If you were given one wish you could make for anything, what would it be?

97% of the population respond to this question by simply asking for more money. But at the end of your days, what will you want, more money, or… more time?

That’s right, more time.

You’ve heard the old cliche that time is money.  But that’s not true at all.

Time is time.

Money is money.

And you know what, the truly successful people, the real leaders, 3% leaders we like to call them,  making things happen realize that their most precious commodity is not money but time, and they know exactly what to do to  carve out more time for their lives.

Do you?

Well you will in a minute, as I’m going to share with you a profound concept that may go against the grain a bit, but trust me if you apply it, you will start to free up more time and start living a more fun and productive life.

So how am I going to be able to help YOU get more time?  Well, here it is…

Focus on the Worthy

Yep, you got it. In order to carve more time out for your lifestyle, you need neglect those that are unnecessary and only focus on the worthy.

This goes for the people you deal with.

The tasks you work on.

Apply your time to one object at a time, and you will succeed. There is tremendous power in focus, and it’s your ticket to more time, and a much happier life. Think about it.

Here’s a first example… regarding who  you focus on.

You’re building your business, you have hundreds or thousands of team members, but only a handful of true leaders who are making things happen. Who should you spend the majority of your time with? You got it, the leaders. Spend at least 80% of your time with the people proving that they are worthy for your time.

Help the rest in group settings.

Two things will happen. Your leaders will become better leaders and better friends, and you won’t have your energy sapped by unproductive whiney slugs who happen to be on your team, but can’t figure out how to open an email to follow directions to get their website setup. You will enjoy your working time much more by simple only allowing those that are worthy of your time to get any.

Another example… regarding what you focus on.

If your goal is to create a lifestyle that truly inspires you, you need to spend the vast majority of your time on income producing activities. What are some income producing activities?

• taking orders
• placing ads online
• promotions to your list
• coaching leaders

What are some time wasters you should avoid?

• answering email
• answering the phone
• instant messaging
• working with non productive distributors
• goofing off on facebook

I can hear  you saying, “But wait Dave, don’t I have to answer email and the phone, I’m in business after all?”

Save these tasks and do them once or twice day. When you are “focused” on income producing activities, allow no other distractions. The email can wait, and most phone calls are from non productive distributors or prospects and can wait until you’re ready, and instant messaging can be a huge distraction.

And regarding facebook, twitter, etc. There’s a good place for this in your marketing mix, but I know for a fact that facebook can draw you in and eat up too much time just socializing. I see my wife Nancy do it all the time, but she’s not a marketer.

As a marketer your time on facebook , twitter, and youtube should have a focused goal in mind, and limited to less than an hour a day.

So to recap, if you have a really big goal,  and I hope you do, develop the discipline to get tunnel vision, and let those things that are not necessary remain undone. I know it may be a challenge at first, but be at peace in the knowing that the people and things that really matter for your big goal are getting the attention they deserve.

Yesterday I had a great time watching my oldest son’s soccer team play.

Aaron plays soccer for a small college in Wisconsin.  My mind is always relating what’s happening around  me into the success I’ve had with my business  and those of my mentors.

It was a physical game, very evenly matched if you look at the statistics.  The opposing fans, however, were having a tizzy. I don’t know what game they were watching but they thought every foul called against their team  was BS, and of course let the ref know this.

It was almost comical.

Complaining to the ref can only have a negative effect on the outcome of the game as it is not unusual for the ref to actually yellow card the team for obnoxious fans.

They came close.

This reminded me of the latest kick in the shorts many people took this past August from Google.  Advertising on Adwords is one of the most targeted, highly scalable and  fastest ways to generate leads ANYWHERE.

I’m an expert at it and easily generate over 100 leads per day into my attraction marketing system, so it is a key component of my marketing.

But crying “foul” to Google is not going to get your ads running again if they whack you — and hundreds of home business and affiliate marketers got slapped in August.

You must be willing to adapt and overcome.

Study what IS working, what recipe they really want, today, and apply it, and  voila, you’re back in the game.

Those fans needed to stop focusing their energy on the ref, but rather encourage their boys to adapt to the way the game is being called, and play within that framework…

They didn’t.

We did.

And we won!

Cheers,

I know it may sound strange, but I believe there is a limit to how much money you can make at any given time. I believe you will not earn more than what I call your financial thermostat.

If you’re used to making $100,000 per year, that’s pretty close to what your limit is based on your own financial thermostat. Yeah you can maybe push it up 5% or maybe 10% per year, but not much more than that. Unless…

You Increase Your Financial Thermostat

So if you’re at the $100,000 per year mark and you want to double it in the next year, you must reset the limit. How do you do that? Well we talked a bit about it in my post on leadership. One of the most important things you can do is to spend 15 minutes right away in the morning and right before you go to sleep visualizing your goal.

And I mean give that vision some feeling, depth, feeling, color, smell.

Do this twice daily, and you will be imprinting a new image on your sub conscience mind and you will be happily surprised that in short order your vision has been attracted to you seemingly by magic.

Give it a go for 30 days and see what happens for you.

One other thing that can increase your financial thermostat is hanging around and masterminding with people who are making the type of income you think you’d like. They will have a tendency to expand your mind, and give you ideas that can help to increase your setting.

Until next time…

David A. Hanson

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