As a sales professional, sales leader or business owner, distractions can often be the main obstacle for achieving great success.

If you have too many distractions, you will never achieve your full potential.

It is important to continue to evaluate what sales activities will be most important to reach your goals. Then, you must focus on those activities first, and make a commitment to complete them each and every day without failure.

You must remove and minimize your distractions. You will then have the time to focus on what you have determined is most important. (more…)

This article was inspired by the minimalist, Leo Babauta, and some of the writing is taken directly from his uncopyrighted material on his website which he gives full permission to copy, distribute and modify.

I have added my own perspectives, made deletions, and modified various sections and wording so that this article is true to my own values. However, I wanted to be sure I gave him the credit he deserves.

I believe it is important to share this information as it has proven to be incredibly valuable for me. (more…)

All too often, I see emails from sales professionals and business leaders that are 10x’s longer than they need to be.

They loose the attention of the recipient and the purpose is not always clear right away.

By learning to write brief emails you will save yourself time and save the time of the recipient. (more…)

Do you get a lot of paper letters and junk in your mail?

Does it ever pile up and sit unopened or get thrown into the garbage only to sacrifice another tree? Does it waste your time to open up the mail to see what’s inside?

I have taken the initiative to receive less mail and the process has been working for me.

Here are some of the steps you can take to receive less paper junk mail, and have more time for more important things: (more…)

Zen To Done: The Simple Productivity E-Book

The below is from by Leo Babauta’s Website:

Zen To Done is a simple system to get you more organized and productive, and keep your life saner and less stressed, with a set of habits.

Zen To Done takes some of the best aspects of a few popular productivity systems (GTD, Stephen Covey and others) and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more.
Buy the ZTD system in a handy e-book, with additional material, resources and forms: (more…)

The Essential Motivation Handbook – Learn How To Motivate Yourself Now!

With The Essential Motivation Handbook you’ll have all the tools you need to push past any obstacle that might be holding you back. ‘The Essential Motivation Handbook’ is your ticket to finally getting things done and moving past the mundane!

Here is the table of contents, listing the powerful insight you’ll find in this ebook about motivation:

1. How To Motivate Yourself
2. The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need
3. A Guide to Beating the Fears That Are Holding You Back
4. Task Ninja: Form the Action Habit
5. Top 20 Motivation Hacks (more…)

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, introduced a powerful ebook that will help you learn to live a simple life and experience more joy.

The ebook is called The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life and it is Leo’s goal that the book will help you live a simpler, happier life!

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.” – Richard Halloway

The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life will help you live a simple life and experience more joy by addressing the following areas:

• Clearing clutter and reducing your possessions
• Figuring out what’s necessary, and how to be content with less
• Simplifying your schedule, your work, and living a less stressful life
• Creating a minimalist workspace, home, computer, financial life, diet and fitness program
• How to go paperless and digitize your life

The ebook is $9.95, and proceeds (up to $5,000) will go to benefit the non-profit Guampedia.com.

Take a look at the preview below and than purchase the pdf ebook for $9.95 here. (more…)