How to Be Productive and Manage Your Time Wisely

It is common for people to say that the main reason they want their own online business is so that they won't have a boss telling them what to do and when to do it. They often mention the fact that they don't want to have to 'clock in' every day.

They will work when they want to and IF they want to because they won't have a boss telling them what to do.

They are wrong! Or, at least, they had better be wrong or they are doomed to failure. The fact is when you work from your own home, YOU are the boss and you had better be a darn demanding one.

You might no longer have a 9 to 5 job but you certainly have to spend a good number of hours working on your business. Since you're the boss now, you need to ensure that you spend enough time working on your business and ensure that that time is spent productively.

Your old boss might have overlooked your being 10 minutes late getting back from lunch but you will need to be a lot tougher on yourself if you are to ever succeed at any internet business and you better forget about that old forty-hour week, too.

The online marketing scene is hard! Don't for one instant believe the adverts that promise you bucket loads of cash whilst only working part time each month. It simply is not true.

You MUST set up a working schedule for yourself. You must adhere to that schedule and you had best remember that quitting time is when you get through and not precisely eight hours after you went to work.

Your time IS your own to manage. You must supply your own discipline. You are still accountable to someone. You are accountable to YOU!

My next point is this, Guesswork and Becoming "Cheap" is NOT Smart. Being thrifty is a good thing but there is a huge difference between being thrifty and just being cheap. You need to remember that in the Internet marketing game the objective is not to keep the money you have. The objective is to make more money than you have.

I'm sure you have heard the saying, "You have to spend money to make money"? It's a statement that has been tested countless times by those who have trodden this path before you. And it has proven itself to be true time and time again. You can't be so afraid of spending a few dollars that you prevent yourself from making money.

There are some ridiculous statements that I've come across in my time and among them are those where a marketing course was refused because the person didn't want to pay the price for it.

The things they could have learned in that course could have made them thousands of dollars, and yet they baulked at the idea of spending a couple of hundred dollars to pay for the course, just so they could 'save' money. How much money has that 'saving' really cost them?

Another really ridiculous thing I've heard many many times is that a marketer didn't buy some software that would have saved him hours of manual work simply because it cost too much and maybe it wouldn't even work properly.

What kind of thinking is that?

Would you keep cutting grass with an old fashioned push mower rather than buying a power mower because it cost too much and it might have a problem?

Here is the thing that you need to remember: Being thrifty is not a crime.

Being dumb isn't a crime either.

If you really want to be a successful internet marketer, you have to be willing to invest in your own knowledge and provide the tools for yourself that makes success possible. - 18098