This morning I made my very first green smoothie.  I wasn’t sure how it was going to taste, it looked very green, but to my surprise it was quite yummy, and the clean up…only took 3 minutes….woohoo…..

Here is the recipe I used with my friend Ted:

• 2 sticks of celery
• 2 bananas
• 1 handful of Romaine lettuce
• 1 cucumber (skin and all)
• 1 cup of water (or more if you want it more runny)

Threw it into the blender for a few minutes, waalaa….(spelling…who knows?).  Very yummy, very filling, and I feel great.  I trust you’ll enjoy making your creations.  I learned how to make this smoothie at www.melroseway.com, check them out.

If you’ve ever had the thought of “It will be quicker if I just do it myself”, then take the time to read this short article.

It most definitely could be true that it would be quicker if you did do it yourself - this one time. But what about the next time, and the next, and the next,….start adding up those 20, 30, 40 times you find yourself doing the same thing. How much does that time add up to? The real gift and value in

The real value of outsourcing happens when you add up all that time that you were spending what you most love and are great at, because you chose to outsource (or some may refer to it as delegate). Successful individuals, entrepreneurs, business, or even family members are reaching much of this success because they’ve learned the art of handing over effectively and using that time to do what they love and do well. Think about it for just a moment. Let’s say you spend 1 hour per week doing something, that you know you could have handed off to someone else. That would only be one hour right? Maybe not. What if that one thing is done weekly? That would make it 52 hours in a year, which is longer than a regular 40 hour work week. Now take that amount and multiply it by your hourly rate. How much did that come out to? Did it surprise you a bit? It did surprise me the first time I did this simple exercise.

In simple words, for every hour of your work week that you assign to someone else – you gain 52 hours a year that you could spend growing your business or on getting the results you want.

So here are some simple tips to help you start creating more time and efficiency:

• Write out where you are spending your time. Do it for just one week or two. Gain awareness of what you are doing.
• Look for what could be delegated. What are tasks that are repetitive, that you don’t want to do or are not your areas of expertise.
• Create a system and write it down. This way you don’t have to keep re-inventing the wheel and can keep using it. You may even consider putting it down as a checklist, and you can keep making it better the more you outsource.
• Be clear of your expectations, benchmarks, and accountability with the outsourcing person(s). Be clear of what you want them to do (keep it simple silly). Be clear of what you expect when. Follow through on checking in with the progress of the projects.
• Do & show, Have them Do, Repeat. – Show them once how you want it done and let them see you doing it. Then have them do it while you watch. Let them make mistakes, each one is is a learning opportunity that will make your process more effective each time. Your goal here should be to transfer knowledge, then refine, and then let go.
• Have a feedback process – Be honest and kind as you give feedback. Remember, they are trying to help, they just need a bit of support. So be patient with them.

If you are wondering about either of the questions below, I want to make sure you have the resources needed to get you going, so I’ll provide the answers under each one.

• Where can I find qualified outsourcers?
  There are many out there, however, here are two that have been great and may be a great place to start. Get A Free Lancer or ELance, just click on them, set up a free account and start looking around for what is being outsourced, you might be surprised.
• I’ve never outsourced, how can I learn to do it effectively?
  If you want to minimize the learning curve and want to learn how to outsource effectively, visit Outsourcing Made Easy to learn how to do it effectively, through a simple step-by-step process.

I trust this will get you started and on your way to having more time, becoming more effective, and living your highest purpose.

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The Five Roads to Financial Success and How to Choose Your Own
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There are basically five ways that you can become wealthy starting with nothing in America based on over 25 years of research into American millionaires. Number one, you can inherit it. Less than 10 percent of wealthy Americans inherited any of their money, and it’s less and less every single year.

The Second Way
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The second way that you can become wealthy is you can achieve it professionally. You can become a doctor or a lawyer or an architect or an accountant. You can become extremely good at what you do, be paid very well, and hold on to the money.

The Third Way
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The third way you can achieve it is you can become a senior executive of a large corporation. You can be highly paid; you can have stock options and bonuses. And if you stay with the company long enough, for enough years, you can be paid enough to become wealthy.

The Fourth Way
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You can win it. But only a tiny fraction of one percent of wealthy Americans got that way by winning their money some way or another. As a matter of fact, the odds against you winning the lottery are the equivalent of lightning striking twice in the same place. They’re millions and millions to one.

The Best Way
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The fifth way that you can become wealthy is you can start your own business and earn it all by yourself. Starting your own business has been and will always be the high road to becoming wealthy for most self-made millionaires. Entrepreneurship is America offers more opportunities and opens more doors than all other possibilities put together. This is why it has been said that if you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you are a fool. I’ll repeat that. If you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you’re a fool.

Where do you start? You start by getting your finances under control. The very first thing you do is you make a decision to get your finances under control. Some years ago, a man named George Classon wrote a book called The Richest Man In Babylon. It’s a classic on financial success and what Classon said in that book was that the key to becoming wealthy is to pay yourself first. Take ten percent of your earnings, of your gross income every month and put it aside. Learn to live on ninety percent or less of your gross income. So the very first thing that you do is you begin to save your money.

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Brian Tracy is the most listened to audio author on personal and business success in the world today. His fast-moving talks and seminars on leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategy are loaded with powerful, proven ideas and strategies that people can immediately apply to get better results in every area. For more information, please go to www.BrianTracy.com.

Body Mind Success Commentary:

I love Brian Tracy’s work. I believe he is a phenomenal speaker and shares wonderful pearls of wisdom. He is right on the money when he speaks about paying yourself first. Unfortunately, due to the nature of an article, he didn’t delve very deep into the topic, but by paying yourself first, your are giving the universe a very clear message that you value yourself greatly. This energy of abundance thinking attracts like energy and it is amazing how powerful it can be. Thus take action and honor yourself by prioritizing yourself first. To your success, Aurelio (Leo) Ramos, Success Coach & Inspirational Speaker. To delve a bit deeper into this topic download the Free E-book on www.bodymindsuccess.com

Time management. Those two words often strike fear in the hearts of Americans.

Yet the holidays are right around the corner, with travel, parties, Christmas/Hanukah lights and decorations to put up, work to do, clients to serve, friends to spend time with, gifts to buy, blah, blah, blah. The list is seemingly endless.

The common thread here is that all of these take one thing. Time.
What does the phrase time management mean for you?

Ever since I was 21-years-old, fresh out of college, I have built multiple businesses from scratch, moved across country or into a new city and state where I knew no one, starting all over in both professional and personal life and was able to find immediate balance. No grass grew under my feet. I immediately built systems, built dream networks, created physical fitness routines, joined churches, discovered new friends and relationships within mere weeks of each move. I discovered something else years later – that what I was able to create and do and have in my life as a result of these abilities I possessed were seemingly born in me and abilities that not everyone tapped into or seemed to possess or have an awareness of. I discovered these abilities are rarely utilized by people and every time I shared with people what I was able to have completed in my life, they were baffled, amazed and astounded. They would all ask me the same questions.

How did I do this? What made my being a business owner, an Ironman Triathlete, a Success Coach, an author, volunteer, friend, coach – what made all that possible?

Simple answer for me was as easy as two words. Time management.
Some would argue, well, there is no such thing as time, therefore there is no such thing as time management. In a way, they are right. Let’s look at this first before we continue. Let’s get on the same page. What is time, really? What is time management?

In 5th century BC Greece, in a written work by Antiphon the Sophis, he states that “Time is not a reality, but a concept or a measure.” Modern day philosophers have carried that belief on in stating that time is unreal or an illusion of our lives. Interesting thought!

In Religion and Biblical times, scripture states that there is a “time for everything under Heaven” Time appears to be an appointed benchmark or turning point of sorts to measure the past, present and future. Another interesting view.

In the science arena, according to the online reference encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Einstein said that “The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once”. In this regard, Einstein said that time was basically what a clock reads; the clock can be any action or change, like the movement of the sun. Einstein showed that people traveling at different speeds will measure different times for events and different distances between objects, though these differences are minute unless one is traveling at a speed close to that of light. Again, another point toward measurement.

I discovered that time use research is actually a field of study. Time use research is all about the allocation of time spent on different activities in our daily lives, such as time at home, at work, shopping, etc. Time use is variable dependent on access to technology as well (with Internet, television and radio being in that department) which allows us to appear to do things quicker and be limitless in the effective communication of time, people, places and/or things and yet I believe is still all based upon one thing. That is the aspect of how we use our time, or manage to budget our time, in our 24-hour days – also a measurement that as humans we agreed to use thousands of years ago. Just as it is necessary to budget our spending of money, it is also necessary to budget our time and how we spend it. Unlike money, we are all given equal amounts of time as measured in seconds, minutes, hours in a given day, month and year of our lifetime.

With all this research, my preferred definition of time management that I use today is this.

Time management is a self-disciplined, self-discovered tool by which is a standard of measure that we are all given to quantify our priorities in any given day. It is simply how we manage our time, manage our disciplines and ultimately, manage our selves in our mindsets in a balanced mental, physical and Spiritual manner of delegation of that time. How we utilize that time will determine our fate of happiness, success and personal growth. Period.

I also believe that regardless of our access to technology and awareness of communication systems out there, time management is still based upon ourselves and how we use our time effectively and efficiently, whatever that looks like for you. It is your choice. There is no right or wrong, yet your choice on how to utilize your time does affect the world on a daily basis. Your use of time now, will indeed affect your future.

I work with my coaching clients on this all the time.

If you choose to use your time to lead generate in your business today or choose to stare out the window, which action will cause you to be able to have a business revenue or cash flow in a few months from now? If you chose to use your time to eat that piece of cake today instead of that piece of fruit, will it get you to your ideal goal weight faster? If you choose to use your time to meditate or pray instead of sleep in or go to bed early, will you feel more at peace and connected to your Spiritual self? These are pretty basic examples for myself and what I have helped many clients weigh in on when considering how to spend their time. Yours may look very different and that is great. Whatever works for you is perfect.

Here’s a thought for you to ponder. You just learned that within time itself you possess the power of choice. Time management is how you manage your choices with the time you are given. Does time play favorites? I think not. Time does not hold favorites because you are not given more time than anybody else since we all have 24 hours in any given day. Even if someone dies at a younger age than you - you are still accountable for the time you have been given. No one is cheated in time. Have you ever heard of Father Time? Father Time is the personification of time and along with Mother Nature, has been used as a human picture of our own mortality. The hourglass you are given keeps going, no matter what you choose to do with your time. Once that last hour is gone, it is gone forever. How do you manage your time? Do you use it as though you will live forever? Or do you manage it as though you are going to die tomorrow? Are you purpose-driven with your time? Or lack purpose and clarity in utilizing your time to its highest and best use in any single moment?

Give it some thought. You are the author of your own time and time management. I have given you my own definition. I am merely one teacher that has appeared to you now. I want you to apply your own definition for your own life.

Happy holidays! Enjoy your time with friends/family/clients this season and year end. I trust you will use your time wisely.

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Lois Tiedemann is a Professional Speaker/Transformational Success Coach that is living her dream in Southern California. She is a 2-Time Ironman Triathlete and is passionate about helping business professionals find balance and living their dream at the same time in their lives. You can learn more about Lois at www.TransformedTriathlete.com and www.5TimeManagementTips.com.

With so much to do and so little time, how in the word can I manage my time? This is probably the most paradoxical question for many of us. We all have the same 24 hours a day and the same 365 days of the year. Yet, some get so much more done in that time. How do they do it? What is their secret? Well, I know what my “secret” has been, and it has allowed me to have as much time as I want to spend with my lovely wife and my beautiful two year old son. I believe everyone should have this Simple Success System Secret, so I trust you will read on and benefit from using it yourself.

I am breaking it down into very specific questions to guide you through the process. However, before I share those questions I must state a few key components in order for this “secret” to give you maximum results.
First, you MUST write down your responses to the questions I share with you. Having the answers in your mind will NOT do it. It has been proven time and time again that just having the thoughts without writing them down are nowhere nearly as effective as putting them down on paper. There is something almost magical about putting things down on paper, it seems to be the beginning of manifesting something into reality. Think about it, everything that has every come into existence, has in some way or another made it on print, prior to it taking form. Yes, thoughts come first, but it is when those thoughts are put on paper that they really begin to take form. So, WRITE it down.

Second, this Simple Success System is much more effective when done either last thing before going to bed, or the very first thing upon arising. I trust there is some psychological scientific explanation for this. However, the one that made the most sense to me was that it is at these two times that my subconscious is most open and available at these times. Think about it for just a moment, when you go to bed, you give your subconscious mind anywhere between 5-8 hours (or more for us sleepy heads) to sort out what you are wanting to accomplish the next day. That’s a pretty long time and to top it off, it is when you are often most relaxed (allowing for an even more effective mindset). If you do it in the morning, there is that morning fog, where your analytical mind hasn’t kicked in yet, and your subconscious mind is open, available and rested. And if you’ve ever watched “The Secret” you understand that this is where you tell your subconscious mind, “This is what I want my day to look like…” and your subconscious mind will begin to do everything it can to make it so. So, how about telling it exactly what you want your day; to be like. Think of yourself as a script writer, and you are writing a script for your perfect day.
Third, use the following Simple Success System handout along with the prompts below to set yourself up for daily success. Here are your simple instructions:

• Press here to open up and print your Simple Success System handout.
• Consider the following questions as you complete your handout.

  Professionally:
  - What are the top 5 highest priority professional action items.
  - What are the top 5 medium priority professional action items.
  - What are the top 5 LOW priority professional action items.
  - My most important calls to make today are…
  - My most important emails to address today are…

  Personally
  - What are the top 5 things I am doing to take care of myself today.
  - What are my top personal relationship action items I am willing to nurture today?
  - What am I willing to do today to “Pay it forward” (or be of service)?
  - What am I grateful for today?

• Once you’ve completed your list keep it somewhere you can see it consistently throughout the day.

The process itself should take no longer than 10 minutes. However, the “secret” to you getting the results you want is based on the following premises. First, write it down. Second, do this process in the morning upon awakening or just before going to bed. Third, put it somewhere you can see it. Finally, and most importantly, do the highest top priority things FIRST before moving onto anything else. Do this and results are guaranteed.

I trust this is of service to you and you will decide to make the use of these tools a habit. Enjoy creating your next level of success. For additional resources on health, wealth, and growth articles simply visit us at www.bodymindsuccess.com.

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