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A Newsletter for the Thoughtful Internet Marketer

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Issue 46 May 24, 2001

Editor: Christopher Stephenson, mailto:Chris at IdeasWIN.com

Publisher: http://www.IdeasWIN.com

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In This Issue
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1. Let's Get Started!

2. IdeasWIN RECOMMENDS: Phone Deck

3. Feature Article: The Blame Game

4. In the Spotlight: Newbie's Dream Come True

5. Guest Article: Top 5 Time Management Mistakes

6. Friends of the Business: Private I-Marketing Site

7. Subscription Management

8. Contact Information

9. The Last Word: PONDER POINTS

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1. Let's Get Started!
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Welcome back! And Welcome to all our new subscribers!
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In the next week we expect to add a HTML tutorial and
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now....Let's Get Started!

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2. IdeasWIN RECOMMENDS
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A good friend of mine recently asked me to recommend a small
program to handle contacts for him. Well, you know me...I
had to find a Free one. I spent a couple of hours of non-
productive time locating, installing, and testing several
programs. One or two were too simplified, no more than a
digital address book. And one or two looked good, but when
actually trying to use them the learning curve was so high I
just tossed them.

Then I came across Phone Deck. It had all I was looking for.
It was Free, it was easy to learn & operate AND it had nice
features. The little niceties like auto dialing or e-mailing
a selected contact. Try it, I think you'll agree - it is a
worthwhile addition to your Desk Top Tools.
http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/index.html

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3. Today's Feature Article
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The Blame Game

We live in a time when many are mired in blaming others.
Let's face it, 'Passing the buck' has almost become a
national pastime in the current age.

Now don't get me wrong, blaming has been around for a long
time. This great quote from one of my favorite authors, Jim
Rohn(http://www.jimrohn.com/ps.dll?a=petsc3189), evidences
that. "Blame is another self-imposed limitation. At one time
or another all of us have blamed someone for something. We
have had long training in this self-imposed limitation going
back to a certain fruit garden where a man said, "It was the
woman. She got me into this." And the woman blamed the
serpent."

Of course we all have good reasons for finger pointing. The
ego must defend itself. And when we do not accept
responsibility we are never forced to look at our own
weaknesses, failings or faults.

The biggest problem with always refusing blame is that we
can never grow. That growth often comes by accepting that WE
have a difficulty and then learning to correct it. If it is
anothers fault, there is nothing to fix.

My best friend from high school was among the people
responsible for developing the early LCDs. At some point his
boss squeezed him out and in so doing may have cost him many
thousands - or even millions of dollars. From that point on
my buddy's life took a downturn into a ugly spiral. Was he
wronged? I belive so. Did it have to ruin his life? Of
course not!

He allowed that one very bad experience to destroy him. He
went from a happy, caring individual to a sour, griping and
often mean person. He could not hold a job after that. He
lost his girlfriend, and the rest of his friends could not
stand to be around him. He got into trouble with the law and
even alienated his family.

All of the problems he had in life from then on were his
former employers fault. Do you believe that? Not a chance!
But he did.

When we focus on blaming others we lose sight of all
reality. Are others to blame for some of the things that
happen to us in life? Without a doubt. But the harder we
focus on that the less we do about the one thing we can
effect - ourselves.

There was a saying popularized in the sixties. 'Bloom where
you are planted.' And another, 'You've got to play the cards
that you're dealt.'

Living life to it's fullest is nothing about what happens to
us. It is all about how we handle what happens to us.

So when things go wrong, as they sometimes will. Don't focus
on blaming 'it.' Try focusing on fixing 'it' by growing past
it and through it.

Till next time. Good luck and God Bless.
Remember, IdeasWIN. Develop yours, Chris

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4. In The Spotlight
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5. Guest Article
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Top Five Time Management Mistakes

In my thirty years as a Time Management speaker and
consultant, I have observed a lot of what we can and should
not do to increase our daily results. Time management is not
necessarily working “harder”, but rather, “smarter”.

And to accomplish significantly more in our days, we need
not increase our efforts. As an example, in a horse race,
the
first horse may earn a $50,000 purse and the second horse
may earn a $25,000 purse. The first horse gets twice as much
money as the second horse, not because it ran twice as far
or twice as fast. It was only a “nose ahead” of the
competition.

So it is with our daily results. We need not run twice as
fast or put in twice the effort to significantly increase
our daily success. We only need to be a “nose ahead” of
where we already are. We are all productive in our days. We
would not survive the demands of this world if we were not.
The real challenge is how much more productive can we
become?

A lot of our Time Management has to do more with what we are
not doing rather than what we are doing. Sometimes our
mistakes and omissions will keep us from running at a full
pace.

Here are the Top Five Time Management Mistakes we should all
avoid to help us to increase our daily success both on and
off the job, in less time and with less stress.

1. Start your day without a plan of action. You will
begin
your day by responding to the loudest voice (the squeaky
wheel gets the grease) and spend it in a defensive mode,
responding to other people´s and events´ demands. The tail
will wag the dog. If there is a void of leadership in your
Time Management life, someone will fill that void, not that
others are bad people, but others will take all of your time
if you let them. You will have worked hard but may not have
done enough of right things. Time Management is not doing
the wrong things quicker. That just gets us nowhere faster.
Time Management is doing the right things.

2. Get out of balance in your life. Our lives are made
up of
Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual,
Social, Professional, and Spiritual. We will not necessarily
spend time every day in each area or equal amounts of time
in each area. But, if in the long run, we spend a sufficient
quantity and quality of time in each area, our lives will be
in balance. But if we neglect any one area, never mind two
or three, we will eventually sabotage our success. Much like
a table, if one leg is longer than the rest, it will make
the entire table wobbly. If we don't take time for health,
our family life and social life are hurt. If our financial
area is out of balance, we will not be able to focus
adequately on our professional goals, etc.

3. Work with a messy desk or work area. Studies have
shown
that the person who works with a messy desk spends, on
average, one and a half hours per day looking for things or
being distracted by things. That´s seven and a half hours
per week. (“Out of sight-out of mind.” And the reverse of
that is true too, “In sight, in mind”). And, it´s not a
solid block of an hour and a half, but a minute here and a
minute there, and like a leaky hot water faucet, drip, drip,
drip, it doesn't seem like a major loss, but at the end the
day, we're dumping gallons of hot water down the drain that
we are paying to heat. If you have ever visited the office
of a top manager, typically, that person is working with a
clean desk environment. Many would attribute this practice
to that person´s access to other staff members. While there
may be some truth in that conclusion, in most cases, if we
went back some years in that person´s career, they probably
were working with a clean desk back then which gave them the
focus they needed to become promoted to where they are
today.

4. Don't get enough sleep. Studies show that nearly 75%
of
us complain on a regular basis, all throughout our days,
that we are flat-out tired. For most people, they get the
quantity of sleep, but they lack the quality of sleep. Their
days are filled with so much stress, they are out of
control, working harder but maybe not smarter, that it´s
difficult to get a full night´s sleep. (For some, they
simply do not allow for a sufficient quantity of sleep.) If
you will plan your day, then work your plan, you will get
more done, feel a higher sense of accomplishment, and
experience less stress and enjoy a more restful night´s
sleep.

5. Don't take a lunch break. Many do not take a lunch
break,
working through that time period in the hope that it will
give them more time to produce results. Studies have shown
it may work just the opposite. After doing what we do for
several hours, we start to “dull out”. Sure, we can work
through lunch and be productive, but that is not the issue.
The issue is “how much more” productive we can be. A lunch
break, even a short fifteen minute break, gives us a chance
to get our batteries all charged up again to more
effectively handle the afternoon´s challenges. We are then
less likely to procrastinate a few of those difficult tasks
that, in the long run, will make a positive difference in
our personal productivity.

If these ideas were helpful, we have prepared an additional
article entitled, “Top Five Best Time Management Practices”.
It´s free. If you would like a copy, e-mail your request for
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6. Friends of the Business
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9. The Last Word: PONDER POINTS
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What should a child do with a dollar? Here's one philosophy:
It's only a child and it's only a dollar, so what difference
does it make? Wow, what a philosophy! Where do you suppose
everything starts for the future? Here's where it starts -
it starts with a child and a dollar. You say, "Well, he's
only a child once. Let him spend it all." Well, when would
you hope that would stop? When he's fifty and broke like
you?
From THE TREASURY OF QUOTES by Jim Rohn
http://www.jimrohn.com/ps.dll?a=petsc3189