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As an entrepreneur, you probably find yourself fighting the balancing act everyday with customers, marketing, employees, and business development, let alone family, friends, and personal pursuits. With all this responsibility, do you find it impossible to fit in time to exercise? Of course you are not alone, many business people want to exercise, but it ends up low on the priority list, after business, family, and all the daily fires that need to be put out.

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!

How to prepare to Work your Home Based Business? Sounds simple sit down, and do the action, right? Well no. You have to prepare your mind and body for Productivity/Action!! Follow these steps to have more power or fuel to run your Business:

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.

How Committed Are You to what You do? What are you willing to sacrifice? How Far are You Willing to Go for your Dreams? Do You Know Your Real Why? Do You Know Your Outcome? The Last One may be the most important….

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!!

Yesterday, we briefly touched the three elements to Action and Goal Setting, today I want to cover a very specific are in this Second Part of Goal Setting. That is a daily goal and action plan. Often times in goal setting we look 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years down the road. That is very, very important, but the day to day is what we’ll get us there.

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!!!!