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Becoming more productive is easier said than done for most people. With all the distractions of the modern world, it can be hard to really sit down and focus on one task. If you have been struggling with productivity and find yourself procrastinating tasks, you might be looking for simple ways to become more productive.

Here are the best 10 tips on how to stay productive and how to accomplish all your tasks so you have more time for yourself and the hobbies you want to try.

1. Make Routines

If you don’t have a routine, you need to create one to stay more productive. If you have a routine but find that it’s not working, you might want to consider making a new one. Remember that the routine that works for someone else might not be the best for you.

Try to make your own routine. You can incorporate tips and tricks from other people if you see something that might work for you, but don’t be afraid to change things up when you see something is not working.

It’s crucial to have a routine for the morning and night as these are the most important because they will start and end your day. In the morning, consider waking up earlier than you are used to. Rushing off to work might cause you to forget something you need to be more productive. Wake up a little earlier, just 15 minutes. Use the extra time to prep for work, pack a healthy lunch, or get a quick exercise routine in.

At night, make sure your routine fits in before bedtime. Going to bed at the same time every night will also ensure you are getting enough sleep. Bedtime or night routines should not be energetic as you want your body and mind to know that’s time for bed.

Consider drinking some herbal tea or putting the screens away and reading a book. You can also make sure everything you need for work the next morning is prepped and ready.

2. Make Use of Productivity Tools

There are countless productivity tools both digital and non-digital. If you want to be productive and make sure you are on track for all your work tasks, you need to make sure you are making use of them. If you aren’t tech-savvy, you can use written organizational methods like planners and desk calendars.

These work great for people that like to handwrite things rather than typing them onto a computer. Just make sure to bring your planner with you when you are at work or when you are making appointments.

If you are using non-digital tools, you might also want to use colorful pens or sticky notes to organize. You can also differentiate between work, school, and personal tasks by using different colors.

For those who are in the digital world for work or personal hobbies, you might find it easier to just keep everything digital since you almost always have your computer on hand. Your computer, smartphone, and tablet all have great productivity and organizational tools. Most of them are free, so you can make sure of them easily.

Same as with non-digital tools, you need a calendar to keep track of your tasks. The great thing about going digital is that you can sync them altogether from one device to another. This allows you to access your calendar from your phone, smartwatch, computer, and tablet.

If you have separate digital devices for work, you can also keep them separate by only syncing work devices to the other work devices. This allows you to keep a line between work and your personal life which can greatly increase productivity.

3. Don’t Resist Change

One main reason people can’t become productive is that they are reluctant to change things in their life. Changing a routine, a job, or many other things in life can be hard because it means letting go and stepping out of your comfort zone.

If you are having trouble with productivity though, something in your life needs to change so that you can start new habits. If you are afraid of doing a complete overhaul of your life, that’s perfectly okay and it’s a normal feeling to have.

Try only changing one thing at a time. Once you feel comfortable with the change, you can move on to another thing. You can also start with a small change first to ease into your new way of life.

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If you feel like something in your life or body has been lacking lately, you might be wondering what you can do to start taking steps to become whole again. Part of feeling whole inside and out means that you need to master your health in several different areas including physically, mentally, and spiritually.

If you are lacking control of your life or aren’t sure how to get your next steps, you can use this guide for the 5 easiest ways to begin feeling whole both inside and out.

Take One Step at a Time

Sometimes to change your life, you might think you need to be taking big giant steps to become whole again. If you try to task and overwhelm yourself with big giant tasks, you will never be able to accomplish what you want. Instead, focusing on just moving in the right direction with one small step, followed by another small step.

For example, if you want to lose weight, you can start by exercising once a week and cutting sugar once a day. These changes are manageable and doable. If you try to tell yourself you will exercise every day and that you won’t eat sugar anymore, you might find yourself unable to make such large changes in a short period of time.

Once you are comfortable exercising twice a week, you can add on another day or two depending on your work and time constraints. You can also add on another day of not eating sugar and snacking.

Adding on small steps to other small steps is an easy way to eventually start making large and substantial life changes.

You also need to make sure you are not making excuses for not taking small steps. It’s easy to say you are too busy to make changes. If you keep making excuses for yourself, you will fall into a never-ending cycle of never making a change.

Make Goals and Routines

One part of being whole in your new changed life is to make sure you have goals that you are reaching for. For example, you might want to focus first on being whole spiritually. This means you need to have spiritual goals that you are working towards.

You could have a goal of connecting more with people of the same religion. This means you need to start making it a habit to attend services or connect on social media with people. You need to make sure you are taking steps towards creating the fellowship and social groups that you need to meet your spiritual goals.

You can also make routines centered around your goals. For spiritual goals, you can make a morning or nighttime routines that involve reading spiritual books or spending time in prayer. You can also create a routine that involves weekly fellowship or attending church services if you are part of organized religion.

No matter what your goals are, make sure you have at least one goal for your physical health, one goal for your mental health, and one goal for your spiritual health. You need to have one goal, but maybe even more, for each aspect so that you can master your health.

Habits and routines are much more powerful than you might think. Routines keep you grounded and allow you to fall into natural patterns that can benefit your health and lifestyle. Bad habits can have a powerful effect just as much as good habits though.

If you find yourself with bad habits, no matter how small they might be, make sure to break them immediately. You can try to replace them with good habits so that you are still filling the time, but with something better.

Eat Healthy and Sleep Better

Part of mastering your health, especially physically, is to make sure you are eating better and have better nutrition. Part of eating healthy means you need to incorporate fresher foods including vegetables, fruit, and lean meats. You might also want to eat more nuts, whole grains, and dairy.

One trick to remember is to try and stay around the border of the grocery store. Most of the time the borders of the grocery stores are where you find all the fresh food like meats, fruits, and vegetables. The inside aisles of the grocery store are where most of the processed food is located including junk food that you might want to stay clear from.

Eating better has more than just physical pros though. Having a healthy diet can make you feel better mentally as well. When you are nourishing your body, your mind is also being nourished. If you aren’t sure how to eat healthily, you can always sign up for meal service or find a few easy recipe cookbooks online.

You don’t have to make meals complicated to be healthy. When in doubt, just include a meat, some vegetables, and some fruit at the end of the meal. You can also add in some yogurt or cheese if you want dairy.

Another trick to follow is to get into the practice of intuitive eating. This means you are listening to your body as you eat. Many people have learned to avoid the signals their body has taught them such as when it’s telling you it’s full or when it’s hungry. Since our work schedules are often so busy, we get into the habit of ignoring what our body is telling us.

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Product Launch Ninja

The 7-Step Blueprint to Launching Your First Product

A product launch is a fantastic strategy that digital marketers can use to ensure that they truly maximize the sales potential of their digital products.

If you’ve spent time or money creating an ebook, an online course or a piece of software, then you need to ensure that it makes maximum impact when it goes live. If you just quietly release your product by adding a download link to your website, then you’re going to miss out on thousands of sales – not to mention the opportunity to work with affiliates, to build authority and to strengthen your brand.

A good product launch can take a poor-selling product and turn it into a bestseller. In this guide, you’re going to learn exactly what it takes to manage a successful product launch and to ensure that people can’t wait for your product to go live.

And we’re going to do it in just 7 simple steps…

1 Create Your Digital Product

Of course, the first thing you’ll need to do in order to launch a digital product is make one. Until you do this, you’ll have nothing to launch and that means you can’t expect to make much of a splash when you go live!

So what is a digital product? There are plenty of options here but some of the most popular choices for marketers are:

Ebook

Online course

Video series

Seminar

WordPress theme or plugin

Other software

Any of these will give you the ability to sell unlimited copies with zero overheads. That in turn means that you can recruit affiliates and share your revenue and it means that you’re minimizing the likelihood of a failure. Your product can’t fail when you only need to sell one item to breakeven!

Make sure that your product is unique, that it is original and that it has a real ‘emotional hook’ that will draw in your buyers. You can also help it to sell more by adding lots of extras, whether that means videos, access to a VIP area on a website or perhaps a free report.

Making the product means either writing an ebook in Word, creating a video with some filming and editing equipment, or outsourcing the entire process to a third party using a freelancing site like UpWork (www.upwork.com).

2 Tease Your Digital Product

If you have an audience already as a blogger or a social media marketer, then that means that you have a built-in customer base that you can market to.

That also means that you can start to build anticipation and interest for your product as early as possible. Don’t announce your product yet (we’ll come to that in a moment) but instead make it known that you have something on the horizon. You can do this simply by saying:

“Stay tuned because I have something very exciting to reveal in the coming weeks… it’s going to change everything!”

This allows you to follow the recommended sequence when it comes to hyping and selling a product: AIDA. That stands for:

Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action

Here, you are piquing interest and making your audience aware that something is going to be available in the future. That will make them more receptive when you eventually share more information and it’s also a good example of something known as ‘presuasion’.

This is also a particularly good time to ask your audience what they would like to see. This is one of the great things about a product launch – it gives you time to consult with your audience and to make sure that they actually are interested in the thing you’re about to spend ages developing. By getting your audience to vote on the kinds of things they’d like to see from you, you can get them more involved in the product (and thus more emotionally invested) and you can also verify that the audience exists so that you aren’t risking spending a long time developing a product that no one will go on to buy…

For that reason, this step two should actually start around the same time as step one. Once you begin work, let people know while simultaneously keeping the nature of that product shrouded in mystery.

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Being weird is not actually a liability. You can be weird and be successful with ease. There are many famous and well-known people who have embraced weirdness and have made it their own with great results. This is the power of being weird and being happy with your weird self.

If you want to be sure that you are being weird with all of your heart, you need to be fine with knowing that you will be different from the other people that you engage with on a daily basis. There are many people who are weird and just use it as fuel for their personal growth and you need to try and be this person for your mental health on a daily basis.

If you are looking for ways to inspire your journey into acceptance of your weirdness, you need to check out these stories of people who were weird and made it the reason for their success in life.

1. Milton Hershey

If you were told about someone who owned a candy company, you would automatically assume that they were not weird at all and were insanely happy just eating chocolate all day. This was not the case for Milton Hershey, who was actually a bit different and who did not always get along with people with whom he interacted. His unique vision for candy-making was not met with a lot of positive reactions and he had to return to his family farm and work on his recipe alone to get it right.

This journey into embracing his own unique vision made him a success and he was able to craft the candy that would be the backbone for a vastly successful, multi-million-dollar company that is still around today. Being weird is not always a problem when you are a creative person and letting other people ruin your creative vision through doubt can just harm you in the long run. The story of how the Hershey Company came to be should show you how much you can benefit from sticking to your own personal goals and dreams in the face of derision and criticism.

Creators who make new products and craft items that they are told cannot be made are almost always people who are considered to be weird. There is something in the social fabric that we weave that makes us want to identify people who go against the grain of the expectations of others as being odd or offbeat in dangerous ways. Being willing to struggle to create something that you can envision is a skill that weird people often have in spades and their fortitude over the years has led to hugely successful careers and the formation of wildly successful companies that are still around today.

If you have been worried about being weird or different and how it might impact your ability to get a job you love or open a business, you need only look at the story of Milton Hershey and how he managed to overcome criticism and a lack of support to found one of the biggest companies that have ever made candy in the world.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

While famous for many reasons these days, Mark Zuckerberg was a great example of a nerd who just could not quite fit in. While smart and successful in school, he was odd and not liked by his classmates overall. He struggled to make friends and get dates and his original idea for Facebook was to make sure that he could connect romantically with girls. He later expanded his idea to make sure that others who were socially awkward like him could find dates and connect in an easy way with girls that they struggled to talk to at school.

The vast success of Facebook could be considered an accident, but he was at the center of the development process of the site all along and has made critical decisions along the way that indicate that he knows how the social structure of online life works rather well. Being a unique thinker who was not engaging successfully socially with others in his age group, he managed to make a website that would launch many people into social health in ways that they could never have managed without his help.

Facebook is worth so much money these days that it should be no question to anyone that being odd and off-beat has delivered great results for Mark Zuckerberg. He is still unapologetically odd and has continued to stick to his own personal code that got him to the place that he is today. This has not always made him popular, but it has made him a huge success and that is what is more important.

3. Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer has taken a lot of heat over the years for being off-beat and doing comedy that no one else does. She has been told over and over again that she could be much more successful if she would do mainstream comedy, lose weight and commit to living in Hollywood like a normal person in her shoes. She has never once given in to this pressure and has continued to be unapologetically herself for years. She is willing to make fun of herself as well as other people when she is on stage and many people see her as a hero for those who usually do not get a voice in the public eye.

She has said many times that she could have been more successful over the years by changing who she was but that she loves to tackle the topics that no one else is talking about. Shedding light on social issues and the problems that women who are not thin and successful experience in life, she has made sure that she calls attention to the things that really matter. Some people might call her brash and harsh, but she has made sure that many people are aware of all kinds of social issues and concerns that others have been sweeping under the rug for years.

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The 7-Step System Running Successful and Profitable Webinars

Did you know that webinars are being ranked consistently by experts around the web as one of the top ways to present information? The webinar has become such a model to success partly because it is (kind of) new and partly because the way webinars are designed promote good communication between speaker and listeners.

There are thousands of people out there that are turning webinars into actual revenue for them, increasing their customer base, building marketing and email lists and in general, increasing their success by using webinars. In this report, you’ll learn everything you need to know to be successful with webinars in seven easy steps.

Step One: Choose a Platform

The first step is choosing a platform to host your webinar on. This has to be done before anything else because the equipment that you set up and the type of presentation that you prepare will all depend upon the limitations of the platform that you choose. For example, you can’t get a webcam for your webinar if your platform doesn’t support live video streaming.

The best way to choose a platform is to look at all of the features that the most popular applications offer. Some of these include the ability to stream video, screen sharing, statistics tracking and reporting, chat rooms, mobile access to the seminar and much more. Decide which features you absolutely need and then decide what your budget is. Then you can begin weeding out platforms that don’t meet your needs.

If you need a starting point, some of the most popular webinar platforms on the market right now include WebEx by Cisco, GoToWebinar, ClickWebinar and AnyTalk. There are also budget platforms that cost nothing at all to use but are limited because they aren’t really set up for webinars, but can be used as such with the elimination of many of the standard webinar features. These include Skype and Google Hangouts.

Step Two: Gather Your Equipment

You are going to need some equipment if you want to host a webinar. These vital pieces of hardware will allow you to make your webinar run smoothly and look professional while you are conducting it. Let’s go through the required equipment list piece-by-piece in order from most important to least.

Your Computer: You need a good computer if you are going to host a webinar. You don’t necessarily need to run out and buy a new, state-of-the-art computer intended for graphic intensive business applications unless your own computer performs very poorly.

What you need to make sure of are things like CPU speed and multiple cores – a quad core at the minimum. You also need a sufficient amount of RAM, with 4 GB being the absolute minimum and you’ll want to make sure that you have a solid soundcard, video card and Ethernet port on your computer.

Your Internet Connection: This one has just a couple of very specific requirements: you need to have a wired connection, not a Wi-Fi connection, and you need to have a lot of upload and download speed. 10 Mb connections are the starting point for running webinars.

Your Webcam: If you plan to use streaming video during your webinar, you are going to need a good HD webcam that sends out a professional video feed to your attendees. Anything less than HD is considered unprofessional in this day and age.

Your Microphone: A good USB microphone that has the quality that you want for a webinar (for about $100) is the Blue Yeti. However, there are other choices too. Get a really good microphone though that sends out a very clear, very professional audio stream. Don’t rely on your laptop microphone or a cheap USB mic.

Step Three: Plan Your Presentation

Your next step in the process will be to plan your presentation. This can be challenging if you have never hosted a webinar before. However, if you follow these steps you will have a presentation that is worth presenting on launch day.

1. Decide upon a topic: You need to know what you are going to present if you want to proceed with preparation. It should be something that you know about and can be regarded as an “expert” in as well as something that people want to learn and will allow you to pair with a monetization model.

2. Decide what multimedia you need: You want to have some slides prepared or any other multimedia that helps you make your point. Create all of your multimedia well in advance so that you have time to practice with it.

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Three Powerful Passive Business Models - A Five Minute Guide

Do you like the sounds of making money without having to work?

That’s pretty much a rhetorical question. I am pretty sure that the answer is going to be ‘yes’ for the vast majority of people. Why wouldn’t you want to earn money without having to work?

Of course for most of us, this isn’t likely to become a reality any time soon and there’s always going to be effort involved in making a good living.

But while you might not be able to get ‘something for nothing’, there is a good chance that you can bring in profit that is vastly disproportionate to the work you do. And what’s more, is that you can stop ‘swapping your time for money’.

And in fact, you can do all that quite easily.

What I’m talking about here is ‘passive income’. This isn’t ‘getting money for nothing’ but rather it means setting up a business model that can eventually sustain itself with little-to-no input from you.

That’s right: you create an automated system of selling or of publishing adverts, or of recommending products and from there, you can continuously earn money… indefinitely!

So you have put work in but once you’ve done that. You can simply kick back and relax and let the cash come rolling in.

You aren’t trading time for money anymore. That means that you’ll go to bed and wake up the next day a little richer. And it means that you’ll be able to go on holiday and continue to earn. And it means that if a friend invites you out for the day, you can just drop whatever you’re doing and go – no need to tell employers or clients.

Better yet, because passive income is automated and requires no further input from you, that means that you can continue to repeat the same business model over and over again and thereby increase your earnings over and over again too! This is called ‘scaling’ and eventually, you can be earning massive money by having multiple ‘income streams’ all working at once.

It’s kind of amazing…

But Let’s Get Real: Is Passive Income Really That Easy? Can Anyone Do It?

But you’ve probably heard promises like this before right? Normally on ‘make money’ websites that promise expensive schemes that involve illicit activities, usually involving ‘tricking’ Google in some way or another and often involving a lot of complicated jargon.

You buy the ebook, you read through it… and then you just give up, frustrated.

Is passive income really possible for everyone? Or is it just a pipe dream?

The answer is that it is very possible – but you just need to think about it in the right way.

For starters, you need to recognize that passive income does not equate to a get-rich-quick scheme. There is a lot of work involved and you’re not going to start seeing massive money overnight. If you go into this expecting to get rich with minimal effort, then in all likelihood you’re going to come away very disappointed.

Instead, you should get into this looking for a way to supplement your current income and lifestyle and to earn extra cash without having to work hard for it constantly. Best of all, this is a way you can earn while doing something that you love.

Creating a blog or selling a product can help you to generate additional income without having to continuously put in long hours. That means you can do it on top of your regular business or regular job. And even if you only earn $50 a week – that’s $200 a month. That in turn is enough to go on a few extra holidays a year, to put aside some serious savings, or to treat yourself to some exciting gadgets.

And it’s all from writing about something you love and from creating a business model that you can really be proud of.

And once you start seeing that cash flow and you stop trying to ‘get rich’, you’ll find that it’s surprisingly easy to keep it growing and to keep that money coming in.