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Article Writing Trim The To Do List To Get More Done by Stephen Allen
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It has just been suggested that I start using article marketing to lift my online profile. So I asked my mentor, where do I start? The answer I got: get 100 or more articles up on Ezine. My reaction was probably the same as yours. That's a big number. But before I recoil from the idea, let me take a bit of my own advice. You can take it too if you like. I've got plenty of it and I don't usually use it. It's this. I am not going to bother about writing 100 articles. I'm not even going to think about it. I'm just going to write one. That's all. If there is anything that can turn a positive idea into a rod for my back it's to think of the whole mountain. I'm not doing that this time. I'll just take the short walk up to Base Camp I. I often fall victim to the big annual to do list. I clear my desk in late December. Then I create a whole new mountain of things I am going to achieve in the New Year. The list is so long I'm already tired by the end of the first month. Usually disillusioned too. I also start procrastinating. I keep thinking about the outcome rather than just taking the first step. Procrastination and me is like this: once I have made a great plan, I skip to thinking how great it will be when it's done. I go straight to the buzz of achieving it, indulge in that thought, and start basking the gratification before I've actually done anything. Then my passion begins to wane. I've already enjoyed the result. There's less gratification to go for. This is how to turn something exciting - like article marketing - into a hard slog. What can you or I do about it? I've tried this before and it worked. I decided to write the first chapter of a book. That's all. I didn't decide to write a book. Just one chapter. I left everything else to the universe. It didn't matter if it turned into a book or not. I just tried to write a really good chapter. By year's end, I had written 52 chapters. That was a pretty unusual year for me. I usually have so many things on the go that a lot doesn't get finished. There's nothing new here. My advice is generic to any advice on getting things done: One, whatever you want to do, just work out the first step and take it. Two, forget about the outcome. When you've done the first step, work out if you want to take another one. If you do, take that too masterpapers rewiew
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