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Coaching with Staci J. Shelton – The Art of Engagement

2009-05-06T14:26:51Z

My GOOD friend Staci Shelton is hosting a great tele-seminar on Social Media and the Art of Engagement. This is ridiculously prices at a low $49 (with a $39 introductory offer), so I suggest that you sign up now! She has limited spots so check it out. I guarantee that you will learn something that you did not know about Social Media!

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“Okay…I’m on all the Social Media “Hot Sites”…NOW WHAT????”

Everybody told you to hurry up and get on Facebook and Twitter to GROW your business and get MIRACULOUS Results!!! They said Social Media is “The Place To Be” to network, find jobs and be a huge success.

You did…and you didn’t. Yes, you signed up for Facebook and have a fan page for your business. You’ve set up a Twitter Profile and started Tweeting, but no one is following!

So far, this Social Media thing is feeling like a bunch of garbage to you, right?

WRONG.

Getting “on” Social Media is just the FIRST Step!

You can grow your business, have thousands of followers (I do) and promote your business to increase profits, customers and web traffic or broaden your network and connect with the right people to further your professional or personal goals!

You Just Need To Learn the Art of ENGAGEMENT

Engagement is the key to Social Media Marketing and Communication Success!

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Coaching with Staci J. Shelton – The Art of Engagement

Why don't we start out the New Year right? Let's set up a consulting session so that you can go into the New Year being as productive and organized as you can be. Sounds like a great plan! Vist my GTD Product page, and click on Professional Coaching. Purchase a half hour or an hour session and we'll set up a time! I'd love to help you start your New Year right.

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Undoing your Personal Productivity: Resisting Change

2009-04-30T20:54:21Z

I’ve got a question to the readership…….when you implemented a trusted system for getting things done, was it easy or was it hard? Did you resist it, or were you ready to accept whatever changes need to be made?

I am of the opinion that when change is afoot, the body may sub-consciously not want the change, and sets up roadblocks or excuses for that change not to occur. I’m not sure if the conscious mind knows this or not.

What have your experiences been when trying to direct change within yourself or other people? Does resistance occur? Do you think it’s consciously or sub-consciously?

Let’s ponder on this……can you give me your thoughts?

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Undoing your Personal Productivity: Resisting Change

Why don't we start out the New Year right? Let's set up a consulting session so that you can go into the New Year being as productive and organized as you can be. Sounds like a great plan! Vist my GTD Product page, and click on Professional Coaching. Purchase a half hour or an hour session and we'll set up a time! I'd love to help you start your New Year right.

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Personal Productivity: Trusting Yourself & Your New System

2009-03-01T05:00:00Z

I have seen it happen more than once: you’ve been in such an unorganized state of chaos that once you start to get organized, you have a hard time trusting yourself again.

Do you find this to be true?

When you’ve come from a state of total disorganization, you’ve learned not to trust yourself. You haven’t had a system that has ever worked for you, because you’ve still forgotten things or felt that you haven’t lived up to your expectations of yourself. When you don’t trust yourself, you have a very hard time being able to trust others to be able to Get Things Done for you and be productive for you. Disorganization can truly have rippling effects all throughout your life, both personal and business. It really is amazing how far the effects can be seen.

Once you start to turn your life around, either by yourself or with someone’s assistance, it is amazingly transformative how much of a far-reaching effect there is on your entire life. It can be very hard to get organized, especially on your own. It usually takes a catalyst like a book you’ve read or speaking to friends. For others it takes one on one training and coaching in order to be able to take the baby steps with confidence. Once you’ve been in a state of distrust for so long, it can be very hard to step out on your own because you have a hard time trusting yourself to be able to accomplish tasks and get organized.

Once you are on your path to recovering from being disorganized, I have seen people forget to trust themselves to be able to Get Things Done and get a great deal of productivity out of their lives.it can be a difficult change to get accustomed to once you’ve not trusted yourself for such a long period of time. It is completely normal to forget to trust yourself on the beginning of your organization and productivity journey, but once you get fully into the swing of things, you will see that your ability to trust yourself will slowly be restored. This is not a process that will occur overnight: try to remember how long you’ve been unorganized and then realize that it will take so time to get your trust of yourself and your systems into your routine.

It can be done, and the rewards are more fulfilling than can be described. Once you’ve been on your path, how long has it taken you to trust yourself and your system?

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Personal Productivity: Trusting Yourself & Your New System

Why don't we start out the New Year right? Let's set up a consulting session so that you can go into the New Year being as productive and organized as you can be. Sounds like a great plan! Vist my GTD Product page, and click on Professional Coaching. Purchase a half hour or an hour session and we'll set up a time! I'd love to help you start your New Year right.

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Personal Productivity: Don’t Put Things into a Box

2009-02-24T05:00:00Z

Recently I’ve become aware of the fact that sometimes people have a tendency to put things in boxes when they don’t need to be in boxes. While it can be very good and efficient to organize things and categorize them so that you know how to access them there some things in life in which you should not categorize in place in boxes. I’m not talking so much about physical tactile things like paper or CDs or books, but I’m talking more about things that you need to survive in life. Like other peoples feelings, how you feel about things and opening your mind to new horizons.

Let’s take an example: interacting with people in your life. When you interact with people in your life. It is good to experience them for who they are and not have preconceived notions about who you want them to be when you meet people for the first time. It is difficult not to make judgments about them aka making a first impression feelings. That’s not uncommon, what is a bad thing to do is to meet a person and automatically expect them to fit some sort of profile that you created in your head in which you think they must fit.

You may think that you need to meet a certain type of person in order to have a good solid friendship with them, when the fact remains that there may be people that you wouldn’t even dream of fitting into your box that will actually be very compatible with you and you will be very compatible with them.

I’ve known some people throughout my life that have the notion stuck in their head that they must have this, this and this in a person in order for them to be compatible, and to be able to have a very successful life or successful friendship together.

I can attest to the fact that meeting people that are outside your box is a great thing to do because you just never know who you may meet. My SO is not a person that I would have gone hunting for: but we are compatible and have a very successful relationship. Granted that we are not alike in many ways, but we do share common interests, enjoy each other’s company and have the same drive and desires in life. Had I kept my focus on someone that was to fit inside my box. I would’ve never found this person for several reasons. One reason being that I would’ve never looked for this person where they were found. Second reason being that it is possible I would not have even engaged in a conversation.

Please try to remember throughout your life to keep your options open: do not put yourself in a box or feel that they are certain things in your life that must fit within a box. You will limit your availability to meeting people and experiencing new things in life. We all know that when you experience things in life you grow as a person and without growth, life is meaningless.

So tell me… what have you done in your life that has been outside the box. And what have the results been? I would really like to know. So please tell me in the comments.

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Personal Productivity: Don’t Put Things into a Box

Why don't we start out the New Year right? Let's set up a consulting session so that you can go into the New Year being as productive and organized as you can be. Sounds like a great plan! Vist my GTD Product page, and click on Professional Coaching. Purchase a half hour or an hour session and we'll set up a time! I'd love to help you start your New Year right.

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On taking a Brief Sabbatical

2009-02-23T05:00:00Z

You may have noticed or you may have not that I was absent last week. This wasn’t so much intentional as it was needed. I have been writing on this blog for well over a year and have had posts five days a week at least, since I started this blog. I felt it was necessary to take a brief sabbatical to recharge my batteries. Not only that but I need to refocus my priorities and decide what I wanted to do with several areas in my life.

I took some time and tooled around the Internet doing some things on Facebook, staying away from my RSS feeds just to zone out the information and focusing on some things around the house. This has helped me immensely and I feel like I can start this new week fresh and with the clear peace of mind..

I’m still on the search for daytime employment, as I do not quite have enough clients yet to be able not to work in a regular day job. As you all know and as I’ve mentioned before is my dream not to work at a regular day job and to only work on my organization and productivity consulting business. Business is slow to be built, especially in this economy, and it’s difficult to be able to network with people due to their own time constraints or their ability to devote time to speak with you. When the economy gets this way, it is imperative that people that have their own businesses focus on their clients and their ability to grow more clients. So their opportunities to talk to those that are comrades in their own fields are limited.

Over the next week I will be doing some intensive work for a client on a personal assisting type level. What I also want to get accomplished this week is a schedule of events in my area that I can go to a network with people. Obviously there’s Toastmasters in my area, but I do believe that they charge a membership fee to join and being laid off. I prefer not to spend any money. So I’m going to search online and see what I can find locally in my area that is free to attend.

Thanks for hanging in there for the week and know that I’m back in the saddle with a new focus… a fresh focus!

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On taking a Brief Sabbatical

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Proud to be an America? You won’t be.

2009-02-14T05:00:00Z

I don’t know if any of my readers have heard of Michael Moore. You might now him from the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, which discussed the controversy and thoughts surrounding the 9/11 attack on the USA.

He has another movie out and if you live on America, you should see it. If you don’t live in America, you should thank god for where you live.

There is a health care crisis in the United States. We are robbed by our insurance companies and it’s not uncommon for people without insurance to be turned away when seeking medical attention in the US. This movie goes into detail about the USA health care crisis and the alarming death rate of US citizens when compared to the rest of the world. Even the people that have risked their lives to save others get refused healthcare. Our healthcare system is the most crooked in the world.

The US ranks 37th in quality of health care, just above Slovenia. Here is the list of all the countries that rank better than we do:

1 France 2 Italy 3 San Marino 4 Andorra 5 Malta 6 Singapore 7 Spain 8 Oman 9 Austria 10 Japan 11 Norway 12 Portugal 13 Monaco 14 Greece 15 Iceland 16 Luxembourg 17 Netherlands 18 United Kingdom 19 Ireland 20 Switzerland 21 Belgium 22 Colombia 23 Sweden 24 Cyprus 25 Germany 26 Saudi Arabia 27 United Arab Emirates 28 Israel 29 Morocco 30 Canada 31 Finland 32 Australia 33 Chile 34 Denmark 35 Dominica 36 Costa Rica

Are you shocked? You should be. The life expectancy of Americans falls well below that of the countries on this list.

In France, for example, you get paid for any sick day that you take. You are able to receive assistance from the government in the form of a part time nanny if you have an infant. You get a free education (up through and including college). It is absolutely astounding to this American what other countries have that we do NOT.

We are the only country in the WORLD that runs healthcare like we do. We do not take care of our homeless and elderly, and if they do receive healthcare, when they are discharged, they are dumped on the streets if they have no where to go.

I’m not going to run down the entire list of atrocities here, but I urge you to see this movie. It is on sale at Amazon for $5.99, so please watch it and share it with your friends. Is it sensationalism? No….it’s the flat out truth. I sat and sobbed after I watched this movie. It is disheartening. After my relatives are gone in this country, I am out of here, to move abroad. We’ll sell the house and leave. I will not continue to remain in this country and be treated this way.

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Proud to be an America? You won’t be.

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Fresh Friday Link Love

2009-02-13T08:38:39Z

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Office Productivity: 1000 Free Business Cards

2009-02-12T11:51:00Z

I found this information via creattica.com. uprinting.com is offering 1000 free business cards: one sided OR two sided. I’ve placed my order and can vouch for the fact that they are free: all you have to pay is shipping. Go take a look and get you 1000 free cards!

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Office Productivity: 1000 Free Business Cards

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Office Productivity: My 20 Steps to Improve Your Productivity – Avoid Sugary Snacks

2009-02-12T05:00:00Z

No, I am not trying to imitate your mother! But Mom’s sage advice is usually correct.

When you intake a large amount of sugar, your body raises up and rides that “high” wave of sugar. The body uses it in it’s muscles and it gets burned pretty quick. Once it does, the body comes crashing down to earth again, only to be left with more fatigue previous to the sugary snack.

If you want to give yourself a boost (or boosts) throughout the day, eat protein snacks. The protein feeds the body longer than sugar and can level out the insulin levels in the body so that you do not experience the “highs” and “lows”. Another snack to watch out for are snack high in carbohydrates. Carbs turn into sugar, which starts the vicious sugar cycle all over again.

Veggies are a great option for snacks throughout the day. A lot of them are portable, once they are cut up (carrots, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers) and not only do they provide protein, but they are a much more natural way to get the body pumping.

Peanut butter is a great source of protein as well, but due to the recent salmonella outbreak, one has to be very careful when choosing a brand. More healthy alternatives are almond butter, sunflower butter and other nut butters. If’ you’ve not tried of varieties of butters, I suggest that you give them a go! They really are quite tasty and some are healthier than peanut butter.

What are you favorite snacks during the day? Have you noticed any adverse effects form the? Tell me in the comments!

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Office Productivity: My 20 Steps to Improve Your Productivity – Avoid Sugary Snacks

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GTD Mastery 100: Part XXI – Trusting, Committing and Anxiety

2009-02-09T18:56:54Z

61. When I put something into my inbox, I completely trust that it will get done…or I know why it’s not getting done and am comfortable with it.
This is one of the great things about the GTD methodology: if you use the system right, things that you put in your inbox will get done. I typically do those just previous to my Weekly Review so that I can see just exactly what I’ve accomplished from my inbox, and what needs to be put back in again for the following week.

62. When I commit to doing something for someone, I completely trust that I will do it…or I’ll let them know ahead of time why I can’t complete it.
I’ve written several articles about commitment and honoring what you tell people that you are going to do. I’ve made no secret that it is a BIG pet peeve of mine when people and corporations do not hold fast to what they tell me. So I would guess that my answer would come as no surprise.

I will always hold fast to what I tell someone. and if I am unable to hold up to my end of the commitment, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will tell you just as soon as I know. You can really make someone’s life very difficult by not sticking to your word.

63. That low-level anxiety I used to feel around my “stuff” and my work is completely gone.
I wouldn’t say that it’s completely gone, but I will say that it has lessened a great deal. Some of the minuscule details may fall by the wayside, but I’m proud to say that I am much more comfortable with my system than I was a year ago.

Tell me: how are you on trusting, committing and anxiety? Let me know in the comments!

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GTD Mastery 100: Part XXI – Trusting, Committing and Anxiety

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