productivity

Trick Yourself

July 28, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

It is possible to trick yourself, and sometimes, tricking yourself can be beneficial. I read an article about how a young girl didn’t feel any pain when she got stitches. The reason she didn’t feel any pain was because the doctor tricked the girl (in a good way).

The doctor had a lot of coloring books. He told the young girl what colors to use to color the pictures. Eventually, the doctor would tell the young girl to use a different color. This got the girl distracted from what was really going on: the stitches.

The same girl who moaned about the stitches ended up not even knowing that the stitches even took place. The girl felt no pain. Her mind tricked her into focusing on the coloring books instead of the stitches.

I recently tricked myself by creating a book with a giant list. I ended up writing over 5,000 words in 1 day. The only reason I know is that I just happened to look at the bottom of the document to see my word count.

You can make the difficult things seem easy by tricking yourself. Then, when you realize you tricked yourself, look at what you were able to do. It really works.

Don’t Give Yourself Too Much Work To Do

July 27, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

No matter how dedicated you are to your business, you can’t give yourself too much work. I had a goal to publish 1 book every month, but that task proved to be a difficult one to complete. I will be publishing 1 book every 2 months. That’s not as much work, and it allows me to write more quality content.

Don’t be afraid to give yourself less work. You need to have fun outside of your business. However, make sure you give yourself some work to do.

There’s Always Enough Time

July 25, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The problem with new entrepreneurs is that they think there isn’t enough time to work on their business. The truth is that there is always enough time. Although no one is expected to stay up an entire day just to get some work done, it is possible to do some work.

Enough time to do some work doesn’t always mean working for hours every day. Working for a small amount of time is better than not working at all.

The go-to excuse is saying there wasn’t enough time to get the work done. There is rarely a moment when anyone really has no time at all to do some work.

The Right Time Is Now

July 23, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Everyone says about how they want to make money and be what they wanted to be in their life. Everyone talks about how they are going to be the next hall of fame athlete for their sport or how their business is going to get millions of clients.

They talk the talk more than they walk the walk. When is the right time to walk the walk? The right time is now. You have the start button in your hand right now. You won’t be able to see it, but that start button is there in your hand.

Why wait to be successful? If you wait to be successful, people will use you to make them successful. Time is ticking away. Don’t be where you are now a year from now. If you are, you’ll end up being in the same place two or even three years from now. The time of finding ways to procrastinate and waste time is over. The right time to start is now. There is no waiting line for success, and if there was, cut the line and get successful faster.

The Wishing Well Is A Trap

July 19, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Success is not something easy to achieve. If it were easy to achieve, no one would be talking about it because it would be ordinary. Success is anything but ordinary. People wish that success will find them.

Wish upon a star, then wish upon another star, and then which upon all of the stars you see. A couple of wishes later, you said what you wanted, but did you take action? Did you get closer to turning that wish into a reality?

The wishing well is a place where you make wishes. More coins get put in depending on the wish. You’re giving away money in hopes that your wish comes true. In fact, no one’s wish can come true without taking action.

The wishing well is an idea that as you pay, you are more likely to make your wish come true. Then you start to learn trick shots and make putting coins into a wish well entertaining.

The fact that the wishing well is a place to wish for your dreams to come true isn’t why the wishing well is a trap. It’s a trap because when we wish for something, people believe they will get what they want. When people believe they will get what they want, no action will be taken.

Stop putting coins into the wishing well and start putting coins into your future by taking action.

Multi Task Anytime

July 16, 2013 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

We all have goals to complete. Some of those goals are easy to complete while others are very difficult. How about doing two of them at the same time. That does not mean reading two books at the same time with super vision and a good memory. It means taking two things that are different and doing them at the same time.

I read other people’s blogs, but I don’t read them all in the morning. The morning is the most productive time of the day, and that’s when I write. Instead, I read them in the afternoon. However, when I read those blogs, I’m not reading them while sitting on the couch or chair. I read them while running on a treadmill.

It is possible to do two things at once. Those two things that you are doing could be two goals. Want to take a break? You can take two breaks at the same time. I haven’t tried it yet, but playing video games while running on the treadmill would be interesting.