Table of Contents Foreword ....... 3 Mistakes, Personal Experience and Strategies ............. 3 The Basics .. 3 Viper-The Foundation To Goal Achievement 5 VIPER ......... 6 About Your Goals .......... 7 Get Your Goal In Order ............. 7 Hints On Technique ....... 8 Strategies .. 9 Writing Self Affirmations ............ 10 State It ..... 10 Stay Motivated ............ 11 Keep Going .............. 11 Base Your Goals On Your Values . 12 What’s Important .... 12 Check Your Progress And Take Action ........ 14 Get Moving.............. 14 Wrapping Up ............... 14 Sample Content Preview coaches, suitable diets, self-help courses to put them in the correct mindset, studying the correct techniques, and so forth. Microsoft didn't get to where it is today because of luck. It was by conscious strategizing and preparation that allowed the company to carve its particular niche in the market. I've set and chased a lot of different goals in my life. My universal approach toward goal accomplishment in the past was to merely center on the goal intently and do everything I could to accomplish it. The most I'd ever done in terms of preparation was to simply distinguish my end target and engaged an arbitrary length of time in my calendar to work at it. That was it. Beyond that, it was all about just trying to get there. After all, that was what I believed success in goal accomplishment came down to. A mixture of one’s want of the goal and one’s doggedness. While I did that, I confronted deviating successes depending upon what the goals were. For goals like making great grades, they were accomplished as long as I maintained assignments. Additional goals like bringing in more revenue, building my own business, and doing well in my previous job were all within my reach also, as long as I kept banging at them. Nevertheless, there were particular goals I had trouble with. For instance, my dieting goal. I was never obese but I hoped to be slimmer. For the following 3 years, I noticed myself dropping time and energy attempting to hit the goal but bombing in the process. I tried out all kinds of different diets. I attempted counting calories. I tried out different sorts of workouts, exercising daily, to not working out in the least. When I began on the goal, I'd come through in losing some weight in the beginning week. However, it never survived beyond that. After the beginning week, matters would go along status quo, and it was a matter of weeks before I'd go back to my previous eating habits, commonly eating more as well as I felt deprived. It was absolutely puzzling and disappointing, as I couldn't understand how I'd get so much success with other goals, but not with a goal like slimming down. Well, it wasn’t because I didn't desire my goal enough. I unquestionably felt that I was as passionate about this goal as I was about other goals. I believed that perhaps I wasn't relentless enough about the goal. Nevertheless, if I wasn't, I wouldn’t have expended years of my life working at it, would I? Something has to be wrong with the way I was attempting to reach the goal. I finally got sick and tired of being on an emotional rollercoaster, questing after, and bombing repeatedly at this goal and beating myself up over it each time I bombed. I sat down to have a look at my state of affairs and name how I might truly hit this goal. I began looking around for tips. I was working at my business daily. In my daily work, I was always presented with big business goals and I had to deliver. I considered how I'd handle those goals to finally conquer them. Then it hit me what I was missing – a suitable strategy to accomplish my goal. A lot of big companies breathe and eat strategy. That led me to my fruition. To put it plainly – If strategizing has been guiding multi-billionaire businesses to success through the years, wouldn’t it add up to practice it in my personal life also, to accomplish the same degree of success? I began employing the precepts I discovered toward my weight loss goal. I established a vision, distinguished the roadblocks I was facing, discovered counteracting techniques, made particular plans, did a tracking sheet, etc. Inside the 1st week, I could tell matters were changed this time. I recognized, with a deep-rooted sense of certainty that I was going to win. Sure as shooting, a year afterwards, I had dropped off 20 lbs. It happened so easily that I questioned why I was fighting with this goal for so long originally. Then I recognized as long as I utilize the same operative precepts and abide by the same formula, that I’d realize similar success as well. And that was what occurred when I employed it for all my goals from then on. All of a sudden, goal accomplishment became much simpler. The doubt that used to surround the success of my goal quests dried-up in the face of this newfound perceptivity. It felt astonishing, as it was like I had exposed a secret. Although time and energy still have to be invested, the action of goal pursuit has twisted into a predictable science. I recognized as long as I abided by the same process in all my goals, I'd decidedly face certain success and triumph. I've put down the fundamental elements of what I was doing so as to share it so you can get the same success too. Viper-The Foundation To Goal Achievement V-I-P-E-R is a 5-step model, which lists the five crucial steps for successful goal accomplishment. These five steps are: • V isualize: Truly visualize the goal • I mplement: Implement techniques to succeed in the goal • P lanning: distinguish plan factors based on the techniques • E xecution: Get moving on the plan and goal • R ecap: evaluate the outcome and future steps VIPER is actually a term that is used for several different things... snakes, cars airplanes...things with power. With VIPER, you’ll discover that it gives you the might to crack even what appeared to be the most difficult goals in the past. Goals you never believed doable will begin coming within your reach, and in a matter of time, subdued. I personally utilize this framework to accomplish my long-run goals and it's worked marvels in achieving my goals. Don't let the simpleness of the model fool you. While these five steps appear very easy by themselves, they're the core of successful goal achievements, particularly for big goals where the ‘What’ and ‘How’ toward accomplishing them becomes subtle. That being stated, VIPER isn't a miracle pill which omits the hard work to accomplish goals. VIPER isn't an elixir which lets you accomplish your goals without hoisting a finger. At the end of the day, you still need to put in the time and energy for your goals.

Sample Content Preview Step 3: Write a Mission Statement Now you‟re going to take that vision and knowledge of your passions and use this to write a mission statement. This is a commitment that you are making to a certain type of lifestyle and a certain set of goals. Companies have mission statements and these are distinct from their products or what they „do‟. A mission statement should incorporate both what a company intends to do and also why it intends to do it. So, a technology company might make computers but this is not the mission statement. The mission statement is the driving force behind that determination and the unifying set of principles that connect all their products. A mission statement might therefore be something along the lines of „creating technology that allows people to create more and be more productive‟. This is actually very similar to Microsoft‟s mission statement. Or the mission statement might be „to create beautiful, desirable technology that fits your personal style‟. Both these two mission statements work for technology companies but they paint a very different picture of the type of technology they produce and the reasons why they produce it. Moreover, you can imagine that the guiding principles in designing those products would be very different for the two companies. Now you‟re going to write your own mission statement and that‟s going to consider your passions, your skills and your vision – all the things that matter to you. This is going to take into account everything we‟ve considered so far and then distil it in a promise. “Geoff‟s mission is to explore new frontiers in science, in relationships and around the world.” “Bob‟s mission is to be the best father, husband and brother that anyone can be.” “Joan‟s mission is to live life to the fullest, to be present in every moment and to capture pure joy.” “Anthony‟s mission is to fulfil his full financial and professional potential and to establish himself as a powerful and influential figurehead.” What‟s your mission statement? Step 4: Choose Concrete Long-Term Goals Now you have your vision and your mission statement, it‟s time to write some long-term goals. These should help you to make your vision a reality, while at the same time fulfilling the mission statement that you have written for yourself. A good example of a long-term goal might be to get married and have children, it might be to create a beautiful home, it might be to travel the world, or it might be to become a famous rock star. Again, don‟t feel limited by what you can and cannot do. Do however think hard about whether the goal you‟re setting yourself is really going to lead to happiness. And moreover, think about how it will work with your routine and your current lifestyle. Try to actually picture and visualize what the lifestyle you‟re imagining will be like. Run it through in your head and try to live it in your mind‟s eye. Is this really what you want? I say this, because sometimes we can have goals and visions that involve looking at life through rose-tinted glasses. For example, we might picture ourselves being highly successful CEOs, running our own businesses and wearing slick suits all the time. That sounds great until you realise that the reality is being on the phone all the time, working until 8pm and having little time for your family.

Sample Content Preview 4. Tease the Next Email Once you have a consistent schedule, you can use this to your advantage by getting your recipients to eagerly await each new instalment! Do this by teasing what’s coming up and making it sound highly exciting. 5. Use Split Testing Split testing means that you are going to send out two very similar emails, perhaps with subtly different subject headings, and then see which performs best. This will teach you the best practices to adopt and thus help you to optimize your process. 6. Use a Landing Page Builder Something like Lead Pages or Thrive will help you to create more professional looking landing pages which will in turn help you to get more conversions. 7. Calculate How Much You Can Spend on PPC Once you have a landing page, you can then use PPC (pay per click) advertising to direct traffic there. You now know how much you are paying (maximum) for each visitor. If you know what your conversion rate is and you can calculate the average number of purchases each subscriber makes (and how much profit comes from each one), you can choose the perfect budget for your ads and guarantee that you’ll stay in profit! Almost… 8. Offer a Good Incentive A good incentive or magnet is something like a free ebook or a report. This can help to encourage people to part with their email address when they might otherwise have been on the fence and it will hopefully mean you buy some good will in the process! 9. But Not Too Good! While it’s a good idea to offer an incentive, you don’t want to make this something too amazing. In fact, a report is almost always better than a free ebook. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, if your incentive is too good then you will risk attracting people to your mailing list who are in fact not interested in whatever you’re talking about. They will sign up purely to get your free gift and they might then never read any of your emails or even unsubscribe as soon as they have what they want! This skews your data and of course damages your sender reputation, so you want to avoid it. The other issue is that if you plan on selling an ebook later on, giving away a free ebook will seem to undermine the value of that product. If you are giving one away for free right now, then why would someone be willing to pay $100 for the next one? Especially seeing as they probably haven’t read the freebie yet… 10. Use Storytelling Storytelling is precisely what it sounds like: telling stories! In other words, when you write your next email, try to frame it as a story. Instead of dispassionately describing the merits of a certain technique or product, instead try talking about how it helped you and how it changed your life. Set the scene, describe the emotion and generally get your audience invested in the outcome. This is a far more engaging way to explain something and it’s actually much more persuasive as well. 11. Use the Recipients’ Names Your autoresponder contains a feature in it that allows you to include the recipients’ names in their emails. This will automatically replace the {Name} tag in every single message so that they say ‘Hi Joe’ or ‘HI Dave’ instead of just ‘Hi’. Now, I used to not be a fan of this technique. Everyone can see through this and it’s clear that it’s not personal and that just makes it seem emotionally manipulative. As it happens though, using this strategy has been shown to help you avoid ending up in the ‘Social’ or ‘Promotions’ inbox because it looks like natural and normal correspondence. That’s good news – so use this strategy! 12. Be Brief Whenever you send an email, you always need to make sure that it contains value of some sort. That means it should provide a tip, a lesson, instructions or perhaps just entertainment. Whatever the case, your audience needs to feel that it was worth their time reading that message. Better yet, you want to ensure that the amount of time they spend is short. If they can get maximum value for minimum time investment, then that will be a more efficient exchange for them and it will feel like even more value. They’re essentially getting more for less! So, learn to write efficiently and get right to the point – be respectful of your audience’s time.

Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ............. 4 How Belly Fat Makes Everything Worse .. 4 Chapter 2. How Did it Get Like This? ........... 7 The Problem is Energy, Not Time ............. 8 Chapter 3. The Simplest Diet for Fighting Belly Fat: Cutting Calories ............... 10 How to Measure and Maintain a Calorie Deficit....... 11 A Little About Targeting ........ 13 Chapter 4. The Role of Hormones in Weight Loss ........ 14 Problems With the Deficit ..... 15 The Cycles of the Body .......... 17 The Roles of Carbs and Fats .. 19 Chapter 5. Fitting a Diet Into Your Lifestyle 21 The Other Factors Overlooked by Diets .. 23 But Most Important of All: Nutrients ...... 23 Why Modern Diets Are the Worst .......... 24 Chapter 6. Finally: The Lose Your Belly Diet ................. 26 The Simple Way to Lose Weight ............. 27 Simple Tracking ... 28 Ride the Tide ....... 29 Chapter 7. It’s Not Just About the Food...... 32 More Ways to Get Your Body on Your Side .............. 33 Chapter 8. Training for Six Pack Abs and the Perfect Body ............ 35 Abs .... 36 Weight loss .......... 38 Chapter 9. How to Get the Hollwood Look for Men ..... 40 Dressing the Part . 42 Chapter 10. Conclusion ............. 45 Sample Content Preview It’s immensely hard to put on a great shirt or dress and to leave the house feeling like a million bucks when you have a massive gut hanging out. More than that though, a gut signals generally poor health. This suggests that you are less active and what normally goes along with that is a general lack of tone and definition that can be seen everywhere from your arms to your face. Women: do you remember when you used to feel light, petit and strong? Like a toned and honed Amazonian ready for business and enjoying all the stares coming your way? Guys: do you remember what it felt to have a dominating presence in the room? To look slightly like an athlete in your clothes and to have the look of a predator? To be an alpha male and to look fantastic in nearly every outfit you wore? Having a gut changes your posture too. It forces you into a more forward position that slumps your shoulders forward and closes off your chest. This is a submissive stance that sends a loud signal to others that you aren’t confident and that you don’t need to be taken seriously! Women meanwhile can expect to look frumpy and tired. Having a gut transforms you from the bottom up and brings you screaming into middle age. It suggests that you’ve stopped trying and affects your very body language – which of course has a deep psychological impact. Then there are the direct results of getting into better shape. Of course your sex life will improve and I’m not just talking about for single people. Obviously picking up women/men becomes much easier when you look healthy and sexy but you’ll also find your relationship improves. How would you feel about your partner if they become more toned and sexy? Or if they gained lots of weight quickly conversely? And then there’s the way that a belly can impact on your libido – or lack thereof. If you’re not having sex, then losing the gut might be the answer. And guess what? Getting into lean shape can improve your salary too. Studies show that employers are more likely to employ or promote people who are in better physical shape! On average men and women who are more toned earn hire salaries! And that’s before we have even touched on the direct psychological consequences of carrying a belly around. Because as soon as you grow that gut, you’re going to start producing significantly more stress hormones such as cortisol which will increase depression and rob you of energy. Of course, that gut drastically increases your likelihood of developing a number of different conditions as well. This also creates something of a vicious circle – the increase in cortisol and in stress increases your likelihood of gaining more weight and encourages stress eating. Not only that, but it also makes you significantly less energetic and makes it harder for you to engage in healthy activities such as exercise. In other words, having a belly makes it much harder to get rid of a belly. And that’s before you take into account the fact that you’re now moving around with a large tub of lard attached to your gut. Let’s face it – you are not in your prime and athletic activities probably aren’t your strong suit right now. But imagine if they were... And that’s what we’re going to start fixing in this book. I haven’t even touched on all the ways that belly fat can lead to depression, further weight gain, low self-esteem and even serious health conditions. If none of these other reasons is going to provide enough motivation then simply consider that a belly will increase your likelihood of cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and more. So yes, this really is the one thing that you can do to change your entire life. If you look after your body, it looks after you. And now we’re going to see how you can make that positive change happen. Chapter 2. How Did it Get Like This? If we’re going to fix this ‘belly problem’, then perhaps the best place to start is by asking how it got this way in the first place. What series of events led to you gaining the weight and letting yourself go? Perhaps with that knowledge, we can then reverse the process and get back on track. I’m speculating here, but I’m going to take a stab at how you found yourself with this unwanted flab.

Sample Content Preview] The Power of Controlling Your Thoughts and Emotions The first step to gaining control of your emotions then is to use mindfulness – to simply be more aware of your thoughts at any given time. When you’re wondering through that beautiful scenery, you need to be able to open your eyes and make the conscious decision that you’re going to forget work and instead look at the flowers and the plants, that you’re going to laugh with your friends and that you’re going to be mindful of the feeling of the sun on your face and just how lucky you are to be alive on such a glorious day. This alone is enough to completely transform your experience of being there. You’ll have more fun, you’ll be more refreshed and the people you are with are going to have a better time being with you. They’re going to want to be with you more often! Now imagine if you could decide to engage full motivation whenever you wanted to. Take a look at the most successful people in the world and you will find that they all have one thing in common: drive and determination. Will Smith says the secret to success is simply being willing to run longer than anyone else on the treadmill of life. Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson regularly updates his Instagram followers with photos of his phone alarm going off at 4am in the morning, ready for a workout. And Arnold Schwarzenegger said he always kept in mind his goal of being a successful bodybuilder. These people never have a day where they get out of bed and they can’t be bothered. You can practically feel the motivation and the energy coming off of them and in fact it’s even magnetic. Imagine what you could tap in if you were like that. You could be you but in better shape, with more money and with more exciting life experiences… We can do that with mindfulness but first let’s look at how the brain actually works to regulate our emotions and thoughts in this way… A Quick Guide to Basic Neuroscience When you feel too tired to work, what’s happening? When you feel filled with energy and enthusiasm, why is that? And why are you sometimes stressed and alert and transfixed on what’s happening? It all comes down to one simple thing: chemistry. More specifically, it comes down to neurochemistry and the fact that your brain releases different chemicals at different times. Your brain is made up of billions of neurons. These are brain cells, which look very much like other cells in the body save for their large tendrils which allow them to connect to one another. Each of these cells encodes a memory or an experience. If you were to trigger one of those cells with an electrode (which some psychologists actually do in studies) then you might see a ‘pixel’ light up in your vision or you might start relieving a certain memory. When one neuron fires, it releases energy down its tendrils and this then jumps across to other neurons. It’s very rare for any brain cell to fire on its own without it causing others around it to fire as well. This is called an ‘action potential’ and more specifically, this involves a small current running down the ‘axon’ (tail) and then reaching the end where it will split off into little roots (called terminals). Reaching out to those terminals are the dendrites of other neurons but they don’t quite touch; there’s a small gap called the ‘synaptic terminal’ across which the current has to jump in order for the other neuron to be stimulated. With enough stimulation, that other neuron will also fire. But at the ends of the synapses are ‘neuro vessicles’ which are tiny sacs containing neurotransmitters. And when those neurotransmitters get released, they connect to the surrounding neurons via ‘receptors’ and color our experience. Neurotransmitters can make neurons more likely to fire (these are known as ‘excitatory neurotransmitters’), they can make new connections more likely to form (creating new memories) or they can make us feel happier or sadder (affecting how we feel the next time those neurons fire too).

Sample Content Preview 1. BufferApp.com Buffer is a very popular tool that lets you create a queue of social media content. Write 20 Tweets, set a schedule for them to be posted and then watch as they are automatically uploaded over a given time period. It's not just for Twitter though: it also supports Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn so that you can post across your social accounts simultaneously. This way you can save a lot of time and make sure that your account never goes quiet. What's more though, it's also handy if you are outsourcing your social media as it means you won't need to give all your passwords out to your service providers. It's free to use but more features are available for those willing to pay. 2. Canva.com Canva is a tool you can use to create beautiful, sharable graphics. It makes the process very quick and easy with a drag-and-drop interface and it also gives you access to a range of stock images. You can use it to create infographics but also banners and other images. You can try it for free but you'll need to pay for more advanced features. 3. BuzzSumo.com Buzz Sumo lets you quickly find the most popular content for a given topic or website. This is very useful if you're looking for hot topics to tweet about or to respond to, or for places to comment for that matter! 4. iWriter.com iWriter is an excellent service if you would like any content done. You can outsource articles, blog posts, reviews, ebooks and more. 5. Bitly.com One of the original and most popular URL shorteners. Handy for sharing links when you don't have much space, or for masking your URL if you should need to for whatever reason. Bitly also enables you to track clicks and give you stats. 6. IFTTT.com IFTT stands for 'If This, Then That' and is an incredibly powerful tool for linking different social media accounts and other web apps together. What this means is that an event occurring on one platform can 'trigger' an event in another (all defined through what are known as 'recipes'). An excellent example of this would be to set up a recipe that automatically Tweets all your Facebook posts. More ambitious though would be something like a system that would add your Tweets to a Google Drive spreadsheet or that would add messages you need to respond to to a 'Todoist' list. The possibilities are endless. 7. Visual Website Optimizer - vwo.com Easily run split-tests to optimize your landing pages. Know exactly which headline converts better than another. What makes Visual Website Optimizer great is the ease of testing the different elements on your site. No coding is required, too. 8. JonLoomer.com Jon Loomer is an authority on Facebook Ads. Not only is his information good for beginners, he also shares advanced Facebook Ads techniques.

Table of Contents Introduction: The Goals That Never Happen ..... 3 How We’re Going to Fix Your Goal Setting and Help You to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams ... 4 Chapter 1:The Most Powerful Skill You Can Learn: Goal Setting ........... 5 The Problem With Your Current Goals .......... 5 What Good Goals Look Like ... 6 How to Formulate Your Goals 6 Chapter 2: The Formula – How to Structure Goals and Make Your Plan .......... 8 Step 1: Visualization ... 8 Step 2: Assess Your Situation Honestly and Thoroughly ...... 10 Step 3: Formulate a Plan ....... 10 Step 4: Phrase Your Goals in Small Steps ...... 11 Chapter 3: Letting Go of Fear .... 13 Fear Setting ... 15 Chapter 4: How to Make Your Fitness Goals Happen ... 19 How to Set and Stick to Realistic Goals ......... 20 Fitting it In . 20 Enjoy It ...... 20 Play to Your Strengths ....... 20 Take it Slow ........... 21 Chapter 5: How to Make Your Career Goals Happen ... 22 Knowing What You Want ...... 22 Creating a Fool Proof Strategy .......... 23 The Path of Least Resistance 25 The Fail Fast Model ... 25 Chapter 6: How to Make Your Relationship Goals Happen ...... 27 Taking Stock .. 27 Creating a Plan for Dating ..... 28 Knowing What YouWant ....... 29 Chapter 7: How to Make Your Travel Goals Happen .... 30 Alternative Travel Strategies . 30 Conclusions ....... 32 Sample Content Preview How We’re Going to Fix Your Goal Setting and Help You to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams Accomplishing goals is about strategy, it is about making a cognitive shift to change the way you’re thinking and it’s about being smart about how you approach each goal. It’s also about knowing how to choose your goals and even how to phrase them. This book is going to show you how to make those changes then. You’ll learn how to choose and write goals effectively, how to write effective action plans and how to make sure you stick with your goals and never give up. But this book is going to be a little different than most goal-setting tomes, too. After we’ve given you the broad tools you need to start setting and accomplishing your goals, we’re then going to take a look at how you can begin to put them into practice. Because while a goal can be pretty much anything, for many of us they are going to fall into one of a few different categories. Most of us have goals for our relationships, goals for our fitness, goals for our careers and goals for travel. We’re going to provide not only the abstract strategies you need to start making effective goals then, but also the step-to-step processes that will let you apply these strategies in each of these areas. By the end of this book, you’ll be adept at setting and accomplishing any goal. And at the same time, you’ll have powerful strategies for improving your relationships, your fitness, your career and more. Ready to change your life? Chapter 1: The Most Powerful Skill You Can Learn: Goal Setting Learning how toset goals properly is arguably the most powerful skill that you can possibly learn. Why? Because it will allow you to then accomplish a huge range of other goals. When you know how to set goals, it allows you to effectively work toward anything. This is the key to unlocking pretty much everything you could want from life. So ironically, the first goal you should focus on is the goal of setting goals! And until now, you’ve probably been doing it all wrong… The Problem With Your Current Goals How can a goal be wrong? Sure, any objective is a worthwhile one, but the way that you phrase your goals and structure them, is going to massively change your likelihood of finding success. Let’s take weight loss as an example because it’s one of the more straightforward goals that is easiest to implement. When you set out to lose weight, you should start with a concrete goal. And for most people this will look something like this: “Lose 2 stone by next year” This is a terrible goal. Why? First of all, it is far too vague. How are you losing weight? Weight from where? Why do you want to lose the weight? What do you actually want to look like? At the same time, it’s out of your control. Even if you are completely committed to your goal, you may find that outside forces prevent you from being successful. Maybe you get ill, maybe you accidentally follow the wrong program, maybe it turns out you have a bad metabolism! Finally, the goal is too far in the future. If your goal is to lose weight by next year, that then essentially gives you a license to procrastinate. The target is so far away, that you indulge yourself in a little overeating or put off exercise for a while and not worry about it until next month. 6 months pass and you realize you’re actually further from your goal. And because it’s too late, you’re likely to just give up at this point. Not a good goal! What Good Goals Look Like So, what does a good goal look like? How might you phrase this same objective in a manner that will increase your chances of success? The first thing to do, is to focus on things that are immediately within your control and that are not influenced by outside factors at all. These goals should be things that you can accomplish in a guaranteed manner and that you will be immediately graded on on a pass-fail basis. So for instance, instead of aiming to lose 2 stone by next year, you would use this goal: “I will work out three times a week, every week, for at least 15 minutes” Now that is a goal that you can aim for. Regardless of your metabolism, or of injury, or of any other outside factor, this is a goal that you can accomplish. It also means you can’t ‘put off’ the goal and it means you’ll never reach that disappointing point where you can no longer stand any chance of completing it. At any point in your life, there is no reason that you can’t set out to accomplish this goal and expect to be successful.

Sample Content Preview Keep in mind, you could have all the greatest tools and resources in the world, but if you don’t take action on it, you won’t see results. Be sure to most of the resources provided here. With that said, here are our top tools and resources we recommend. 1. RunnersWorld.com Almost everything running! You’ll find news, articles, events, tips, shoes, training, nutrition, and more. They even have a forum! 2. RunningHeroes.com A must for any runner! Running Heroes is a social networking enabled platform that connects up with many running devices. It rewards you for running! 3. 25 GOLDEN RULES A must-read for any beginner runner! …see included shortcut URL 4. Meetup.com The place to go to find groups around almost any hobby. In this case, running! Simply search for “running” and you’ll find a list of groups around your area or nearby. 5. RunningNetwork.com Running events and news.

Sample Content Preview 2. MyFitnessPal.com My Fitness Pal is a really fantastic tool which you can use to help track the amount of calories and macros you are eating each day. All you need to do is input what foods you have eaten and they will do the rest. It also includes a really handy phone app so that you can update your journal as you go! 3. Evernote.com Evernote is a great app if you love to have all your notes with you on-the-go. You can sync between all of your devices very easily and make changes from anywhere. I often use this to keep track of my diet, exercise and beauty rou-tine progress. 4. Stumptuous.com A really great fitness resource with lots of interviews and advice for exercise. 5. Elle.com Elle is a great magazine which has plenty of brilliant beauty tutorials and guides that you can use to improve your appearance. 6. Toggl.com Toggl is a very simple timer which you can use to track how long it takes you to do a certain task. This can be used to record a fitness activity in the house and meditation or facial masks. 7. Crossfit.com Crossfit is one of the most popular types of exercise programs these days and there are more cross fit gyms opening everyday.

Table of Contents Introduction 3 Time Blocking and Time Boxing 4 Why Is Time Blocking So Effective? 7 Is Time Blocking Right For You? 9 Time Blocking Benefits 10 Avoid These Typical Time Blocking Mistakes 12 Different Kinds Of Time Blocking 14 Task Batching 14 Day Theming 15 Time Boxing 15 A Practical Framework For Time Blocking 17 1) Start with your high-level priorities 17 2) Create a “bookend template” for your day 17 3) Set aside time for both Deep & Shallow tasks 18 4) Add blocks for reactive tasks each day 20 5) Write down your daily to-do list 20 A Practical Framework For Time Boxing 21 1) Choose The Important Tasks 22 2) Set Your Goals 22 3) Set The Timeframe For Each Task 23 4) Implement and Assess 23 5) Check and Reward 23 Optimizing Your Time Boxing 24 How to Use Time Blocking to Manage Your Day 24 Time Blocking Tips for Entrepreneurs 28 How To Use A Time Blocking Planner 29 Best time Blocking apps 31 Conclusion 32 Sample Content Preview In the following chapters, you will notice that I start talking about Time Blocking, then I shift to using the term Time Boxing. That's by design. Time Blocking and Time Boxing both involve allocating fixed time periods to activities - but, while Time Blocking includes strictly reserving time for an activity, Time Boxing includes limiting the time you spend on it. So basically Time Boxing is taking Time Blocking to the next level, with specific deadlines and goals associated with it, and it may also involve deliverables, a budget, and milestones. All this makes Time Boxing a much more effective productivity method that will help you reach your goals and get things done. Let’s dive in and give a more thorough definition to Time Blocking and Time Boxing and see why they are both important. Time Blocking and Time Boxing Time Blocking and Time Boxing are very similar in allocating a specific amount of time to do a task. The idea is to stop working when the timer goes off. The major difference between the two is not time but what you are doing with that time. It is also important to note that you will be time Blocking with Time Boxing, but you do not need to engage in time Blocking if you only want to time box. This is because you are using only one predetermined amount of time to time box a serious issue. In this case, there is no need to fill out your Google calendar, as you would if you were time Blocking your entire day. Think of time Blocking as picking a specific time to start and end with an important task you need to do. The time block could be ten minutes, or it could be two hours. Many people have moved from the traditional "to-do" list with time demands and started Time Blocking. To-do lists can still be part of Time Blocking, but the method is slightly different. Remember that a to-do "reminds” you what you have to do, but it doesn't tell you how long you work on each item. Since this is the truth, many people will write a long to-do and then accomplish very little. This leads to extreme frustration, and in many cases, people will look to blame others for their lack of “getting it done." Time Blocking forces you to decide precisely how much time you spend on one task, and this accountability to yourself helps kill that procrastination monster. You will learn to be the "protector of your time." Time Blocking will also make you much stronger in your ability to focus on one task and do your best work. We discussed Benjamin Franklin and his method to schedule his "hard work." In today's world, hard work is coined as "deep work." When you have something that requires all your focus and attention, you are committed to deep work that you penciled into your Time Blocking schedule. Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science and the author of 7 non-fiction books. His book entitled "Deep Work" explains how he gets a solid 40 hours done by Time Blocking, whereas the same amount of work would have taken him upwards of 60 hours without that structure. Typical Time Blocking is done by setting up 30 or 60 minutes blocks of time to focus on one task only. In the later chapters, we will see a case where certain blocks of time are much bigger and discuss why this is needed. Some famous entrepreneurs use micro Time Blocking to accomplish their daily goals. Elon Musk uses micro Time Blocking to help drive his companies to high profits. For example, Elon uses blocks of five minutes for every part of his day, from the moment he wakes up until he sleeps. The five-minute time blocks are prepared before the day starts, which means he can get into action immediately. Time Blocking will be different for everyone. It is best to experiment with varying blocks of time and evaluate which ones produce the most productivity. Time Blocking can be done, but like everything else, there will be issues that crop up. You must be prepared to combat the problems like constant interruptions or avoid getting frustrated when a supervisor says, "drop what you are doing; this is more important." That’s when TIme Boxing will come to the rescue. Time Boxing is used when you have an issue with how much time you spend on a task. Some people find that when they begin a task, they always look at the clock and say, "OMG, look at how long I have been working on this." It can happen if you are very passionate about the task.