Boost Your Productivity – Quit Being A Slave To Emails

Editor Note: I originally wrote this piece as a guest article to share with the readers from esteemed copywriter, John Forde’s Copywriter Roundtable’s newsletter.

I’m re-producing it here for your reading pleasure. I hope you enjoy reading it like I’ve writing it.

Here’s a question to think about.

How many of you read the email as virtually the first
thing you do when you turn on the computer?

Recent studies show that a whopping 65.3% of us do so.

For the longest time, that includes me as well.

And here’s the thing…

Don’t you find that once you are deep in your
reading and replying of emails,
you can be buried there for hours?

And you will soon find yourself wasting so much time that
you did not get much done?

If you are nodding your head in agreement, then
this is something you might want to address.

But first, just why are we often addicted to emails?

There’s a psychological reason for this.

And that’s our subconscious craving for attention.

Rescue Time – Skyrocket Your Personal Productivity Through Accountability

Want to be instantly more productive?

Here’s a simple way:

Be transparent about your work objectives to the important people around you, and then be accountable to them.

Let me go through why.

1. If you are keeping all your objectives to yourself…you may tend to cheat. No one will know your true progress. Sometimes…not even yourself.

If you miss your deadline, you may think it’s okay, because no one else is watching. You tell yourself you will make it up another time.

Is this process optimal? Not really.

But if you publicly declare your work objectives in clear specific terms to others, you are much more likely to fulfill them.

Because this time round, you feel the pressure to deliver what you say you will do. This is good pressure that will motivate you.

2. You want to be transparent to important people that matters. Get a peer who understands your work as your accountability partner.

If you are not doing your job, he will know. And he has to put you back in line.

Procrastination Is Good

Say what? Procrastination? Good?
Isn’t procrastination supposed to be THE big evil?

Didn’t all the gurus proclaimed that the key to success is speed of implementation?

So why procrastinate?

Here’s why…

If you remember, I used to talk about the Pareto’s rule.

And that is 80% of what you do will give you only 20% of your results.

While the other 20% will lead to 80% of your results.

So…procrastinating is good…if you do that to 80% of the stuff that gives you little results.

In another words, procrastinate on low value stuff.

Work fast, hard and smart on high value activities.

Make sense?

Love to hear your thoughts.

Jag Foo

Quit Being Perfect.

I see a lot of people holding up projects…delaying time…all because they want to be perfect.

But recognize this. There’s no such thing as perfect.

It’s always WIP. Work. In. Progress.

It’s a never-ending road when it comes to improvement.

What you want to do is just launch. And get it out there.

Get data. Get some results. And tweak from there.

If it works – scale. If not, dump.

Don’t let perfectionism get in the way of progress.

Do up a good chunk. And let rip.

If you keep obsessing about details…about getting everything in place…you will never get done. And time just ticks away. There goes your opportunity.

What do you think? I want to hear it.

To your success,

Jag Foo

P.S 

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=> http://www.getmoreproductivenow.com/

Personal Productivity for On-line Marketers: Simple And Effective Tip On How To Beat Procrastination With The 5 Minutes Dash

Have you ever put off something you wanted to accomplish?

Perhaps it’s mainly because you felt lazy or just the idea of putting in a substantial shift to clear the workload turns you off.

Whatever your reason may possibly be, I’m certain we all have our moments of procrastination.

You tell yourself, "Okay. I am going to get it completed and over with tomorrow".

But what often happens? The next day, you find another excuse to skip the work. And again, you tell yourself the same thing to justify your laziness – that you’ll get it accomplished by tomorrow.

And thus it drags. The next day becomes yet again the next day and the next…

Make no mistakes about it.

Procrastination can be deadly especially when it concerns essential company activities. Things to do such as forming essential joint ventures, driving visitors, split testing and so on.

You are just denying your self the opportunity to further develop your company.

After all, if money loves speed, you are surely not doing yourself any favor by dragging your feet.

Inner Game Of Online Success

First of all, I am proud to announce to you the good news that there are no secrets to building and running a successful business online! There are no magic bullets, no big red buttons you can push to send money into your pocket.

Best of all, what you are about to read will surely help you succeed faster.

Education

If you have been online for at least awhile, I am sure that you have bought books from Amazon, courses from ClickBank and a whole lot of other stuff that is collecting dust on your shelves or collecting digital dust on your computer.

You are in the process of getting yourself educated so that you can have the knowledge of how to build and run a successful business online. This is a good thing, provided you will implementing what you are learn. If not, you need to practice more of what you know!

Action

If you have been to some personal development talks or some network marketing talks, you always hear about stuff like being self-motivated and taking massive action. Then again, what the heck is taking massive action?