Are You An Eeyore?
This was copied from an email of Kevin Riley's. After seeing a piece somewhat similar to this on TV last night, I went hunting on my hard drive for this terrific piece.
The one character trait that I believe is most destructive to your business success is the Eeyore Attitude. You know it: There's always something to blame. "Nothing goes right. Why even try."
Unfortunately, I see many struggling entrepreneurs displaying this crippling trait. There's always something outside to blame. "The kids make too much noise." "I haven't got enough time." "Making videos is too difficult." "I'm not a writer."
CAN DO SPIRIT
Tigger - although a wee bit too rambunctious - has the Can Do spirit. "Tiggers can do anything." If you find yourself attacked by Eeyoreness, grab a little Tigger. Realize that the limitations are not out there - they are inside you. With a little more Tigger Attitude, you'll overcome any problem. You'll find that the mountain truly is just a molehill.WE ALL SUFFER IT Don't think that some of us are immune from Eeyoreness. I often get the Eeyore feeling _ especially when it involves technical difficulties. I go for tea. I check e-mail. I go shopping. Anything to avoid facing the "insurmountable" problem.
Then, when I finally kick Eeyore out and start attacking the problem... I'm always surprised how small that hill was. So... push Eeyore aside and start overcoming your limitations.
A Major Time Saver: Hot Keys
Hotkeys are a combination of keys that trigger a certain event like pasting some text (think your signature in certain forums, or places where they don’t have a WYSIWYG editor so you have to type in all the tedious html, you could use it to paste header codes for your programs, repetitive emails, email templates and so on…)
You can also use it to open applications. For example, I use my mind map application a lot so I have a special key combination that automatically opens the thing for me. It’s easy, cool and saves a ton of time.
If you’ve never used hotkeys . . . try it out . . . I think you will be glad you did.
The hotkey application highly recommend is autohotkey – if you’ve got the technical background or the time and energy to play around with it.
Here’s a much simpler program you can set up and get running in minutes. It’s HotKeyMaster (free for 30 days and a one time $5 fee after that – worth the time + muscle strain it saves you if you ask me).
Download it from here and set it up. Run the program
To Add a new hotkey
1. Click New — enter a name for the new hotkey
2. Under add Activator – select hotkey
3. Now select the keyword combination you want to use. Try ALT and WINDOWS keys first and once you exhaust that combination — try unimportant CTRL combinations that you normally don’t use.
For example – CTRL + V is an incredibly useful combination that will paste things try not to get your hotkey combination conflicting with this already useful combination. And if you’re still using your mouse for copy and paste – you really need to switch to your keyboard. It takes sometime to change a habit but it will save you A LOT OF TIME.
4. Now, in the right menu – select the action you want the combination to trigger.
Some of the most useful ones for most people would be
a. Paste Text – for all those template emails, header files, html, signatures and so on
b. Launch Applications – Firefox is only a combination away .
c. Send message – you can get your music player to play the next track, shuffle, pause or whatever without switching windows and pressing the pause, next or shuffle button yourself.
d. Kill a process – If you have a software that freezes a lot but you still need to use it for whatever reason. Kill a process comes in handy. Just configure it to kill that program and start over anew
e. Alarm Message – this works best with a Timer (In case you were wondering) And for your amusement
f. You can also get the hotkey to do certain mouse event like position a mouse at a certain coordinate point on your screen. I haven’t really been able to find any useful thing to do with this one yet but I’m sure it will amuse you for a couple milliseconds (longer if you’re a geomatics person)
g. And Much more…
5. Once you’re done, don’t forget to hit Apply. Your hotkeys won’t function until you hit apply.
To Use Hotkeys
It’s really simple, the program starts automatically when you turn on your computer. And, once the program is running you can use your hotkeys virtually anywhere – browser, office applications, text editors, web editors etc.
Ctrl A – Select All — Ctrl Z – Undo
F5 – handy to refresh your page
F11 – To view something full screen in browser
Here’s some standard shortcut keys for PC – http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/general/ergo/PC_Keyboard_Shortcuts.pdf
for Mac – http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/general/ergo/Mac_Keyboard_Shortcuts.pdf
Windows + E (brings up windows explorer)
Alt+Tab (switch between open programs)
Ctrl+Tab (switch tabs within existing programs such as web browser tabs)
Windows+M (minimize all open programs to view desktop)
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Important Additions
There have been some significant additions on the website at http://www.stepbystepinternethelp.com
The section “The First Important Steps — Step By Step Plan” is complete. There are 8 steps that are the beginning basic things needed.
The next important step is Write. Write. Write! This may be the most important factor that will contribute to your success. You will begin with articles. These will be used on your web page, on your blog, and as articles to be submitted to directories as a means of promotion.
There are new pages under Keyword Research, Blogging for Beginners, and Private Label Rights as well as the beginning Step By Step Plan discussed previously.
If you are serious about your desire to develop an online business, please give the system a trial. Follow the steps in order. Don’t skip anything — even if you think you don’t need it.
Read the material. If you have already done that step completely, then and only then mark it off. You can’t possibly know what is included in the material we have provided if you don’t read.
Things are done in this manner to keep you from being a butterfly — flitting from one thing to another. But unlike the butterfly, you can’t possibly achieve success in this matter.
The steps are being presented in this order because I believe this is a road to success. The time frame for all of this is dependent on how much time you have available. Commit yourself to a schedule and let’s get started.
If you feel yourself taking a detour away from the main road down a pretty little pathway, write me at carol@stepbystepinternethelp.com. Tell me what has caused this detour and I will talk to you about why I think this will become a stumbling rock in you drive to a successful online career.