5 ways work from home Action Plan | work at home jobs online
Do you have a daily action plan that
sets you up for success? If your answer is NO let me state at this point that
you are doing several things daily …
Let’s look at a few:
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you tend to fumble about your day with no clear direction about
what to do with your time
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You possibly let a whole day go by possibly looking at your
to-do list only to realize that very little got
accomplished.
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You have plenty of distractions throughout the day that can take
your focus off your goals.
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Some distractions may be stronger as you try to avoid the very
tasks you know need to be done for example “income-producing activities” like calling
your leads or making a video, writing a post, etc
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Instead you possibly end up doing mundane tasks such as watering
the plants, folding laundry, scrolling through Facebook, making dinner, or
vacuuming the living room which are non-income producing activities.
As one who is working from the comfort
of your home, you are responsible
for creating your own tasks and schedule, a fact many of us home business entrepreneurs
forget. The fact that everyone’s
distractions are different does not minimize the reality that these distractions can sabotage your
success if you don’t find a way to minimize or eliminate them.
Let me at this time share with you 5 daily
activities which you can begin doing today in order to increase your
productivity, stay on focus, and get more out of your day.
1. Begin Your Day
With A Purpose
How you spend your morning sets the tone for your entire day. If you wake up groggy with no purpose, then the rest of your day will reflect that. How often do you find yourself just rolling out of bed and immediately checking your phone; scrolling through Facebook posts, checking email, or reading text messages.
How you spend your morning sets the tone for your entire day. If you wake up groggy with no purpose, then the rest of your day will reflect that. How often do you find yourself just rolling out of bed and immediately checking your phone; scrolling through Facebook posts, checking email, or reading text messages.
By doing this you completely
give away your personal power at the very
start of your day causing you to focus
on other people’s problems or requests rather than be centered and complete any
of your own tasks that day.
To start your mornings with intention one
recommendation is putting “your
phone on airplane mode”. This act lets you begin your day putting
yourself and your goals as the number one priority.
Some suggestions on how to do this:
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Plan your day the night before
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Read a chapter from a motivational book
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Spend time meditating
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Listen to a morning motivational call (like the awesome one MLSP
hosts every weekday)
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Write down in a journal what you are grateful for
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Drink a green smoothie, juice, or eating a healthy breakfast to
fuel your brain and energy
By doing any of these things or a
combination thereof is a sure way to start your day off full of energy, passion, and excitement for your
business.
2. Make Income-Producing Activities Your First Choice
This demands major mindset shifts. One of those shifts is to stop thinking like an hourly paid or salaried employee because the reality is you don’t get paid for time as an entrepreneur. You get paid for the VALUE you bring to the marketplace.
2. Make Income-Producing Activities Your First Choice
This demands major mindset shifts. One of those shifts is to stop thinking like an hourly paid or salaried employee because the reality is you don’t get paid for time as an entrepreneur. You get paid for the VALUE you bring to the marketplace.
Avoid filling your days with busy work
just to feel productive. It’s much more
important to focus on income-producing activities such as the activities that
actually bring in sales.
Here are a few suggestions I am passing on to you:
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Create a master list of ALL of the tasks you need to accomplish
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Go through the list and pick your TOP 3 tasks that are most
important
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Complete ONLY those tasks for a designated amount of time with
no other distractions
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Once those 3 tasks are done, pick the next 3 most important
WOW!!
How easy is that!!
NOW
FOR THE HARD PART:
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Doing these activities first thing in the morning as opposed to
later in the day, it decreases the chances of them not getting accomplished. This demands a real plan
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Typically, we get more and more interruptions as
the day goes on, so knock out your
profit producing tasks before the world can distract you!
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Schedule your content in advance. Doing this clears more of your time during the day
to engage with followers and prospects. This might be a good strategy if you have
difficulty completing your content.
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Batch your work
and see what items you can get done in one sitting. For e.g. making videos? Make 5 or 10 in one
session. The same is recommended with your blog posts, or emails to your list, images
you create, and social media posts you share. Plan, prepare, and schedule out
what you can so that your week is filled with more income-producing activities.
3. Approach your activities with
Intensity
Take ACTION. You need to know exactly what you desire and do the necessary tasks consistently to make it happen.
Take ACTION. You need to know exactly what you desire and do the necessary tasks consistently to make it happen.
Here is where you shift roles from consumer to business owner.
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Don’t purchase course after course with no implementation.
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Don’t attend webinars to learn new strategies but never share
that knowledge with the marketplace.
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Don’t keep planning and dreaming of success, but get stuck in
busy work rather than the activities that will make you money.
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If your WHY is strong enough and you focus more on
your future self rather than your current circumstances, taking massive action
will be something that comes easily to you over time.
4. Keep Track Of Your Results and
Progress or Lack of It
If you never track anything, how
will you know what works?
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You need to record your daily business activities as well as the
results they produced if you truly want to build a scalable business.
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Set goals for yourself, such as how many email subscribers you
want to join your list each month or what monthly income goal you want to hit
in 90 days.
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Once you create some “measurable goals”, you can then
break them down into smaller goals. Then you are able to determine what
activities you need to do on a daily basis in order to produce those results.
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An example of a
measurable goal:
Let’s say you want to get 10 leads per
day from video marketing. If you know that ONE of your videos typically
generates 2 leads per day, then you would need to make at a minimum four more
videos (with comparable traffic and calls to action) to get to 10 leads per
day.
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Now if you didn’t track your results, then you wouldn’t be able
to determine which activity you should do more of and which activity no longer
serves you.
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The more you track, the more you can improve! The more you improve,
the more you can grow as a person and business.
5. Surrounding Yourself with Positive
Influences – Including How You Think
What are “negative influences”?
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These can be things like TV, radio, social media posts, and even
family and friends. To reach your true potential and achieve your goals, it is
crucial that you remove or minimize these negative influences from
your life.
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Even more important is to surround
yourself with the people and information that you DO want in your life.
These are the positive influences that serve you and help you grow.
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Positive
influences can include success books, motivational videos, meditation
mp3s, personal development audio books, online communities in your niche, and
people who support and encourage your vision.
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If you can’t physically surround yourself with people who “get
it”, you can easily accomplish this by surrounding yourself with messages that
reinforce what you are working to accomplish.
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Turn your car
into a university on wheels by listening to personal development on rides.
Follow and engage on social media posts by people who understand and support
your journey. Plug into a community (like MLSP) where you are free to ask
questions, be yourself, and get the feedback you need to achieve your goals.
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“As a home
business owner, you will face obstacles, criticism and setbacks. To get through
these hurdles you will need an unshakeable
success mindset and positive
friends to cheer you on, hold you accountable, and help you get back on track
when you lose your way.”
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To Your Success
Marva Cooke
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