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Don’t Break the Chain – Productivity Tip for Overwhelmed Internet Marketers

I’ve got a productivity tip for you – Don’t Break the Chain!  People have attributed this to Jerry Seinfeld.  I don’t know if he originated it or not, but he certainly “spread the word.”

Don’t Break the Chain?  – Are you kidding!!  We normally think of breaking the chains that bind us as a good thing.   And usually that is true.  Today we’ll talk about another kind of chain.  The kind we don’t want to break.  

This topic is useful for everyone, but I am aiming specifically at my friends, the internet marketers who are coming online and feeling completely overwhelmed (If this is you, I have an eBook for  overwhelmed and frustrated Internet Marketers.)

 

Don’t Break the Chain – a Productivity Tip

Those that know me have heard me give this advice for folks who are feeling overwhelmed (excuse the wording, it’s just gotta be that way ) 

“Nibble Nibble.  I can eat the whole damn elephant, if I just Nibble, Nibble.”

It’s a way of saying that slow and steady wins the race.  (Don’t get me wrong, the Internet favors SPEED, however when you are in the formative stages of creating your online kingdom, you just have to expect for it to take time.)

Today’s tip is a variation on this theme.

Here is my New Year’s Calendar, attached to a clipboard so I can hang  it RIGHT WHERE I CAN MISS IT!:

If you look you will see 5 large X’s forming a chain.  There is one half of an X on the 6th.

Basically you create a Don’t Break the Chain calendar for tasks that you have promised yourself you will do EVERY DAY.  These should typically be things that can be done in a short time period.  For example: “Clean house for 15 minutes”, or “Exercise for at least 20 minutes”, or “Walk the dog for at least a mile.”  The objective is to put an X over the date every time you do your task and “don’t break the chain.”   BTW, you can have multiple “don’t break the chain” calendars.

Here are my rules for the calendar you see here.

1. At least one blog post every day (I am allowed to make up a day, but not two in a row.)
2. I excuse myself and do the X in green for days where this is ridiculous; for example I was in the hospital or my wife went in for surgery or I got up at 6:00 and was on an airplane to the far coast all day.
3. For my calendar, I have broken the X in half.  The top half is WRITING the post and the bottom half is PROMOTING the post.  For purposes of this post, I gave myself credit for finishing the post so you could see a half-X.  

Obviously you can make your own rules.  Make it tough, but doable.  You don’t want to be too easy on yourself.

Just seeing your “Don’t Break the Chain” calendar is extra motivation, an there will always be days when we need some extra motivation.

Here is a link to another article on Don’t Break the Chain

This is super simple AND it is a good use for that free calendar you were going to throw away 🙂   Don’t Break the Chain.

Until next time, you have a Great Day!

 

 

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