How to Increase Your Income
Now, here are some thing that I implement into my everyday business life that have helped me DRASTICALLY increase my income, reduce my stress levels, easily avoid distractions and stay laser focused.
Tips On How to Stay Laser Focused:
Staying Laser Focused on Your Business
1) Unsubscribe from all email lists that don’t have something directly to do with your primary focus. The temptation to browse through them and get sucked into trying out another tool or buying another product (further complicating the duplication process and delaying you from making money) is just too strong. Trust me. You do this and you’ll realize you weren’t missing out on much, if anything at all. That’s not to say what they have isn’t wonderful, but again, it’s distracting.
2) Remove yourself from any and all groups that don’t directly relate to the building and mastering of your primary business. If you use social media to build your business, brand YOU. Start discussions on YOUR page or connect with people on a person-to-person level via private messages. Groups are awesome but they have a lot of noise and most have a lot of spam, new product launches and tons of glitter.
Anytime someone adds me to a new group, I literally remove myself and check off the box that keeps me from being re-added. My focus is better served on my team of partners in our own group and yours is, too.
I have 3 groups. Two of which I personally run and one which is directly related to my business that I do not run but that has extremely important resources and announcements for my partners. I encourage you to pick the best 3 groups (if you even need more than one) and stick those ones in your *Favorites*
3) Decline invitations that don’t have something to do with your primary focus. FYI: “Tools” don’t have to do with your primary focus. Please stop mistaking that they do. YOU are the only tool you TRULY need.
If you’re receiving repetitious invites to the same opportunity or from the same person, there’s an “Ignore invites from XXX” option on Facebook. When invites are becoming too obnoxious, use it liberally.
I have a lot of great people on my list that I don’t want to necessarily delete, but have no use receiving 100 invites a week from their opportunity or those in the same opportunity as them, so I use the “ignore” option.
This is another reason why I create Facebook events sparingly. It just becomes incessant spam if you use the function too often and it’s a horrible way to market.
4) Don’t even click on a link someone pitches you. Why torture yourself? You know you’re focused. You know that you are in a committed relationship with your business. It’s like being in an awesome marriage and “just taking a look” at something else. Why bother?
Reply politely to the person thanking them for considering you and let them know you’re not open to taking on anything new as you’re laser focused. A respectable business person will back off.
In fact…Have an automatic message ready that you can copy and paste for all pitches, if you’d like.. ;-)
I take it a step further and delete the message. If I can tell someone copied/pasted, I delete it without replying. I don’t have time to waste that could be spent LASER FOCUSING on my partners and team.
If they continue to pitch…delete..delete..delete..Enough times? Block them. They obviously don’t respect your boundaries and you don’t need the aggravation.
5) Push tools to the side. Until you have had a LOT of success with the BASICS, you’re just getting in your own way and placing burden on the learning curve. Yes, tools have the potential to help you but until you’ve had results with the basics, you’re typically reinventing the wheel and distracting the hell out of yourself and sending that same message out to your team. Do you really want to paralyze them with a bunch of unnecessary stuff?
You are your own tool. Sharpen yourself, first, before adding more nonsense to the mix.
6) If it isn’t something you ABSOLUTELY need (RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW) then do not entertain it in ANY fashion. Be RUTHLESS. Before opening an email, replying to someone’s message/calling them back or wandering around, ask yourself if this is something that you ABSOLUTELY need to build your business. Is the time spent entertaining whatever this “thing” is, going to end with results and putting money in your pocket? If not, nix it and nix it quick. Hard delete the email, get off the phone or close out of your browser (lol). You’re an entrepreneur and you are not paid by the hour. If you are not consistently sticking to INCOME-PRODUCING activities, prepare to watch your bank account shrivel and die. (Harsh, but true.)
7) Learn how to say “NO”. I’ve had several previous partners come around asking me to collaborate with them on something or pitching me a new idea, etc. I receive pitches and invites everyday..whether it’s to be on a webinar, Google hangout, etc. You have to learn to say *NO* unapologetically and realize that by doing so, you’re saying YES to YOU and your partners…and staying laser focused.
8) Write down numbers and goals for yourself. Give yourself a deadline of where you want to be and by what “time”. Until you’ve taken care of those, nothing else matters. As a matter of fact, while you’re at it, write down your “WHY” at the VERY top of these numbers and goals. The CORE, soul-shattering reason for YOU wanting to achieve this and do NOT lose sight of that.
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