| Hope you had a fantastic weekend!
I went to the cinema with my hubby to see A Monster Calls. What a great movie!
Although half the audience was in floods of tears by the end. So maybe one to avoid if you are feeling a bit fragile.
Anyway, welcome to the first Monday of 2017!
Fortunately, you don't have to make a perilous journey on foot to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, although there is work to be done to meet your business goals this year.
But do you have the all tools you need to complete this sort of mission... quest... thing...? ;)
Maybe you have tried everything in the past to get stuff done?
To-do lists, pomodoro techniques, calendar reminders, spreadsheets and mindmaps and more...
Did any of it help for long? Probably not.
Well, recently I started using a couple of new free tools and guess what?
They have really helped me get focused and get more stuff done in the past few weeks!
The first one is Todoist - an online task management app.
It's very easy to organise your tasks, prioritise them and reschedule them.
You can see at a glance if you are trying to do too much - I recommend no more than 2 or 3 top priority tasks per day.
It syncs with the mobile app too, so you always know what you should be doing.
You even get Karma points to encourage you to meet your goals. I love me a bit of good Karma. Lol!
When you combine Todoist with IFTTT (If This Then That), then it becomes even more amazing.
IFTTT provides "recipes" that you can use to make your life easier and more productive.
Eg. There's one recipe that allows you to add a Gmail email to your Todoist tasks.
No more using Gmail as a to-do list! Say hello to "Inbox Zero". Yay! :)
There's another one that adds any new Google Calendar event to your Todoist tasks.
You can even get a reminder to bring an umbrella if rain is tomorrow's forecast is for rain! Lol!
Take a look at the various IFTTT recipes for Todoist
Plus there are many more recipes to integrate with other apps you may use:
Both apps are free and simple to use, so give them a try :)
As always, let me know if you have any questions. I don't bite unless it's past midnight and there's a full moon ;)
May The Force Be With You!
Sally
PS If you have 2 mins to spare please could you do me a little favour?
Just hit reply and tell me your biggest obstacle to making a full-time income online? Is it the technical stuff? List building? Missing tools? Traffic? Something else?
I'd love to know how I can help you better this year :)
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| | About the Author
Hi there! I'm Sally Lazarus! I'm an Online Marketer, wife, mother and massive geek…
I started out as a programmer many moons ago, before the Internet as we know it was born… No, not when dinosaurs roamed the Earth! How rude! :P
I've been working online since late 2011. I don't claim to be some sort of guru, but I aim to make the techie stuff easier for you by sharing my best tools, tips, tricks and step-by-step methods to help you get things done more quickly, leaving you more time to do the stuff that actually makes money.
I'm an ethical marketer and always check things out properly before I share them with you. I wouldn't recommend anything that I didn't believe in or wouldn't use myself :)
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