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Do you know exactly what you intend to do this week and next? Are you clear on your top three goals, your most important projects and the most effective action steps you will take to make it a successful week?

Most people are not.

There are a variety of reasons for this. Sometimes it's because you haven't been sold on the value of this type of focus. Sometimes because you lack clarity around what you really want. And sometimes you're overwhelmed by all the other "busy" stuff in your life. You can probably think of many others.

But I have a simple system for overcoming these challenges.

I had an ideal day last week. What made it ideal? It was a number of things, actually.

This is all true—every word. It's not a visualization—although it did start that way a number of years ago.

I woke up to the sun streaming through our bedroom window. We've had a lot of rain and the leaves on the trees were greener than I've ever seen: a beautiful sunny morning—crisp and cool.

There was no "electronic rooster". We usually wake up early, but we sleep until we finish sleeping. I don’t even know how to SET the alarm clock. And my wife only sets it if we have an early flight somewhere.

Snuggled next to me was a beautiful loving woman: my partner, my lover, my best friend and my wife. Dawn is my 'True North' and we are very much in love.

One of the things my business needs and YOUR business needs is traffic.

And if I may say so myself, we've been pretty good at it for the past 11 years.

It's how we've attracted over 90,000 subscribers from over 140 countries.

But here's what I think about . . .

. . . how much traffic am I NOT getting—that I COULD be getting?

As you're reading this, your competition may be generating far more no-cost traffic than you are. It doesn't have to be that way.

Some of them know things you don't. They understand one of the best-kept secrets in Internet marketing. They're getting thousands of free visitors each day from the search engines.

And I bet you think the science of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is hard to figure out.

I certainly did.

It just seemed like it all changes too quickly; it looked a little too "Geeky" for me, and it appeared too hard to get really good at it.
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We all do it—at least some of the time. We put off doing things we need or want to get done.

Heck, I even wanted to put off writing this article.

As I write this, the sun's shining and the wind is a perfect 10-12 knots out of the south. My boat is tied up in her slip while I sit here banging on my keyboard. I also have a long list of other things to do.

How much do YOU procrastinate? Do you think you do it a lot or a little?

Here are 7 ideas that will help you to get more of the right things done.

One of my great joys and pleasures is a sailboat Dawn and I own named "Attitude".

When Attitude was hauled from the lake last fall, I had the marina crew remove her rudder so we could recondition it over the winter. Its fiberglass skin was delaminating a bit and I wanted to stop the problem before it weakened this critical component.

Last week, I went to the shipyard to pick up the rudder. I knew it was big (it stands almost 5 feet, even without the rudder post), but I had no idea how HEAVY it was—over 300 pounds.

I shouldn't have been surprised. After all, it's responsible for steering over eight tons of fiberglass, steel, aluminum and people through the water. It needs to be strong. I need to trust it to take the strain and endure the pressures placed upon it.

As heavy as it is, it's still less than 1/50th the size of the yacht it steers. It's an interesting ratio—a 300-pound rudder guides 53 times its own weight.

It made me think about what steers our lives.

As illustrated by the following story about a Chicago public school teacher, expectations do indeed play a significant role in the results we create.

Mary Daugherty was faced with a sixth grade class that was full of misfits who were so intractable she suspected they had learning disabilities. In desperation, she broke a school rule and looked at her students' files where their IQ scores were stored.

And she was amazed by what she found.

But what happens when we LOSE focus?

It’s easy to do, isn’t it?