For me, GTD has been a god-send. Over time, I have used a Day-Runner, a Day-Timer, a plain-old notebook, then I followed Covey ( of course, with my Covey notebook), and eventually developed my own "system" for organizing myself. Nothing ever worked very well. I was always searching for the "silver bullet" organizational system. For me, GTD has been that "silver bullet".
I cannot say enough good things about GTD. Getting Things Done (GTD) has allowed me to:
- Provide a balance with my work and life activities.
- Be better prepared for meetings, discussions, trips to the grocery store, hardware store, video store, etc.
- Get out of my e-mail inbox! At certain intervals throughout the day, my e-mail inbox has ZERO e-mails.
- GTD has taught me to be know exactly what the "next action" is going to be before I move something from my e-mail inbox.
- Free my mind... I don't "wake up at 3AM worrying about things". I have a moleskine notebook that gets an entry for anything that pops into my head that I need to follow-up on. If it's in my moleskine notebook, I don't have to worry about it. I know the thought or idea is in a safe place.
- Know what to do at the right time. Sometimes my mind is only ready for certain things. GTD allows me to pick and choose what I am doing. For example, at the end of a long week, the most I feel up for is "sorting paperclips". If that's the case, I know it is time to leave work and go home.
- Plan my time accordingly. Be it work or non-work activities, the Getting Things Done methodology (GTD) had allowed me to coordinate and prioritize all aspects of my life.
I could go on and on... I'm pretty passionate because I have seen the results first hand. GTD is not about a software tool or using a PDA; don't be fooled by anything you read about tools. GTD is not about palm pilot's or Blackberry's. GTD is about "freeing your mind" so that you can focus on the task at hand.
I'd recommend reading David's book and giving GTD a try!
Things To Be Done
To all writers and non writer out there, now is the time to start and dig those structural writing ideas. With advanced communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the introductory and most effective techniques in acquiring targeted prospects to websites and to convert them into buyers. This is the reason why article writing, submission and publication are likewise becoming standard.
There are already numerous tools which you can utilise to making the process of distributing their articles more easily. Although this is valuable in acquiring the contents extra exposure, which is alone half of the story. Let us take a look first at the common mistakes which some individuals are making before submitting their article to article directories:
Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the grounds to write them. In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, the geneation of leads and advertising, which are all a part of your optimisation efforts. But there is just one reason why you write an article, and which is to inform your audience. If your writing is not adjusted on this essential and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three advertising benefits, because no one is going to be interested to read them.
You have to single out firstly how to get individuals in reading what is in your article, then making them click on your back link. You can achieve this by producing well written articles.
Failing to exploit the promotional opportunities of article marketing. You may acknowledge already that your articles can help you make more back-links to your site. But do you acknowledge that you can get extra visitors and better searchengine results from the same articles?
Mention keywords at key places. Just be sure not to exaggerate them. Some are even using anchor text which is likewise an effective method. But it is important to acknowledge that the majority of the directories are not able to accept this. Remember that it is not only about the links to your web-site. Part of doing better in your article marketing is acquiring picked up by publishers with a sizable number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging added brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results likewise are great benefits. But these things do not organise more money in your pouch.
There are added factors which can turn your article marketing efforts into an chance which can further your profits. Not only increase the number of visitors to your website. Begin with a programme and see to it that your article will fulfill the function which you intended it to have.
Publishing content which does not help your readers. Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all which you want is back-links to your site. And any visitors it can generate are ok. Guess what? not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oft, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles which they are are accepting. You can double the number of websites you can submit to by writing articles which the directories want to share with further individuals. All that it takes is one publisher with a 100 thousand readers to increase your potential audience lifelong.
Write the articles which publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This likewise means you have to obey the acceptable guidelines, spelling checks, researching on an acceptable theme and even hiring a writer to produce acceptable content on your behalf. In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start acquiring a brief blowup from increased links after just a very basic point. Or enjoy massive blowup from a brief extra time making quality articles. It will be your choice. You may not be alert of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same degree of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow grouping of individuals. Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you acknowledging what kinds of articles to write and to submit.
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