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There are five habits that will automatically double your productivity if you work at them. They are listed below. If you apply these habits consistently for a month you’ll be amazed at how much more effective you become. Here are the five habits:

Get Up Early. Believe it or not, this gives you a mental edge. The early bird does not only get the worm, he makes the deals. Use the extra time to prepare for the day. Make a list of things you want to accomplish during the day. Read a motivational passage from a favorite book. It can be as short as a couple of pages – the point is that it will set the tone for the day.

Listen to an audio program on the way to work. This is a terrific way to stay sharp. Listen to your favorite speaker or teacher while you drive (or ride the subway or bus) to work. Remember one thing from what you heard and write it down when you get to work. Put the paper where you made your note in your jacket pocket. It will be great inspiration when you find it later.

Teach someone something. Each day you should teach someone something new that you learned. Teach your coworkers the new tip you heard on your audio program. Teach your client a new technique (for using your product) that you just discovered. Every time you teach, you learn. In fact, teaching burns the learning into your brain. Teach something that is fresh learning for you, to someone else.

Do something alone. Take a long walk. Go for a run. Site and meditate. While performing this solo activity, make it a point to spend some time reflecting on who you are and what you are contributing to the world. Have you had a positive impact? What more can you do? How far can you push yourself? Who can you help?

Write something. It doesn’t matter what you write. Start a blog. Keep a journal in a notebook. Where you write and what you write is not important. How you write is. The way you right is the way you think. Every so often read what you have written. Are your thoughts coherent? Do they follow a logical pattern? Are they succinct? How can you improve your thinking/writing?

If you do these five things every day for a month you will notice a dramatic improvement in your sales productivity. You’ll be amazed at how focused your thoughts become. You will be astonished at how much meaning each activity has throughout your day.

You must make these five activities habits. They have to become part of your daily routine. They will help ground you.

I have taught these five tips to everyone I have coached over the years. Something magical happens when people implement these five simple activities in their lives. Around day fifteen you’ll begin to feel better. You’ll have more energy. You will begin to attract people to you like a magnet. You’ll feel more confident and your days will fly by.

Start today. Turn off the television. Quit surfing the net. Get going.

David Lorenzo has more than 20 years of business experience as a successful corporate executive, entrepreneur, strategist, author, and speaker. He has worked with and mentored some of the world’s most successful businesspeople while helping lead many large organizations to unprecedented success. His latest book is titled: Career Intensity: Business Strategy for Workplace Warriors and Entrepreneurs.

Mr. Lorenzo’s experience in starting new business enterprises and repositioning under-performing business units, along with his ability to implement innovative performance improvement solutions, makes him one of today’s most sought-after trusted advisors.

Mr. Lorenzo is a participant in the Wharton Fellows Program at the University of Pennsylvania, a management think tank that meets regularly to analyze and address timely business issues. He received his MBA from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, and he received a Masters of Science in Strategic Communications from Columbia University in New York City.

Dave’s blog is dlorenzo.com/blog dlorenzo.com/blog

” Observe the ant,” the great Asian conqueror Tamerlane told his friends. In relating a story from his early life, he said, “I once was forced to take shelter from my enemies in a dilapidated building, where I sat alone for many hours. Wishing to divert my mind from my hopeless situation, I fixed my eyes on an ant carrying a kernel of corn larger than itself up a high wall.

” I counted its attempts to accomplish this feat. The corn fell sixty-nine times to the ground, but the insect persevered. The seventieth time it reached the top. The ant’s accomplishments gave me courage for the moment, and I never forgot the lesson.”

God wins His greatest victories through apparent defeats. Often you may think that our enemy triumphs, but there’s a moment when God enters in and upsets the work of the devil, overthrowing the apparent victory, as the Bible says, “He frustrates the ways of the wicked” (Psalm 146:9). The end result is that He has given us a much greater victory than we’d have known. Remember Daniel’s three friends who chose to worship only God? We can only imagine how they felt as they were led to the fiery furnace. It “looked like” the enemy was winning as they were thrown in to the fire, but what a victory to all who witnessed it that God was the only true God of life and death.

We all have trials and illness and loss of strength you once had puts much suffering and sorrow into people’s lives, but we serve a God of hope and we must not let the enemy fill our soul with despair. Do not acknowledge defeat. Continue in faith to claim the victory through Him who is able to make you “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37), and you will soon see in the physical realm the glorious victory that God has already done in the spiritual realm.

May we be ever diligent in knowing that in all the difficult places that God allows us to be in, He is giving us opportunities to exercise our faith in Him that will bring the blessed results and glorious victory that will show the world around us that He is the one and only true God.

Life here on earth is preparation for eternity, so take your opportunities to believe in the Word and what it says as Truth. We listen far too often to what the world says rather than the Word.

Everything depends on our believing God. We believe we are saved because the Bible says so, not because you feel like it. Believe you are healed because the Bible says so. He took our infirmities and healed all our diseases. (Matthew 8:17) We’ve been given many interpretations of that Scripture and for most Faith isn’t even possible because of what they’ve been taught about it. Dig into the original Greek and Hebrew of that promise that came from Isaiah. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1). You have to know the Word is Truth to have Faith in it, so be diligent about learning what the writers meant by using a Strong’s Greek-Hebrew concordance.

When the three men were thrown into the fire, it seemed they were instantly killed as the guards were. It would’ve been an obvious fact if you’d seen it. But their steadfast faith in trusting the Lord saved them. It didn’t matter what people thought or how it looked or how it seemed or even about the facts. Faith is the substance of things NOT seen. Trust in the Word, not in what you see. We live in a physical world, but life operates on a spiritual one.

Don’t get hung up in the physical and miss out!

Donna L. Watkins lives in Central Virginia with her wonderful husband enjoying birds, wildlife, gardening, forests, nature travel and her cat, Squeek. She has one grown-up son who inspires her life in many ways. Read more of Donna’s articles at TheHerbsPlace.com and subscribe to her free mailing, A Healing Moment. theherbsplace.com/ahm.html theherbsplace.com/ahm.html