If you are a home body, a mom, or house husband the chances are good you are earning a living by working at home. Or you may work FROM home. Either which way, you are one of a growing number of entrepreneurs who chose to lay off your boss.
Under some circumstances it would be very easy to feel isolated while working at home. If those around you are three and five years old there won't be an abundance of adult conversation. When a spouse goes to work and the house is quiet enough to accomplish many things but there is now no "adult supervision" you may become distracted by television, the view outdoors, or what is calling your name from the refrigerator.
One of the things that can serve you well in this kind of work environment is habit. There is a lot of power in habit; that power can enable you in your work or it can hamper your efforts. It all depends on how you apply it.
Habit works with the precision of a machine. Your behaviors program your habits and your behavior reinforces the programming. You can use this to your advantage or you can allow it to bring you down. The choice is entirely up to you.
Here are some of the habits you might like to consider programming and reinforcing to help you boost your bottom line:
Create a daily task list and prioritize your items. This will assist you in minimizing distractions and help you to remain focused on your goals.
Reward yourself for accomplishments. An example of that might be to finish a blog post, then read for pleasure for half an hour. Or if you post an article or press release, you have earned a cookies n milk break. Set up your rewards to suit the task involved and your personal preferences.
You may want to consider hiring child care for a certain block of time so you are not interrupted with the needs of others. For instance if your children nap during the afternoon, you may want to have help during the morning so you'd have assistance with lunch. Design your days for maximum productivity.
Sitting to make phone calls or work on the computer for long periods will require that you physically move your body from time to time. Set a timer, if necessary, and take a moment or two between tasks to stretch your muscles. In case you do not have an exercise program in place, you would be wise to begin at once.
If it falls to you to perform household tasks, plan your day around those. Don't fall into the trap of getting caught up in laundry, dishes, sweeping and bed making and forfeit time that could be used in your marketing efforts. One resource I'd like to share with you in that regard is a website that is loaded with ideas for organizing tasks:FlyLady is one of my best friends and with good reason! Be sure to visit her but be warned that it is a very large website and you could spend too much time looking at all that's offered there. Set your timer and return to your tasks when it rings!
Be very clear about what you WANT and what you DO NOT WANT. If you do not want interruptions in your day, then set your boundaries and make sure they are not trespassed. Post your "Office Hours." If you want to network with people, meet them for breakfast or coffee throughout the workday. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to create the kind of work environment you like best.
One last point I would offer is that if you are working at home and are not affiliated with a coaching program you can trust implicitly, please study this list and make a choice that suits YOUR needs and reinforces your best habits:
Life is filled with choices and these programs are designed to help you make wise ones. Here's hoping you can choose good work habits to create good things for yourself and the people you love most!
You have been in the loop about the merger of Lay Off Your Boss 3 for some time; that launch is taking place TOMORROW, July 21, 2009! That's the GOOD NEWS. The bad news can wait.
Jeff created Lay Off Your Boss with his business partner, Dixie Brown, who is renowned for her technical expertise and the two of them have enjoyed internet coaching success. Their integrity is legendary. Their coaching skills are unparalleled. When Paul Counts burst onto the scene with his search engine optimization skills he rounded out the group to a fare-thee-well!
Nothing is static. Energy itself is always moving. That holds true for internet marketing and coaching programs as well. To improve the delivery of quality coaching, to educate internet marketers about search engine results and in order to teach marketers at every level the Lay Off Your Boss 3 Team will officially merge with the existing program set up by Keith Wellman: AutoPilot WealthInstitute. If you would like more detail about the updated program you can get the full exciting 411 about AutoPilot Wealth Institute on Tuesday, July 21!
Now for the bad news: There will be no wedding cake. I know. I'm disappointed, too. But serving cake would have been too complex for cyberspace. Surely the joys and benefits of working with the AutoPilot Wealth Institute will make up for our disappointment.
Today is Saturday. A weekend day. Time to sleep in, eat a leisurely breakfast and linger over coffee. Maybe it's a good day to run errands, get in a game of golf or catch up on home repairs.
This is the way many people will spend their day but not the Lay Off Your Boss 3 Team. Internet coach Jeff Wellman; internet marketing's Queen of Tech,Dixie Brown and Paul Counts, whose genius is search engine optimization have other plans: This Tremendous Trio is busily testing every aspect of their upcoming launch event. Then they will retest everything. After that, they will check everything all over again. After all, they are about to launch AutoPilot Wealth Institute and become the Fresh Fab Four!
Jeff, Dixie, Paul, and the new partner, Keith Wellman, have been hovering over their project like mama birds with babies to care for. Every aspect of every detail of their new product is being looked after with special attention to detail.
They want everything to be perfect when they unveil their new coaching program replete with all its best features: unparalleled technical assistance, numerous video tutorials, question and answer sessions, detailed webinars, and a delivery system that will be unmatched. There are so many features incorporated into AutoWealth Pilot Institute that internet marketing as we have known it will be reinvented!
Jeff, Dixie, Paul and Keith are devoted to the idea of helping internet marketers solve their internet marketing problems.
They have uniquely addressed a number of problems internet marketers encounter when they work to make money online and learn how to make money from home. The Fresh Fab Four will also bring to the table all their vast expertise in internet marketing, coaching, and unique abilities to think outside the box!
Stay close to your Inbox because you'll want all the details. Launch date is Tuesday, July 21!
Can you put your internet marketing business on auto-pilot? Do you have the search engine optimization nailed down? Have you created your own product? Did you make arrangements for Joint Venture Partners and have they helped you create buzz about your Launch event?
It's important to be audacious about creating and maintaining an online presence. You need to educate yourself about the technical aspects, the nuts and bolts of doing commerce online and how to implement online marketing strategies.
As you know, I've been in the process of preparing for an impending "marriage." One successful existing online marketer will soon tie the knot, joining him to the group known by some as The Tremendous Trio. The result will be The Fresh Fab Four.
Jeff Wellman created Lay Off Your Boss 3 and he was joined by the Tech Queen herself, Dixie Brown. Those two were humming along when up popped Paul Counts who is renowned all over cyberspace for his incredible skills with search engine optimization. Together the three of them have regrouped themselves and presented the world with Rapid Cash Marketing. Now there are "wedding" plans in the works. I'd advise you to stay close to your Inbox so you won't miss a single detail in the upcoming weeks. When you find out how amazing their plans are, you will most assuredly want to be included.
Friday evening was spent in preparation for the Big Event. There was a Question and Answer call conducted and I filled 5 pages with careful, detailed notes of the information I gleaned. The call was two hours in length.
The reason I mention this activity is because last week I was to participate in a conference call and it did not go as planned. I expected to be the moderator and each participant would offer input, suggestions and ideas to all the others. Well, as it turned out, our conference line was one of those where you could call in and LISTEN, NOT PARTICIPATE. It was NOT an interactive line!
If you have ever been a call listener and could not ask questions or have information clarified or repeated you can clearly relate to my frustration level! I understand that many marketers provide conference calls that are NOT interactive. Furthermore, the calls are time limited.
It is understandable that marketers and gurus alike are busy and may not have the luxury of time to hear an entire call. But how disappointed would YOU be if you had a burning question and the call ended before you had a chance to speak up? Worse, what if you were not ALLOWED to ask questions in a live call? Oh, dear...there goes your freedom of speech! Because of this one factor, your online dreams could slide right down the drain!
Maybe having access to a Q and A session once a week would make all the difference in your being prepared to do business online, in an work-at-home scenario. You don't need me to tell you that times are tough and you could create some income IF ONLY you had the tools and felt prepared to work from home in your own enterprise. We all seek success. We certainly deserve as much. Who was quoted as saying something about the harder we worked and the more prepared we are, the luckier we get>
Make your key word SUCCESS, be as prepared as your local Scout troop and put more income into your family's resources! What will it mean to them when you make that a reality?
I've had a flurry of emails flooding my Inbox today...seems folks are buzzing and Tweeting and chatting about the impending "arranged marriage" between the good people from Lay Off Your Boss 3 and...well, now THAT IS THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION, is it not?
As a matter of fact, I do know who the "groom" is but if I told you I'd have to tie you up and plug up your pie hole to keep you from telling others.
This news WILL knock your socks off, people, and toss them into the washer! Your head may explode, even. I do hope your insurance is up to date. We don't want any mishaps before the Big Event.
People who have struggled to make ends meet, online marketers who are challenged to make a profit, anyone who has almost given up on their dream of working at home in their very own online business, people who crave independence and freedom will be greatly assisted when this marriage takes place.
Rapid Review Rumor has it that there may be a CONTEST in the works and if that's true, I can promise you it will be a DOOZY. The Tremendous Trio* will be transformed into the Fresh Fabulous Four** and in the process we can expect very big and exciting adventures in success!
Stay tuned. As more information filters into my Inbox and my consciousness I will keep all of you in the loop!
Connie Baum
*The Tremendous Trio is made up of Jeff Wellman, Dixie Brown and Paul Counts. **Fresh Fabulous Four? Comprised of Tremendous Trio + 1 Surprise Marketer!
No doubt you have heard about the "arranged marriage" or merger between Chrysler and Fiat. But what you may NOT have heard yet is that one of the #1 internet marketers is joining forces with another MAJOR PLAYER!
What will that mean for you and for me? This new arrangement will provide more support, more training, more opportunity and, high on my list: more fun! If something is not fun, I am not interested. One of the features of the Lay Off Your Boss 3 bunch is that they tend to over deliver. Take for example a recent webinar of theirs: the session was slated for one hour and they were still teaching and answering questions for more than an ADDITIONAL hour! That's how Jeff Wellman rolls and his business partners, Dixie Brown-a technical whiz-and Paul Counts-a search engine optimizer-operate the very same way. They give and give and give of themselves and all three of them take great pleasure in seeing their students learn and prosper.
As their merger with another Top Notch marketer evolves, they have pledged to give top value, and deliver even more resources! Now, this will be a marriage made in CyberHeaven!
I've always thought of Jeff, Dixie, and Paul as the Tremendous Trio...as this business arrangement expands to include yet another talented, successful person I must begin to rethink that. Hm, how about we call them The Fresh Fab Four?
Stay tuned, folks. I have a feeling there is more good stuff coming down the pike!
