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Oh Yes, It is ladies night once again, but they are working through some technical difficulties at the start of the show as some of their PowerPoint slides are not loading properly. Deb Lane and Stephanie Remers remain confident knowing they can work their way through it and have the 10 volunteers who took on the assignment provide their information on what was holding them back.
At the start of today’s conference, there are only 2 out of 10 members who have made an attempt to compile their data on the homework assignment. Hopefully they will be able to complete their tasks by next week and provide their valuable input to the show. These actions take on even more importance in understanding what is stopping you from completing what you have committed to.
What has helped Deb Lane conquer this is taking accountability for her actions. Many of us have had a very busy week getting our tasks underway for the upcoming GVO Conference pre-launch for September 8.
Stephanie Remers puts a positive spin on this setback knowing we all want to hit a home run and keep our minds moving forward, and defeating the negativity. We all want to become the next Mike Filsaime’s of the Internet world, as we watch how the top GVO instructors and other Internet marketers sell their own products to the masses from their websites.
By modeling what the top marketers do, and helping others to do the same by building that know, like and trust, the funds will come pouring into our bank accounts from our recommendations. We must remember to treat this like a business, not a hobby. Even though we are working from home, we must post our business hours and keep our family distractions at a minimum. Once those checks are rolling in, they are going to see such happiness abound and we can spend more time
with them.
Continue to gain the knowledge from the GVO Ladies of Empowerment, apply what they teach you here and on their Marketers Edge website, and become proficient at it.
What is procrastination?
Procrastination refers to the counterproductive deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task
or decision.[1] Schraw, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.[2]
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder. Wikipedia
There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance.
Why would people do that? I talked to two of the world’s leading experts on procrastination: Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago, and Timothy Pychyl, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Neither one is a procrastinator, and both answered my many questions immediately.
- Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators. For them procrastination is a lifestyle, albeit a maladaptive one. And it cuts across all domains of their life. They don’t pay bills on time. They miss opportunities for buying tickets to concerts. They don’t cash gift certificates or checks. They file income tax returns late. They leave their Christmas shopping until Christmas eve.
- It’s not trivial, although as a culture we don’t take it seriously as a problem. It represents a profound problem of self-regulation. And there may be more of it in the U.S. than in other countries because we are so nice; we don’t call people on their excuses (“my grandmother died last week”) even when we don’t believe them.
- Procrastination is not a problem of time management or of planning. Procrastinators are not different in their ability to estimate time, although they are more optimistic than others. “Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up,” insists Dr. Ferrari.
- Procrastinators are made not born. Procrastination is learned in the family milieu, but not directly. It is one response to an authoritarian parenting style. Having a harsh, controlling father keeps children from developing the ability to regulate themselves, from internalizing their own intentions and then learning to act on them. Procrastination can even be a form of rebellion, one of the few forms available under such circumstances. What’s more, under those household conditions, procrastinators turn more to friends than to parents for support, and their friends may reinforce procrastination because they tend to be tolerant of their excuses.
- Procrastination predicts higher levels of consumption of alcohol among those people who drink. Procrastinators drink more than they intend to—a manifestation of generalized problems in self-regulation. That is over and above the effect of avoidant coping styles that underlie procrastination and lead to disengagement via substance abuse.
- Procrastinators tell lies to themselves. Such as, “I’ll feel more like doing this tomorrow.” Or “I work best under pressure.” But in fact they do not get the urge the next day or work best under pressure. In addition, they protect their sense of self by saying “this isn’t important.” Another big lie procrastinators indulge is that time pressure makes them more creative. Unfortunately they do not turn out to be more creative; they only feel that way. They squander their resources.
- Procrastinators actively look for distractions, particularly ones that don’t take a lot of commitment on their part. Checking e-mail is almost perfect for this purpose. They distract themselves as a way of regulating their emotions such as fear of failure.
- There’s more than one flavor of procrastination. People procrastinate for different reasons. Dr. Ferrari identifies three basic types of procrastinators:
- arousal types, or thrill-seekers, who wait to the last minute for the euphoric rush.
- avoiders, who may be avoiding fear of failure or even fear of success, but in either case are very concerned with what others think of them; they would rather have others think they lack effort than ability.
- decisional procrastinators, who cannot make a decision. Not making a decision absolves procrastinators of responsibility for the outcome of events.
- There are big costs to procrastination. Health is one. Just over the course of a single academic term, procrastinating college students had such evidence of compromised immune systems as more colds and flu, more gastrointestinal problems. And they had insomnia. In addition, procrastination has a high cost to others as well as oneself; it shifts the burden of responsibilities onto others, who become resentful. Procrastination destroys teamwork in the workplace and private relationships.
- Procrastinators can change their behavior—but doing so consumes a lot of psychic energy. And it doesn’t necessarily mean one feels transformed internally. It can be done with highly structured cognitive behavioral therapy. Psychology Today
We are all guilty of various types of procrastination. Some are more of the offline activity than the online activity. Many people now have a bucket list, and going to Las Vegas was on Stephanie’s list after she was diagnosed with cancer. During that time when she was starting that long road to recovery, she watched a lot of reality TV shows, and actually became a reality show Diva. One day she decided to look on the bright side and take massive action to get her life back on track. She made up her mind to get back up and enjoy life, make herself look beautiful for her family, and became one hot grandmom. It was actions like this that helped her to make the decision to come to Las Vegas for the Turning Point Seminar with Deb Lane, were they met so many like minded positive people.You cannot continue to put things off and expect to become successful. There will come a day when you look back and see that life and many great opportunities have passed you by. You will be reminding yourself that you could have done this…should have done that…would have done that if the chance came again.
You don’t realize how vital it is to attend the No Guru’s Allowed Seminar in San Antonio Texas in October or the Marketer’s Cruise in January 2011 as both are going to be events that will change your Internet marketing life as you get to go belly to belly with the best in the business.
Deb and Stephanie also gave us pointers on using traffic credit based systems, using safelists, and building multiple streams of income that continue to grow. Stephanie reported that she has approximately 30 safelists in her portfolio, and to look for the free pro upgrades. Remember that traffic exchanges do now always give you the amount of traffic you want, and that solo ads are worth more credits than emails.
They also advised us to visit Janet Legere’s blog for more information @ http://www.whoisjanetlegere.com
You want to get the attention of the visitors that come to your website. Get them in now and keep them excited to give you their name and email address.
For more information from Deb Lane and Stephanie Remers, visit their website @ http://marketers-edge.info/blog/website-traffic/
One final note, we want to congratulate Stephanie Remers who is celebrating the Silver Anniversary with 25 years of marriage today and is still on hot biker chick/grandmom too!
Once again Tyger enjoys giving you “the Goods” on the latest information on
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Make it a feel good Friday, as I am going to be one of the featured guests on Josh Andrus’ New Member Orientation Show tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern.
Hope to see you there,
Ty “TygerGoods”
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Great Post Tyger, though your research strikes a little to close to home! LOL Keep up the good work and GoGVO!
LOL – Thanks Tim Foulke for your close to home comments. One thing I have learned from these GVO Ladies of Empowerment is the emotional responses they bring out from the men who attend their shows. Stay tuned for much more quality information from these up and coming GVO Rockstars. Your GVO website provides great competiton as we use the same intrepidity WordPress Theme. Great Selection Tim!
Hope we launch GVOC today,
Ty “TygerGoods”