Subject: There Just Isn't Enough Time

 

There are so many times that I have a new person join my business and tell me that their time was limited to just a few hours a week and yet still want me to impart them with the tools to becoming a hyper successful internet network marketer. It's time that I prove them wrong.

The first thing to learn is that there is always time as long as you make it.

In network marketing, or any business as far as that is concerned your largest asset, as well as your largest hurdle to overcome, is the question of time. How do I make it and where am I going to find it?

Here are a few tips based on my experience . . .

When I first began my internet network marketing business time was definitely an issue as I still held down a full time job so I had to make time.

I learned a few things . . .

One of the biggest lessons is: You make time for what's important to you.

Now I'm not saying skip out on work, that's what puts food on the table, and of course that is number one until you liberate yourself from that concern.

But . . .

There are things that you do in the day that don't make you more productive despite what you may think.

Number one is access . . .

Living in the highly connected society that we do it's hard not to stay connected. That goes double when you have a network marketing organization budding below you.

In network marketing it's all about relationships, passion, and growth and well . . . It's that first thing that I think we often get stumped on.

Network marketers falsely believe that we have to be accessible to everyone at all times. From my experience, that's simply not true!

When I first started to see strong growth in my organization (and even today) I tended to get an over abundance of emails and calls from people that wanted something.

It was like I was a 7-11, open 24-hours/7 days a week! I believed that this was the way it had to be if I was to be a good sponsor.

You may disagree with what I'm about to say to you, but it's the truth . . . 75% of your communications with others are a waste of time.

Why?

They would figure it out for themselves! People tend to email and call about little things that if they just took five minutes researching, they would find the solution themselves. It's a waste of your time to respond to these "lazy" emails and calls. In essence doing the work for them and robbing them of the chance to think things through for themselves and learn something.

Also when you allow it, people get needy, and when you're new to success you think you have to cater to it or else you're not being the best that you can be.

WRONG!

The first, and sometimes hardest way, to free up your time is to let needy concerns go.

Disconnect, turn off the cell phone for a few hours. I promise it's not going to hurt.

I'm as big a culprit as any when it comes to this. People call me and look me up at any time. An hour may pass and nothing happens except a not so important conversation.

Let go. Please let go.

Disconnect for a while and you'll find time you never knew was there.

Second . . .

Be realistic when it comes to your time in a day. I used to write to do lists that would go on for pages each and every morning and at the end of the day only have 4 things on my list of 41 done.

And usually they were the easiest things on that list to get done.

So be realistic, when you have huge tasks and lots of little ones be realistic with your time. Don't write a list of 83 things to do today when you know only, at most, 7 will get done.

Create your list and put a time next to each task for how long it will take and then stick to it. Don't continue working on your first task four hours past your allotted time. Stop when it's time to stop and move on.

It's easy to say but hard to do. It takes discipline, but you get a lot more done when you do it.

Third is focus . . .

Ideas are great and can come in an instant and can add new things to your To Do list in a second, which is both good and bad.

Each month focus on one task, write your ideas down If they are not important to today's or this week's work keep them documented. Continue to work on your main focus of the month.

For instance if lead generation is your task this month...

Great!

Learn and do as much as is needed to be the best at that task. Brainstorm and test new things. What you'll find is at the end of the month you'll be much better at lead generation.

What happens is you start out the day thinking about lead generation and by the end of the night you start cooking up ideas on a new promotion for your team because of a great idea you had earlier.

Leave it until next month when promotion is your focus.

Again, easy to say, but harder to do . . .

Finally just get to it.

Write your task list and get to them. Don't think about how you're going to get them done, or what the best order to get them done in is. You're wasting valuable time!

Get to it.

More time is wasted thinking about when to get something done when you should just be doing it.

Know your tasks and then do them.

When I first started my business time was a huge factor. I had to get up, take a shower, and then get to work for 8 hours.

Never mind contacting 40 new prospects, writing new promotions for our team, learning new skills, or creating a team marketing guide.

What did I do?

I just made sure to wake up 3 hours earlier to get my business done before I went to work.

By the end of the day I only had the personal contacts left and maybe a few details.

The best time to get REAL work done is the morning before. That's normally when you're alone, before anyone can bother you with little time wasting tasks. So use this free time!

These are just a few tips to find more time in your day I've learned through experience. Put them to use and you'll see what I'm saying.

You can get it all done, you just have to make time for it.

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