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“December 1st marks the first day of Global Teleseminar Week which also begins ‘Teleseminar Marketing Season’ in winter and spring,” says my friend, Alex Mandossian.

On the first Thursday of December (for the past five years), Alex hosts “The BIG Call” which I have decided to co-sponsor this year, so I hope your participate

This year, the first Thursday of December falls on the 3rd, so clear your calendar for that evening. If you do register for The BIG Call make sure you use this VIP Discount Code: AM3964. (That VIP Code shaves-off $79 from the $99 tuition everybody will pay without it).

WHY Participate? Because you’ll get private access to over 2 1/2 hours of densely-rich content that will significantly do two things for you:

1) More Money: You’ll dramatically increase the possibility of transforming your annual income into a monthly income within 3 years

2) More Time: You’ll dramatically increase the possibility of maintaining your current income (if happy with it) and triple your time-off

WHAT Is The BIG Call? It is a LIVE and unique Teleseminar training on how to grow (or start) a business by adding the power Teleseminars to your marketing mix. You will get a 21-page Action Guide that you’ll fill-in during the call as you listen and follow along with Alex guiding you along the way.

HOW Do I Participate? Just grab your mouse and click here. If you’re reading this in time to become one of the first 200 who register, you’ll even get an important bonus gift for taking immediate action. Click here and take a look!

WHAT IF I Do Participate? You’ll get access to the same Teleseminar training that many thought leaders such as Jack Canfield, Ivan Misner, Les Brown, Harv Eker, Dan Sullivan, Bob Proctor and Brian Tracy now utilize in their business. Take a look at “Page 15″ of the Action Guide you’ll get after you register.

Alex has an unprecedented 365-day money back guarantee, if you have a sliver of doubt that this Teleseminar Training will exceed your expectations.

So you really have no excuse not to grab your mouse right now, click here and get registered. And because you’ve read this far, I know you’re more than just curious about how The BIG Call may change your personal and professional life.

There are a lot of management techniques out there. A lot of authors have written on the topic of how to manage your time and get the most out of it. Most of the books written focused on business leaders and corporate executives.

Stephen Covey’s time management book, First Things First, is a well acclaimed book. His time management technique is focused on giving tips to individuals to do things effectively.

Let us take a look at Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix.

-FIRST QUADRANT (URGENT & IMPORTANT)

MANAGE / QUADRANT OF NECESSITY – Crisis – Medical emergencies – Pressing problems – Deadline-driven projects – Last minute preparation for scheduled activities

-SECOND QUADRANT (NOT URGENT & IMPORTANT)

FOCUS / QUADRANT OF QUALITY – Personal leadership – Preparation / Planning – Prevention – Values Clarification – Exercise – Relationship Building – True recreation / relaxation

-THIRD QUADRANT (URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT)

AVOID / QUADRANT OF DECEPTION – Interruptions and some calls – Some mails and reports – Some meetings – Many “pressing matters” – Many popular activities

-FOURTH QUADRANT (NOT URGENT NOT IMPORTANT)

AVOID / QUADRANT OF WASTE – Trivia, busywork – Junk mail – Emails – Time wasters – Escape activities – Viewing mindless tv shows

There are 24 hours in a day. Eight hours is for sleeping and the next 16 hours are for our usual schedule. In Stephen Covey’s time management book (First Things First), he noted that most of us spend our 16 hours in the third and fourth quadrant, the quadrant of deception and waste.

If you will really look at our daily activities, Stephen Covey is actually right. Most of us spend hours watching tv, reading unimportant emails, answering calls, and other things that actually does not help us accomplish anything.

Stephen Covey’s time management is a great tool that can help us finish more important things before a day ends. You just have to focus yourself and experiment with the quadrants and how it can help you. In getting things done you have to set your mind on what you will do. The activities in the first quadrant need to be managed in the best way that you can. Focus on the Quadrant of Quality and Personal Leadership because this can help you achieve your goals faster.

The last two quadrants should be avoided as much as possible. The third quadrant looks deceiving, it may look important but it is not. While the fourth quadrant will never help you get things done.

How we manage our time is all up to us. Whatever the consequences of our actions might be, we only have ourselves to blame.

If you wish to learn more about time management, be sure to check out our site today. It has tons of helpful tips and information on managing your time.

Are you always reacting to the events and circumstances around you? Is your life being controlled by external forces?

When you allow yourself to live reactively you give up the power to control your destiny.

If you want to achieve more in your life you need to live proactively. As long as you are reactive (always saying “because” instead of “being cause”) you keep yourself in a powerless position.

It is a good practice not to make excuses. Nobody really cares about your excuse, but it needs to go deeper than that.

As long as you are giving yourself reasons, it is doing a disservice to yourself. You need to empower yourself by
thinking of how you can do better next time, instead of dwelling on why you were (in your opinion) “powerless” to get it done last time.

Consider Steven Covey’s quadrants as I discussed in this previous post. Living reactively keeps you in quadrants 1 and 2 where everything is urgent whether it is important or not.  This leaves you no time or energy to do the important work that is not urgent.

You must take control to get what you want out of life.  It sounds difficult when you have ingrained habits of reacting to the events in your life.  The best way to break a bad habit is to replace it with a new (good) habit.  Get in the habit of planning what you should be doing each day the night before and first thing in the morning.

You may find when you think about what you need to do before going to sleep, things will be clearer when you wake up in the morning.

Then make a habit of watching what you are doing.  If you are not doing what you planned, why not?  Are you reacting to something or someone else?

Each time you catch yourself being reactive, take a minute to think of what you could do to prevent this limiting behavior from happening in the future. Make that your habit to replace the habit of reacting to things beyond your control.

Take personal responsibility in everything you do and you will find you can get more done, instead of playing the victim of circumstances all the time. That is what being proactive is all about.