Courtney: I want the life of freedom u have lol… I will soon

Gav: well lets keep in touch and see when and where we can share projects

Courtney: how can I get some of your products? I have been having a hard time to stay organized and focused

Gav: how so? Overwhelmed? procrastinating? bored? directionless? lol what exactly?

Courtney: the first 2

Gav: and what do you think would be helpful to you?

1. pump up raa raa motivation with tony robbins seminars?

2. A career break to reflect on life?

3. A nitty gritty self management system?

4. If you think that, what keeps you working on too many projects at one time?

Courtney: I think I have too many projects at one time… I think the third

Gav: have you tried creating your own system? or have you tried any other systems?

Courtney: I guess i am just trying to find the one or few things I feel passionate about

Gav: aha, interesting. So you’re not clear on what you are passionate about?

Courtney: Thats what I have been wanting to do is create my own system. It has been sitting on my mind for a long time.

Gav: if money was not an issue for you, do you know what you would be passionate about spending your time on?

Courtney: Yes I do

Gav: wanna tell me? Or wanna tell me why you think you cant do it now?

Courtney: I know what I want to put together just would take money and support and dont have that. My passion is having freedom and helping people.

Gav: ok, well sounds like you have quite a clear idea of a project. Something you could plan out on paper? And identify next steps?

Courtney: I want to Yea i can put it on paper.

Gav: have you yet put it on paper? And helping people with what exactly?

Courtney: Yes. Help people by inspiring to go after there dreams and help them to make money

Gav: great, so you have a developing plan for the project. You said overwhelm and procastination are slowing you down. Besides your actual project plan I would suggest writing down your thoughts on your overwhelm and your procrastination. That will be the start of your own ‘system’. Out of my products, I think I would suggest that you start with www.organizedr.com

Courtney: I will check it out.

Gav: and let’s chat again when you’ve made a bit more progress or got any more personal insights.

Visit the PREPARATION section for full details on how to obliterate any negative procrastination and overwhelm that you have.

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Ok I'll show it to you…

A bit of it atleast.

This is a glimpse at the aggressive marketing matrix that I have used with my clients over the past decade.  Of course it's developed regularly over that time. 

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Want to see more?

I'll include screenshots in future posts.

Originally posted 2008-02-22 22:09:11.

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Joyce wrote me:

I'm usually pretty good at organizing, but I am getting my home office in order so that I can start a new project and have a stack of papers on topics A-Z.  Would like some suggestions for organizing paper files in the 3 drawer cabinet. I have lots of file folders already creates but I think that there are too many categories. I use the cabinet for all papers that I keep.

Hi Joyce,
My personal favorite way of organizing paper files comes from David Allen's book Getting Things Done.  He advises making lots of files at whim, for anything you want to file, and using a labelwriter to make a new label for each file.  Label the file whatever is most related to that particular information, and file it in A-Z order in the cabinet.
Then when you want to find something, you'll know what you called it and you'll find it in alphabetical order in the cabinet.
Of course this can create lots of files, so you just need to have a periodic clean out of anything that you really dont need to keep.
Hope that helps.  Let me know what you end up trying :)

Originally posted 2009-07-13 20:13:38.

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In 2006 I conducted a small time management system seminar on a tropical island in Thailand.

It was a 30 day dedicated frenzy of testing all manner of time management techniques on myself, and reporting my findings, successes and failures, to the group of clients involved.

Then in 2007 I released the TimeLattice Time Management System.  A new paradigm in time management that I stumbled on through doing that gruelling 30 day attempt at getting old time management techniques to work.

I really did discover some incredible and insightful things.  I doubt it was my intelligence.  But just the fact of 30 days total immersion and dedication to time management.

But now again around the turn of 2008 I have found an even simpler way of delivering the same natural time management results from the Time Lattice.

I've called it InstaTime.

And this blog will chronicle the journey of tying InstaTime into every other time management system, along with the evolution of InstaTime with modern personal organization software, new time management books that are published, and my battle with traditional time management techniques that I have exposed as obsolete, and even dangerous, to your time management success.

On the website homepage you can get the FREE InstaTime Report.

It's great to finally be starting a new time management blog.

Here's a few other recent posts from the blogosphere…

Time Management – Finally Accomplish Your To Do List – Time Management Do you find yourself rushing through your afternoon , stampeding to the door, making your way through traffic only to arrive an half hour late for work because you had to wait for the train? How does the rest of your day …

Time Management For the Hopeless Writer – Dare I hope that my struggle is over? Could this be what you’re looking for, too? If so… well okay, you can thank me for the tip. Or send chocolate. *Leo Babauta, who wrote ZTD (Zen to Done) also has an excellent time management blog. …

Some Practical Time Management Techniques – A lot of people end up clamoring for time management techniques. This is especially true for people who just have so many things to think about in their lives while they are left with little to no room left to relax. …

Originally posted 2008-02-19 14:34:23.

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Here are the 6 aspects I have identified over the evolution of marketing on the web since 1998.

They define the 6 main branches off of the Strategy Online Marketing Matrix as shown:

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1. Marketing Strategy PLANNING

What Is Your Internet Marketing Strategy?

Internet Marketing Tactics range through vast fields of possibility: From search engine promotion for ranking strategy, to branding strategy, ebooks, to blog and 'rss'. It's endless, really..

Step 1 is to develop your plan and become ORGANIZED and EFFICIENT and INFORMED.

Visit the Aggresive Planning page.

2. Target Market RESEARCH

What are your business advertising needs?

If you are looking to convert an off-line business into on-line promotion then seek an seo consultant or search engine marketing firm.

However, the 6 core areas of Internet Marketing Strategy are the same no matter what size your operation. From a one man band, to a international powerhouse.

And if you are working within such a powerhouse, in the Internet Marketing department, then do stick to these pages like cyber-glue. You probably can squeeze a budget to attend internet marketing conferences. (but recently they've been over-glorified sales days, so don't let your boss see my comment or he won't approve the purchase order.

Visit the Aggressive Research page.

3. Site & Product DEVELOPMENT

Everything you need for massive web based business marketing is covered by these 6 categories of Aggressive Marketing.

The tools I blog about are fully suitable for corporate size market analysis, web site development, and increased web site traffic promotion.

If you are a solo netrepreneur just getting started, stick to this Aggressive Marketing web site like cyber-glue. You will find out how to make money online in the most efficient ways I have found over the past decade.

Everything you need for a massive web based business and online busines marketing is within these here 6 walls… The 6 categories of Internet Marketing Strategy.

Visit the Aggressive Development page.

4. Web Copywriting & CONVERSION

Direct Response Copywriting is my overall passion in marketing.  Everything in busines boils down to the interaction between your marketing message, and your target audience.  It is the words on the page that sells.  Your conversion mechanism must be as tight as possible.

Just a small increase in conversion rates can score big increases in your profit balance.

Visit the Aggressive Conversion page.

5. Increased Web Site TRAFFIC

A note about the 'dreaded' search engine promotion. Search engine ranking strategy depends on your aim and budget. NOT! It's all the same. Just to a differnt scale. Let me explain…

Sure you can outsource if you have the budget for search engine marketing services, but wouldn't you like to know just exactly where your money is being spent, and to what level of effectiveness. Well with low cost software you can check up on how thoroughly your search engine submissions and tactics are being conducted.

If you're marketing for small business with some or 100% internet advertising, the exact same software tools will equip you with as much brute force as the big powerhouses.

It's not the tools, it's the strategy.

Visit the Aggressive Traffic page.

6. Online Stats (& KPI) TRACKING

Behavioural research of your website traffic will allow you to guide your research and development.  Think of these three factors as interacting with eachother.  Product – Marketing – Numbers.

The tracking allows that relationship to happen.

Visit the Aggressive Tracking page.

Originally posted 2008-02-23 14:46:23.

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Take pen to paper and answer 3 questions:

  • How excited are you to get to work in the morning?
  • How much do you enjoy what you do for its own sake rather than for what it gets you?
  • How accountable do you hold yourself to a deeply held set of values?

”Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognise that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life: and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible” – Viktor Frankl

… because we value it for the inherent satisfaction it provides – intrinsic motivation.

So long as we skim across the surface of our lives at high speeds, it is impossible to dig down more deeply. People cannot move horizontally and vertically at the same time.

The next step in defining purpose is to create a vision for how we intend to invest our energy. A compelling vision statement…

Until we can clear away the smoke and mirrors and look honestly at ourselves, we have no starting point for change. Maverick psychiatrist R D Laing captured this cleverly in a short poem:

The range of what we think and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice
And because we fail to notice
That we fail to notice
There is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds

The Shadow Self

  • Carl Jung coined the term ‘shadow’ to describe those aspects of ourselves that we split off because they violate our self-image.
  • Freud characterised repression as the means by which we exile unwanted feelings into our unconscious.
  • In Buddhism, the form of meditation known as Vipassana aims at overcoming our instinct for delusion by learning to see things exactly as they are.
  • Robert Assagioli said we may move from a feeling of “I am overwhelmed by my anxiety’ to ‘My anxiety is trying to overwhelm me”. In one, we are victims. In the other, we have the power to make choices and take action.

Anthropologist Gregory Bateson said “There is always an optimal value beyond which anything is toxic, no matter what: oxygen, sleep, psychotherapy, philosophy” Too big a dose [of truth] can be overwhelming, and even self-defeating.

We’re running on an endless treadmill. Rituals create boundaries. We need completions.

If our rituals become too rigid, unvarying and linear, the eventual consequences is boredom, disengagement and even diminished passion and productivity.

Our dual challenge is to hold fast to our rituals when the pressures in our lives threaten to throw us off track, and to periodically revisit and change them so that they remain fresh.

No element as important as that os specificity of timing and the precision of behaviour during the thirty to sixty day acquisition period.

Our conscious capacity for self-control is limited and easily depleted.

Among those who had the precise deadline, 75% handed the reports in on time.

Nearly 100% of those who designated when and where they would do the exam completed it. ONly 53% of the other group did so, despite equally strong intentions to conduct the exam.

When they were asked in advance to specify precisley what they intended to eat for each of their meals during the day, rather than using their energy to resist eating certain foods all day long.

Specificity and precision.

The less thinking people have to do under adverse circumstances, the better.

The key is not how we make the connection to our purpose. Rather it is assuring that we do so in a regular way.

Our method is to build rituals in increments – focusing on one significant change at a time., and setting reachable goals.

Growth and change won’t occur unless you push past your comfort zone, but pushing too hard increases the likelihood that you will give up.

Building confidence fuels the persistence to pursue more challenging changes. We call these ‘serial rituals’.

Two behaviours dramatically increased the likelihood of successfully locking in new rituals during the typical thirty to sixty day acquisition period.

  • Chart the course -
  • Chart the progress – holding yourself accountable at the end of each day… regularly facing the truth about the gap between your intention and your actual behaviour.

Defining a desired outcome and holding yourself accountable.

Until clients feel some discomfort about their current circumstances, they are rarely inclined to change.

Jump ahead to the end of your life: What are the three most important lessons you have learned?

4 sources of energy

  • Physical capacity is defined by quantity of energy (low to high)
  • Emotional capacity is defined by quality of energy (negative to positive)
  • Mental capacity is defined by focus of energy (
  • Spiritual capacity is defined by force of energy

Sustained high performance is best served by assuming the mentality of a sprinter not a marathon runner.

Most of us are undertrained physically and spiritually (not enough stress) and overtrained mentally and emotionally (not enough recovery)

Energy capacities follow developmental lines:

  • First level of development is physical
  • Second level of development is emotional/spiritual
  • Third level of development is cognitive/mental
  • Fourth level of development is moral/spiritual

A corporation or organization is simply a reservoir of potential energy that can be recruited in the service of an intended mission.

Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy.

Great leaders recognise that high positive energy is the fuel for high performance. Every aspect of their leadership clearly reflects this understanding.

Most important physical energy management strategies

  • Go to bed early and wake up early
  • Go to sleep and wake up consistently at the same times
  • Eat five to six small meals daily
  • Take breaks every ninety minutes during work

Originally posted 2009-10-25 12:15:05.

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Traditional positioning is done via 2 competing forces

  1. Price
  2. Uniqueness

Uniqueness relates to the degree of differentiation, which can be divided into 2 main areas:

  • Merchandise
  • Support

And produces the following possibilities:

  • An offer differentiated by both merchandise and support can be classified as a system
  • Undifferentiated by both merchandise and support then the offer is a commodity (common, like bread and milk)
  • Differentiated by merchandise but not by support and the offer is a product
  • Differentiated by support but not by merchandise and the offer is a service

This produces a declining scale of uniqueness: System > Product or Service > Commodity

And the customer is the final judge and jurer on this matter.

If your customer does not appreciate the way in which you are differentiated, if he or she does not see your offer as significantly, substantially unique from your competitors, then really you are not differentiated, and are simply offering a commodity. Because the customer will see no special value in your offer over your competitors offer in terms of merchandise or support.

In which case you are probably to compete on price, unless you can find a genuine way to differentiate your offer in the minds of your prospect. This is ?brand/product positioning?.

Methods of Differentiation

There are 2 ways to differentiate merchandise:

  1. By content (tangible attributes) or
  2. By image (perceived attributes).

There are 2 ways to differentiate support:

  1. By expertise (functional competence of the offer) or
  2. By personalisation (flexibility in terms of customisation)

For a deeper approach to Positioning see the Strategic Business Units page.

Originally posted 2008-08-09 15:17:49.

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I feel I owe you an update…

Although:

…With the lifestyle changes I have just begun (I am currently in the northern most tip of Venezuela), this will be a break from the norm of business marketing as usual…

In fact:

You should already have noticed the broader site categories in the right hand menu, for:

  1. Lifestyle advantages
  2. Your mind control
  3. Travel career breaks
  4. And society at large

Not a small subject range for one website, I know.

But integrating these areas will, I believe, bring you a far greater level of personal value, than just ´business as usual´.

Sure, you want a more successful career and better business-life experience.

(Or you most likely wouldnt be on this site in the first place).

…But even amongst stuffy narrow minded corporate types, or the junior managers fresh out of university, I know that your success is experienced through more than just your job title and pay check.

Rest assured, strategic and tactical marketing is at the very heart of my focus, and I will be demonstrating several product launches over the coming weeks, so stay tuned for all that.

Yet we also need to control 7 progressively far reaching dimensions for holistic and enduring success.

First…

You need to own your inner fundamental attitude for life advantages (what we might call Individiual Capitalism).

Second…

You plot out the general direction of your life that resonates most closely with you at present for accruing those individual profits of life experience. (Failing to plan is like planning to fail, right?)

Third…

You must move towards organizing the disparate components of that vision, just like any business venture.

Fourth…

Einstein expressed the fourth dimension of existence as ´time´, and time management is crucial for us all.

Fifth…

Slightly more kooky, but no less significant, Frank R Wallace and others have expressed a 5th dimension of existence as our conscious control of thought.

(I make no apologies for the depth of consideration that my website may now reflect, as subjects such as general semantics and systems thinking (whilst I take a non-academic interest), are vital tools for all long-term practical business growth, shareholder value, and project management as well as optimum lifestyle management.)

Sixth…

Is the synergy of You, Inc. and your own personal journey of individual capitalism (with its advantages of health, wealth, and happiness), combined with the same pursuit of other like minded people), whether it be through your effectiveness as a salesman in the traditional sense, or the broader contribution and involvement that you have in your company, your community, etc.

And Seventh…

Expanding our consideration in the broadest sense, through today´s rapidly advancing ´global organism´, we, together, as members of The World, Inc. are moving to new social structures…

…and I will report on my experiences throughout 2010 whilst traveling throughout Latin America, from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. (I have access to big business executives, some government officials, and of course the general populace).

The World, Inc. — Earth´s Ultimate Business and Social System?

Civilisation 2.0 eliminates the frauds and force of state-support corporatist capitalism, and rejects the collectivist rights and shared non-ownership with its irresponsibilities and the ensuing force-and-fraud-backed suppressions of Socialism/Communism… replacing them with the clean-sweap simplicity that has been staring both sides in the face.

Free-Market Capitalism and Social Minded Socialism are one in the same.

Or atleast, they share the same solution:

Respecting the rights of the individual, legally protecting every person from force and fraud. Limiting government to democratically communally orchestrated shared social decisions on a local basis (without central planning), whilst protecting with bulldog tenacity the individual rights of property ownership for every single individual.

Only that combination, apparently, brings about the utopia that both sides, the left and the right, have promised and dreamed of.

I am currently reading Naomi Klein´s The Shock Doctrine, and I have to say I am shocked.

Not only by the fascinating contents and details of history that she presents, but also her incredible narrow-minded naive or downright intellectual self-dishonesty. I will have more to say on Naomi Klein in due course.

For now though, and with this update and orientation for the site, I am off to visit the local mountain range with a Venezuela Lawyer, to enjoy new foods, explore new cultural curiosities, and soak up the Caribbean sun.

Chao for now.

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As online start-up costs get cheaper – some small operations open with capital as low as $10 – expect competition to get tougher as the Internet becomes more accessible to hopeful and resourceful business-minded people.

Conquer the art of competitive intelligence.

This points to a growing number of competitors in a quickly shrinking playing field. As if existing rivals weren’t bad enough, having new players in the arena just makes everything more cutthroat.

That’s why you need that extra edge so your business can pull ahead to become the front-runner in your industry.

With the Conquer Your Competition Strategy Cashmap, you can outwit your business rivals and leave them all behind to fight it out with each other – while you’re enjoying the boost in your popularity and profits.

In easy and simple steps, this Cashmap will teach you how to identify your closest competitors, gather useful data, assemble a skilled “intelligence team”, and employ competitive benchmarking that will propel you to the top of your field.

Download the Conquer Your Competition with Competitive Intelligence Strategy Cashmap now for free and you’ll be on your way to learning…

  • The top two most effective competitive intelligence-gathering methods (you can build your "intelligence portfolio" quickly and easily)
  • The technique that allows you to check how well your products or services are doing compared to your competitors
  • Where to gather as much as 90% of competitive intelligence on rival businesses (they're secrets are more accessible than you think)
  • How to protect yourself from the competition's attempts at spying on your business strategies (keep confidential information safe!)
  • The two types of competitors you need to watch out for (identify them early to keep ahead of your business rivals)
  • and much more…

Conquer the art of competitive intelligence.

Originally posted 2009-09-13 12:07:22.

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On the homepage you will see a major change…

… Because there is more to you than just work, business, and marketing.

There's more to me too…

I'm going to share with you a lot of new ideas, resources, and experiences, that I'm transferring from my various other websites, covering 4 key areas of 'personal adventure' that lends itself to a 'work life balance'.

What's more, I'll soon be traveling — and I'm taking you with me.

So check out the 4 new sections below, and stay tuned for more as I gear myself up for another year of flashpacking!

expand-your-adventure

work-life-balance

…to balance the equation:

  1. Engineer your ideal lifestyle (for health, wealth, security, environment and more)
  2. Delve into the inner workings of your mind (super intelligence and total mind control)
  3. Join me on the beaches and valleys of world travel (flashpackers and global digerati)
  4. Contribute to the rise of Civilization 2.0 (political science, activism, etc)

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