Staring Blankly Versus Learning

I read a lot.  That isn't much of a boast but I have over a hundred books on self improvement and learning.  This isn't including the books and notes from my MBA which litter my top floor office.  Learning is hard though as I have read lots but learning and using is the hard part.  he same applies on-line presence and development of the Grange Web Design business.  I have lofty goals and day to day goals.  One of my lofty goals is to spread my client base.  One of my day to day goals is to develop a richer knowledge set that will make me attractive to people so that I can sell them excellent services that they can use me to improve their on-line presence.  As I mentioned in the first space on-line presences isn't a website it is having THE PLAN

I use Evernote to track my goals and I have an exclusive notebook with a ton of notes and goals for improving what I do and how I do it.  One of these goals is doing things through a more automated method.  For instance I used to do up Word document proposals for people.  Now I do estimates and automate my proposals by having some boiler plate templates the I fill out for design, CMS and for ecommerce.  The result is of a higher quality and can be turned quickly.  I can now do a proposal and estimate in about half an hour where in the past it would have taken me a half day or more to pull together.  This frees up space to work and learn some more
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Even when doing t his I still know that I am slow and not fast enough.  We are in an age of speed.  All you have to do is be one micro second ahead of the competition and on-line presence is part of that and monitoring heat is hot in the market.

Recently the news channels were filled with news of the American lady Amanda Knox who was released from prison.  I had not heard of here until I met a friend and she mentioned it to me.  She was visibly shocked that I didn't know the slightest thing about her .  I don't know much more now.  Wouldn't it be better use of your time to read 2-3 pages of news and information about your product?  Ok pause here.  A lot of the previous sentence is littering books and internet.  If you are human you are easily distracted.  I mean you have read this so far and that is 3 minute you will never get back

It is about habit forming and forcing the habit on you.  Lets take a simple change.  For your browser instead of making the home page the news and your email make it a product information page that at least you could spend 5 minutes reading every day.  5 minutes x 5 = 25 minutes per week.  You are on the road.

No there isn't any more - I bet you wont even do that but if you do you are already beating the competition as a lot of them aren't investing in reading.  Change the page weekly.  Move on to the next topic.