale, they just aren’t getting it, I have even put it online for them to listen to.

My response, they aren’t going to get it until you make it available on audio CD or MP3. Repletion is the key to learning and people must be able to maximize their time and turn their automobiles into learning universities on wheels.

5 Time Management Tips

  • Work from a To Do List
  • Focus and master 1 business building skill set at a time.
  • Before you log onto the internet know exactly what you are
    going to do and allow a specific amount of time for each activity
  • Always ask yourself, Will spending time with this activity
    help me reach my primary goal?

Do the same business building activities, at the same time every week. Example: Sunday night 7-10 PM is follow up phone time, Saturday morning 8 -11 AM is online promotion time, etc etc.

No one who enters the network marketing industry can escape the learning curve. But with the proper focus and time management you can drastically cut the time that it takes to develop the foundational knowledge that ultimately leads to success.

Dale Calvert started his first business from his parents home at the age of 14. For the past 25 years he has been supporting entrepreneurs and marketing professionals with some of the most powerful training programs in the industry.

MLMHelp.com is Dale’s Catalog site featuring training articles, quotes and poems, MLM greeting cards, and more. This is where you can subscribe to Dale’s Top Rated Ezine.

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