It has been 3 weeks since my last blog. How time flies! I was pre-occupied with my training, outdoor activities and my network marketing business. It was such a roller coster ride during this period, but it was a good “stress” for me. I’m taking a break at this moment. No training whatsoever. I’m using this quality breaks to be with my love ones.

I bought a couple of books for my children and myself. At this moment, I’m reviewing what I’ve done for 2009 – wondering whether I have achieved my goals for the year. About 50% of what I’ve planned were actually achieved. As for the remainder of 50%, I will bring it forward as part of my goals for 2010. Btw, If you are planning your goals for next year, please do not forget to review what you’ve done for this year. Go out there, have your own quality time, and just do it.

Hope the followings will help you in planning your goals.

One of the golden rules of setting a goal is to set goal that can make you panic or comfortable. In doing this, you will be well-prepared to go for it. If you set a goal within your comfort zone, studies have shown that you will take it very lightly to the extend that you will not actually pay attention to it. So, set a goal that requires you to either “do or die mission”.

Identify short and long term goals. Turn them into dreams where you can actually visualize it.

Your goals must be your own and personal and not something which sounds good and dictated by others! I personally experienced this situation. Your goals must be genuine according to what you want to do in life, what you are willing to do to change your life, how you are going to do it in order to achieve.

There are many methods on how to plan your goals. One of the most powerful that I’ve ever applied, is the SMART methods. It’s not only powerful, but easily executed.

S – Your goals must be specific. You must be clear of what you want to do. Know your positioning in whatever you’re doing.
M – Your goals must be measurable. Take sometimes to do projections as they are vital in achieving your goals.
A – Take action. List out all the action plans towards achieving your goals and desire.
R – Goals must be realistic! It should be truthful and personal to yourself.
T – Time Conscious. Setting timeline is very important in making sure that you go as planned. What you can do is to gather the courage to give pressure to yourselves.

Focus on the objectives of your goals. Always check yourselves.

Having someone to check on your goals is good and encourage. Having a good mentor will benefit you as he or she will help to check on your progress. If one of your goals are to become a good leader, then a mentor is one of the tools that you need.

That’s all for tonight and hope that it will benefit you in planning your goals. Again, do not forget to review your current goals.

Talk soon,

Jailani

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As a network marketer, almost everyday, you will be “bombarded” with emails from other marketers introducing new products, programs, systems, etc. These emails could either comes within your expectation while some came uninvited. Getting emails are good and practical but sometimes they are not “your cup of coffee”. Nonetheless, sometimes most of the emails received are spam that will go straight to your junk folders. Too many unnecessary emails received could divert your attention on important ones that you are supposed to do. You will sometimes lose your focus because you tend to read all the emails even though it does not concern you.

As a network marketer, you must be able to manage your time spent on opening-up and reading emails. You must be able to identify emails with high priorities and squash away those that are not important at all.

I used to subscribe emails from most internet and network marketers after visiting and exploring their websites. However, after a while, I discovered that I was actually wasting my time reading and receiving some of these emails.

I began to unsubscribe from those that I felt not giving me openings, ideas, help on my current businesses and professions; I unsubscribed from those who always sent me emails with the intention of selling and up-selling new products, programs unless they are “worth” reading; I unsubscribed from those emails that does not concern to me at all; etc.

I’ve searched and read many articles on managing emails and started applying. Well, here are some points for you to consider.

Emails aren’t urgent! Don’t feel you have to read an act upon your email the second it hits your inbox. You don’t! It isn’t urgent. If there was a real emergency then your client/colleague/friend would have call you rather than email you.

Are all those newsletters you subscribe to really necessary? Probably not! If this the case spend some time going through them and unsubscribing the ones you don’t really want or read. It will really helps you!

Does your email play distracting alerts, i.e. a sound? If so, disable it. This is one of the distractions that can make you stop working as you are rushing to check your emails. It will then take you some time to get back on track again, not to mention the amount of time you’ve just lost stopping what you were doing, reading your emails, and actioning them.

Try to schedule or set times to check your emails daily. Once or twice a day is enough, in the morning and again later in the day. If you subscribe to various industry groups, save reading these emails until you take a break from your work – maybe at the end of the day when you’re winding down. You can easily get sidetracked reading all the different topics and replying to them, all of which is taking you away from your paid work.Spent some times to learn how to utilise email filtering tools. Set up folders and filters so that your email gets sent to the appropriate folder as soon as it arrives.

A Network Marketer should know how to manage emails so that you won’t waste your precious time doing unproductive work or task. You should be making money rather than spending money on the things that not concerning you. In other words, you should be executing email marketing but not “collecting emails”.

That’s all for now. Talk soon.

Jailani

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