Today, think before you speak. Be in control of every
word that leaves your mouth. Use your words as a force
for helping people.

The irony of this all-too-common scenario is that regular exercise can provide the entrepreneur with business benefits you may have never imagined. Working out will improve not only your waistline, but your bottom line as well!
Energy to Last All Day 

Regular exercise can give you the mental and physical energy to meet the challenges of running your business. The fact is, expending energy through physical activity creates more energy. Most business people find they are more productive and focused on the days that they exercise. They also end up moving around more during the day, burning more calories!
The long and erratic schedule of entrepreneurs requires the energy to deal with customer demands, emergencies, and the unexpected, sometimes long into the evening, all with the enthusiasm and clarity you would give it first thing in the morning. Effective, consistent exercise can give you that needed energy.

 Make Exercise Your “Business Development” Time

 When you think you are taking time away from work to exercise, look at exercise as business development time, especially when those solutions aren’t coming while you are stuck at your desk.

 By stepping away from business, having some alone time and increasing your metabolism and circulation, solutions to problems will come to you, and new creative ideas will develop. Go for a quick walk, walk up and down some stairs, and wait for the ideas to flow!
Exercise and Multitasking

 When you really need a reason to stop working and go exercise, don’t forget your continuing education. How much reading do you have to catch up on? Knowing you can keep up with industry news, continuing education or self-improvement reading can be a great motivator. Just grab your materials, a reading rack, and a cardio machine and you are ready to go! Don’t forget books on tape and all those training tapes you haven’t had time to listen to – nothing makes a workout go faster.

 Whatever reason you can find to make exercise a priority, just know it will ultimately lead to more time, energy and money, which is healthy for any business!

• Sit on your deck, and have a cup of coffee one morning. Enjoy the moment of not rushing around. Take in the sights and sounds of a Morning. The clouds, blue sky, birds…and drink an entire cup of coffee. Enjoy that moment.
• Before you get to work on advertising or blogging, exercise. Take advantage of the fact you can jog or walk around the neighborhood, work out from home. Enjoy the notion and the silence of the house. Crank up the music, exercise your body. Enjoy the moment you are in, you are at HOME working out!!!!
• Take one day and make your Home Office yours. What I mean is, decorate it, have fun with. Remember your not in a cubicle. Make it alive, make it a place you want to work from on a daily basis. This is your new work home, don’t wait to make sales to build the office of your dreams…make it a reality today.
• Buy Work from Home Clothes. I really believe that if you have specific clothes that you wear as a Home Based Business Entrepreneur, makes a vibe. Whether they are casual or business casual, make them yours!! Comfortable, Creative, but new, that have new Energy.

This is the most exciting time of your Professional Life. Enjoy the little moments. Don’t get worked up about every detail of every day. Don’t forget to take small moments to enjoy the lifestyle.

1. Not everyone who is a Home Based Business Entrepreneur, has the luxury to do this Full-Time. So, you must first designate a time of the day that you will work your Business….and stick to that time no matter what!
2. Before sitting at your computer, take 15 minutes to clear your mind do some personal development. Read a Chapter of the Four Hour Work Week, Think & Grow Rich, The Power of Intention. Then, after reading that take a few minutes, and visualize the work you will do.
3. Now on Visualizing the Work you do visualize the Success and Ease at which it will be done. See the end result in your mind before you take the action!!
4. Also, take this time to put the day behind you. Clear out work, meeting, commute, frustrations, hassles, and all that needs to be done for other things tomorrow. They will be there when you’re done, don’t allow to infiltrate the Action at hand.
5. Now that you have done all that its Action time. Not email time, not youtube time, not ESPN time, not eBay time. It is time to dedicate to your Business and Action.
6. If you complete your Action Advertising, 7-10 Ads, PPC, or Blog Entries with time left over now it is time to be a student.
7. Turn off the music, get your Study Notebook, and open to be educated on new forms of advertising. Don’t hop around. If you are gonna learn PPC, Banner, Text, of Social Advertising, stay on topic until completed. Don’t start PPC then stop, stay the course until you have successfully completed it. The other opportunities to learn and do will be there I promise.
8. Also, please do not fall for John broke the code, or this will propel your Business. Stay to your plan, and method of learning advertising from A to Z. NO ONE has broken any code. Seriously they haven’t.
9. Finally, with the time remaining, plan your next day. In your Income Producing Calendar, map out where and why your are advertising tomorrow. Make sure it is done with detail, so when you repeat these steps tomorrow there is no wasted time, energy, or focus.

Creating success with your home based business needs us to focus on several areas, such as prospecting (marketing online), communicating with your team, and also regularly communicating with your upline. We also need to take a look at our goals, and be aware of where we are on the path to reaching those goals. It all boils down to being organized. And when we take these habits of prospecting(marketing online) and all the other things needed to create a successful Marketing Business get organized and create a habit which flows naturally in our day to day running of our home based Business we soon see that we have more time on our hands. All a habit really is, is taking an action which we do regularly, and by continually doing that action we soon forget about the action as a conscious action and start doing it unconsciously, which now becomes a habit.

Think of when you’re driving a route that you regularly travel. Have you had times when you get to your destination and can’t remember actually driving the journey? This is a habit. Some of the habits that are necessary to form a successful work at home business are:

Organizing time so you know what to do when. Forming the habit to actually take action during the times that you have allotted for your home based business.

The most important of all, to form the habit to market your home based business. Why form a habit? Forming a habit is important so it frees up more time. Imagine the first time you do something, whether it is something to do with your home based business opportunity or something else, you always find it hard to do it as you still have to learn the steps to doing it.

The whole point of all of forming the correct habits which we consciously start to form is so we can become more productive. It is the starting point of mastering anything and not just within your home based business opportunity. When you consciously start to implement certain things that you do with your home based business opportunity for the purpose of forming a habit then things become easier for you. When you master one thing, you can begin to work on other things within your home based business opportunity. Soon you will find that you are achieving much more than you did before. And this is important to achieve sustained success with your home based business opportunity. What you need to remember is that all habits begin to form after you apply that habit consistently for a period of 30 days or more, and can take anywhere up to a year to fully become ingrained and automatic in your daily l

Do you know your outcome? Most people/entrepreneurs if asked that question would say yes…but they have no idea what the outcome may or may not be. Are you willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of your outcome? Homes, Cars, Relationships, and Short Term Money….for your shot at the True Outcome?

Outcome, is a culmination of all the real work, mental anguish, exhaustion, visualization, and energy you have put into your Business. Most people say they are willing to commitment to a lifetime for the one, that one single opportunity. Most people say they are willing to commit 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year…and a lifetime to their outcome. Outcome is designed, real, emotional, tangible, and so “LifeBlood”, that when you turn down something or someone, that will get you half way to your goal…say offering you $250,000 for your business….but it is not the outcome? TURN IT DOWN….Could you really do that?

Outcome, understands no economic situation. It needs nourished. It is not concerned with distraction. It does not care about Food, Water, Electric, Bills, Retirement, Vacation…it only desires what it set out for…the outcome. Do you have the same mindset as your outcome? Are you willing to put aside all the creature comforts and easy avenues of life to achieve the outcome? Are you willing to stake your entire Families Financial future on the outcome? Are willing to go down roads never seen or traveled by the average, only by the extraordinary to achieve your outcome?

Today is that day. This is road is that road. This commitment is that commitment. These hours are those hours. This ad is that ad. This business is that business. You are You!! Take the steps and the hardship necessary to achieve your outcome. If it is uncomfortable, that MEANS it is working. Don’t stop!!

Now, the question I get most often in goal setting, outside of how do I reach them, is what is the best structure. Now, in looking at being an Entrepreneur online, your goals both professionally and personally are a direct reflection and intention of the mindset of your Business. Simply put…FORGET Instant Gratification. You are building a Business and your mindset is simple, your are always building, always growing, and any Business is a long term investment. Anyone, who has the mindset that I will try to do this for a while or I will give this online thing a shot, is doomed before they ever get started. Just like the movie Wall Street Says “You can’t be a little bit Pregnant”…well you can’t be a sometimes or a hopefully an entrepreneur. You live, you breathe, you study it, you developed for as long as it takes in building and achieving what you have always wanted!!!

Now in Goals there must be very Specific Items:

• The Goal must be emotional. This goes to our teaching on the “Y”. Without an emotional and vested interest into something, it is easy to walk away from it.
• Your Goals, just like the daily goals must be written out in detail. When I say Detail, I mean down to the very last crumb of information. Accompanying those details, writing out the emotional aspect beside it is an Awesome Idea!!!!
• Have Pictures. Visualization of goals is not only important it is imperative. If you want a dream home on the Ocean…go find one that you have fallen in love with and take pictures. Why? A little saying I do: “Why are you working so hard? Look at the picture of your goals…and say this IS why I am working so hard”. The picture makes it very real and very tangible.
• Goals must be more than Money, although financial goals are important. I knew a guy one time that wanted to one day go to his Bank and cash a check for $100,000 dollars. I told him to write the check out to himself, and carry in his pocket or wallet, wherever he keeps his money. That way, there is a constant reminder of what one day, will BE!!!
• Goals, should never be about everyone else and not yourself. Although including friends and family in your goals are important, if there is not at least one self serving interest….that passion may soon fade. Here is an example of what a goal should not look like: “I want to be successful for my Family”…a noble goal to say the least. However, it is to general, no deadlines, and to interpretive to what Success actually mean.
• Last, your Goals should be everywhere. In your Office, Car, Kitchen, Family Room, Bathroom, Nightstand, on your Phone, Screen savers…any where you are they are. Real Goals often provoke Real Action!!!

The question that is the most interesting that I get, is Why Don’t People do Goal Setting. That is the easiest answer of them all. Once you go through the exercise and do it the right way, you now OWN the outcome of what you achieve. When you don’t have goals, you can always shift blame onto someone or something else.

I found a very useful and quite frankly a resource I found to be invaluable in my day to day goals and income producing activities. I got a journal by Pat Croce, the Do it Now Journal. I bought it at Barnes and Noble for $5.95. It changed the way I did and structured everything. It is entitled “Daily Action Plan for Guaranteed Success” It does an incredible job of structuring your day to focus only on the Income Producing activities. The layout the function and the usability is just off the charts!!!

Now Goals.  Without the daily action steps, your will never realize those longer term goals. Understand that if you marketing anything online, from the Reverse Funnel System to Carbon Copy Pro, to Information Marketing, the daily action, consistent never taking a day off will be the key to achieving all your goals!!!

Your Daily goal should look like the following:

1. Place 5-7 New Ads a Day…period. Not all in spot either, that only counts as one. 7 Ads on craigslist does not count as 7, it counts as one ad one place, no matter what the number is.
2. Spend 1 Hour being a Student everyday. If your goal is to be proficient in PPC, SEO, or Banner Advertising, you must take the time to learn your craft. One hour per day fully immersing yourself in study, through time will make you achieve that goal.
3. Spend 30 minutes a day Brainstorming. You must get the creative juices flowing. This will allow you to write better content, review others content on the Internet to enhance yours. Brainstorming maybe more ways online and offline to drive more traffic.
4. Spend 30 minutes on Personal Development. Take this time to read or Listen to Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, James Allen, or anyone as guide to your mindset and personal development.
5. Spend 30 minutes to prepare tomorrows Income Producing activities. You should plan tomorrows goals, that way when you sit down in front of your computer, you are taking action. Your are not researching and figuring out what to do, that has been done and you are ready to set into motion that plan. It is critical that you do not waste time during those income producing activity time!!! That is the time to drive traffic and drive traffic only…nothing else.

Understand without the steps 1-5, your long range goals will be just that, long range and feel terribly unattainable. It starts and ends with today. Your Daily Goals will build momentum, create action, create conversions, eliminate frustration and procrastination!!!!

1. Each one of these People had a Desire and Passion for what they do.
2. Each Entrepreneur had a “Y”. A Clear, Definite, and Emotional “Y”.
3. Each Entrepreneur had an Emotional and Logical Strategy. What does that mean…lets jump into it…..

First, you MUST in achieving any goal, believe in who you are and what you are doing. If you don’t have belief, you will never achieve your short term and long term goals. Yes, you can have moments of brief financial gain, kinda like winning a couple hundred bucks on a slot machine, but not coming close to why you are building a business. Understand, if you don’t fully believe in what you do, and have a real passion and desire for it, you will never be able to weather the ups and downs, because your not emotionally committed.

Second, your “Y” may be the most critical element in your plan. Understand, that building a Business, a real sustainable business, will require you to deal with alot. Ya’ know, the Internet provides an incredible service in hope and opportunity for abundance, no question. However, it also feeds into the most deadly disease out there….Instant Gratification. There are so many websites and blogs and forums that feed into the notion for $19.95 and one hour a week of work you to can be an Internet millionaire. That is simply not true. Never has been, never will be. You most likely got involved in your Business Opportunity, because they were able to tap into your emotions, get you excited or scared about your life, your future, or your income. Well, this is how you construct your “Y”:

• “Y” must be real, tangible, and emotional.
• “Y” must be something that you would commit to no matter the price or consequence.
• “Y” must be something that if you wrote it out would contain “POWER” words, and generate call to action feelings.
• “Y” must be the thing that will make you work nights, weekends, mornings, holidays, picnics, days out, cause you to miss on some of life’s moments until you achieve your goals.
• “Y” must be the thing that you draw on when the world is telling you to stop and give up…your “Y” tells you to move forward, your close, don’t stop, you are a champion, you will succeed.
• “Y” must be your Business Partner, when your family and friends have long deserted your idea, business, and are piling on the negativity.
• “Y” must be the reason you celebrate the good times. It is the reason it got you there…

Without a strong “Y”, you will find that you will give up on dreams, goals, and aspirations. You will allow doubt, complacency, negativity, and laziness into your Business and Your Life. I promise you that once you attain a clear and real “Y”, the rest is just so easy….

1. Skype – Free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like.
2. Vonage – Leading provider of VoIP internet broadband telephone services.
3. Gizmo – Low cost international calling and free calls to users on Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live users and SIP networks.
4. Vonics Digital – Plans start at $12.99 per month.
5. VoipBuster – Free program that uses the latest technology to bring free and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world.
6. SunISP – VoIP Plans

Data Backup

Anyone that has important of sensitive information on their computer needs to have a system in place for backing up the data. For online entrepreneurs a loss of data could be tragic. These resources will give you a number of options from which you can choose the one that is best for you. Backing up your hard drive can be done quickly, easily, and automatically:

1. Mozy – Industry-leading solution for online backup.
2. Intronis – Online backup solution with remote computer data backup software.
3. Carbonite – Unlimited online backup for one flat fee.
4. Data Deposit Box – Your source for online backup, and secure online data backup.
5. Athena Backup – Automatically backup your home computer files with Athena Backup.
6. Data Protection Services – Secure online backup services, free trial!

Invoicing

If you are sending and tracking invoices to customers, you may be able to save some time and make the process more efficient by using a program that is specifically designed for this purpose. These resources can help the organization of your invoicing and they can allow you to have more time to spend on what you do best:

1. Bamboo Invoice – Simple, Open Source, Online Invoicing.
2. FreshBooks – Online invoicing and time tracking service.
3. Transcepta – Electronic invoicing solution.
4. Blinksale – The easiest way to send invoices online.
5. InterlinQ Solutions – Providing a daily job report, time sheets, job tracking, construction reports and mobile billing.
6. Bill My Clients – Easy way to create and send invoices and bills to your clients.
7. Billing Orchard – Online electronic billing software application.
8. 2nd Site – Secure invoicing service w/ online invoice payment & online employee timesheets.

Financial Management and Accounting

Many online entrepreneurs and small businesses do not have the need to use an accounting system that is as complex as that of a larger business, but every business needs to have organized and accurate financial records. These resources will provide you with everything you need and can easily be used by anyone:

1. Intacct – Delivers ERP software as a service to small and midsize companies.
2. QuickBooks Online – Accounting Solutions for professionals and businesses.
3. Xero – Slash the hours you spend every week on accounting administration.

Time Management and Project Management

Time management is critical to achieving maximum productivity. In order to improve that time management of your business, try some of these resources. I think you will see that the resulting organization and efficiency will have a noticeable impact on the results of your work:

1. Google Calendar – Free online shareable calendar service.
2. Vitalist – Web based task manager designed to work with Getting Things Done (GTD).
3. Backpack – Personal and small business information management, intranet, and to do list organizer.
4. Basecamp – Web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects.
5. Goplan – Online project management app.
6. Copper Project – Project Management Software.
7. Side Job Track – Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software.
8. ActiTime – Free Time Tracking Software.

Contact Manager

Online entrepreneurs typically have a very large number of contacts that they need to keep track of. These programs are specifically created to help you effectively manage your contacts. If you could use some improvement in this area, try some of these resources:

1. Big Contacts – Web Based Contact Manager for 2 to 2000 People.
2. Highrise – Shared contact manager.
3. BatchBook – Easy-to-use contact management system.
4. Relenta CRM – Small business CRM software.
5. Oprius – Sales and Contact Management Software for Independent Sales Consultants.
6. PipelineDeals – CRM made simple – $15/User/Month.
7. Zoho – Customer Relationship Management, on demand CRM.
8. Simple Sales Tracking – Web-based hosted CRM.
9. SugarCRM – Commercial Open Source CRM.

Hiring Freelancers

At some point you may have a need to hire freelancers of some type. Fortunately, there are plenty of resources online to help you find freelancers and identify the right one for your project. All of the websites listed here will allow you to search for freelancers according to your needs:

1. Elance – Outsourcing to Freelancers.
2. Guru – Free service helps you find freelancers, get free quotes, and get your project done.
3. SmarterWork – Top small business services marketplace.
4. Contracted Work – Work Jobs Freelance Search.
5. oDesk – Global service marketplace for small and medium sized businesses.
6. Get A Freelancer – Freelance programmers and web designers.
7. BizReef – Online Services platform.

Online Reputation Management Tools

Reputation management is a very hot topic online right now. As an entrepreneur, your reputation can have a serious impact on your success and you have a need to monitor your reputation and to make sure that what is being published is true. There are a variety of resources that can help in different ways:

1. claimID – Free, easy way to manage your online identity.
2. Google Alerts – Email updates of the latest relevant Google results.
3. Yahoo Alerts – Free, personalized notification service.
4. Technorati – Real-time search for user-generated media.
5. FindMeOn – Manage your circles of friends, family, colleagues and others.
6. myOpenID – Secure OpenID provider.

Accepting Payment

If you are taking online payments from customers or clients, you will need a way to make that happen. There are a number of different options, and the details of each can vary a good bit. Take a look at these options and see which is best for your situation:

1. PayPal – World renowned.
2. Google Checkout – Google’s way to send and receive money.
3. Neteller – Online payment solutions.
4. Moneybookers – Cheaper way to send and receive money worldwide.
5. iKobo – Pick up your money at over 1000000 Visa ATMs.
6. CheckFree – Provides financial electronic commerce services.

Shopping Carts

E-Commerce sites that are selling products to customers will need some type of shopping cart. There are a number of open source options listed below, as well as a number of other options. Hopefully you will find one that is well-suited to your needs:

1. Zen Cart – Free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system.
2. osCommerce – Free online shop program.
3. AgoraCart – Free shopping cart.
4. OpenCart – Open source PHP-based online shopping cart system.
5. Ubercart – Open source e-commerce suite.
6. X-Cart – Shopping cart software & PHP ecommerce solutions.
7. NetSuite – Integrated web-based business software suite.
8. ZNode – ASP.NET shopping cart.
9. Fortune3 – Ecommerce Shopping cart software.
10. Network Solutions – Robust, customizable Ecommerce online shopping cart software.
11. Kick Start Cart – Business professionally over the Internet.
12. Secure Delivery – The best digital download management site on the net!
13. Magento – Open Source eCommerce Evolved!

Social Networking

Social networking sites can help entrepreneurs to find potential partners, get advice from other entrepreneurs, network with others around the world, and to simply get some exposure for their profile. Each networking site is a little bit different. You’ll never have the time to use all of them effectively, so find a few that have potential to help you the most and be actively involved:

1. Cofoundr – Cofoundr is a private community for entrepreneurs.
2. Fast Pitch Networking – Business Networking Social Network for Business Professionals.
3. Killer Startups – Reviewing new startups.
4. Konnects – Business technology focus groups and networking events.
5. LinkedIn – Strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts.
6. Ryze – Business Networking.
7. YoungEntrepreneur – Largest social networking community for Entrepreneurs
8. Ziggs – White pages and free people search for professionals.

Finding Funding

Many entrepreneurs will need some type of funding for their ventures. If this is the case for you, these resources may be helpful. Locating potential funding sources can be a bit easier be taking advantage of the resources that are available:

1. GoBigNetwork – Angel investor network/venture capital.
2. Fundability – Puts your company in front of qualified and interested investors.
3. Find That Money – Formidable presence in consumer finance.
4. Venture Deal – Venture capital database.
5. American Capital Advance – Fast Business Loans.
6. Financing: Where to Find It

CPC Revenue

One of the most common ways to make money with a website is through cost per click programs like Google AdSense. While these programs are not a good fit for some sites and for some audiences, they have proven to effective for many:

1. Google AdSense – Google’s CPC Network.
2. Yahoo! Publisher Network – Yahoo’s CPC Network.
3. ABC Search – Get paid per click by ABC.
4. AdBrite – Webmasters can buy and sell text ads based on their site’s topic area.
5. Chitika – The leading merchandising network for bloggers.
6. Bidvertiser – Pay per click advertising.
7. Kanoodle – Distributes results to a large network of other search engines and search box providers.
8. Clicksor – Effective online advertising technology.
9. Kontera – Advertiser and Publisher Solutions.

CPM Revenue

CPC isn’t the only option for monetizing a website through advertisements. By choosing a CPM program you will be compensated for impressions rather than clicks. Here are some of the choices that are available:

1. ADSDAQ – A new advertising exchange.
2. ValueClick Media – One of the largest and most effective online advertising networks.
3. AdDynamix – Full-spectrum interactive provider delivering ad management.
4. Morning Falls – Online advertising solutions to advertisers and publishers worldwide.
5. CPX Interactive – Online ad network.
6. BurstMedia – Internet advertising network.
7. Casale Media – World’s fastest growing provider of online media solutions.
8. Tribal Fusion – Focused on high quality sites with targeted content and significant reach.
9. BrightRoll – Video advertising.
10. Adtegrity – Internet Advertising Solutions.