February 22, 2009 Sisterfriend Success Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 3
In This Issue:
A Personal Note from Carmin
Upcoming Teleseminars
Feature Article : Multitasking is Dead
A Freebie
Carmin Recommends
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A Personal Note from Carmin
Do you know why most of us don't have want we really want and desire? Because we are afraid to ask - me included.
A couple of weeks ago, my son returned to Hollywood, California to work on his budding acting career and a couple of days after he left my 8-year old granddaughter, Nia, asked me, "Can I and Uncle David share the extra room?" I replied, "Sure; since he's gone back to California, you are more than welcome to sleep in the extra bedroom." Next thing I knew, this kid had painted all kinds of posters and plastered them to the walls of the room, placed her Cinderella shoes and crown on the dresser and just totally transformed the room from a non-descript guest room to a vibrant, little girl's room. She did all this in the space of 30 minutes. I can't help but believe that she had been planning this move (she normally sleeps with me in my bed when she visits) for a while and she waited and when the moment was right, she asked. She asked and she received.
A week later, the entire nation witnessed a homeless woman in Ft. Myers, Florida ask the leader of the free world, President Barack Obama to help her and her family because they were homeless sleeping in a small truck. She asked and the world delivered. The woman is now living rent free in a home owned by a City Councilman and his wife, her son has a job and many offers of help have poured in. Why? Because she asked; she asked and she received.
Thanks for you continued support. I am honored that we have connected.
Carmin Wharton, Founder
e-BlackWomenNetwork.com
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Feature Article
Multitasking is
Dead by Carmin Wharton
[fname], do you know why you can’t get more done?
No? Then kill
multi-tasking – totally eliminate multi-tasking from your business life.
Have you ever had this happen to you? You're working on a project that requires your full attention and
creativity, such as writing your newsletter or designing an information
product, and suddenly a family member or employee interrupts you while you were
concentrating - deeply. Even if you tell them you are busy and go back to work,
it takes you quite a while before you can re-align your mind into
what you were doing before.
Focus and discipline is what helps you complete a project. If you are a home-based business owner,
“projects” usually have profit tied to them and so you must be able to focus
and be disciplined enough to say “no” to something else clamoring for your
attention at the same time. Here are some
things I have started to doing to keep me focused on what I’m doing while I do
one thing at a time:
1. Clear your desk of anything unrelated to your current project. Believe
it or not, those slips of paper, notes and things you “intend to get to” are
commanding your attention and draining your energy – energy you need to focus
on the task at hand.
2. Plan your day out so that you can focus in on one task at a
time. Set times to complete urgent tasks, reading and responding to emails (I
suggest twice a day for checking email), marketing and listening to teleseminar
recordings. Then keep to your schedule. Unless a real emergency presents
itself, don’t veer off of your schedule. Complete one project or task and then
move on.
3. Complete those tasks that have the highest rate of return for
your business. High rate of return items are the things that will accelerate
your success and increase your bank account.
4. Take short breaks away from your desk and office. Go walk the
dog, play music, cook or read something purely recreational. Doing something
completely unrelated to your business or technology will refresh and
reinvigorate you.
5. Create your schedule for tomorrow. Schedule your high rate of
return items first and then whittle down the remainder of your to do list. If a project or task took longer than you
intended and you were not able to mark it off today’s to do list, move these items to
tomorrow’s to do list but after the high rate of return projects or tasks.
I believe if you stop multi-tasking and really focus on the
project or task at hand you will find that you accomplish more, reduce your
stress and increase your profits.
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About the Author:
Carmin
Wharton is a home-based business expert and the founder of e-BlackWomenNetwork.com , a
membership community designed to take businesses owned by women of color from
startup to prosperity. Carmin's mission is to help women earn what they're
worth and make it big in their home-based business on their own terms.
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membership community designed to take businesses owned by women of color from
start up to prosperity. Carmin's mission is to help women earn what they're
worth and make it big in their home-based business on their own terms.
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