Hickory Dickory Dock...

Hello to everyone! I am so busy these days; what, with all my online ventures all jealously competing for my attention, I feel like a kid let loose in a candy store. What to do, where to start first? Argh!!! So many juicy things I could do.

I find myself focusing only on the 'sexy' things first. When I get bored with that I jump ship onto the next sexy thing.

But this 'promiscuity' poses a major problem: Slow and staggered progress.

At least it's progress. However I should really focus just on one thing at a time, get my priorities straight, make a plan, and then work it baby work it!

'Tis the plight of many an Internet marketer to suffer from time distortion, 'missing time', & time management issues. "Time flies when you're having fun".

And things like sleep, eating, blinking, and even breathing become necessary evils; inconveniences of which we can do little to remove, without - well, suffering or even DYING!

These are things - necessities of life - we may have to live with for the time being since they are really out of our control. But time management is something that is definitely within ones control.

This I must remember & follow through on.

If you can relate to this let me know. Meanwhile I have some GROOVEY recommedations & timely tips. I would like to call to your attention:

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" By Stephen Covey. What can I say? "Mad props" - hows that? Okay, seriously though I would highly recommend this book as a life management tool not just a time management one.

If you can get a PDA or a Blackberry. Get some kind of time management tool you can use on your PDA. FranklinCovey has a free trial for one of their main time management tools. Go here to check it out. (I've created my own TM tool based on Habit 3: "First Things First". BTW, get this book too).

Tips:

• It has been said that Mary K. Ash (of Marky K Cosmetics) used write down the 5 most important things she needed to do that day. She would then carry them out starting from the most difficult & then on down the list to the easiest item of business last. (did you get all that?)
• Stephen Covey talks of a Personal Intergrity Account. Each time we follow through with our commitments/plans/'to do' list/etc, we will make a 'deposit' into this account. The net effect over time is an increased sense of self-worth, self-confidence. Success breeds success as they say. Conversley, the opposite is also true - (like so many of these natural laws we come to discover through playing with fire).
• Turn off the TV. This is the one hypnotic device that seems be able to garner ones undying devotion and single-handedly responsible for the urban phenomenon known as "missing time". This is a job for er, not the Cable Guy, but Dr Who: "Put down the remote. Put your hands where I can see them"

"The future is not set; there's no fate but what we make for ourselves." - T2