[e_commerceagency]

Hello,

I am new to this game and I have some great ideas but I need to prioritize my life and get things accomplished.

There are great ideas in my mind but I have a hard time getting the necessary results.

Any advice.

Thanks,

Kyle

[AeroNautica0909]

Well, I'd say get as much education as you can. That saying 'Knowledge is power' is absolutely right. The more you know, the better off you'll be.

I would probably say connections afterwards. Social skills is definitely something you'll need to make connections. Connections and social skills are needed to get you started.

[justin8]

I learned from reading bio's from other business leaders. They always have good advice on how to proritize!

[Dus10]

Get better organizational skills. My university has classes on it. There are books written about. Also, there is a certifiction program, mostly used by the IT industry. It is the PMP, Project Management Professional certification. Organization is a key factor of that. I guess what you need to do is sit down and make a list of long-term goals. Where you want to be in 10 years, where you want to be in 5 years. Then, based on those, write down your short-term goals, things you think you need to do in the next year or so, to reach your long-term goals. After that, sit down every January 1st and every July 1st and review your short-term goals, and how they are going to help you reach your long-term goals. After this, sit down and make a list of very short-term goals, for the month or the week, and then make a list of tasks for that period of time, and prioritize those tasks. Make a check list, and check them off as you go. Give them a priority... there is a quadrant system for this:

Quandrant I - Urgent and Important
Quadrant II - Urgent but Unimportant
Quandrant III - Not Urgent but Important
Quadrant IV - Not Urgent and Unimportant

Assign every task to a quadrant, and then go to town. Quadrant I takes priority over everything.... this is firefighting work. This is stuff you will certainly get tired of if everything is a 1. Get these things under control so you can focus on Quandrant 3 work... this is where you want to spend most of your time. This stuff is project-style work. Like, complete Calculus I class, Attain XYZ certification, Systematize this job role, Raise capital, etc...

The entrepreneur is the person who focuses on Quadrant III. The manager focuses on Quadrant II. The technician focuses on Quadrant I. These roles are from the E-Myth series... I cannot remember where I learned about the work quadrants, though. And just because you are doing work in another quadrant, that does not put you in that role, unless you lose track of your goals, and always work in a different quandrant.

[e_commerceagency]

Thanks for the great advice, as far as looking at what is important and how to deem what is going to accomplish the most in a given time how do you delegate tasks to other people or time frames.

Basically, I need to figure out a way to weigh the importance of certain tasks......

Is there even a way to do this?

Thanks again for the advice guys.

KJF

[Dus10]

You just have to consider each task. If completing one task helps other tasks, give it a higher priority, if you have a deadline approaching for something, raise the priorities of the tasks involved. If something is very importand raise the priority. If it is something you think you could deal with not completing, lower the priority. If it is more project oriented, lower the priority. You would be the best judge of that.

Another perspective... look at your long-term goals, and then prioritize them in the order of how important they are to you. Then base the priority of your based on which long-terms goal(s) they support.

[e_commerceagency]

Thanks,
That makes a lot of sense, the real question is how to find
out what is realy important to you........




Sincerely,

KJF

[MattHurley]

The quadrant system is taken from Napoleon Hill's 17 Principles of Success book (the exact name escapes me). This is the system that I have used for quite some time and it has proven extremely effective.

[Steve]

Isn't Napolean Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich". Or does he have multiple books.

I liked his book, he had one or two chapters that made him look like a comple whacko though!

[MattHurley]

He has multiple books.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...4+12%3A56%3A23

[e_commerceagency]

Think and grow rich is a great book, what chapters are you talking about?

There are a few parts that are odd, but he makes solid points about desire and unrelenting drive.

Does anyone read biographies and outline them, I was thinking about starting a website based on these outlines and outlines of other business books, do you think it would fly?????


KJF