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		<title>How To Be More Productive</title>
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<p>We are just over a month into the New Year, how is your progress coming along? I hope you aren’t dropping the ball and sliding back into routines that aren’t taking you towards your goals.</p>
<p>These days a lot of my work revolves around being on a computer I have recently become more conscious to the fact that I have been falling into the trap of doing busy work instead of productive work.</p>
<p>One of my goals this year is to be more productive, to acquire the art of getting more done, with less effort.</p>
<p>We all only have the same 24 hours in a day, time is our most precious commodity learning how to be more productive and using your time wisely is one of the most important skills to acquire.</p>
<p>Not only to allow you to get more things done but to have more time available to do whatever you want, to do the things that make you happy.</p>
<p>Over the last few weeks I have been observing what has be distracting me from being more productive, besides the somewhat lack of motivation and focus. I found uncovered 3 major distractions that I plan on working on over the coming months and year.</p>
<p><strong>1.)     Checking Email 45K Times A Day</strong> – I have noticed email has been a big time bandit. I notice I have it open consistently. As soon as a new message is there I pick it up in minutes, interrupting my focus as I feel compelled to open it.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Action steps: </span>I have decided to set specific times during the day when I will read and reply to emails. For the first week I am only going check once in the morning again in the afternoon, and once more at night. After the first week of 2 I plan on cutting this down to only twice a day and by the end of the month I only want to check once a day.</p>
<p><strong>2.)     Goofing Off On Facebook</strong> – Another big distraction I have noticed recently has been Facebook, I never really knew how much time I was wasting goofing off on facebook until I started to record it. Sure I was having fun and there is nothing wrong with that, I like staying in contact with my friends and doing a bit of social networking can go along way but all in moderation.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Action Steps: </span>I am simply just going to be discipline on this one, using will power. To help me stay motivated and productive I have redefined WHY I am going after my goals and WHAT it will mean to me to achieve my goal. I am adding constant reminders to my consciousness to keep me focused and on track, like pictures, videos, words, etc.</p>
<p><strong>3.)    Clean Home</strong> – I heard once that the state of your bedroom or your car is a reflection of yourself and your thoughts. Meaning if you live in trash them your thoughts and consciousness is in a mess, If you have clutter then your mind is usually full of clutter too. Is this true&#8230;I have no idea, but somewhere along the road I have picked up this belief which I feel it serves me well, so it is true for me.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Action Steps:</span> By keeping a clear mind and fit body I am planning this is cause a good side effect to keep the house clean and intact. I am also going to adopt the mind set of being a celebrity, meaning that wherever they go, whatever they do a celebrity has to assume someone is watching and possibly taking photos to publish in a magazine. By keeping this mindset I am planning this will keep my mind sharp on appearances, etc.</p>
<p>I will keep you posted on my progress.</p>
<p>I would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and feedback about what else I can implement to be more productive this year, thanking you in advance.</p>
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