It is very easy to ignore your task lists and calendar, but I would challenge you to look what’s behind the sabotage.

Is it a task that you are avoiding because it’s overwhelming, boring, not your strength? Is it that you are feeling overwhelmed and need to step back and re-energize? Working from that knowledge, you can decide what to do next.

I wrote a Momentum Monday post on the subject of Sabotage and stepping past the overwhelm that you may find helpful!

http://www.momeomagazine.com/ditch-the-distractions/

Wishing you success on your terms!

Best,
Carla

It is very easy to ignore your task lists and calendar, but I would challenge you to look what's behind the sabotage.

Is it a task that you are avoiding because it's overwhelming, boring, not your strength? Is it that you are feeling overwhelmed and need to step back and re-energize? Working from that knowledge, you can decide what to do next.

I wrote a Momentum Monday post on the subject of Sabotage and stepping past the overwhelm that you may find helpful!

http://www.momeomagazine.com/ditch-the-distract…

Wishing you success on your terms!

Best,
Carla

I highly recommend using a timer (Polder digital timers are my favorite — you can see the “digital sand” run down). NASA studies have shown that the average person can focus for somewhere between 26 and 37 minutes. Determine where you start to lose focus/productivity/mind starts to wander and set your timer for that amount of time.

Pick a project (or just start at the top), set the timer and go…

Christina…start your article publishing with EzineArticles.com — they’re free and have a HUGE ranking/following so your stuff will be read quicker. Just remember to have a strong call to action in your Author’s Resource Box (your mini bio).

Amy…if you’re still self sabotaging and not getting the *right* things done, I’d guess that you want a stronger “why” — WHY are you doing this? WHY do you have your own business? What’s your desired outcome? It should be strong enough that just thinking about it motivates and pulls you forward to complete things.

I hope this helps,

Sandy

ABSOLUTELY! I plan everything by starting with my final desired outcome and working backwards and created an excel spreadsheet to do it for me for certain things (such as all steps needed before hosting a teleseminar and everything that has to happen for a product launch) so I just put in the date I want to launch/host/etc. and all the task dates automatically populate.

Then onto the calendar/action list they go.

And you're SO right…if you're focused on getting your own stuff done, you're less likely to be swayed to purchase all those “bright shiny objects” which frequently pop up in your email box.

Thanks for commenting!

With abundance,

Sandy

I have recently discovered the joys of “mapping” out your marketing plan onto a calendar by plotting in the outcome ata spcufic date and then working backwards to determine the tasks associated with that outcome. This has given me more clarity on my “done-ing” every day. I know exactly what is to be acheived each day, week, month to implement my marketing strategies.

The other correlation between “doneing” and profit is because you are laser focused on a your own solutions to achieving your goals you are less likely to spend money (thus increasing profit) on other people's solutions/services. Because if you are doing without “done-ing” you are not effective and will feel like your wheels are spinning and look for solutions to that problem. So rather than looking externally, look at yourself and determine your own productivity using the tips above.

My pleasure…thanks for reading and I hope you take action with the info.

With abundance,

Sandy

To help me get things done and keep sane, I have two action lists…one is *THE* list (you know, the mammoth one with everything from buy spring curtains to launch new program on it) and the other is my weekly list which is broken out by day with no more than 7 things on each day.

And whatever doesn't get done today, moves to the top of tomorrow's list and something falls to the next day so that there's never more than 7 things on my list (could be less if something takes a long time).

I hope this helps and would love to hear how you do in tracking your “dones”.

With abundance,

Sandy