You have probably heard this time management tip before…"Get more done by waking up an hour earlier every day."

This may make sense…you gain 7 hours a week by giving up sleep. But if you are like most entrepreneurs, you are probably not even getting the proper amount of sleep in the first place.

Before you decide to leap out of bed and give up the hour of sleep, Let’s realistically look at what happens to your body when you follow that advice.

1. One hour of sleep debt can degrade your productivity by 25% . Your thinking and reaction time deteriorates which affects your ability to make good decisions; It becomes easier for you to make mistakes.

2. Daytime grogginess makes it hard to stay awake during the day. You could fall asleep at your desk or worse yet, behind the wheel of your car. Your creativity and listening abilities suffer. You miss critical verbal and nonverbal signals in communication. This leads to lost sales.

3. Say good bye to emotional control. You tend to be more moody and irritable. Because the lack of sleep makes it hard for you to cope throughout the day, you come home and take your frustrations out on your love ones.

4. Increase stress: Running a business and normal day-to-day life creates normal stress. Lack of sleep intensifies this stress and your ability to deal with it. You become anxious and feel overwhelm. You begin to question your confidence and are less willing to take risks that could help our business grow.

5. Loss income: You become more lethargic and start going through the motions of running you business. Just trying to get by, your performance suffers; you make mistakes and lose sales opportunities. If businesses in America lose $150 billion a year due to employee and management sleep deprivation…how much are you losing especially if your business totally depends on you?

6. Increase Illness: Your body repairs and recharges your immune system during sleeping. That one hour of sleep loss decreases your immune system by 30% and increases your changes of catching a cold or flu.

Your body needs at least 6.5 hours of sleep to restore serotonin levels for your brain to recharge so you can have maximum memory recall ability.

The average adult needs 7.5-8 hours to restore your body from the stress it experienced during the day and to repair and rebuild your immune system.

Did you know that if you give your body the right amount of sleep each day:

• Your awareness boost 25%
• Productivity and creativity increase 25%

Your body doesn’t care what time of the day you decide to go to sleep. Your body needs a consistent sleep time and the right amount of sleep.

If you sleep deprive your body for several days thinking you can "make-up" by sleeping longer on another day, forget it…this only confuses your body.

Get the right amount of sleep and you will start your day with increased energy, enthusiasm and creativity. You will productive more and get more done in the same amount of time.

It’s happens to all of us… even me. You find yourself in a place where you start many projects and very few of them get finished. Unbelievable but I recently found myself in this situation. I found myself working 2 - 3x harder to acquire customers. It wasn’t making sense. We discover a ‘branding" problem. I’ll talk about this in another article.

This meant some major changes. It turned into a much bigger project than anticipated. Trying to change everything at once and not getting very far. Even my Intern, Chanel found herself in the same spot. It felt like paddling a boat upstream. We both went whoa and took a step back and held a very productive pow-wow session.

Sometimes You Just Want To Finish Something!

The first thing we did was empty our brains using a mind mapping program.We didn’t worry about order of items, we just got them down. Including things we wanted to do now and in the future. We discovered we actually completed several items but we weren’t implementing them. That became the next step

Step Two - What held Us Up

Seeing everything laid out we pin pointed the blockage. We took the mind map and divided into two sides The left we made the wish list side (future products, products, marketing ideas etc. ) and the right side became the things we need to complete now. My friend and mentor "Bob the Teacher" shared this free software program with me. http://timemindmapping.com

Step Three - Prioritized

We divided the "Now" items into Four categories. The item holding everything back got put on the top and arrange all the activity steps in the order of completion. We repeated the same thing for the other categories.

An Instant Feel-Good Moment

Step Four

Finish the top item before doing anything else. It only took a few hours of total focus time to get it done. Ahh did it feel good. In the words of Austin Powers…

Yeah Baby.. Yeah

Crossing an irksome task off your to accomplish list will give you a big rush of elation… it will release Endorphins. Making you feel good and giving a sense of power and control. Big confidence booster too.

Finishing what you started will put closure on projects and let you focus on what’s next.

Finish something and celebrate

Chanel and I decided to celebrate with a "Mojito" night. It’s keep us motivated. We can’t start on the left side until the right side is down. There are some fun things on the left side .

I found listening to some music in the morning got me pumped up to take on the task. Try listening to Chuck Mangione’ Feels So Good’ to rev yourself up. What project or idea will commit to finishing?

Did you ever tell yourself… "If only I were more disciplined or I wished I were more disciplined." I bet you answered yes. Most of us were brought up to believe the lack of discipline that keeps us from our success.

Let’s look at the word disciplined:

The dictionary definition: training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character. Now you know why the word "discipline’ carries a negative connotation. Discipline is usually used to either beat yourself or other people up. Leaving you feeling pretty crappy.

Life is not about discipline. Life is about habits. The truth…your problem isn’t the lack of discipline because you are 100% disciplined to your existing set of habits.

Habits pose a completely different situation. Modifying or acquiring a habit is an extremely simple form of learning a new behavior through repetitive action. Soon it becomes a part of you without you consciously thinking about it.

The video below is an excerpt from our Focus Mojo System Course. By focusing on habits instead of discipline, you can dramatically improve success results.

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I couldn’t believe what I was reading… Did Bob The Teacher loose his mind?

He’s crazy… but what he wrote in the email is true

Bob is giving away his $497 Teleseminar Formula 2.0 course.

That is correct… he is giving it away.

This is the course that transformed my business and made product creation a breeze. I originally took this course to improve doing teleseminars. Got pleasantly surprised to discover it’s one of the best internet marketing training and business models I’ve seen.

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This course truly sold for up to $497, but it’s 100% free until July 9. Get your access to Teleseminar Formula 2.0 right now…

Following his course last summer, I finally created my "dream" product – "The Focus Mojo System" course and the results my clients get are phenomenal. Without Teleseminar Setup, that course would still be in the in the process of creation.

I still can’t believe he is giving this away…. You too be can finally create information products faster than ever.

In fact, you’ll create them at the speed of sound. That’s because Bob will show you his exact step-by-step system to put teleseminars to work in your business.

Even if you…

• Have never done a teleseminar before

• Have no idea what to talk about

• Not sure if anybody would ever want to listen to what you have to say

• Or have never even been on a teleseminar (although I’d find that hard to believe!)

• Now I know what you’re probably thinking.

You maybe asking yourself… "Nothing is free - what’s the catch?!" That’s what I thought too.

Bob is giving completely free access to the course until July 9. (sorry I didn’t post this sooner… I guess I’ll start making Bob’s email a priority to read… that will teach me)

At that point, the course "self-destructs".

So arrange your day… do what ever you need to do and devote the time to go through all 8 audio and video modules and get your first teleseminar done.

Bob’s a standup guy and some one I’ve come to respect and know. You can feel comfortable and sign up to get your free access… There’s no forced continuity, or any hidden charges that show up a month later.

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Does your schedule constantly gets away from you?

Is it a challenge to finish your task within your planned timeline?

Does It feel like no matter what you do, you find it difficult to stay focus one thing at time to get it finished?

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Last year’s Cinco De Mayo was a hit and many business connections were made… so I decided to do it again.

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The networking format is very loosely structured to allow for virtual eating and mingling. We will serve Twitteritas, salsa and twips. Introduce yourself and mingle among the other attendees To join us: 1 - follow me - http://twitter.com/annrusnak 2 - Go to Tweetchat.com at 2:PM Eastern Time 3 - Enter the “room” #TBAH 4 - Introduce yourself by posting an update to #TBAH with your 134 character elevator speech 5 - List your twitter ID below in the comment section

Add #TBAH to your Tweets to join the networking event and conversation.

You can follow #TBAH on any Twitter client that streams keywords.

Enjoy and Make new friends and business connections

Looking forward to meeting and networking with you.

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I’m often ask "What’s the best way to whittle down an impossibly long to-do list?" Today I’ll share why a to do list really doesn’t work and give you some ways to get a handle on your task

The daily "To Do" list traditional time management often suggests doesn’t work.

Very rarely do you ever finish that list. You look busy but accomplish very little. You feel guilty because you couldn’t cross everything off and the list keeps getting longer.

1. Is Your To Do List Really A Brain Dump?

Take a good look at that long list of things to do. Is it a random list of unrelated activities If your one of these people that operates by the seat of their pants, probably every time you think of something, you put it on your list.

I suggest you start a "Brain Dump" list. This purges your brain of all those random "I gotta do it" and keeps clutter off your to do list.

2. Underestimate The Time It Take To Complete A Task

The "To Do" list doesn’t take into account the time required for each activity. There is no flexibility or room for interruptions.

A correctly compiled "To Do List" shows actual activity steps for the task(s) you blocked out time for on that day. Be specific about each item you add to your to-do list.  Make sure you note the due date, person responsible, and maybe even where you will tackle each item.

I use a daily achievement record. Everything written down for the day corresponds with a specific time block on my calendar. At the end of the day, it really is a record of what I achieved.

If you can’t complete your whole list (including low-priority items) it means you over planned your day. It’s okay to put fewer tasks on your list.

3. Your Task Are Too Big

It’s very easy to put "write newsletter" on your list. It looks like only one item but in reality its several. Writing a newsletter consist of many smaller steps: create the template or modify it. Pick a topic and write article, edit article, put article into newsletter, add or update events, etc.

Break or chunk down your larger task into small pieces and put those on your list.

4. Get Somebody To Do It

You might want to explore Remember The Milk to handle your task. I found I can arrange my task with time blocks and connect tasks to my VA. Your VA will need to use Remember the Milk and add you as a contact. Nothing like getting your to do completed by having somebody else do it.

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"Terri I hope I got you to start thinking about time in a completely different way. Leave behind the traditional time management mentality of not enough time. Flip to an abundant time mindset.

Let’s let at some of the things you discovered….

• Multiplicity of Stuff occurs in every successful business. The To Do list will not conquer it. When you find yourself in Multiplicity of Stuff syndrome you need to flip everything you learned from traditional time management on its head.

• Hard work and long hours eventually leads to low returns. You start to see diminished results for your efforts. Success no longer is about time and effort but strictly a function of results.

• Traditional time management myths feed the hard work and long hours puritan work ethic. It promotes keeping you busy and constantly taking action. Leaving little or no time devoted to thought and creativity.

• Time off is essential for achieving success and optimal productivity. Taking time off rejuvenates and relaxes you and restores your energy levels. You can look at problems through a renewed perspective. A true R & R day consist of 24 hours with absolutely NO business activities.

• You are basically under the control of the clock. You can’t manage time but you can manage… better yet… control of the clock.

• You gain control over the clock by applying natural occurring laws of nature. Applying the 80/20 rule you can truly work less while earning and enjoying more. 80% of what you’ll achieve results from the 20% of what you do.

Right now your business owns you, and it won’t let go. The longer you stay in Multiplicity of Stuff Syndrome … the tighter your business grips you… strangling the fun, energy and life out of you.

Thinking Outside the Clock Success System makes it easier to change a life time of clock conditioning. Giving time and support to adapt this new way of thinking about time. You run your business around your lifestyle. You build it around your needs and wants, and your business will bring you not only money but freedom to enjoy your ideal day… every day.

Well Terri… that pretty much explains the advantages of Thinking Outside the Clock… what are you thoughts."

"I understand why all the time management stuff wasn’t working. I really do need to think about time differently… think about like a business owner. So Ann. what do I need to do next?"

"The 15 Minutes 15 Step System is an excellent starting point. You devote 15 minutes a day to getting rid of time management mentality while building a foundation to apply the 80/20 Rule. You’re going to love masterminding with others who kicked their addiction to time management.

"Great Ann… I can’t wait."

Control Your Day and Your Life Will Take Care of Itself