IBM 2 | The Magic of Controlling Your Time

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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In this episode of Internet Business Mastery, we take a look into the typical day of an internet entrepreneur and how you can best manage your time in order to find success in your internet business. We offer several tips based on how we schedule our day for maximum productivity including:

How Sterling ensures that he has the creative energy he needs for making important strategic decisions
How we start our day to get maximum momentum for the rest of the day
Sterling’s favorite tools for staying on track with your schedule
How Sterling makes it work with a home office with a family around
Our favorite book about Time Management
A system Jay uses to schedule each day to make sure the most important things get done
How to control the phone and email

Items mentioned in this episode:

No B.S. Time Management by Dan Kennedy
Jay’s Time Log
Sterling’s Schedule

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8 Comments For This Post

Tom Says:

Guys, I have two quick questions for you:

1. I downloaded the Mind Map and while I get the general idea, I’m having a tough time realizing how to make it work for me. How do I use it a business tool to help keep me organized and keep my empire growing? Can you show us an idea of what your mind map looks like (without giving away any secrets, of course)?

2. You also mentioned in this podcast an hourly schedule you were keeping. Do you have a format that you like? Would any day planner format work just as well?

I’m about to head out on my own at the beginning of the year and go back to marketing for small business again. Some of my downfalls last time I did this were not keeping focus and not marketing myself/spending too much time on my clients business and not my own. I want to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes this time around.

Thanks!
Tom

Terri West Says:

In the first recording…Interesting that you talk about “just starting”. I find a lot of artists contacting me saying they have to have everything in order, have to complete this body of work, have to learn this technique etc…before they can do anything …of course they never complete anything at all and then they marvel at others who seem to be going somewhere! In the second recording I like the timer idea and being creative at the time of day you are most up and awake and ready. I am going to change my opening e-mail time to the end of the day. I get dragged down by that all the time!

Rainer Says:

This podcast is great! I’m just starting out marketing my business at http://www.ToughMoney.com and your tips on time management are right on the money.

If you use Outlook, it has a default to pop up email notifications. I had to turn those off b/c I would constatly be destracted by the notification. You can also change Outlook to your calendar instead of you list of emails; you’ll be less distracted by a subject line that catches your eye.

The use of a timer is also a great idea. I am wondering about the show notes, though. In the podcast, you mentioned posting your schedule, but the notes above appear to be for episode 3. Do you have those elsewhere?

Thanks!
Rainer

Jay (Jason Van Orden) Says:

Rainer,

Those are great Outlook tips. I use those myself and it does really help. Yes, the show notes above were overwritten at some point with those from episode #3. We need to fix that. There are always a million other things to take care of.

However, you can download the files mentioned in the show by going here.

You’ll see directory that contains serveral files, the ones I believe you are looking for are JaysTimeLog and SterlingScheduleExample.

Sterling and Jay Says:

Here is a bunch of tips on using Outlook as well as some other fantastic tips:

http://ask-leo.com/

Milan Zigmodn Says:

Hi Guys,

It looks like the content of this post is from podcast episode #3 not #2 and @2 is missing :) I was looking for your time log example and couldn’t find it.

Thanks