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What Losing Weight Can Teach Us About Succeeding At Online Business

In this post I’m going to talk about what losing weight can teach us about succeeding at online business.
When it comes to online business and losing weight, most people would agree that there is more than one way to approach either one.
For instance, my method for losing weight would be to exercise daily, eat less [...]

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Step 3: Testing Your Teleworking Ability

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire”
~ Mark Twain
The following exercises will explain a process on how you can systematically test to see for yourself whether you are capable of teleworking from your job.
This is an important step because if you attempt to telework before you [...]

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Exercise 1.8: Creating plans to deal with persistent problems

“My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can’t do anything about”
~Ashleigh Brilliant
Now that you’ve managed to streamline the processes pertaining to your work, you now need to create plans for persistent interruptions and problems.
If after your streamlining and process refining, you are still plagued by problems and distractions that insist [...]

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Exercise 1.7: Creating systems to speed up work

“A bad system will beat a good person every time. “
~W. Edwards Deming
Like a drive through at McDonalds, you need to create a system for your work that is consistent and can be applied over and over again for the same results.
In the previous section you already managed to identify and streamline your work structure. [...]

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Exercise 1.6: Eliminating all unnecessary communication

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
The defining difference between teleworking and working in an office is that at home, people can’t physically come up to you and vice versa. Because of this, you have to ensure that you are able to communicate effectively with [...]

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