Are you working a regular J.O.B and attempting have a top home business? Are you so overwhelmed with things to do that you’re simultaneously doing ten things and none of them too well? And how about everything that is NOT getting done? Do you think you’d be more effective if your task were completed almost magically without you’re having to really think about them? That’d be cool, huh?
We all know the willpower it takes to finish the huge amount of tasks we are faced with day to day. It’s only made more difficult with the amount of available distractions everywhere. The television. iPhone, video games, babies, the comfy chair and so forth are always around to take you off task. There were days where I felt I deserved the “hardest workin’ dude in the world” award only to look around at day’s-end and ask myself, “Er… so what did I accomplish?” Don’t pretend you haven’t been there. Even though I seemed to be an incredibly talented master of multiple tasks, it turned out I was the master of NOT getting multiple tasks done. That’s when I discovered the power of full engagement.
Check out the excellent book The Power of Full Engagement when you get the chance. One very important point I picked up is that we not only have a finite amount of willpower to use, but that it is in fact a very small amount. They actually took a couple of groups of people and at them watch an emotional picture. While the film was running, one group was required to repress all display of emotion. Once the movie finished, each group was given a difficult test that would require intense concentration. Repressing emotion requires willpower. As a result, the group with no willpower left in reserve performed terribly on the exam.
What does this mean to you, your life and your home business? It means you should create a series of rituals and do those throughout the day as opposed to reactively running around like a newly headless chicken. Let’s face it… we actually HATE to do most of the things we need to. Depending on willpower alone is a recipe for failure. Save your willpower and build rituals.
What the heck’s a ritual? We aren’t talking about magic or dancing in the moonlight; maybe some meditation and some human sacrifice without any knives or volcanoes. Get it? OK… anyway. Take a series of actions and do them the same way each time and you’ve created a ritual. These “actions” are really just some good habits you’ve created for yourself. Remember, ninety-five percent of the stuff we do everyday is done automatically; no thought needed. How much concentration does it take to take a shower and dry off? Do you think “take right hand turn hot knob… wait… now turn cold knob… now warm… now step in…” Of course not, your shower ritual is a habitual. All you have to do is create rituals chock full of good habits for other parts of the day. Maybe your trying to improve your health and energy level. If so, you might want to try a morning ritual like the one I swiped from Eben Pagan.
My morning ritual takes about two hours and is as follows; I get up, drink some water, brush my teeth, exercise (currently I’m doing P90X but it could easily be the gym or running), meditate, visualize and go over my goals, schedule out my day, eat breakfast and finally take a shower and get dressed. Now because my exercise is buried within the morning ritual, its as indispensable as brushing my teeth. Its a habit. Now obviously, it will take you two to four weeks of performing a ritual for it to be natural, but once it is… you’ve saved your willpower for something else. I don’t believe that 21 day thing is an exact science; It may actually take a few months for you but that’s OK. You’ll know you’ve created a solid habit when it becomes more difficult NOT to do it than it is to do it.
So let’s talk about rituals you can create to boost your home business. Maybe you’re a video marketer and it normally takes you a couple of hours to shoot, edit and post a video. Maybe if you’re focused and not watching Jersey Shore or True Blood at the same time, you can bring the time down to 1 hour. So what you do is come up with a series of steps, an exact time to begin and DO NOT ALLOW ANY DISTRACTIONS. If you’re time to begin is at 5 pm, do it EVERYDAY at 5pm with the same steps. Make it a habit. Soon the random stuff that comes up each day will find itself automatically moved to accommodate your new habits. And once your good habit filled rituals start to take over your day, you’ll be amazed at what you will accomplish.
Creating more than one or two rituals at a time may be too much because you’ll need some willpower to get them started so instead build slowly. Full Engagement with your highest value activities will do wonders for your home business.
Jesse Walker is an Expert in Attraction Marketing who Runs a Top Home Business with Full Engagement. Use the #1 marketing system to generate 50+ leads a day!

