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Is Procrastination Holding You Back?
Original article at About.com Market
From C.J. Hayden

When you look at your marketing to-do list, do many of the items on it look all too familiar? Have entries like call Donna Sanchez and follow up with Floyd Corp been copied from a previous week? Putting off unappealing tasks may be human nature, but for an entrepreneur, procrastination can be deadly.

Delays in contacting a prospect can lose the business to the competition. Failing to get the word out about an upcoming event may forfeit dozens of opportunities. Wasted marketing time can never be recovered. By the time you realize you might not make your goal for the month, quarter, or year, it may already be too late.

Finding tasks on your to-do list week after week is a clear sign you are procrastinating, but it is not always this obvious. Can you identify with any of these situations?

Feelings of overwhelm. You have a backlog of work that seems insurmountable. You wake up in the morning already thinking about everything you must accomplish that day. It seems impossible to get it all done. If you are routinely unable to complete what is on your list in the time available, you may be creating the problem yourself by putting tasks off week after week.

Making excuses. You find yourself constantly having to make excuses to your business buddies, referral partners, potential clients, or even your coach about why you never followed up on that great referral, that important sales call was not made, the marketing package was not sent, or the proposal was not written. After a while, the excuses begin to sound flimsy, even to you.

Trivial pursuits. You notice that you are doing unimportant chores, rearranging your desk drawers, filing old business cards, shopping for just the right desk, surfing the Net, while neglecting crucial marketing activities.

Overflowing pipeline. A form of procrastination unique to entrepreneurs and salespeople is continuing to develop new leads instead of contacting the prospects you already have. If you are spending more time attending networking events or reviewing lists of names than getting on the phone, putting your fingers to the keyboard, or driving to appointments, this problem may be yours.

If you ARE procrastinating, what then? Begin to change this habit by getting in touch with your motivation to do better. What rewards, tangible and intangible, do you get from your work? Remind yourself of that payoff on a daily basis. Post a picture or note that represents those rewards to you on your calendar, phone, or dashboard.

Break down each of the activities you are having trouble with into small steps. Pick what seems like the easiest place to start, and block out time on your calendar to make a beginning. You may find that once you are taking action, the rest seems much less difficult than you had feared.

If you find that you really do have too much on your plate to have enough time for marketing, it is essential that you cut back on some of your other activities immediately. A business without marketing is not a business; it is a hobby.

Create more accountability for yourself by telling a buddy, support group, or coach exactly what you plan to get done each week. Ask them not to accept any excuses from you, and to remind you why you said you were doing all this in the first place. You can partner in this way with a colleague by setting up a weekly check-in where each of you reports to the other.

It may take time to break the procrastination habit, so give yourself permission to fail a few times. Remember that even a small amount of progress may be allowing you to achieve more than you ever have before.

Community
And here is some community information for people who think outside the box. You will gain valuable information on marketing.

Marketing can happen for you, if you are motivated. Now, this marketing community that is where you can work and gather as much information that you need to succeed. The community name is Tomorrows Home Business Social Community and is located at this address http://tomorrowshomebusiness.ning.com.

In this marketing community, the business entrepreneur will be able to read blogs and watch videos for business, or just for pleasure. With a few RSS feeds coming to the main page, the entrepreneur can even stay informed of what is happening in marketing and around the world. There is something here in this community for everyone.

Groups like the Maniac Marketers come in and post their blogs in the community, giving valuable information for their Health and Wellness businesses. If you would rather watch videos of the TriVita videos, you can do that, too. Or if you just want to hang out and relax, you can do that, too! There are many music videos like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, and Seasick Steve! Or if you want to learn about handcrafts or see the equally oldest Ford antique car, a 1903 Model A Ford, you can do that, too! Or maybe you need an inspirational video clip! There are many choices of inspirational clips, such as Al Pacinos locker room speech in Any Given Sunday, or Mel Gibson as William Wallace motivating the Scottish men men before battle in Braveheart; or Sylvester Stalone as Rocky and how he motivates himself in the boxing ring, or even his inspirational conversation with his son, and who can forget those chants for Rudy in the movie Rudy!

When you become a member of Tomorrow's Home Business Social Community, there is a profile created just for you. You can use the standard set-up on your page. Or you can be as creative as you want to be. For an example check out my profile page at Terry Allisons Profile Page. I use my profile page as a dream-building tool. I have always wanted a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have learned to keep this dream in front of me.

A marketing community for people wanting to find out more information on how to market their own work at home business.

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Original Article @ David Ogdens Blog

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Did you know that pain is really a trick played on us by our mind to get us to do something. Let's examine the anatomy of pain to see if we can learn to listen to its message.

Pain fibers
Nerves do many wonderful things, such as empowering our stomach to digest our food, empowering our heart to pump our blood and empowering our eyes to read this page. These are called efferent nerves. Efferent nerves carry signals from your brain to your body.

Nerves that carry signals from your body to your brain are called afferent nerves. Different receptors in afferent nerves help us distinguish hot and cold, a light touch from heavy pressure, and the many faces of pain signals: sharp, dull, throbbing, fixed, migrating, piercing, etc. Even numbness or pins-and-needles sensations are really pain sensations because of their afferent nerve signals.

Pain nerves are covered in a protective sheath called myelin. The myelin sheath may become damaged from injury, toxicity, and certain deficiencies such as Vitamin B-12 and folate. When this occurs, we will feel pain sensations when no injury really exists.This is where the trickery begins.

Interpreting the signals
A pain signal is designed to get you to alert you and help avoid serious injury. If you put your hand on a hot stove, pain signals get you to quickly remove or withdraw your hand before more serious injury occurs. The same with cold, sharp, dull, etc. Pain is very motivating!

Afferent nerves don't really feel pain. You don't really feel pain. Your nerves merely carry a signal from your body to your brain. Your brain, in turn, interprets this signal according to the type of nerve that conveys the message.

When you touch something hot, your brain interprets heat; you don't really feel heat. When you touch something cold, your brain interprets cold; you don't really feel the cold.

When you experience pain you are not really feeling pain; your brain is interpreting a signal as pain. That becomes very important as we discuss the remedies for chronic pain.

Remedies for pain
Pain is the way your body signals that there is something wrong requiring immediate attention – withdraw from the pain! Switches – like light switches that turn on a light – turn on the pain signal when danger exists and turn it off when danger has passed. So, the first remedy for chronic pain is to withdraw from whatever is causing the pain.

With chronic pain, sometimes the switch gets turned on and never gets turned off! These switches, often called pain gates, are ruled by nutrients such as Vitamin D. Also, in chronic nerve pain, a signal is sent from a damaged area or lesion in the myelin sheath. The myelin sheath is ruled by nutrients such as Vitamin B-12 and folate as well as essential fatty acids.

Chronic muscle pain occurs when muscles try to restore balance to an unbalanced muscle region. The imbalance may be caused by injury, stress, a sedentary lifestyle or poor posture (really, poor posture and sedentary living are types of muscle injury). Muscle balance is ruled by magnesium and, to a smaller extent, by potassium and calcium.

The effect of inflammation
Just as chronic nerve pain can become caught in a loop or cycle, inflammation may become chronic even after the cause of the inflammation is removed. The chemicals of inflammation injure your afferent nerves and your brain interprets this injury as chronic pain. Pain and inflammation go hand in hand.

To break the cycle of chronic pain we must:

1. Remove the cause: trauma/injury, toxins, etc.
2. Restore nutrient balance
3. Break the cycle of inflammation

In this way we can learn to listen to the message of pain and achieve the balance of pain-free living!

David Ogden
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When you are looking for a niche. That would be suitable to work from home. You will need to do some research first , this can take on many forms of searches. Let's start with the basics, what niche would be suitable to you to work from home. It needs to be a niche that can be adapted to follow trends in the market place. Working from home has its complications, how much space, can you allocate for your business. If you are running it from your home?. How much time do you dedicate to your home based business? Getting the balance right between family and business is almost an impossible task. How will you cope with this? You also need to check out the legalities of working in a business from your home. If you are in rented accommodation for instance, is it acceptable. Will the landlord allow it?. If you have a mortgage. Is it acceptable to run a business from home, based on your mortgage contracts? Working online from home is favoured by a lot of people, because although you're sitting in your home. You don't have the problems of holding stock and staffing levels, it can all be done by yourself. All you need is a desk and a computer to start off with. If you decide to work at home, and use the Internet as the main source of your business. You will find that there are many different areas work that you can do. One of the main things that people do online is becoming an affiliate of the company, and advertise their products or services. It is highly recommended that if you are looking at becoming an affiliate in a home-based business. You do some research on the types of products and services that are easy to promote through the search engines. This will define, what niche market place You decide to be in. It is recommended that you pick a niche that you have some knowledge on on the product or service available. This could be based on prior jobs that you have done, maybe even a hobby. It might be that you decide to sell products or services related to things that are regularly mentioned in the news or on TV. This is called popular/trend marketing. You could go directly to the site called commission Junction which allows you to become an affiliate of many different companies, and you can go into their directory of companies and decide which products or services that you would like to advertise using their affiliate links. Many top brands are registered within the commission Junction, give wide variety of graphic banners, offering different promotions to each of the companies that are listed. You can also go to a site called Amazon and create an affiliate account with them. They have a very similar setup and allow you to decide on the books or music DVDs etc that you would like to advertise. They give you all the relevant advertising material that you will need to promote their site. You can target particular markets, based on country using Amazon as you can have an affiliate account is set to your own country. Or alternatively go for another country that has a bigger market audience, such as the USA. It's your choice is your business. Once you have registered as an affiliate at these different companies and possibly many more ways to advertise them? Well that's my next blog post. To your success in business, working from home. These insights were brought to you by Dee Hudson. Advice on home business.

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