Goal setting, planning and meeting deadlines are some of the must-have skills in internet marketing. It's amazing how many people take this skills for granted, ignore them or simply doing it all wrong.

This may come as a surprise to you...

You see, this may be things you do on a daily basis or sometimes many times during the day; Some of this may include your lists and steps and ideas and all sort of things you get on your schedule only to realize that after all your effort, you're still struggling and the result are getting farther away from your goals - provided you have a goal.

You see, there's a liberating force behind learning what NOT to do that will spur you on to success with all the thrusting power of a rocket plane.

The real issue is the fact that there will always be more things to do than time to do them.

I'm sure you can relate to not having enough time to do what you've planed to do on a daily basis due to gazillion reasons.

So, if you're using the little time you have doing the wrong things or doing the right things the wrong way...

I hope you can see the problem here.

It is only natural to image if there are other things you should be doing to help protect and sustain your online business right now?

You should start by learning how-to apply on your daily schedule - how to say NO to things that interrupt your thoughts and prevent you from achieving your goals. If you watch out carefully what you do on a daily basis you will see some things you're better off not even doing or simply let someone else handle it for you.

One of the biggest mistakes I've made is not having a daily planner and follows through with it, as a result, I realized after a hard days' work, there is little to show for my effort because I was not actually following through on a particular project - I moved from one project to another and became jack of all trade and master of none - Ouch!

Come to think of it, there are many things to do, thousands of ideas to explore, great pitches and call-to-actions from gurus that cannot wait and so on and so forth...

If you must know, the word "NO" has to be part of your vocabulary especially to things that are not part of your plan for the day because they have a subtle way of dragging you out of your agenda.

What set me free was when I attended a goal setting class and I discover the importance of goal setting, daily planning and meeting deadlines. Since my goal setting training, I started experimenting various plans and map out my goals to a manageable daily and weekly tasks and my business have improved greatly. I start a project and finish it before moving on to something else and was able to see a clear progress and success.

You might think this is not a hard thing to do! So, I challenge you to put it to test and try it just for one month.

You need to acknowledge the fact that goal setting is just one of many things you need to succeed online. But due to limited space we will not be able to explain them all in detail within this article.

I will introduce you to some of them now and then you'll have the opportunity to get the full information that you can reference at your convenient time - you know, the topics you should think about until you get the full tips and techniques.

Here you go...

**Do you provide value in your business?

**You create a product that you think is "cool" or "innovative" but not what people want or need

**Do you listen to your customers and/or make your customer happy

**Do you keep your customer's relationship and the momentum going?

**Are you measuring your business progress?

**Do you attend to e-mail or chat online during your business hours

You don't have to worry about figuring out the correct answer to these questions because you will get the detail tips and techniques to work around these questions and much more in the report...

By applying and concentrating on what works best for you, your customers and your business; you'll free up some extra time to spend enjoying life while you make progress in your business. We often forget the reason why we start online business and we get cut up with tons of work and forget the purpose altogether. If you ever need a reminder why you start your internet business, you should go back to the beginning or check your vision and mission if you have them. In most cases, majority of us actually want freedom of time so that we can have more time for fun and family!

Set up your goals, keep to your plans, make your customers happy and enjoy yourself - Start enjoying yourself today.

Copyright (c) 2008 Abby Lawal