Whether you jump in your car with a mug of coffee, battle traffic before you battle office politics, or you’re a stay-at-home mom, you know you don’t want to do it forever.
I get it!
I used to jump in the car and battle traffic for about an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening Monday through Friday.
Several of my friends work-at-home now too. We all have different reasons for doing it.
Maybe we were looking to:
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We become what we think. This quote has been proven over and over again.
If we perceive something bad is going to happen to us, many times it does.
On the contrary, if we believe something good is going to happen, this often becomes true as well.
Science has affirmed the link between positive affect and its impact on an individual’s motivation and performance.
If we expect the best or we expect the worst, we’re usually not disappointed. Each time we perceive a positive thought, it increases our own perceptions of positive expectancy.
For motivation to last, it requires constant thinking with daily positive reinforcement.
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See my previous post about the importance of using social networks for your business and how you can use them to build trust and relationships that convert into a larger, loyal list of subscribers. We touched on Facebook and will now touch on Twitter. These two platforms are the most successful tools to promote your business. Twitter can be linked to your Facebook page to show your Tweets in your feed, further helping you to optimize your efforts. Continue reading
Everywhere you turn it seems that someone is touting the benefits of long-term thinking. If you’re too focused on long-term thinking, you lose sight of the increased success that you can find when you practice short-term planning.
What’s so sad is that too many people get advised to “think about the future” instead of living in the present. It’s important to have a healthy balance of long and short-term planning.
The long-term portion enables you to dream big and shoot for the stars. The short-term efforts allow you to see immediate progress and enjoy the steps you’re taking on a regular basis.
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High-level business leaders are experts in delegation as they have learned that they can’t do everything themselves.
Delegation becomes increasingly more important as you progress through your career and will greatly increase your productivity.
There is no other skill that will increase your productivity to the same degree as being able to delegate successfully.
To be successful, you need to allocate as much time as possible to the development of your business.
This requires focusing a significant amount of time on planning for the short-term and long-term goals of your organization.
In practice, this is actually difficult to do as your time gets overtaken with everyday operational tasks, problems, and putting out fires.
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