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Your most valuable asset.

You can't manage time. You cannot manage 5 minutes and end up with 8. Time just passes and as a resource it's truly your most valuable. We all have 24 hours and what we do with them makes the difference between a life of meaning and a meaningless life.

Take Steemit for example. When I think about the hours I have invested in Facebook and Twitter and other social media, only to be treated like a commodity and a resource myself, it makes me angry and kinda depressed. But in here, even the smallest reward on curation or authorship has me excited. Not about the monetary result, even though I have seen some amazing stories of monetary rewards here, but mostly about the feeling that your content produced value.

In my blog at www.bizman.gr  I have produced more than 600 articles. That is a lot of writing! And it has served me really great over the past years. This platform though has taken me to another place, it has pushed me to produce more quality content and to get in touch with more people that do just that and not meaningless post everything that comes their way. Plus it's an amazing opportunity for me to practice my English even more!

So thank you fellow Steemians for this platform and the opportunity to finally invest my most valuable resource to something better!

A salespersons true goal!

Yes I know, salespeople have a bad reputation. But that is only because of some terrible "professionals" that are untrained and unethical. It has happened to all of us. Being in a situation where a bad salesperson has gotten your confidence only to take advantage of it. But hasn't that been the case for some bad doctors? Or politicians? Or technicians?

This shows 2 things:

1. Criminals and bad people are in all professions. It doesn't matter what the card says on it, if you are unethical, it will show and ultimately the market will flush you out.
   
2. Everybody sells. Every time, everywhere. Most people think of selling as an innate ability but the truth is that it is a trainable skill. The most important aspect of it is it's ethics. If you have the best interest of the person you are dealing with in mind, then all you need to do is train the skills to help him reach a decision that is good for HIM!

So I know that each and every person that I meet has a bad story with a salesperson, or just a person, and my first priority is to have his or hers interest first. That's how trust is built.

Read my other articles here.

Getting things done

The small things

Information Consumes attention.

Getting Things Done

GTD is a productivity system that truly sets your mind free for creative thinking! Any Steemian or DTuber out there using it?

I have been using GTD for the past 3 years and, even though I have fallen of the gtd wagon numerous times, most of my projects move forward rapidly and without me feeling overwhelmed or anxious about them.

The main concept is to dump everything in your mind in a trusted system (I use evernote) and free up your mind and psych for more creative thinking. This works brilliantly if you trust the process and the system (which comes about months after you start) and soon becomes second nature! Check out David Allen's work in Amazon and his blog for more info!

I will also post some videos explaining the main concepts of the methodology and also feel free to ask about it and connect!

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The small things...

I think it was Markus Aurilius that said "We fought with lions, only to be eaten by mosquitos" or something like that. In our daily grind we often lose the big picture and waste too much time in the small stuff.

Now, in my 40s, I often see old friends that where once filled with dreams and plans now to be bitter task oriented just-pay-the-bills middle aged men. I can't blame them, I understand them. It is so easy to get sucked in the daily grind.

The thing that kept me going is small steps (or even huge ones) EVERY DAY towards my dreams. Seeing most of them come true and feeding on that emotion of "You can make things happen!" if you truly give yourself time to focus on the daily things that will get you to your goals!

So do not let the small stuff make you a small person!

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Never, ever, ever give up...

Information consumes attention.

Never, ever, ever give up...

Information consumes attention.

I was reading a book on productivity called

Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

when I stumbled on the quote that I put on the image. Information today has become more of a problem than a solution for the productive man (or woman).

The sheer volume of it is enough to send you of tracks when working on a project or a goal. That is why I think 2 things are really important when striving for exceptional productivity and time management.

1. Having a daily routine that works in your favor. Build in your days routines and rituals that are about creation and not just reaction to information. That way, if you stick to it, you will limit the time spend on useless browsing and target your energy and focus to the things that will help you the most.
2. Learn to search. I see this problem almost daily. People do not know how to search for information properly and they get lost in the volume of general data coming their way. Take the time to train in retrieving information and you will be more productive and focused!

Don't let information hold you back from action taking and results!

Have an awesome day!

Give time to yourself to gather energy

For a long time I could not understand my energy cycles. Whenever I felt I was low on energy (usually a week in seven weeks period) I thought I could fight through it, which always resulted in taking another week to recover.

Now I understand that this is my energy cycle, I embrace it and lay a bit lower that week. This gives me room to do what is necessary, not over extend my self, and be really productive the other weeks!

Lately I am trying to do the same for my daily routine. Lay of the notifications, or the phone for some period of the day, sleep a little more (I used to get up at 5:30, now its 6:15 and I go a bit earlier in bed) and

DO MORE CREATIVE THAN REACTIVE WORK!

What about you? What are any tricks you can share about your daily routine?

Sometimes my brain is my worst enemy...

Todays quote is from a book I highly recommend called "Breaking the Habit of being yourself" by Dr Joe Dispenza. In it's first pages there is this quote that resonated with me and made realize that sometimes (most of the times) I am my own worst enemy...

Morning Marketing Quote!

Every morning posting a motivational or sales and productivity quote! 

The best way to start your morning is to read something uplifting. Stop reading the news or negative stuff! Have a morning ritual to gain power, lift your spirits and make your day about CREATION! 

Another reason I love the Steemit Platform. It pushes me to create meaningful content.

It is also a great opportunity for me to write in English (which I love) and strive to better at it!

Age and CrossFit....

Finished 1st in class today and being the oldest (42) in it this came in mind....