Today February 1st, which means one month of 2008 is gone. How are your 2008 goals? Are you on target today? Here are three tips to help you keep up with your goals and resolutions:

– Be clear about what you are trying to achieve. It is much easier to do something when you know exactly what needs to be done.

– Break your goals into smaller, manageable tasks. It is really daunting if you are trying to achieve the task of writing a book. However, if you break the task of writing a book into much smaller and manageable tasks, such as creating an outline, writing Chapter 1, editing Chapter 1, writing Chapter 2, &&., it will become much easier to schedule and complete these smaller tasks.

– Have someone to hold you accountable. Having to report to someone else whether you have completed your tasks really helps you stay on track and actually complete your tasks.

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Join us for Tame Procrastination For Good! Teleseminar on September 28th at 8pm Eastern Time.

– Do you find yourself up against deadlines, burning the midnight oil, and yet you wasted time earlier?

– Do you wish you could Tame Procrastination For Good and be more productive?

– Are you tired of missing opportunities?

Join us for this information-packed Teleseminar with Time Management/Process Improvement Expert, Mary McDonald, will show us how to organize ourselves to stamp out procrastination in our lives.

Here is what you learn during this information-packed teleseminar:

* The root of procrastination

* The very first step you must take to tame procrastination

* Time stealers — and how to avoid them

* Tips and tricks to help you stay focused and productive

* The nuts and bolts of implementing a system that will get procrastination under control

Register for Tame Procrastination For Good! Teleseminar Now at
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About Our Speaker, Mary McDonald

Mary F. McDonald is internationally renowned as a process improvement expert and author. She is a sought-after keynote speaker and talks on the topics of productivity, process improvement, and interpersonal skills, and is the CEO/CTO of the McDonald Consulting Group since 1995. She holds multiple certifications in Quality, Auditing, and Project Management, and brings her unique blend of extensive expertise and real-world examples to this teleseminar.

What If You Can’t Make It On September 28th?

If you can’t join us on September 28th at 8pm Eastern Time, register for the teleseminar anyway, and you will receive the recording of the teleseminar on Friday, September 29th.

The recording will be sold after the teleseminar for $27, but if you register now, you will get access to it for $19.

Register now at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zsaladtele

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Do you have a feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day? Business owners tell me that sometimes they spend a whole day working on something, but at the end of the day they don’t feel that they got anything accomplished. What happened?

As business owners, we have lots of things we need to do everyday. We do our marketing, networking, business development, sales and we work with our clients. Plus, we also need to keep up with new technologies, learn more about marketing, promotion, advertising – you name it! We got lots of things on our plates.

What I recommend to my clients is that for every week, you schedule activities from a few of these groups. You should networking, market, do business development and work with your clients EVERY WEEK. That way, you will know that you have accomplished something, both in the long run (prospecting, education, etc) and for a shorter period of time – follow-up with warm leads, client work, business development.

Those of you who are members of https://www.MarketingSalad.com I am going to start a thread on this topic and share more tips on scheduling. And if you are not a member yet, join us at https://www.MarketingSalad.com for online business help, tips and support.

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Every time you visit a useful web site, or find information online that you can use in the future, you want to save it for future reference. However, with so many useful web sites around, and so much information you would like to save for future use, you might have an information overload.

There are many online resources, and there is no way to save and be able to access all of them. What you should do is step back, take a look at your business, and understand what you need to save, why, and how it will be helpful to you at a later date.

Only save things that you KNOW you will need to use at a later date. Save things where you would use them – if you want to save a web site address, create a few folders in your bookmarks for particular web sites(marketing resources, business directories, etc).

If you want to save particular newsletters, create a special folder in your email program for those. What would you like to save about the affiliate programs that you join? Figure it out, and create a system to save them.

Spend a few days to create an organizational system that is right for you and your busness – you will save a lot of time, as you will be able to use and re-use the resources at a later date.

Members of Marketing Salad received lessons on time management and organization. You can get access to those lessons when you join Marketing Salad as well.