This is an excellent blog by Seth Godin – we all need to shut out the negativity and focus on positiveness:
“Not sure why you would want to reinforce the noise in your head that tells you not to speak up, stand out and do work that matters, but if you do, a surefire way to do it is to focus your attention on every piece of negative feedback in your environment. Or to imagine every possible disaster that could befall you, and to do it repeatedly. Or to carefully study anonymous comments, tweets and online reviews from people who don’t like the work you’re doing. Or focus on the one paragraph in your annual review called ‘weaknesses’. Or spend the day thinking about the one slip of the tongue you made this morning…
You can listen to your customers murmur about you online, except that pleased customers tell a few people, angry ones tell everyone. So it’s really easy to misinterpret a few as a deluge.
On the other hand, once you accept that this is self-sabotaging behavior, you might choose to deliberately ignore interactions that amplify the very noise you’re trying to avoid.”
Keep the newspaper and TV away and stay on the positive side of things. Remember where you are is up to you.
Do you want to be more successful, then program your mind for success.
How do you do that? There are 5 simple steps…
1. First of all make a list of 5 important things that you want to accomplish the balance of this year.
2. Next Look at the unconscious patterns in your life that are keeping you from accomplishing these goals.
4. When you catch yourself doing one of these unconscious patterns (like eating or looking at e-mail to avoid doing something you do not want to do), STOP immediately and do something drastically different – like a few push-ups or eat some nutricious food.
5. Now replace this unconsious pattern with something that gives you immediate pleasure AND which will help you accomplish your long term goals – like doing a small step in accomplishing your goal. Do chunking for 45 minutes on one of your goals.
So to program your mind once your know your goals and understand uncouscious patterns keeping your from your goals, you basically do the following:
Recognize the pattern when it occurs
Break the pattern immediately
Replace the pattern with a better response
Do this process enough times and you will really be a whizz at getting things done and be a true success.
What is journaling and why would you want to journal?
Journaling is writing about your thoughts and feelings. So what does that accomplish? In this day’s stress and hurry we need some way to relieve stress, to take some focused time to think, and to understand ourselves and what we need to do next – in other words … to reflect.
Whether we are MLMers, affiliate marketers, or online marketers we all need a break – especially when we are starting our businesses but probably more important as we grow our business and ourselves.
Facebook and Twitter and other web 2.0 properties allow for online journaling for some people, others consider this too public for their taste. But everyone can get something out of journaling – public or private.
An excellent blog that I have found about journaling is Journaling Gems. The author provides tips and also excellent journal writing ideas in the form of quotes that she has collected over the last 35 years – the quotes to help you to journal. If you are interested in journaling or already journal or love quotes I suggest you look at it.
Whether you want to journal online or just between you and your computer, start journaling. You will benefit a lot!
Do you want to make money using the internet, blogs, twitter, facebook? First you need to understand what social media and social marketing are all about. One of the best trainings on social media is given by social media guru Katie Freiling in her 7-day Social Media Income Transformation Series . It is excellent!
She discusses:
Social Media Mindset
Content
Who do you network with
Your Own Personal Brand
Would you like an automated blog on a topic in your niche? That is, someone to design a blog that automatically picks up blog posts from other blogs and puts the posts on your blog. It’s simple … check out this video by Dave Sherwin - one of the developers of the Social Marketing Black Box. He shows, with a review of a site, a cool example of how to get it done.
Check out the site: Social Marketing Black Box if this is something you would like to help lighten your social marketing workload. It’s a fantastic service!
To Your success…
Tenny Keil
tjkeilbus@gmail.com
PS. Comment on the video and let me know what you think of the Social Marketing Black Box. It is a great time-saver and stress reliever. It will allow you to have more time to concentrate on other areas to make you successful in social marketing!!
Are you chunking? The internet world has numerous ways of devouring our time without us being conscious of the time. Have you ever been on Facebook or Twitter and several minutes later you find yourself on a web site wondering how you got there? Or have you been reading email and ended up on a web site reading away with interest and then wondered why or how your got there?
If so, you need to learn how to chunk! You need to time box or chunk your time. Basically this means dividing your time into sizable chunks (made up of meaningful and measurable tasks) and specifically only something using a single skill with little interaction with other chunks or skills.
The first thing you should do is to write down the chunks associated with what you are going to do next.
Suppose you’re going through your email:
1. Read your email first without clicking on videos, audios, or website links. As you read delete those emails that you do not want to keep or look at further. When you are chunking you obviously will need some scratch paper to jot notes down on things you may want to go back to.
2. Go back to the emails with items you want to investigate further but will not take notes on.
3. Go back and take notes on those based on your time and interests
Throughout this process, when you are either listening to a video/audio or on a website do not allow yourself to go directly to another web site or another video/audio that might be suggested, just write it down for later and stick with your plan. The plan when you will go to these other websites or videos/audios.
Remember you need to control where you go and stay on purpose.
You will need to experiment with this a bit to understand how it will best work for you but it can save you an enormous amount of time.
To your success…
Tenny Keil
tjkeilbus@gmail.com
PS. Comment and let me know how this works for you.
How do your find your best keywords? You want to sell something on the internet but do not want to spend a fortune to do it and want to draw people to buy your product. How do you do that? You find the best keywords – those keywords that convert into sales (By keywords I mean a long-tail keywords, or a “keyword” containing several words).
Here is a cookbook process:
1. Find words that cover the emotions and wants that your product is filling.
2. Create a short list of 10-20 emotional keywords based on those words
4. From this you have a list of 100-200 keywords, narrow it down to the top 20-30 keywords by looking at those with the most clicks and the least number of sites using that keyword.
5. Open a Google Adwords campaign – since the words are not used very often the cost will be minimal.
6. Run a test with the 20-30 selected keywords.
7. And presto, the keywords that have the best conversion (more sales) are your best keywords.
Hope this helps….
Tenny Keil
tjkeilbus@gmail.com
PS. Comment and let me know what you think.
PPS. The information for this article came from an article by Dearl Miller, a trafficologist, under the sponsorship of Magnetic Sponsoring
Are you really a friendly person? Check out this 5-minute video. Nine principles for becoming more friendly are given – some things are obvious others are not. It was recorded by David Riklan, a self-growth guru, and is based on Dale Carnegie’s book “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Enjoy it.
I recently listened to an audio interview of Tellman Knudson, a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) expert and hypnotist, who explained what he calls a “super-simple change-a-week” technique for re-training your brain for success.
The technique is basically doing one simple change a week in the direction of your goals and do it every day for 7 days. It works like hotcakes! I have been using it for a month to help me with better time management. I have been getting that extra hour every day and, in fact, feeling less stressed than before. Just by simply re-programming my habits in a slow but sure way.
The process is a follows:
1. Pick a goal that you want to achieve. Choose only one specific goal related to lifestyle, habits, or whatever you want….
2. Write down a list of 20-30 things that will help you get there PROVIDED they take between 0 and 15 minutes. Best are things that take no time. Also the things must not be drudgery, they must be things you want to do.
3. The first week pick one of the things and do it every day for 7 days. If it is work related then doing it for 5 days is OK.
4. At the end of the week do the following:
a) If you did the thing every day then continue doing it the next week
b) If you missed a day or more, drop the task (either cross it off your list OR try it some other time)
5. For the next week, pick a new thing from your list and repeat steps 3-5.
Once you get to the end of the year you will have made great strides toward your goal without a great deal of pain and overload. You will have re-programmed yourself for success.
or …. whatever.
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