Do It! Never Be Intimidated Again
Are you intimidated by everything you have to do each day to succeed as an Internet marketer?
You have a To Do list 300 items long, so instead of starting on a task you decide you're too tired. You'll browse the Warrior Forum for ten minutes to relax. Or you'll watch a DVD. Two hours later, you definitely are too tired, so you decide you'll make a start tomorrow... When you're fresh, and rested.
Tomorrow comes, as it always does, but you have friends over for dinner and they stay late. Or you need to finish a presentation for work.
Two weeks later, you ditch everything on the To Do list, and think you're not cut out to be an Internet marketer.
A Major Task a Day
Here's what works for me, when I need to get out of To Do list hell. (It's every day for me, and it may be for you.)
Triage your list.
Divide the list into three segments:
* As Soon As Possible (ASAP)
* Later (L)
* Needs Doing Sometime, by Someone (NDSS)
(If you don't have a To Do list, create one. Just start writing down everything you need to do, want to do, or might do, onto a list. Make it a running list, in a computer file, or a notebook. Sort your tasks into ASAP, L and NDSS segments at the end of the day, or the week.)
One Chunk of an ASAP Task a Day
Got your list? Excellent.
Here's how to conquer intimidation.
Pick an ASAP task. This task can be an entire project, or just a task. It doesn't matter. You're going to chunk this task (or project) right down into ten minute segments.
You can make it 20 minutes if you wish, once you've got this system working for you. But in the beginning, I recommend you stick with TEN minutes.
Here's why: no matter how unmotivated or tired you are, you can always do a ten minute chunk of a task. I hate dealing with my finances, but I can handle sorting receipts for ten minutes. If I have to do it for 20 minutes, I put it off. Again, and again, and again...
The key is to make the chunks SMALL -- just ten minutes, and then commit to just TEN minutes a day: one chunk, of one ASAP task a day.
Here's what happens.
You do your ten minutes, and you get interested in what you're doing. You do another ten minutes, and another.
Before you know it, the task is done: you feel good about yourself.
A tip: it's easy to fall back into the too-much-to-do, and too-exhausted-to-start intimidation trap.
No matter how keen you feel, always tell yourself: "Today, I'm doing just a ten minute chunk of ONE task."
Divide each and every task into ten minute chunks. Do ten minutes a day, and if you wish, you're done.
You're moving forward.
Your To Do list will never intimidate you again.
Steven Patterson - Affiliate Marketer & Entrepreneur
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