How To Transform Busyness In Your Business

How many of us get stuck and feel overwhelmed for time to time in our home business?

Lack of attention and focus on tasks can be a distraction. 

Here are some great tips to help you take stock, step back and get your business in order.

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Colette Morrisaka WorkfmhomeDiva

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Time Management Video

Time Management video follow up from my 12 hot tips in my previous post.




Your turn, what do you to to help you get your horrible tasks completed? Leave me a comment below   

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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Internet Marketing Strategist & Business Coach
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Are you Wasting Time With Your Updates to a Gazillion Sites?

 How many hours do you waste producing a video or a blog post or an article, then have to spend more time updating your various social media sites. 

Today I'm going to share with you one of my number of secret marketing tools that help me save more time in my day.


 As promised here is my latest You Tube Video tutorial on using PING FM. 






 Your turn: - what time saving tools do you use or have you heard of that you would like me to review? Leave a comment below....

Colette Morris F.R.S.A

Internet Marketing Strategist & Business Coach
http://www.BuildYourBusinessOnline.info

Procrastination -Tips to Stop Procrastination

If you find your always start something but can never seem to finish, or you tend to put things off what you know you can and should be doing, then you are probably a procrastinator.

Lack of focus can be a reason for procrastination as is lack of good time management and organizational skills. 

So what can be done to help improve and stop procrastination.

1. Start using a 'to do' list - put all your tasks down on paper or electronically.  Whatever you find easy to use.
2.  Prioritise your tasks.  Are the tasks listed really necessary, can you delegate? What is urgent to be done now, and what can be done later
3. Put a timescale against your to do lists and priorities . Make it realistic and try to stick to them
4. Focus on completing one thing at a time,and try not to start several tasks at once leaving them part way through.  It's much easier working on one thing at a time.  
5. Sometimes you have just got to do the horrible tasks first.  Don't think about it, just do it..

If you follow the above,this will help to cut down on procrastination and you get a great sense of satisfaction when you complete each task. 

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Internet Marketing Strategist & Business Coach
http://www.BuildYourBusinessOnline.info

Are you Scared of Objections On The Phone?

Hey Networkers, today my blog is about talking to potential prospects. You see I have just had the exciting pleasure of going through the Black Belt Recruiting Course by Mike Dillard and this is great stuff...why didnt I find it sooner: )

So often when we get on the phone to our potential prospects some how or other our intended message seems to get 'lost in translation'. This is not about speaking different languages, well it is and it isn't. It is not about whether you speak English and your prospect speaking GREEK, it is about being on the same LEVEL and WAVE LENGTH.  

It is about how well you can convey yourself to your prospect.  Do you let them take charge in the conversation? Or are you a leader and are able to pull the conversation back in your side of the court?  Being able to do the latter will bring you much more respect and qudos as being a leader. 

Let's face it, people look to join leaders, and if you are just not seen to be cutting it as a leader, then you are going to travel a long up hill road to being successful in this industry.

So, what did I learn from the black belt recruiting course....there is an art to handling objections, there is a mindset that YOU as a leader needs to have, there are TIME MANAGEMENT rules and decisions you need to make- all to ensure you are not wasting your valuable commodity TIME....and more....

If you haven't heard of BlackBelt Recruiting then take a peak here.... there is a FREE one hour video giving away useful tips

How to Get More Time Out of Your Day

How to get the most out of your day



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Tips to help your creativity

These are some handy tips I have gleaned through re-reading The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz.

Take 10 minutes at the beginning of each day and ask yourself the following: You will need paper and pen to note any thoughts down.
1. How can I do a better job today? – list down all the thoughts that come to mind
2. Ask yourself, what can I do today to encourage my colleagues
3. What special favour can I do for my clients / customers
4. What can I do to improve my personal efficiency today

This is so simple an exercise to do, and it really does help you to focus on the tasks to hand on a daily basis.

In his book David Schwartz talks about having a self improvement plan. What is this you say. Well, by asking the questions above and blitzing out the ideas comes up with a plan that you can effectively put into place during that week, and over time if monitored or reviewed will show practical improvements and results.

Be more receptive to ideas given to you by other colleagues, co-workers, clients. Get rid of the ‘can’t work’ ‘not the way it is done’ attitude. Be more open as to how it can be done, expanding on the thoughts and ideas to create more positive ideas and possibly solutions.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A aka WorkfmhomeDiva
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Effective Time Management and Working From Home

Here is an excerpt from an article I wrote recently online.


If like me you are a busy mother, full time employee and business woman, chances are you have created a method to your madness. If however, you would like to improve upon your time management skills both in your personal and work life, then I hope the following gives you some ideas to help achieve this.

I can't seem to do anything with out my Personal Diary Assistant. My head is like a seive at times, I found that having an electronic diary works for me. If however, you like the good old fashioned paper based diary, then these tips will work also.

First of all on a day to day basis, begin to block out your time. From the time you wake up to the time you go to bed, mark out what activities you wish to achieve in that time. Include the school run, domestic tasks such as housework or shopping as well as your day job if you have one. Equally important is marking out Family Time. Even though you may have started an online business to generate more income, does not mean your family life has to suffer. Then most of all and importantly you need to include valuable ME time. Time where you can unwind and relax, or tiem for the Gym or other social activities. Once those tasks are down, then look at the available free time you have. It will all become clearer on paper.

If you have a work from home business, then begin my marking out your personal development time, time for training and learning, talk to your sponsor about how much time should be spent on these activities. I suspect in the beginning it will be a lot of time. Let's face it, there will be a lot of reading, researching, planning and activition happening all at frightening speed. It can get overwhelming if you let it.

You can read more of this article at the following link


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://oneyearplan.net

Quick Goal Setting Tips

Found these great tips on line for goal setting, thought you could use them....
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1. Make goals meaningful. Goal setting for the sake of goal setting almost always ends in disappointment. Goal setting is simply a tool to use in achieving a favorable outcome -- what some people call a "Dream."

2. Use positive language and the present tense when setting a goal. It is better to say "I weigh a healthy, trim and fit 185 pounds" than "I want to lose 20 pounds."

3. Always put your goals in writing. Every expert agrees that setting a goal without putting it in writing drastically reduces your chances of success.

4. Goal setting should take place in every area of your life, including Health, Relationships, Spiritual, Career and Financial.

5. Setting Life Goals will add dimension, excitement and texture to your life.

6. Failure doesn't always mean that you did something wrong in your goal setting or implementation. It may just mean that the time you allotted for success wasn't adequate. A thorough review process should be undertaken before setting the goal again.


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://bewealthywithme.info

Activities for Achieving Goals

Have you always wanted to know why some people consistently hit their goals and targets while others don't or can't seem to? Here are some activities which if actioned on a regular consistent basis can help change your life and attitude.

Jim Rohn, the great philospher once said "Life is influenced by how we feel. What you know is where you will arrive" and another great quote by Jim Rohn which says it all for me "Direction determines Destination".

More from this article at the following link: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Colette_Morris


Colette Morris F.R.S.A
Top Producer and Mentor
This is My Work From Home Business
http://bewealthywithme.info

Daily Visualisation, Manifesting your Goals

Everyone has goals and dreams, but not everyone follows them through.
Life gets in the way, throws out untimely events to put you off track. Thats why it is really important to have some ME time on a daily basis. Spend 15 minutes a day first thing in the morning is ideal and possibly last thing at night. Just taking time out to focus on your dreams and goals can set you up for a great focussed day.


Whe you think about your goals or dreams you need to be specific, the more details better. What is the purpose, and what is it that you really want to achieve.
Make your goals SMART.

Specific - Describe to the infinite level of what it is you want to achieve, if you dont get this right you wont achieve the right thing.

Measurable - how will you know you have achieved your goal? map out some markers so you will now you are moving in the right direction

Attatainable - make sure it is realistic and in reach.

Reasonable - you want to ensure it is not too outlandish and unreasonable for you to achieve.

Timely - put a date and time if you can to each goal or dream, this will help you to focus and make this a reality.

Visualise your goal or dream. What day is it?, what time of day? who is around you? what are you doing? what things can you hear and smell around you? visualise it so you can imagine you are already living that dream or goal. Feel as if you are there.

I want you to do something today, get your goals into focus, take action begin to visualise each and every day.... until they become your second reality, have this vision and focus will help you get nearer to the end result, why? because you will be tied to your goal or dream.

I heard this quote today and felt it was so pertinent to many of us:
"All my life I wanted to be someone, I guess I should have been more specific"


Colette Morris
Top Producer and Mentor CCPRO
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Keeping your Focus

Sometimes it can be difficult keeping focus on your tasks, especially if like me you tend to multi task and sometimes get so side tracked into other things. So how do you keep yourself on track?

I for one look at my to do list on a daily basis, I use Microsoft Outlook so find that I can have my daily tasks added to my mobile phone application and I also print out the tasks and calender as I also like to physically tick things off.

I then look at my tasks and pick 5 must dos for the day and focus on those, then when i have done those I look at the next 5...

Anyone got any good tips here would be appreciated, so come on bloggers add to this forum positively....

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Thought for the day!

Sunday 26th April. Day of Rest for Many.
As it is the last Sunday of the Month, I usually take time to reflect on the past month and look at what I have actually achieved in that time.

I find that the year can pass through very quickly and sometimes we look back at the end of the 12 months and say - what did I do last year? I had a difficult year in my life and felt frustrated and upset with myself as when I looked back to see what I had achieved, it was little or nothing. I hadnt set myself any goals for that year, and therefore didnt achieve anything worthwhile. I vowed then, that I would set myself yearly, 3 yearly, 5 yearly goals and some longer term ones, but more importantly set myself weekly and monthly goals and to spend time to reflect at the end of each month to look back and note what I had or had not achieved.

I have been doing this for the past three years and it has helped me move both my personal life and my business forward to no end, and for that I am grateful. It has helped put back some discipline into my life and work ethos.

So today I will be reflecting back on the past month of April and noting down what I have achieved, and what I could have done better, and incorporate these into further plans for the month of MAY.

Get yourself Organised

If you have never worked from home before, then getting organised can be one of the biggest headaches to setting up your home business. It took months of trial and error for me to finally come up with a suitable way of getting myself organised.

I hope the following helps you with gaining some idea of things to think about when you begin to set up your work from home business.

Checklist of Stationery Items and Essentials to help you get organised:

* Prepare your business objectives and goals

* Identify your training needs and plan out a daily training strategy to build your business knowledge up quickly and clearly.

* Note Pad -
1. To keep training notes in (these could be training provided by your company, or training you come across on the web).
2. useful to make short notes when talking to clients over the telephone or in person
3. To write down your daily 'to do' List

* Box File - to keep receipts, invoices,etc for home business

* Diary - preferably page to view to help with appointments

* Your Own set of Pens, Pencils, hole punch and stapler (keep out of sight as the kids tend to come and 'borrow them', and they tend to dissappear once borrowed!

* Set up your Answer Machine Message (I found it useful to write myself a script so that I dont fluff it up when recording on the phone...)

* A handy folder or file with your scripts and any other business material you will need to refer to while on the phone... e.g price list, product list, etc..

* If you can afford this - your own Computer - an essential must for any home business.... I found it impossible to share or compete with my kids when they had homework and needed the use of the computer to complete their assignment...

* A book of First Class and 2nd Class Stamps (always handy)

* Envelopes ( think about what size is preferable for your business, and what you would be using the envelope for).

* Spare cartridge ink for the printer - nothing more annoying that finding our when you go to print your leaflets, that your kids have used all the colour up doing their homework assignments for school!

* Organising a seperate phone line for your home business, (I use my skype number as my business contact number, saves on costly line rentals for a seperate line, also you can divert Skype messages if you are not online)

* do you need fax facilities? There are free online fax numbers which email you when a fax is received, however, you would have to pay for the service if you want to send a fax from your PC... Click here for info

*Set up business email addresses seperate from your personal address. It is useful to keep the business email the same name as your website if you have one.

* Order Business cards online a really good site which I use is www.Vistaprint.com, but if you google 'free business cards' I am sure other good sites will come up.





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Tip for the day

When working from home, it is important tht the rest of the family also acknowledge that you are working and not there for their leisure.

Set some boundaries first off with family and friends. Set out your working hours during the day, and make this be known that you are not to be distrubed during these working hours, unelss it is an emergency.

Once you establish a working hours pattern, your friends and family will begin to respect that. Encourage your friends and family to 'book appointments' with you for Lunch or otherwise. That way, you will have built in your work schedule to accomodate this.

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Quote of the Day

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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