Planning for Internet Marketers – Alex Jeffreys’ Style

One of the things I value the most about Alex Jeffreys’ program is his approach to planning and great systems he taught us.

I have not fully started my planning yet, but here is my first attempt to do that. It is actually an attempt to organize myself first.

I will use the following Alex’s ideas in the process.

• Planning for year, 90 plan, month plan, week plan. This is the most difficult part for me. I have some ideas, and specific projects, but it is hard to put them in time perspective. I guess I just need time to sort it out on paper.
• Plan next day the evening before. I fairly regularly plan my days ahead, but it is not every day.
• Use journal for you notes. I use Outlook for my notes and plans. However, I have also mails there, so it is difficult to focus on planning only (see also below part about mails). I use paper a lot for short ideas and sketches, so I will use real (paper) journal to see how it work. Alex’s journal is empty right now, but will be soon filled.
• Set clear income targets. I use this often, I even break it down to month, week and day numbers.
• Did sheet. I love this idea! This one idea made me realize, how much I waste my time with urgent, but not really important things! Thank you Alex!
• Work in productive, block sessions. I’m working on this every day. Now I’m in state that I can work 15-30 minus on one task uninterrupted. The next step is to have 45-60 minutes blocks. And after that 90 and 120 minutes blocks. But we’re not there yet.
• Don’t use email when in productive session and use email only 2 times a day. Applying this rule is very difficult. I use mail daily, also for planning (as shown above), so it is even harder not to look at emails often. I know this rule very well, but sometimes I feel like a drug addict – I know what is good for me, but I just cannot resist the temptation!

As you might notice, most of the concepts here need to be followed regularly, every day. This actually relates to creating daily habits.

This is one of the main concepts I learn from Eben Pagan’s “Wake Up Productive” program. He is talking about creating habit, how to keep it in place, how habits are form during 30 day period etc. All about this in the next article.

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