by Brian on March 9, 2010
Hi there. How are you doing today. I hope all is fine. Today I want to talk a little bit about money. This is a topic that gathers a lot of interest because we all use money and we all need it. Money is a necessity no matter what anyone else says. One of the hardest things when it comes to money is deciding how to spend it wisely.
I am sure that you are just like the majority of us who can sometimes make buying decisions that we regret later on. Marketers say that we make buying decisions emotionally and then we justify those decision logically. So how do we decide if something is worth buying or not.
I was listening to Eben Pagan talk about this and he gave some wisdom on this topic. Here is what he said in his own words.
You can’t make a good buying decision when you’re excited and you can’t make a good selling decision when you’re afraid
Now that is some good wisdom. Many times we go into a store and we see a dress, a watch, a book or some item and we get excited and in our excitement we get carried away and we buy the item and then a few days after we suffer from buyer’s remorse. We knew we shouldn’t have bought that item but the decision has already been made.
The next time you’re going to buy a small item e.g. in the $60 – $100 range, wait for a week. Yes you heard that right. If it’s a major thing that you want to buy costing from a few hundreds to a few thousands then wait for a month (preferably 3 months). What you will realise by doing this is that the excitement to buy the product has diminished and you realise you don’t really need it and you should not buy it.
This strategy is a new concept for me and for many of you but I believe by utilising this strategy it will help all of us to make better buying decision and we shouldn’t feel guilty with our next purchase.
So what do you think of this post. Does it challenge you to develop a new habit. Does it answer the question – How to spend your money wisely?
Please share your thoughts below.
Thanks and have a great day!!!
by Brian on March 2, 2010
Hello to all my blog readers. It’s been quite some time since I’ve made a post. Let me just say that I was sick coming to the end of last year and then I had some important church business to handle for the beginning of this year. I hope to be regularly posting now.
For this last part on time managment, I want to talk about change channels. I know that you are probably wondering if this has anything to do with a television. I assure you it has nothing to do with switching channels on a television. I learnt this concept from Mr. Eben Pagan
So what do I mean by changing channels? What is meant by this concept is that let’s just say you were doing something mentally for the last 50 minutes…probably you were doing a lot of research and reading a lot about some particular subject that really taxed your brain, it will be a wise idea to now change channels.
This means that if you were doing something mental, then after you should do something physical or emotional etc. This is what is meant by changing channels e.g now that you have finished your research, you can now probably call up that friend who always makes you laugh and puts you in a good mood. This is a good way to relieve some stress from your last 50 minutes and helps you to be ready for the next task ahead which could be something physical like lifting weights.
You don’t want to spend all your day doing mental tasks cause it may end causing you to feel frustrated and you may decide not to do these important tasks.
So there you have it. 7 Time Management Techniques you can put in your life right now. What do you think of these techniques? Are they useful? Maybe you have some others that you may like to add. Please leave your comments and tell me what you think.
Have a great day!!!
by Brian on December 2, 2009
Hi there. In this post I want to talk to you all about the concept of clean cuts.
Now you are probably wondering what do I mean by clean cuts. Is this a hair cut we are dealing with?
Off course not. When I say clean cuts, I mean that when you have finished working on one thing for a given period of time e.g 1 hour, then you need to cut it clean. You need to stop focusing on it afterwards. This is a great time management technique.
For example, if you are working on an essay to hand in for school and you spent about 1 hour working on it and you finished it, you need to stop thinking about it afterwards. You need to move on to the next thing on your list without worrying about if the essay was good enough or if it was long enough because your mind can only focus on one thing at a time and you will cause the other thing you are working on to be done in a half hazard way because you will not be concentrating on the main task at hand.
This is something that may take a while to get used too, if you already have the habit of looking back at things that you just did to make sure they are perfect.
Clean cuts is a very good time management technique and Iwill like to hear your views on this topic. So feel free to leave a comment or share on your favorite social media site.
Thanks again and we’ll talk soon
by Brian on November 11, 2009
Are you hungry for success,hungry for a better way of life, hungry for a better relationship?
Listen to this motivational tune from Les Brown and get hungry!!!!
I love this!!!
“If you want a thing badly enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it…if all that you dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it…if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it…if you simply go after that thing you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity….if neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout, sickness nor pain, of body and brain, can keep you away from the thing that you want…if dogged and grim you beseech and beset it, with the help of God, you WILL get it!” – Les Brown
Please share this with the rest of the world!!!
by Brian on November 4, 2009
Hello people. I hope you all are enjoying this series on Time Management Techniques. In today’s post I want to talk about a concept called clean focus.
Now I am sure you are probably wondering what I mean by clean focus, so here is the answer.
Many times when we are doing something, we tend to lose our focus and stray a little. For e.g sometimes I may be reading a book or something and while reading the book, my mind begins to stray and think about what is going to happen tomorrow, or who is the best actor right now, or what is the best movie showing in the cinema at the moment or some weird thing….
This is what is called unclean focus. The focus is not clean. We need to have clean focus.
Clean focus is where you try to focus on one thing for approximately 50 minutes and when you see yourself starting to lose focus, you try to get back your focus gradually…. Don’t rush it but gradually get back your focus on the task at hand.
This is very similar to the last post about time management techniques but they are all very inter-related.
The fact of the matter is that having focus is key to getting anything done in your life and if there is no focus then you are just mistaking activity for productivity. You can set a schedule and say you are going to study Maths for 1 hour but if during that 1 hour you are doing non mathematical related stuff then you are just wasting time and fooling yourself.
Start applying this time management technique called Clean Focus and see the difference that it makes.
Thank you and have a very productive day!!!
by Brian on November 2, 2009
Hi there. I will like to share the 4th Time Management Technique with you today. This should not be a long post but it will be good if you apply what is shared here.
One problem that we have as humans is staying focused. We like to do many things at once and we already talked about this in a previous post. Today I want to talk to you about having focused time blocks.
Now what do I mean by that? I mean that after you have eliminated all your distractions and you know what needs to be accomplished, you now need to have some focused time blocks so you can begin to work on these tasks.
Focused time blocks is where you dedicate a certain amount of uninterrupted time to a certain task and that and that alone. You don’t work on anything else. Me, writing this blog post is an e.g of using focused time blocks. I dedicated a certain amount of time for me to write this blog post without any interruptions and while I am doing this I have a countdown timer that is counting down time.
That is what I mean by focused time blocks. We need to learn to focus on one thing only. My mentor John Dilemme says that if you try to chase two rabbits, both will escape.
So here is what I want you do. This is a really great time management technique. Make a list of things you need to do tomorrow, then make an estimate on how long you are going to work on that task without any interruptions and then get a timer and begin to work on it tomorrow while the timer counts down.
That is your homework. Try it out and please leave your comment and let the world know how this time management technique is working out for you.
Thank you and I hope you have a very productive day!!!
by Brian on October 21, 2009
Hi there folks. I hope you are enjoying these time management techniques that I am sharing.
The third technique I will like to share on is called enlightened multitasking.
Before I share what this means, let me just say that a study was done that shows blackberries lower iq more than smoking pot!!! Yes your heard that right. People who are on blackberries tend to multitask too much and this it seems could lead to a drop in iq.
So what do I mean by enlightened multitasking? In the last post I talked about scheduling your interruptions and when you are doing this you can try to do as much multitasking as possible because you are in an interruption time. e.g you return as much calls as possible, reply to as much email as you can, read as much email as you can etc.
You are given permission in this time to do multitasking because I know that there are some people who cannot help to not multitask. This is one point in time when you can feel free to multitask.
Just remember that after this time is over, you stop the multitasking and you then focus for a given period of time on the task at hand.
So that’s it for tip number 3. Hope you enjoyed it. Happy Multi tasking!!!
Feel free to leave a comment.
by Brian on October 17, 2009
Good day fellow readers. How is your weekend going? I hope you enjoyed the last post that dealt with time management techniques.
In the last post we talked about eliminating distractions and committing to do something for a certain given period of time continuously. If you had put that into practice it sure should have made you a very productive person.
In today’s post I will like to talk to you about a concept called Scheduling your interruptions. Now once again I will like to thank Eben Pagan for sharing this concept as it is another great concept to put in your life.
Now what do I mean by scheduling your interruptions? You need to let people know when you can be reached and when you cannot be reached e.g if you are a student and you have friends who like to call you at all kinds of times to gossip about what is going on in class, which boy likes which girl etc, you need to schedule these things. What I mean is if you know that you are going to do homework between the hours of 7-9, then let your friends know that you cannot be reached during those times as you will be busy but they can call between the hours of 4-7 p.m
This is how you schedule your interruptions. If people email you a lot and you need to respond to their emails, then set up an autoresponder with gmail that lets people know that you aren’t available at the moment but you will be available between the hours of x and y.
When people know these things, you set up your life and your interruptions in such a way that when people interrupt you, you make sure that you aren’t doing anything extremely important at that time, so you will be available to meet whatever request they may have.
So this is what is meant by Scheduling your interruptions. If you enjoyed this post then feel free to leave a comment and let the world know what you thought of this!!!
by Brian on October 13, 2009
Good day to all my blog readers. I have a great series coming up on the subject of time management techniques. I know that everyone knows that in order to be successful you need to know how to use your time wisely. Someone once said that you cannot manage your time but you can mange your life and in these techniques that you are about to learn you will know how to manage your life better.
Eben Pagan, one of the best entrepreneurs in the world today developed a system called Wake Up Productive and he shares some incredible information about how to manage your time better and I am going to share some of the techniques here but I highly recommend you get on his list for the next time he opens up back the training again because he does share some effective time management techniques there.
In this post I am going to talk a little bit about distractions. One of the main reasons why we cannot manage our time better is because of distractions. Distractions come in the form of people, email, television, cell phones etc. So the first time management technique is to eliminate distractions as much as possible.
Now I am a highly spiritual person and if I am praying or reading my bible or doing something important I take off my cell phone. Now can you do that. You need to realise that in order to accomplish your tasks you have to eliminate those things that will distract you from completing them.
You need to learn to focus on one thing for an extended period of time and you can only do this by eliminating the distractions that come your way during your productivity hour.
So here is my challenge to you. Make a list of the things you need to do each day and when the time comes for you to do it then take off all cell phones, all emails, all Instant Messengers, Facebook, Twitter etc and just focus on the task at hand. You will not die if you take off these distractions for a few hours while you get some important things accomplished during the day.
So the next time you are studying for a test, having quality time with your kids, spending time with God or whatever you need to do that is important, try your best to eliminate distractions as much as possible and then focus on the task at hand for a given period of time!!!
Now that is the first time management technique I will like to share today. If you enjoyed this post then feel free to socially bookmark it on your favorite website and just remember this is just Part 1 of 7 so look forward to the rest.
Thank you and have a great day!!!
by Brian on October 11, 2009
Good day folks how are you all doing? I hope all is well. Today’s post is a personal experience that I had and I will like to share it with you. In the last post I talked about changing the world and in today’s post I want to share how a simple compliment can go a long way for people.
A few months ago I got an email from Joe Kasper of Fireyourdiet.com who is an extremely helpful person in the area of fitness and health. Now I am a person who subscribes to a lot of online newsletters from many business people and Joe was just one of the hundreds I subscribe too!!! By the way I never knew Joe nor does he know me!
Anyway the email I got from Joe was that he wanted to know the birthdays of his subscribers so that when there birthday comes he will give them one of his paid products for free and you can pick which product you want. I was astonished at this and I found that this was a great thing he was doing.
Now I wanted to get one of his free products when it was time for my birthday so here is the email I sent him
i am brian ramdhan. My birthday is 3rd March 1983. My contact no. is xxxxxxx.(Intentionally left out)
Let me just say that this is a wonderful thing you are doing and I havent seen any other marketer do this before!!!! Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!
That was all I sent in the email and I want you to know that I was genuine in my compliment to him. I didn’t want or expect anything from him. Guess what happened?
A few minutes after I got a call from Joe Kasper himself and I was overwhelmed! He was extremely excited to talk to me and he said he was very appreciative of what I had said and he told me that even though it wasn’t my birthday he wanted to send me not one, but two of his products for free just because of those kind words from me!!! I was shocked.
I really didn’t expect anything from him. I was just trying to be sincere. I did not think that such a small compliment could mean so much to an extremely successful person as Joe Kasper!!! I got the products within a few weeks time. I just needed to cover the shipping!
I say all of this in order to say that the small things are in fact the big things!!! A simple compliment, a simple smile for someone can go such a long way you will not realize it until you do it. The world is crying out for people to just send a small touch of goodness their way!!
I am asking you to sincerely be a person who will change the world one compliment at a time!!!
And to Joe Kasper – Thanks for the free books!!!
