Three Daily Routines That Increase Productivity, Focus And Energy

 

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You’ve probably heard of personal development books like “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. Well, here’s online entrepreneur Dean Holland’s top three daily routines that will increase productivity, boost your energy levels, and help provide the focus you need in order to succeed with your online business today…

“Hey! Dean here of course. Welcome to today’s Drive. Thank you for joining me on the way to Internet Profits here today. It is a sunshiny, glorious day. Long may it continue – although I know that here in the UK, good weather only ever lasts a short period of time.

But nonetheless we are here, showing up every single day of the week. And I hope you are too in your online business.

Today I want to talk about something a little bit different. I want to talk about more to do with how you’re operating, and how your kind of acting yourself…

Your Daily Routines, Your Patterns, Your Behaviours – How Are They Impacting What You’re Doing?

And this is especially important for those of you that still have a full-time job, and you’re trying to build your online business whilst working and juggling all this other stuff going on in your day to day life. It is especially important for you and your daily routines.

I’ve Done A Bit Of Testing In Terms Of How You Operate In Certain Areas Of The Day

But also I guess, in many respects, this is equally important to those of you like me, in my position, where you are full-time responsible for the outcome of your business. You’re running your own business, and nobody’s going to put a wages pay check into your bank account at the end of the month.

So, I had an interesting conversation recently. I was at a seminar and we were basically in the bar in the evening, talking about everyone’s day to day patterns and daily routines, and how they operate on a day to day basis. And I was talking about how I’ve done a bit of testing over recent times, in terms of how you operate and perform in certain areas of the day.

Now I’m gonna tell you the number one biggest thing of everything, that I’ve found in my testing that’s gonna impact the way you act, your sharpness, your focus, and your energy levels.

This Is Biggest Daily Routine That Impacts Your Energy, Sharpness and Focus

I used to get really, really sort of sluggish, sleepy and be yawning mid afternoon. I’ve discovered it’s dehydration. Got to be drinking lots of water in a day. And sometimes you got to kind of force yourself to do it. But you have to.

You’ve got to be drinking water all throughout the day. From the moment you wake up, through to the evening, an hour before you go to bed. You’ve got to be consuming like at least three litres of water. And the difference it makes is astounding. Like, honestly it’s staggering the difference it makes. So that’s one thing.

If You Are Operating On Hardly Any Sleep, You’re Going To Burn Out

Two: Having a good sleeping pattern. Like, if you’re staying up really late and then getting up late… If you operate best that way, and you’ve got that option if you’re working for yourself full time, then fair enough. But if you’re not, it’s not gonna be good.

On the other side of that as well – and this is what a lot of people are doing when they’re juggling work, life, and trying to start a business… Is they’re staying up really late, not getting much sleep, and then waking up early. If you are operating on hardly any sleep, you’re going to burn out.

Some People Think That, “Oh, But I’m Being Really Productive”

You’re probably not. Like, you’re probably being a “busy fool“. You feel like putting in those hours and staying up late is serving you. But it may not be, at least not in the long-term, okay?

Get a good amount of sleep each night. Make sure you’re having enough sleep for your body. So that’s two things: Make sure you’re drinking plenty of water, be hydrated. And fix your sleeping patterns.

Here’s another… I’m gonna leave you with this one. It’s like “the big three” I guess.

Receptors In Your Brain Are More Receptive In The First 10 To 20 Minutes Of The Day

How you start your day can dictate the mood and the the results of the entire day. So what I mean by that is… If you are in daily routines where you wake up and you watch the news, or you read a newspaper and consume media. Not good!

Media can come in all different forms… Social media, like if you wake up grab your cell phone and sit on Facebook or Twitter reading other people’s lives other people’s crap, news, politics, all this kind of gibberish… It is going to have a negative effect – you’re feeding your brain with negativity.

I did a Drive recently on this – what you’re feeding your body, what you’re feeding your brain. Like, food intake into your body, and information intake into your brain. It’s impacting you – what you’re feeding your brain and your body will impact you.

And what I found is…

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Surround Yourself With Positive People Who Inspire And Motivate You

 

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How much do you think you’re influenced by all the different people in your life? Here’s a powerful analogy from Dean Holland which illustrates how impactful it can be to surround yourself with positive people who inspire you, and people who motivate you in your life, and as an entrepreneur in your business…

“Good morning my friend! I hope you’re well. It is of course Monday, and I am of course Dean Holland. And we’re on the way to Internet Profits HQ right now.

I hope you had a good weekend. It is of course Monday, and I’ve got a bit of an adventurous week coming up. I’m actually kind of a witness to a wedding tomorrow, where I have to sign.

Robyn, my fiancé, it’s her brother. But they’re kind of doing the legal marriage here in this country, and then on Wednesday we’re actually flying out to Greece for their actual wedding. They have to do the legal side here for whatever reason. But anyway, so we’re actually flying out to one of the Greek islands on Wednesday.

Now, Heads Up!

The People That You Surround Yourself With Can Actually Impact You For The Rest Of Your Life

A bit of a lesson in planning and preparation… I have been told this small Greek island we’re going to does not have very good internet, and it doesn’t have internet in the rooms – which is crazy in this day and age, right?

So I’m having to, just in case, I’m preparing some Drive episodes this week ahead of time for you, so that you can still hear from me. Planning, preparation, execution to keeping cranking out this greatness, haha!

Now I’ve got something that I want to share today. Something came into my mind over the weekend. You see, my fiancé Robyn actually grew up near Wimbledon in London, England. And because of that, she has still has a bit of an accent – what we would call like a cockney accent, like a London accent.

She’s not lived there for many, many years, but she still sometimes has that accent. And I want to draw on something from that thought, for all of us… The people that you surround yourself with can actually impact you for the rest of your life, in multiple different ways.

You Pick Up The Accent Of Those Around You, And It Stays With You The Rest Of Your Life

Surround Yourself With Positive People

So I want you to think about this in terms of starting and growing your business. You might think to yourself, “Well, y’know, it doesn’t matter too much who I hang out with, and what information I take in, and what I listen to – what beliefs I listen to, and what opinions I listen to.”

But the reality is, if somebody can be around certain people early on in life that speak a specific way, that have a specific accent because of where they live. And you pick up that accent, and it sticks with you for the rest of your life.

Then do you see how that lesson alone, tells us that who we hang out with – who we spend our time with, the opinions we listen to, the beliefs we take in around us – can absolutely impact the way we think and act in our lives. Does that make sense?

So if you think about it, like…

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How To Prioritize Tasks In Your Online Business To Boost Income

 

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Are you clear about which tasks are driving the results in your business, and those which are not? Learning how to prioritize tasks in your online business might be the most important business skill you ever develop. So here’s a simple tip for how you can achieve much more in your business, starting right now…

“Good morning my friend, how are you doing? Welcome to today’s Drive. So today… What day is it? Is it Friday? Haha, I have no idea what day it is. I’m just gonna assume it’s Friday. If it’s not Friday, then what the heck.

For me, every day is a good day. Every day is the same, in the sense of – it really doesn’t matter what day this to me. I stopped caring what day it was not too long after I stopped working at the construction company all those years ago.

Every day is a glorious day, every day is my day to own. That’s how I view it. Whether it’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, whatever. That’s how everybody should be living their lives. Doing something they enjoy, so it doesn’t matter what day it is. Whether it’s the weekend or a weekday, be doing something you’re passionate about.

A Lot Of Attention This Week Went Into What We’re Calling “The Best Webinar Ever“

So, a bit of a weekly roundup. I know a lot of times, on Friday, I would be in the office doing a bit of a weekly recap. But, you know what? I didn’t know it was Friday until just a second ago, when I thought about it! And so, here I am in the car doing The Drive, on the way to Internet Profits HQ.

Let me give you a bit of a lowdown as to what’s been happening this week.

I’ve put a lot of my attention this week into what we’re calling…

“The Best Webinar Ever”

Especially if you are an affiliate marketer with an audience in the internet marketing space. If you have an email list, and an audience of people that are looking to, or are starting or growing an online-based business…

What we’re about to come out with next month (you can find it here right now), is going to blow out of the water anything you have ever promoted or being involved with in the past. We have put our blood, sweat and tears into this.

The First Time We Did This Webinar Campaign It Generated Millions Of Dollars

The first time we did this webinar campaign, we only did it with a handful of people. I’m talking less than five. And it generated millions of dollars. Some of those people made anywhere from about fifty thousand dollars, up to six hundred thousand dollars.

So it’s pretty exciting that we took that away, evolved it, consulted with some of the best of the best. Like, Russell Brunson has been helping and advising me on it. And we brought some of the best campaign scripters in, who are about to start working on this stuff.

And yes, that’s kind of been a major focus of the week. But you know me well enough by now – you know that I do a lot! We get a lot done here at Internet Profits. And I think there’s a lesson in that…

How To Prioritize Tasks In Your Online Business To Boost Income

I mentioned this briefly the other day, that you need to think about each day, and each week… What is ‘the big thing’ that, if I get done today or this week, is going to have the biggest impact in my business?

So for me, I know this webinar that we’ve been focused on heavily this week, is going to make tens of millions of dollars, directly and indirectly. It’s going to be responsible for tens of millions of dollars, over the next 12 months alone! Ten million dollars plus is the goal.

Does Fixing It Have A Massive Impact In Your Business? Does It Really?

And so, is that one of the biggest, most profitable and impactful things I could do this week? YES!

Whilst a lot of people would be doing things like, you know, “I got stuck this week on a technical glitch, or with my autoresponder.” Or “I’m trying to figure something out with an email.” Or “I was trying to fix my blog.” and so on…

And the whole week’s just gone by, and how did your business move forwards? “It didn’t, but I had to fix this thing.” Did You?? Does fixing it have a massive impact in your business? Does it really?

That’s what you’ve got to look at – how to prioritize tasks in your online business. You have to look at these things. Now I’m not suggesting like, “Oh my things broken. I’m gonna leave it.” No! If it’s going to take you a week, and somebody could be outsourced on upwork.com to do that thing in a day for fifty dollars… What makes sense?

You spend a week trying to figure it out? Or spend fifty bucks? You know what I mean? You’ve gotta weigh these things up

Work With The 80/20 Principle…

80% of your time on the most impactful, profitable, income producing activities. Make sure you’ve got that ratio. 20% – that can go into fixing all the crap, or doing all those other little bits, okay? Make sure that’s the case. That’s how to prioritize tasks in your online business.

Spend 80% Of Your Time On Tasks That Have The Most Impact On Your Income

I’ve also actually been creating a case study this week of a free traffic generation system for our Certified Partners. A lot of people want to start out – or feel more comfortable starting out – with free traffic, rather than paid traffic.

Of course, we always make the important point that there is no such thing as ‘free’ traffic. But nonetheless, this gets put into the ‘free traffic’ category.

So yeah, we’ve been doing a live case study. Something that has been able to get me customers every day for free, for the last few days since I started it. And we’ve been documenting the process. Something that anybody can do. It’s basically an attraction marketing strategy.

But like I say, I think that is my biggest piece of advice for you today on how to prioritize tasks in your online business. Make sure you’re spending eighty percent – at least eighty percent of your time – on the tasks and the things in your business that have the MOST impact on your income.

If you’re not, then you’re focused on the wrong areas. If you can’t look at what you did this week and say…

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How To Manage Your Time Wisely And Stop Being A Busy Fool

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Are you working hard, but not getting the results you want in your business or in your life? If you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, you must learn to manage your time wisely and stop being a busy fool. Dean explains this in more detail here…

“Welcome my friend, how are you doing? Dean here of course, on the way to Internet Profits HQ. It is 7am. Nice bright early start today. Plenty to do.

Wanted to get in there early and get everything done. Today is a crazy, busy day actually. I’ve got to add the finishing touches to a webinar presentation. I have to shoot a video for some VIP coaching clients. I have some livestreams to do.

What Else?…

We’ve got a load of stuff being delivered into the office… We’re setting up… Got some exciting stuff to talk about actually, in terms of going forwards in the next few weeks. We’re having a real change in our video studio, setting it up to be able to livestream and all kinds of awesome stuff. And so I look forward to showing you that in a few weeks probably. So we’ve got the equipment coming for that, new computer desk, various things like that for the live streaming capabilities.

I’m Doing A Book Writing Challenge At The Moment

At 9:00 pm this evening, I have a call with Ken. We’re doing a book writing challenge at the moment, and we’ve got someone coaching us with writing a book. So the idea being is that we’re able to write a book – we’ll get the first draft done in 30 days. And then be having it polished up, edited, reviewed and proof read, and all that kind of stuff. So that’s going on today as well.

I’ve also got to drop my car off at the garage today to have its brake pads replaced. By the way, talking of cars, my new Range Rover Sport is is being delivered in the next couple of weeks, which is exciting. I remember years ago I had a vision board in my old office – and I just talking about this, this morning actually. On there was a Range Rover, because I always wanted one. And now I finally get one. So all in all yeah, wow, a lot actually happening today.

Y’know…

A Lot Of People Spend A Lot Of Time Doing A Lot Of Stuff

When people feel busy… I remember, many years ago, my first mentor – someone who’s helped me profoundly in my business, and a very good friend now, is Alex Jeffreys. And he used to say, like, about being a “busy fool”.

Am I Focused On The Right Things, Or Am I Being A Busy Fool?

You can be busy doing any number of things. I can find a reason to get busy in this car. For example I could polish it, tidy up, clean all the little bits, take the trash out. And I could tidy it all up and do all these different things, and I feel busy. But it wouldn’t really alter my life, do you know what I mean?

And so you’ve got to look at what you’re doing and how you manage your time wisely. Because I do think a lot of people FEEL busy. But what is it that you’re doing, that’s actually making a difference to your business and to your life? You’ve got to think about, “Am I being a busy fool?” Or, “Am I focused on the right things, and busy with them?”

For me… I know that 80 or 90 percent of the stuff I work on in my day today, is driving the business forwards. I’m working on productive tasks that will drive revenue into the business – that will drive sales, right?

But a lot of people are spending 80 to 90 percent of their time on stuff that won’t impact that kind of result. Y’know, things like… Let me think back to…

Some Of The Stuff In My Past That I’ve Spent Forever On

Trying to get my logo right. I’m not saying it’s not important but, depending on where you’re at in your business, you shouldn’t be spending weeks and weeks on it right? Do that in the future.

What’s The One Thing I Can Do Today To Most Impact Revenue In My Business?

Spending weeks trying to find the perfect WordPress theme for my blog. Again, it’s not impacting my revenue.

Trying to perfect the perfect squeeze page without actually driving any traffic to it. Again not gonna affect anything. I need to get on with driving traffic to it.

So there’s just a few certain areas… Like for me, if I were to really dial down on my day and say, “Right, what is the one thing that, if I did it today, would probably impact revenue the most in my business?”

And it would probably be the webinar thing that I’m working on today, right? Because I know that once I’ve made those tweaks and changes, based on a few tests we’ve done recently with this webinar… And then I record it, then I automate it… That now will work for me every day, every week, every month. You get what I mean?

Manage Your Time Wisely

Make sure you’re looking at your day in this way…

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Food For The Brain – What Are You Feeding Your Mind?

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Proper nutrition and exercise are important to your body’s health, and your brain power and mental health are similarly affected by the quality of your diet. However, this is not the food for the brain Dean’s going to be talking about here…

“Good morning! Dean here of course, just on the way to Internet Profits headquarters on this fine, sunny, glorious morning. I hope you’re doing well.

I want to talk about food. And not the kind that you might be thinking about. Although I am hungry this morning. I try not to eat breakfast, but just recently with doing a lot of travelling, my eating habits have been all over the place. And it’s pretty tough to get them back in line, but I’m fighting it.

The Right Foods + Exercise = Good Health

So yeah, I want to talk about food. Not the type of food that you put into your mouth. Although let me just give you a bit of an analogy and a lead-in to what I’m talking about first.

Food For The Brain

You see, when you eat healthy nutritious food. When you get the right foods for your body, and you exercise, it’s pretty much the the equation for good health. Like, in terms of fitness, your weight, and your your fat, and all that kind of stuff, right?

As you can tell, I’m definitely not a leading authority on health and nutrition. But I get the basics. You feed yourself good nutritious healthy food, and you exercise the body, and you’re gonna be alright. Get it?

Feed Your Brain Junk And Your Mind Is Gonna Turn To Crap

But if you feed yourself crap… If you put junk food into your body continually, what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna be unhealthy, you’re gonna be sluggish, overweight, and carrying a lot of fat.

Now what about your brain then? What happens if you feed your brain junk?

So if you feed yourself negativity, if you feed yourself too much television and media. If you feed yourself with negative views and negative input, and surround yourself with negative people that feed your brain with negative opinions. What’s going to happen?

Junk Food For The Brain

Well, just like when you eat junk food and your body turns to crap… You feed your brain junk and your mind is gonna turn to crap. You’re gonna have a bad mindset, you’re gonna have a bad outlook, you’re gonna be ‘damaged’ in the brain, okay?

What Happens If You Feed Your Mind Healthy, Nutritious Information?

But what happens when you feed your brain with healthy nutritious ‘food’/information. Like you read books and you feed yourself with good information, like you study your craft.

When you feed yourself with good information, like you surround yourself with positive, driven, like-minded individuals that get you. Feeding yourself with positive information, by surrounding yourself with people that doing what you want to do, that are smarter than you. What happens to your brain then?

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Focus On What You Want, Because What You Focus On Grows

Focus On What You Want, Because What You Focus On Grows

Some basic entrepreneurship wisdom today. What you focus on expands and grows. So remember to check in with yourself every day to make sure you focus on what you want. Some describe it as the law of attraction or manifestation. But really, it’s just basic common sense in business…

“Good morning everybody. Dean here of course. Welcome to another episode of The Drive. As you can see, bit of a different setting. I am inside Internet Profits HQ today. I’d love to say this was planned but, quite frankly, it’s not.

I was actually in the office till around about 1:00 a.m. this morning, and I forgot to take the camera home with me. So when I arrived here today, I had to grab the camera and get ready to shoot this for you.

I want to tell you about something pretty exciting from yesterday. So we opened the doors to a one-of-a-kind, very unique coaching opportunity that we made available to a small number of people. Existing clients, existing partners of ours – Certified Partners…

The Exciting News Is That 14 Or 15 Of Those 20 Spots Went Yesterday At $5,000 Each

It was a program that, by all accounts, should have been priced at least twenty thousand dollars. But we wanted to make…

An Irresistible Offer For The Outcome Of Impact, Rather Than Income

And whilst whilst the income is nice for the business, it allows us to facilitate, support and do even more amazing things for our customers and clients.

We’re really looking to help the 20 people that we opened the program, over the coming weeks and months ahead, to really get to their goals. To strategically put together a plan with my help, and then be implementing that plan on a consistent basis.

The exciting news is, we opened up 20 spots and I think, as of right now since yesterday, 14 or 15 of those spots went. Five thousand dollars each. So obviously you can do the maths on that. That’s pretty exciting.

Ultimate Funnels Solve Multiple Problems, Offering Higher And Higher Premium Solutions

But more importantly, it’s exciting for those that are in the program. Because they now have the help that they need, and that’s ultimately what it’s about. Business is all about finding ways to solve the problems that people have.

And I’m in a very unique and and blessed position. Over the last 10+ years of my life I have dedicated all of my time and energy into learning how to use the Internet to sell products – build audiences, drive traffic, follow up with those audiences, and ultimately convert them into sales.

Now, We Have What We Call ‘Ultimate Sales Funnels’

…that lead people through a systematic process, to keep solving more and more of their problems, whilst offering higher and higher premium solutions.

So it’s exciting that we get to work with these people now. I get to really help them solve the problems they have, to get them to that next level. And that’s what I’m more excited about other than anything else.

But what I want to say to you is… Y’know, I left my job in 2009 to pursue this whole venture that’s become far bigger, far greater, and far more purposeful than I could have ever imagined.

When I Left My Job I Had ‘Believe And Achieve’ Tattooed Upon My Skin

And I remember when I actually left my job, I had this tattooed upon my skin. I don’t have tattoos, but I believed so much in altering my mind and believing in myself in order to achieve, that I had ‘Believe and Achieve’ put onto me for life.

Because I truly believe that what you focus on is what you get. And a lot of people focus on what they don’t want. They think by focusing on what they don’t want, it’ll help them avoid it.

Focus On What You Want, Because What You Focus On Grows

But what I’ve come to realise over the years is actually by focusing on what you don’t want, you’re still focusing on the negative. You’re focusing on the thing that you don’t want.

So imagine you’ve got what you DO want right here, and what you don’t want over there. Instead of forgetting about what you don’t want, and going all-in with full belief on what you DO want – the outcome you’re looking for, the outcome you desire – and focusing in on that… A lot of people just say, “Well, over there is what I don’t want.”

“Don’t Want This, Don’t Want That.” Okay, What DO You Want… “I Don’t Know!”

In fact, if you ask people even a silly question… Imagine you are with a group of friends. How many times has this happened, right? You’ll be able to see this in full perspective now…

How many times have you been with other people, and whether it’s a spouse, a friend, a group of friends, family. And let’s just say you’ve decided that you’re going out for food, rather than cook at home.

How many times has somebody said, “Where would you like to go and eat?” And everybody’s like, “Oh I don’t know. I can’t decide. You choose.” Then you say, “Well, what about here?” And they’re like, “Oh no, I don’t want that.”

People Find Be Easy To Tell You What They DON’T Want…

…in that situation. They’re like, “Well I don’t want to go for Italian.” Or, “I don’t want to go for sushi.” Or, “I don’t want to go for steak, or seafood.” And you’re like, “Okay, well what DO you want?” And they’re like, “I don’t know!”

So the point I’m making is that people find it easy to focus on what they don’t want, but not so easy to focus on what they do want. And the reality is, as I just said, you get what you focus on.

I Wanted To Fill All 20 Spots In One Day – That Was All I Was Focused On

So you’ve got to find a way to alter your mindset and the way you view things, to think about what you DO want. And focus your energies on that, and the outcome…

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