August 1, 2012 - Taking time to Gear up for August

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Good Afternoon,

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I hope everyone reading this had a most wonderful day.

My day started out really late. I had a lot of problems sleeping last night. The animals kept waking me up and then people getting up for work at 3:30am didn't help the situation either. But though I woke up late I was able to get some things accomplished.

I will be very honest with you, the hardest thing to do is work for yourself. Much discipline is needed to work for yourself and I am taking steps to add more discipline to my life. Ways that I do that is by scheduling. Now lets be honest when discipline is something you lack it's hard to follow a schedule that you are responsible for putting together yourself. I am doing good with adding structure to my days and discipline to my life in this area.

Like today for instance. I had a 9 o'clock phone appointment this morning that I kept and called at 9 o'clock on the dot. Now that is always something I have been good with, keeping appointments. Getting up and out to schedule appointments to be able to keep lol, not so much. But that's okay. We all have things that we need to work on and there are many ways to improve in these areas.

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• One way, accountability. Make yourself accountable to someone else. I am making myself accountable to the world by this blog.
• Two, find out what motivates you. What motivates me options, no money means no options, have money and you have a myriad of options.
• Three, find out what distracts you and "CUT IT OUT."  {For instance, Me, I put my friends over anything besides a scheduled business meeting, so if I get a phone call or a text and end up in a conversation ( which we know for us women and some men can be lengthy lol ) it throws my whole day off. So I am making during the day no personal text or calls time. I'm very easily distracted. It's a bad thing but it's a good thing to know this about myself so I can do what I need to do to make sure I don't get distracted. I am a person that is very easy to talk to so people get caught up with me on the phone, so I have this problem even when I'm talking to the people at corporate lol. Which is why I am not going to be talking to them until after 7 pm as well. Which is great because they are in the office until 9pm mostly and whatever is not addressed by phone I can shoot an e-mail. I have time scheduled for every morning Mon-Fri to check and respond to e-mails.}

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Now I know in my previous blog post, posted the very last day in July, I said that I would be working two weekends out of every month. Well after making my calendar today and having no personal time at all during the week starting August 2, 2012, I decided that my time on the weekend is best spent catching up with friends and family, this includes spending time with my Fiance. I'm getting married July 2014 :-). Don't worry I have time scheduled at the end of each day, even on the weekends to come here and talk about my day as well as some other things that I think you should know or that I just would like to share.

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To better my chances of getting out and "pounding the pavement" as we say in business to business sells, I have made a very anal schedule. My schedule tells me everything I need to do from the time I wake up until I lay my head back down. Yes that means when I shower, brush my teeth, put on clothes, even making breakfast, a certain time to eat it, and yes I have the time scheduled to throw away the contents from breakfast. Seems extreme, IT IS EXTREME. Desperate times call for desperate measures and I need to fix me lol. I use google calendar and have all scheduled times set to send a reminder to my telephone via text from anywhere between 1 and 3 minutes within me having to switch tasks. My relax days and time all to myself during the weekend is also in my schedule.

You know they say it takes 21 days to form a new habit. I am going to be on this tight schedule for the next six months. Lets just say I have a lot of things I need to take care of. After six months I will relax my schedule, which just means cutting down my business hours to about 6, 7 hours a day; right now there are 13 hours in my day that I will be working; 8 hours and 15 minutes of those hours are business meetings and prospecting; the other 5 hours and some change are for paperwork and organization of my days and week. The hours I will be cutting from in six months are the hours I am out prospecting and holding business meetings. Of course if my clients need to schedule time in my off hours during the day I don't mind and I will accommodate; but my time will be much more relaxed other than that.

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My other goal besides the ones listed in the previous blog: Make my business my addiction; to always always be building.

My Ultimate Goal: To be a self made USA 1%.

Now will I get there doing just credit card processing? lol. Any thing is possible but I have other business ventures that I have plans for and will be getting off the ground soon. But this blog is only about one of them; Credit Card Processing.

May we all have a Productive end of the Week and a Productive August,

Adrienne Johnson
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