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Mind Clutter

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When we think of clutter, we think of the messy closet. We think of the desk with too many papers, sticky notes, and notebooks on it. We think of the locker that has all of the papers scattered and notebooks squished together.

We think of clutter as actual, physical things that result in an untidy mess. There are countless things that can be found in that clutter. There might be enough things in the clutter to start an eBay business.

However, people don’t think of mind clutter. People can’t think of mind clutter because as the name suggest, mind clutter clutters the mind. It’s difficult to think of it or realize it’s even there. If you realize mind clutter is going on, another person probably won’t see it that way.

Mind clutter is all of those TV shows and commercials you see while trying to type a sentence. Mind clutter is that video you’re hearing when you’re working on your project. Real clutter can also result in mind clutter because working in a helter-skelter environment doesn’t work too well.

Your mind is a crucial part to your success. If your mind gets distracted, your work reflects on that. The only way to adapt to mind clutter is to do things very slowly. It ends up taking a minute to write a single sentence. It either takes much longer to accomplish something, or you don’t do what you wanted to accomplish as well as you could have.

Mind clutter is everywhere, but not everyone knows about mind clutter. There’s more clutter in the average mind than there is in the average closet. Get rid of the mind clutter, or take a break from the business.

End Of The Year Goals

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When it comes to making yearly goals, everyone is so focused on the New Year’s resolutions. I encourage you today to make a list of your end of the year goals for right now. Here’s my list of goals for my business:

  1. Have 12,000 Twitter followers
  2. Have 5,000 Pinterest followers
  3. Have 12,000 views on YouTube
  4. Have an eBay business that makes $100 or more a month
  5. Increase blog traffic by 300%
  6. Write another book

 

I will add on to this list when I think of another goal to accomplish.

What are your end of the year goals?

5 Pinterest Mistakes To Avoid

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There are millions of users on Pinterest, but since Pinterest is the newest social network of them all, it is easy to make mistakes. Pinterest is different from other social networks based on the way Pinterest was designed to work. Here are 5 Pinterest mistakes that you need to avoid:

  1. Don’t be afraid of sending out a lot of pins in one blast. If you can send out 50 pins in 20 minutes and then send 10 more for the rest of the day, that’s okay. On Twitter and other social networks, posting 50 times in 20 minutes and then only posting 10 more times throughout the day would annoy followers. It doesn’t annoy Pinterest followers as much. In addition, the more pins you have, the more likely you are to get thousands of followers. Almost every user with over a million followers also has over a thousand pins. Some of them are approaching 100,000 pins.
  2. Don’t pin exclusively about your business. It’s okay to pin about different things as well. I don’t only pin posts from my blog, but instead, I pin about baseball, 3D printing, Legos, and a lot of other things as well.
  3. A big mistake is to make your blog unpinnable. If you are using Pinterest, you have to start adding pictures to your blogs and a Pin It button. My traffic has gone up by 200% just by adding pictures to my blog and a Pin It button. Pinterest has taken the web by storm, and if you want your blog posts to be shared more, make sure people can easily share them on Pinterest.
  4. Make sure you like a lot of pins. The people who have liked thousands of pins also have millions of followers. Liking a lot of pins will help you towards getting more followers.
  5. If you pin a lot in one blast, people make the mistake of pinning from the same board the entire time. If you have a board about tips for your niche, and you send out 50 pins about tips for that niche, chances are some of those tips are going to be repeats. If one of your followers doesn’t like that niche, they may unfollow that particular board. Make sure you send out 5 pins from one board, 5 pins from another board, and so on until you reach your desired number of pins.

 

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Usefulness And The Use

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When people make a decision about which product to buy or what to clean out, they are all focused on the usefulness. If the TV doesn’t work anymore, it isn’t useful anymore. It has to be removed. When the old TV gets removed, it’s time to get a new one. A wide screen plasma TV with HD pictures and great volume is useful.

A closet can be useful, but if the closet is a mess, it isn’t very useful. I cleaned my closet last week, and I have finally been able to learn about how useful a closet can actually be.

There are plenty of valuable books out there. There’s Contagious, The Power Of Habit, and others as well. They are very useful. They will help you out big time. Whether you want to go viral or have powerful habits, those books will help. They’re useful.

WordPress is useful. Google is useful. Social networks are useful.

What about the use? If someone actually buys the plasma TV with HD pictures and great volume, but that TV doesn’t get used, it isn’t useful. It’s worthless. If a clean closet doesn’t get used, it isn’t useful. If a book isn’t read, it isn’t useful because it wasn’t read in the first place.

There are many things that are useful, but they are only useful if they are actually used.

5 Creative Ways To Generate And Keep Buzz On Instagram

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Unlike other social networks, Instagram relies on the fact that you are taking pictures primarily from your mobile device. Other social networks allow you to use a picture from the web or no picture at all.

Business owners and brands are now using Instagram, and the total number of users on Instagram has shot up like a rocket. However, few people are actually generating the buzz on Instagram so that people look at their products and services.

  1. Post 1-5 picture every day. If you have 10 pictures that you want to post today, it’s better to spread them out over a period of time so you have enough pictures to post for the entire week. Consistency is more important than getting a fast start.
  2. Host a giveaway. This method works well on any social network, but especially Instagram where you can take a picture of yourself holding the prize and sharing it with everyone. That picture will definitely get a lot of likes.
  3. Comment On Other People’s Pictures. The more times people see you on Instagram, the more they will remember your presence. When more people remember, this allows you to generate and keep the buzz. People who are remembered are the ones who become successful.
  4. Promote your Instagram account and pictures on your blog. The more you promote your Instagram account and pictures, the more traffic and followers you will get. Promoting all of that on your own blog is a great way to increase traffic and get more followers. This applies for any social network.
  5. Build a following. There are plenty of ways to do this. All four of the above ways will help you get a following while generating and keeping buzz. Another great way to build a following on Instagram is by following others back.

My Favorite Word

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Is “yet.”

I used to say, “I don’t have a blog, yet.”

The word yet makes it sound as if it is actually going to happen.

I can’t use that sentence. I have a blog.

I use that word for anything that I am not that I would like to become.

Most of the time, when I use that word, I end up becoming what I wanted to become.

I’m not a bestselling author, yet. I’m not making money on eBay, yet. I don’t have hundreds of thousands of followers, yet.

Proclaim what you want to be. Add the word “yet” at the end of your sentence. Watch yourself end up becoming what you wanted to become.