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How To Increase Your Productivity

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I just finished watching an outstanding video on the topic of increasing your productivity from my friend Frank Rumbauskas. This is a ‘leaked’ video from his upcoming program, “Your Attitude Sucks”… I love that title The video is a bit long (40 minutes) but it is well worth it. I usually click off a page when I see a video that long, but Frank and Scott Sandland had my full attention for the complete 40 minutes.

How To Explode Your Productivity

By the way, Frank also includes home office fitness into his workday to boost his productivity, energy, and focus.

Frank is one of the most down to Earth guys that I know and has an incredible grasp on what’s really important in life. As you’ll hear in the video above, what matters most to Frank is FREEDOM! Not just financial freedom, but the freedom to do what he wants in life. If you don’t have your health you’ll never truly be free.

I’ll never forget the first presentation that I watched Frank give at an Internet Marketing conference. His story of perseverance inspired me and he’s been a role model of mine ever since.

A really key point to take from this video is, “What motivates others may not motivate you”. Don’t try to keep up with the Jones’. Just become the best YOU that you can be and follow your passions and go after the goals that have greater meaning to you and fall in line with your life’s purpose.

Frank and Scott get into a great discussion a the beginning of the video about purchasing an information product, whether it be a diet book or business building book, and not following through with the information before moving onto the next program or book. Can you relate to that?

I encourage you to take the time to watch the entire video. There’s great conversations about FEAR, success, and much more.

I’d love to hear your thoughts about the video and any tips that really hit home with you. Share your comments in the box below and let us know what you think.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

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Are Your Priorities In Whack?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Home Office Fitness My friend Nicole Dean has been sharing the lessons that she’s learned from ‘Marketing Legend’ Jimmy D. Brown over at his blog this week. I’ve been following the series and today’s post really caught my attention. The topic is Make Sure Your Priorities Are In Whack. Here’s an excerpt from the post…

“Did you know that Jimmy exercises like every day?! Seriously. He makes it a priority. While the rest of us are slowly but surely developing “Computer Butt” – he’s in the best shape of his life.

Is it because he’s got more than 24 hours in a day? Nope. It’s because he’s got his priorities “in whack”.

I used to be a total gym rat. I loved exercising!

However, once I started my online business, I’ve made excuses why I couldn’t exercise regularly (for the last 4 years). I’ve had to become the primary breadwinner (and now the sole breadwinner) in our family so I told myself that I didn’t have the time to get into shape or take care of myself or … shower. (eew! I know.)

I should have just hung a sign on the door that said “Computer Butt Welcome Here”. Because it came whether I liked it or not.”

One of the secrets to many successful entrepreneurs is that they incorporate exercise into their workday. It improves their quality of work, energy, focus, time management, and helps them get more done in less time.

What you may not realize (or maybe you have but haven’t begun to put it into practice) is that making your health the #1 priority in your life will have a positive impact on your business and quality of time with your family.

Health is my #1 priority. I don’t ‘fit in’ my home office workouts. I schedule my day around my home office workouts because I know the impact that it will have on my business, fitness, and life.

Health should be your #1 priority for the reasons that I’ve listed below and many more.

1) What good is wealth if your quality of life sucks and you can’t enjoy the riches that you’ve earned?
2) A quick fitness break will improve your quality of work, time management, productivity, energy, and focus.
3) Bottom line: quick home office workouts help you get more done in less time
4) You’ll have more energy at the end of the day to play with your kids and do the things that you love
5) Fit and healthy entrepreneurs create more networking opportunities.
6) Think about why you started your home business. It wasn’t to spend hours in front of the computer, neglect your family, and live in a prison of your own making. Chance are, you started your home business to create freedom in your life and spend more time with your family.

I encourage you to read the entire post that Nicole did on Jimmy D. Brown’s blog. It’s a fantastic read and it may provide you with the motivation to make your health a priority right up there with wealth.

I also recommend that you check out Nicole Dean’s Success Cast. She recently interviewed me and I’ve got to tell you… it was an emotionally charged call that not only brought tears to our eyes, but made us laugh as well. I shared a lot about my life as well as some great home business strategies.

I recommend that you find role models like Jimmy D. Brown who have found the secret to creating a balanced and successful lifestyle. Isn’t that what you’re after?

Jimmy’s also got a wonderful report called, “Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business“. This is a must read for every home business owner.

So, are your priorities in whack? Are you ready to make fitness a top priority in your life and business? Has the 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge been helping you to easily incorporate fast, fun fitness into your day?

I sincerely believe that balance is possible in life when you have your priorities straight. The purpose of Fat Loss Quickie is to transform your business, fitness, and life. This isn’t about some crash course diet, or time sucking fitness program. It’s a practical approach to your busy homepreneur lifestyle.

Today is the day that you begin moving towards the amazing life that you’ve been envisioning for years. You deserve it. Your dream life is waiting for you. Go for it!

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge Day 13

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Your task for today’s home office fitness challenge is to call upon your close friends, family members, and colleagues whom you trust and ask them to support you in your fitness, business, and life goals. Chances are, these are the same people that you asked to hold you accountable to your goals yesterday. Here’s the best way to gain their support…

1) Share your specific goals with your supportive peers.

2) Share the reasons why you want to achieve your goals and why achieving your goals would mean the world to you.

3) This one is a biggie! Share how they can best support you. If you are asking someone to support you, yet you haven’t defined how they can support you, it’s going to be difficult for them to read your mind and provide you with the best support possible.

Let them know if you respond better to negative criticism or positive words of encouragement. For example, if Angie catches me with my hands in the cookie jar I want her to tell me, “Hey tubby, why are you putting that poison in your body?” I respond well to that. It may be extreme, but it works for me. Yet that same method could cause you to crawl into a shell and go on an all out binge. If your support group doesn’t know this, they could end up doing more harm than good.

Here’s some examples of how you can let your support group know how they can help you the best… If you are calling upon your spouse for support, and you do not do well with junk in the house, let them know that they can support you best by not bringing junk food into the house, and if they do, they should hide it and not tell you about it.

Let your spouse or partner know how they will benefit when you achieve your goal. You’re gain in confidence, and leaner physique can provide your relationship with a wonderful boost and rekindle your love connection.

When it comes to asking your friends for support, let them know that they are actually sabotaging you when they say, “Why are you eating that rabbit food” or “Come on, have a beer… you only live once”. Tell them that you know that you only live once and you would rather live the best quality of life possible with the most energy possible and getting drunk and binging on fries does not fall in line with your goals.

We’re not going for perfection here. So if you plan on eating well throughout the week and treat yourself to some junk food and a few drinks with friends on a Friday night, that’s all good. But if you have a night out with your friends and you would rather not eat junk and drink booze, let them know and let them know your reasons why.

When it comes to online support communities it’s important that you get in there right away if you are having a bad day or are facing a challenge in achieving your goals. Once again, share your goals, your reasons why, and how they can support you. When you belong to a community of like-minded individuals you will find that they will rally behind you during your times of need and support. They listen and offer wonderful advice. Plus you are gaining support from multiple people all at once. This can be an instant mood booster and provided you with the lift to get you right back on track.

Now it’s time to get out there and let your support group know how they can best support you in your journey to success in business, fitness, and life.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

PS Tomorrow I’ll be showing you a cool and inexpensive piece of equipment that will help you loosen up your tight muscles as well as provide relief for your back.

PPS The Fat Loss Quickie home office fitness program has a wonderful support community of like-minded people that are ready and willing to support you any way that they can. Let us be your cheerleaders and support you during your successful journey.

30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge Day 12

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Your home office fitness challenge today is to publicly declare your goals to at least a close friend, family member, or colleague. If you want to take it to the next level you can publicly declare your goals in a forum or community of like-minded people. If you are hesitant about the power of public accountability I encourage you to watch this short video clip from my movie “The Change Series”…

Reach Your Goals With Public Accountability

It’s not easy to share your goals with the world, but I encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone and go for it. It’s just way to easy to break a promise to yourself. But if you have someone to hold you accountable to seeing your goal through to the end, that promise becomes much more difficult to break.

Here’s a great idea… It’s what has worked well for me and many others. I know that at least a few of the Fat Loss Quickie members have been applying this fun little strategy.

Form a group of five to 10 friends and business associates who are also looking to improve their business, fitness, and life. Share your long-term and short term business, fitness, and life goals with each other. Let each other know what daily and weekly goals that you have set for yourself that will help bring you closer to achieving your bigger and ultimate goals.

At least once a week do a check in with each other and see how you’ve been coming along with your goals and if you need help in achieving them. Then share your goals for the upcoming week and continue until all of you have reached your big goals.

I love to share my goals publicly. I announce my goals in forums and I share them with my daily accountability partner Bob Jenkins. I encourage you to not only announce your goals publicly, but to also surround yourself with a few close friends who are willing to check in with you unannounced.

Take a moment and use this blog post as a way to publicly declare your goals in business, fitness, and life. Come on now… I know you can do it! I’d be more than happy to hold you accountable along your journey to success in all areas of life.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

PS The Change Series is an incredibly inspiring movie about what it takes to achieve success in life. The Change Series comes as a bonus when you get on board with the Fat Loss Quickie Home Office Fitness Program. Take advantage of this incredible deal and begin to improve your health, wealth, and life TODAY!

30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge Day 6

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Today’s home office fitness challenge is all about motivation and helping you stick to an active and healthy lifestyle for the long term. On Day 2 you changed your focus from fat loss to increased productivity, more energy, more focus, and several other meaningful benefits of home office fitness that are more exciting than fat loss. Now we’re going to take that strategy to the next level…

Vision boards are great for keeping your focus on what you want in life. But it’s not enough to look at it and think positive thoughts about receiving those things that you want. You’ve got to take action toward achieving your goals.

Rather than pasting images of things that I want on a board, I prefer to paste them all around the house… on my desk, next to my alarm clock, and on the bathroom mirror. I use these images as motivation to do my home office workouts.

Before each home office workout or home office cardio session I look at the pictures of what I want and think of how this home office fitness session will help me achieve those ‘wants’ or goals.

For example, I think about how the home office workout will help me get more done in less time and how that will help me generate more revenue with my business so I can purchase a pop-up trailer for my family. We really enjoy camping and a new pop-up trailer would make our camping experiences even more enjoyable.

I think about how this home office fitness session will help improve my energy and physique and how that will improve my networking opportunities at conferences and live events. Lets face it, when you are at a conference you tend to gravitate towards people who have a positive and energetic aura around them. And whether we like to admit it or not, the more fit and attractive a person is, the more likely we are to approach them and start a conversation.

So it’s important to change your focus from fat loss to productivity or networking opportunities, but to really take this to the next level, it helps to have a goal for what your increased productivity and networking opportunities will help you achieve.

What are some of the ‘wants’ that you are looking to achieve? Can you see how increased energy, productivity, focus, and networking opportunities can help you achieve those goals? Can you see how home office fitness will help you achieve those goals?

Not only will home office fitness help you get more done in less time and help you achieve your goals, but they will also help you enjoy those ‘wants’ even more.

I know that having more energy will help me enjoy the camping trips with my family even more. I know that improving my health and appearance through home office fitness will help me enjoy the cruise that I want to take with my family even more.

There are so many ways that you will benefit from home office fitness. It’s almost limitless. So congratulate yourself on taking this home office fitness challenge. You are taking the best steps to achieving the goals in your life and you’ll be able to enjoy those goals even more once you achieve them.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s challenge where I will share a home office cardio session with you.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge Day 2

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Today’s Home Office Fitness Challenge is all about changing your focus. As you begin to incorporate home office fitness into your work day I want you to take most of the focus off of fat loss. Fat loss is an excellent secondary benefit of working out, but it should never be your main reason for embarking on this challenge and journey. We want to put the focus on things that are more fun and that get you excited.

Can you get excited about increasing your productivity and getting more done in less time?

Can you get excited about increasing your energy so you can experience greater quality time with your kids or grandchildren and actually keep up with them?

Can you get excited about learning new skills and strategies that will boost your business and increase your profits?

Can you get excited about quiet time to yourself where you can allow your thoughts to wander, get ‘in-tune’ with yourself, and generate creative ideas that will improve your business and life?

It’s important to find those things that will make you effortlessly pull yourself away from your desk to do a fast and fun home office workout. If you only focus on fat loss it’s going to be all too easy to stay seated at your desk and work away.

It’s been a real joy to see how changing the focus has had an impact on many of the Fat Loss Quickie members. I often hear comments like, “Weight loss has always been something that I’ve dreaded, but increasing my productivity is something that I can really get behind.”

There is loads of research that proves that incorporating fitness into your workday will improve the quality of your work, mental performance, time management, and overall get more done in less time so you can do the things that make you happy. So why not use those benefits as a way to propel yourself forward during your home office fitness challenge?

The Secret To Home Office Fitness Success

I have shared my story several times about how I stumbled upon what I believe to be the one true secret to fat loss success. It’s worth repeating so I’ll share it with you here…

A couple of years ago I used to set my alarm for 4:30am so I could get up and go for a walk before I got started with my work day. I found myself hitting the snooze button and skipping my workouts frequently (I’m sure you’ve been there right?). Plus it was the middle of winter here in Canada and my bed felt so warm and cozy.

My main focus for getting out of bed so early to exercise was to lose all the weight that I had gained during my first year of working at home. Losing weight did not excite me. It wasn’t reason enough to get out of bed so early and battle the bitter cold winter air.

I wanted to lose weight, but I just couldn’t find the motivation to get going. That was until one morning when I discovered the secret to fitness success.

I had just signed up for a mentoring program, which also included a bunch of audio coaching on mp3’s. I added the audios to my mp3 player and went out for my walk. Typically I walk for 30 minutes, but as I approached my house I noticed that there was only fifteen minutes remaining in the coaching audio, so I decided to keep walking because the content was so juicy and informative.

Throughout the day I kept thinking to myself, “I can’t wait until my walk tomorrow so I can listen to the next audio in the coaching series.”

The next morning when the alarm went off at 4:30am I jumped out of bed with excitement because I couldn’t wait to see what I was going to learn in today’s mp3.

The secret to fitness success is that success comes when fitness is no longer about weight loss. It comes when fitness is about something much greater than weight loss.

That’s what makes the Fat Loss Quickie Experience so effective. The focus isn’t on weight loss. Yes weight loss is an incredible secondary benefit that occurs when you follow the program, but the primary benefits are much greater.

When I’m doing my Fat Loss Quickie cardio session or workout, it’s not about weight loss. It’s about increasing my energy to carry me through the day. It’s about improving my focus so I can work more efficiently. It’s about skyrocketing my productivity.

All of these primary benefits of home office fitness are what makes sticking to the program so easy. It’s the reason why I don’t just ‘fit in a workout’. Instead I schedule my day around my home office fitness because I know how much of an impact it has on my business, my family, and life.

So what are you going to place your focus on to get you excited about performing your fast fun home office fitness routines? Can you see how this shift in focus will make your home office fitness experience more enjoyable?

Your task for today is to list the things that will excite you enough to take a quickie home office fitness break.

You ROCK! Enjoy the experience,

Scott Tousignant

PS Tomorrow’s topic will be on nutrition and keeping the healthy choices top of mind.

PPS If you missed Day 1 of the challenge please visit: 30 Day Home Office Fitness Challenge Day 1

Gina Gaudio Graves, the JV Queen on Empowering Stories – Jan 15,2009

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Yesterday, my wonderful guest was Gina Gaudio graves, the JV Queen, shared her empowering and indeed miraculous story of creating a life of her dreams and helping a million people do the same. We had some hideous technical problems with BlogTalkRadio. Ever since the changeover to the new and "improved" (ha) format, there have been tech issues galore.

So on the Jan. 14th recording, you'll hear the first part of the interveiw, then we had to "take it outside" to finish up.

Gina shared tips for
eliminating negativity
using affirmations
improving your mindset
setting and achieving goals
entrepreneurship
llife success
and much more
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