Increase your productivity with lists.

A new year; new beginnings.


First of all, let me wish all my readers a grand new year of greater profits.

Then I exhort you to start a new habit this year. The habit of making lists.

Make a list of everything. First thing you do at work, make a list.
A list of everything you want to accomplish today, this week, this month and this year.
Then prioritize it. Then set a date against each item.
See, now you have goals.
Then start achieving it.

Often, you start with your goals, then your list out your action plan. This works too if you see each item on your list as a mini-goal to accomplish.

Here are a few lists you may want to try.

My business lists.
1) Products I create and market in 2010.
2) Clients I will work with in 2010.
3) Marketing methods I test in 2010.
4) Non-profits I will work with in 2010.
5) Joint-venture partners I work with in 2010.
6) Niche markets I may want to test in 2010.
7)...

My personal lists.
1) New things I want to try with my kid.
2) New habits to develop to stay healthy/improve my health.
3) New practices to adopt to perform better at work.
4)...

Often, a few items on your list can be accomplished simultaneously. Club them together. For example, you are working on your book. When you are doing research for thie book, you can also use the material to write a few articles.

Lists are the best way to tackle your to dos and get to your goals faster.
When you have ordered your list by priority, your brain feels more able and more at easee because you have a system and you are tackling it on priority basis.

When you work off lists, often you need to add new things that may be more important. Keep your list flexible.

Try this for a month. See how much more you are able to achieve.

Deep Janardhanan - The Marketing Outsider is an online  marketer,  traditional  and web-marketing evangelist. He is Chief Idea Man at Noble River Ventures.  http://www.nobleriver.com/services/growth-services . He publishes articles for business and personal development at this site. He uses his blog as a stream of consiousness white board and to satisfy his craving to write.