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Motivating
Yourself And Micro Planning Your Online
Small Business In Busy Times
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by John
Baril
Can
someone
build a successful online small
business while still holding a full-time job and playing a main role
within
one's family?
I think
it is
possible, but you need to be
highly motivated and highly focused on your online small business in
your
limited periods of free time. You also need to determine what tasks you
are
aiming to accomplish for your business every single day.
In order
to
stay motivated and focused you will
have to spend time on motivational and long-term business building
planning
activities.
It will
also be
important that you keep your
business running during busy periods, so doing some micro-planning on a
day-to-day basis will be essential. Let's look at this in more detail:
1.
Business
Motivation And Long-Term Planning.
Maintaining
enthusiasm will help you if you know
why you are building your online small business. Your reasoning should
be more
than just to make some extra money. This is about setting down and
writing on
paper a huge goal of yours that is both definite and inspiring.
Napoleon
Hill
called it, "a keen pulsating
DESIRE" which is DEFINITE and which "transcends everything
else."
Whatever
motivates you, write it down and review
it every day. Obsession is a good thing in this case. Get in a habit of
obsessing over your definite and transcendent desire. This will feed
your
motivation to move your business forward even during a busy week
because your
business is what is going to get you where you want to go in terms of
achieving
your definite desire.
Along
with
writing your definite aim, write your
long and medium-term goals you have for your online small business.
Goals could
include financial goals, how many customers you want to bring into your
business every week, and so on. These longer, medium-term business
goals will
give you some direction to better channel your motivation towards a
clear path.
2.
Micro-Planning To Maintain Momentum.
Common
problems
people face when trying to
juggle business ventures with other commitments is time management.
Good time
management comes down to short-term micro-planning. Micro-planning is
all about
making good use of the free time and dead time periods of your week.
To make
proper
use of these periods, you must
take into account the amount of time you will have to work on your
online small
business, how energetic or tired you wii be during those periods and
the most
suitable task that you can do in the time-frame that you have. It is a
good
idea not to plan too far ahead, and certainly no more than 36 to 48
hours ahead
of where you are now so that you can more accurately predict how you
are likely
to feel and how likely your schedule is to change.
Your
micro-planning will also be much more
effective if you draw up a list of different types of tasks that can be
done in
different time periods and on different energy levels. It is a good
idea to
separate out tasks that require a lot of creative energy, such as
article
writing, website building, sales page content creation and so on. Set
those
aside for those days when you have a lot of energy and enough free time
to
tackle them. Put those high energy tasks into one list.
Now draw
up a
second list of low input tasks
that can be done in short periods of time and do not require much
energy. We
are talking about tasks like posting comments on forums and blogs,
responding
to customer enquiries by e-mail, surfing traffic exchanges for credits,
posting
classified ads, promoting your website via social networking sites such
as
Twitter and Facebook.
When it
comes
to micro-planning the next day or
two of your life, look out for the available slots, think about how you
are
likely to be feeling, and allocate one or two tasks from either your
high-energy or a low-energy list depending on the circumstances.
You will
have a
much better chance of keeping
your online small business moving forward while still maintaining a
full-time
job and giving family commitments your full attention if you keep these
tips in
mind.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
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