Setting up a Daily Routine

By: Bette Daoust, Ph.D.
Submitted: 2007-01-17 15:35:51
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If you like to plan your day the night before, you are ahead of the crowd. But for the rest of us, planning is a general thing that will simply consist of a list of items to be accomplished. The list is tackled in an importance order and interruptions take a toll of what happens.

In my office, I like to get in early to out my routine in order. Unfortunately, I do not always get the quiet time as I have a colleague that also comes in early and likes to talk about what he is doing (and he interrupts every 3 or 4 minutes or so). So how can you plan your day without worrying about the constant interruptions and get everything accomplished?

I do my planning by setting up a daily routine. The routine consists of all the small things that I need to do on a daily basis which will make the difference between success and mediocrity. For example, if you have your own business, it is the accumulation of things accomplished that make the difference in your success.

For your marketing routine you may want to do some of the following each day (by the way, if you do a small thing everyday for 365 days, you will have accomplished something very big):

  • Read 10 pages of a business or personal improvement book (this only takes a few minutes). By the end of the year you will have read 3650 pages. Wow, what an education you will have.
  • Make 10 phone calls everyday before noon to prospects. If you do this daily, you will have made over 3000 calls during the work week and you will surely get some business this way. This also only takes under an hour to accomplish.
  • Write one article everyday and post it to an article marketing site (or you can email it to select clients and post it on your own site). My favorite is always ezinearticles.com
  • Write a press release every Monday morning and submit it to press release sites. This will improve the awareness of your business and it will bring traffic to your website. In addition, the press releases will also help your page rankings and search engine listings.
  • Exercise everyday for at least 20 minutes. Take a brisk walk in the morning before work, or play a sport. If you exercise just a little bit everyday, your fitness will improve tremendously.
  • Plan to do your daily routine everyday. Add more items as you start to feel comfortable with doing a few to start. The results are surprising.

As Yoda said, "Do or not do, there is no try." So here is to your success!

Bette Daoust, Ph.D. is a speaker, author (over 170 books, articles, and publications), and consultant. She has provided marketing, sales, business development and training expertise for companies such as Peet's Coffee & Tea, Varian Medical Systems, Accenture, Avaya, Cisco Systems to name a few. Dr. Daoust has also done extensive work with small businesses in developing their marketing, training, and operational plans. You may contact Dr. Daoust at http://BizMechanix.com You may also view her latest publications at http://BlueprintBooks.com Dr. Daoust also writes for the National Networker http://theNationalNetworker.com

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