Hi everyone and welcome back to another video, today's video is going to be quick but very important.
These are 7 tips that I personally use and I think you should be using to help grow your online business.
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Like I said, today's video is going to be a quick one.
But these are 7 really important tips that I use in my life.
So for all of you guys who know me personally that are watching,
you will see all of these tips as habits in my personality and I have no shame in that.
So hopefully these tips will help you if you start implementing them into your life to help you grow your online business
They are very important to me, so I think they should be very important to you.
Without further ado, let's get right into these 7 tips. Starting with Number 1 and that is to delete distractions.
For me personally this is mostly social media on my phone and email on my phone and computer as well.
So for you it may be something similar. If it is social media,
my biggest recommendation for you is what I did personally and that is to go through your
notifications on social media and go in the Settings and just turn all of the notifications Off.
As soon as I did this on my phone, I noticed a huge improvement.
I could focus for longer periods of time because I wasn't getting distracted by a ping that comes up on your phone.
A notification about someone liking a photo or someone posting something when that happens,
it just takes your brain out of the flow state and you're no longer working productive.
You come out of it, you find yourself going in, looking at your phone for 15-20 minutes.
You look back up and you're like, 'what just happened?'
So avoid that entirely. Go into the Settings, turn the
notifications off or delete the apps or your account entirely. This made a big difference in my focus.
So I think you should try it and see how it does for you.
The other part to this equation is your email.
Email is on everything and it's notifying you everywhere that's on your phone.
If it's on a SmartWatch, if you have that your tablets, your computers email follows you around everywhere.
It's the same concept when you get a new email. You're going to look and you want to read what that email is.
Maybe you have to spend 20 minutes to respond to them properly. It just puts you out of the flow,
so what I recommend doing is Unsubscribing from everything that you don't need in your email.
Most of the times we find ourselves putting in our email to sign up for something.
Then we get a ton of junk offers
sending us things that we really don't need. It may take you a few months to do this,
but go through your email and just unsubscribe from all of the junk mail.
If you're not getting 15, 20, 50 mails a day,
and maybe you're only now getting 1-5 emails a day of things that are extremely important,
you'll have all that extra brain power and brain space. They're not focusing on your email,
just going through and sorting and seeing what's important and what you need to delete. I did this one in my life as well.
I did this one years ago
but then it honestly took about six months until all of the
unsubscribes took in place and I started getting down to under 10 emails per day. And that's an amazing feeling.
So I highly recommend it for you. Look at your social media, look at your email,
see where your distractions are coming from on your devices
and try to get rid of as many distractions as you can.
Number 2, this is a huge part of my personality and this is to make sure that you are learning every day.
When we have free time in our lives, the first thing we typically go for is entertainment.
This can be on YouTube, this can be Netflix, this can be anything. But typically it's entertainment.
What I challenge you to do and my really big tip, is to try to turn that entertainment into education.
If you can find something that's entertaining and educating at the same time, that's perfect.
But try to spend your free time being educated because it'll benefit you a lot more in your life.
Especially if you can work this into your schedule every single day.
The three places I typically am going for this are YouTube, mostly audiobooks and courses that I bought in the past, go through their educational content.
So for you this may be different,
but just try to turn that entertainment into education and try to do that in your free time every day.
You'll see how much you're learning instead of just spending the time being entertained.
Number 3, this is another big one. And this is to write down real goals. A lot of people will tell you to write down goals
That's nothing new. But typically when we go to write down those goals we're writing down
I want to buy this kind of car or I want to make a lot of money and those goals really don't help us.
We're writing down the goals. We think it helps but does nothing for us.
What I recommend you do is to write down real goals. As you guys know, I focus on print-on-demand and affiliate marketing.
So I'll give you examples for both of those. For print-on-demand,
it may be, make 500 designs, create them and upload them by the of the year.
You know how many designs you have to create because you can see how many you've uploaded on the sites
and you know how much time you have left, so you can aim for that goal and you can kind of
reverse-engineer it and see; hey, I have 45 days left.
I need to make this many designs per day and that'll push you and keep you accountable.
This is also something that you can track, you can see how many you've uploaded.
How many you have to go and then for the example of affiliate marketing, it's the same thing.
It can be create 30 articles by the end of the year or whatever your time frame is, that makes sense.
This way you can track it, you can see how many you have left and how much time you have left.
These are real goals that will help you grow your online business.
Number 4, this goes right along with the goals actually and this is a huge one.
I don't see many people recommending it, but I personally use it like crazy. It's a big part of my life.
This is having a prioritized to-do list. You may find people saying to have a to-do list and it's helpful.
But as soon as you add on the element of a priority list to it, it helps like crazy.
They might be wondering what that is.
But what a prioritized to-do list is, is basically a to-do list with the items you have to do but in order of priority.
So the things that are at the top of the list are the things that are the most urgent.
Those are the things you have to get done within an hour or within a few hours, just below that on the list, are the things that are the next urgent.
Things you have to get done before the end of the day or within a couple days.
Under that within the week or a couple months and then below that,
things that you want to do within a year or general ideas for the future of your online business.
The reason that this is so important for you to do is because any time you find yourself
not knowing what to be working on and this happens a lot,
you guys know this just as well as I do. You can look at this list and whatever is at the top
has the biggest priority, that is the most urgent that you need to be working on.
So by having a running list like this,
You can always have an order of what's the most urgent that you need to work on and it also allows you to keep track
of the bigger ideas that won't come into play for a few months or a few years down the road.
Number 5, This is another huge tip, and this is to work while you are effective.
Don't force yourself to work all day long from 9 a.m. To 5 p.m. on your business.
You're simply going to burn yourself out.
You're not going to be as productive as you would be if you were working when you're efficient and in blocks.
For me blocks are typically 1 to 3 hours. So in the morning, I have a mornin block.
That's my most productive block.
Then I take a break for a while, come back for an afternoon block of one to three hours.
Take another break,
and then typically I have a night block as well, another one to three hours of work.
By working this way, your brain can be on full power for those one, two, three hours.
And you can get a lot of work done and you're not forcing yourself to work all day long.
The person that I got this idea from quite some time ago was Tim Ferriss in his book 4-hour workweek.
It's actually a great book. I'll link to it in the description, if you're interested in checking it out.
This could be a resource that you either get in book form or audiobook
and it could be part of the turning your entertainment into education
whether that's reading through this book everyday or listening to it an audiobook.
This would be a great beginners resource to kind of get your mindset right.
But in this book one of his big tips was you need to work only when you are effective, don't force yourself to work all day long.
Something that's also cool about this and it's a great side effect is if you're only working with one, two, three hour blocks,
you do three of those a day or however many as you want to do. You have a lot of time to yourself.
This brings us into the next tip. Number 6, is when you do have free time, and you're not learning new things,
spend it brainstorming on your business.
Not many people are going to tell you that you need to take time to relax and kind of unplug and brainstorm
and think abstract, creatively about your business.
But I'm telling you that's where you come up with the best ideas for the future of your business.
You may have heard the expression or seen in your own life that you come up with the best ideas when you're doing things on autopilot.
Things like driving, just following traffic, you come up with great ideas.
Or when you're in the shower you come up with just brilliant ideas.
Or fishing, waiting for fish to bite, your brain comes up with these great ideas.
But psychologically, there's actually reason to this, when you're doing things basically on autopilot and your mind knows what it's supposed to be doing;
just follow the car in front of you or just shower, just wait for the fish to bite,
your subconscious takes over and it knows that you have these ideas of print-on-demand,
affiliate marketing, and it comes up and thinks about these ideas in more creative ways and then hit you with this really great idea just
pops into your brain.
That's what you need to allow yourself time to do.
A lot of times we find ourselves going in to grind mode and we're working non-stop.
Not giving ourselves to take a step back and think and look at the bigger picture,
brainstorm about our business, so I highly recommend you do that.
Even if you're only giving yourself 10 or 15 minutes every day to just stop everything
unplug and brainstorm about your business, that will help your business because if every few days you come up with a brilliant idea,
that's a brilliant idea, you would not have had otherwise.
Now the last tip here, Number 7, is the biggest tip,
and it is so simple that most of us overlook it every single day.
But I highly recommend you do it, what this tip is is to make sure that you are drinking enough water,
you are breathing and you're getting Sun every day.
I don't know why but we often forget to do all three of these things every day
and your body performs so much better when you're doing these three fundamental things.
So throughout the day, just make sure that you are drinking enough water and make sure that you're breathing enough and getting sun.
Go outside and get vitamin D. The breathing one, I have a really good strategy that you can use.
Myself personally, I'm not good at meditating. I just can't sit still and get my brain to stop for a minute.
So what I do instead to help with breathing enough is to do a Breathing Ladder.
You may have heard me talk about this in other videos,
but essentially you just breathe in for one second, breathe out for one second, breathe in for two seconds, breathe out for two seconds.
Go all the way up as high as you can. Just breathe slowly.
You don't have to be breathing quickly, but one second one second two seconds two seconds
I can typically get up to about 20 maybe 25
until I can go 25 in and 25 seconds out.
But by the end of this you will be so relaxed and your body will feel instantly better.
So I recommend you try it. You can do it after this video.
Just try it and see how you feel after 15 20 or 25 seconds when you've built up to that and just
generally, make sure you're drinking enough water. It's so good for your body, makes your brain work better,
you will feel that difference. And getting Sun, the biggest example
I can give you to show you that Sun is so important is you know,
when it's winter and everything gets cloudy outside and it's cold and you don't go out in the Sun,
you know how your mood changes you're not as happy as you are when it's summer.
Well, that's because of the Sun. You need to make sure that you're getting vitamin D.
So get out in the Sun as much as you can. You will feel the difference from all three of these things in this tip.
So another little bonus to tie all this together is something I personally do is I combine at least 3 of these tips at once.
So in between blocks of work,
I'll go to the pool or beach to get Sun and a brainstorm about my business while drinking water and doing a breathing ladder.
That is a great way to spend your time
in between blocks of work and you're getting enough Sun by going to the pool or the beach,
you're spending 10 or 15 minutes brainstorming about your business. You're doing a breathing ladder,
so you're breathing enough, and you're drinking water while you're there.
As you can see by using these tips, you can really look at your life in a different way
and look at how you're growing your business in a way that it doesn't
have to be go-go-go or grind all the time.
If you're doing it efficiently,
you're doing it with these 7 tips your life becomes really awesome and your business will flourish as well.
Guys that's it for this video,
I just really wanted to share these 7 tips that I personally use that helped me a ton and hopefully
by you watching this you can start implementing these and get real results to grow your online business.
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