Fresh Focus On Productivity!™

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Welcome to Fresh Focus On Productivity!™ All topics discussed here are to help you to succeed, whether you are a homemaker, home-business owner, or CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The posts found within are going to help you to organize and become much more productive.

Please take a look at the tab bar above, and I’ll give you a quick rundown of what is contained within those pages::

• My GTD Templates: Located within are the GTD products that I have created myself
• My Services: Private and public coaching sessions and links for sponsors to make payments for advertising.
• Free GTD: I’ve come across various templates on the web and if I’ve found them useful, you can grab them here. Everything on that page is completely free!
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• Who?: This will give you a brief glimpse inside the history that I have and why I feel that I have the right to call myself a Professional Productivity & Organization Coach.

Having owned a computer since 1998, I’ve been online and tinkering with computers quite awhile.  Upon being introduced to GTD via the Productivity In Context blog & Stephen Smith,  I have found that I have a very strong personal desire to help those around me become more productive which in turn helps them to lead a better life.  In my RSS feeds I read daily, I get great ideas that trigger thoughts for interesting topics to discuss here!

I’d really like to help you become as productive and organized as you can be! If you need more personal attention, please feel free to go to Kris’ GTD Products page a take a look at my coaching rates. I’m available most evenings and weekends, and really have fun talking to those starting out or seasoned veterans. We all have something to learn from one another, don’t you think?

You can also feel free to email me at any time if you have further questions about me or anything that I do. I really look forward to being able to work with you, both here on FFOP and one-on-one, when we get an opportunity to do that. Enjoy your stay at FFOP and make sure to subscribe to my RSS Feed as well as subscribe to The Inner Sanctum mewsletter over in the sidebar. Great tips not found on FFOP are published in The Inner Sanctum at least once a week -  you won’t even find that content here, so don’t miss out. Subscribe now!

My GOOD friend Staci Shelton is hosting a great tele-seminar on Social Media and the Art of Engagement. This is ridiculously prices at a low $49 (with a $39 introductory offer), so I suggest that you sign up now! She has limited spots so check it out. I guarantee that you will learn something that you did not know about Social Media!

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“Okay…I’m on all the Social Media “Hot Sites”…NOW WHAT????”

Everybody told you to hurry up and get on Facebook and Twitter to GROW your business and get MIRACULOUS Results!!!  They said Social Media is “The Place To Be” to network, find jobs and be a huge success.

You did…and you didn’t. Yes, you signed up for Facebook and have a fan page for your business.  You’ve set up a Twitter Profile and started Tweeting, but no one is following!

So far, this Social Media thing is feeling like a bunch of garbage to you, right?

WRONG.

Getting “on” Social Media is just the FIRST Step!

You can grow your business, have thousands of followers (I do) and promote your business to increase profits, customers and web traffic or broaden your network and connect with the right people to further your professional or personal goals!

You Just Need To Learn the Art of ENGAGEMENT

Engagement is the key to Social Media Marketing and Communication Success!

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for LIVE Coaching to Boost Your Brand!

Join me the Fourth Thursday of every month as I share with you what I know about connecting with people and growing your brand using the Powerful Tools of Social Media.

Each month, I’ll get questions from the community and talk about how to improve your presence and find your voice and use it well.  We’ll talk about do’s and dont’s, the rules of engagement, how to gain followers & friends and market yourself or your brand using Social Media.

Learn How to Use Social Media to Make Your Brand Irresistible

• Learn more about how to use and leverage Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and More!
• Learn some great tools and tips to effectively manage your time in Social Media
• Learn some great strategies and brainstorm ideas
• Hear great questions from other people and learn from the community!
• Learn how to engage your audience and build a loyal following of core users and influencers to help you market your brand
• Learn the Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media

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No Matter What Your Business Is, Learning How to Use Social Media Effectively is Essential to Growing in this New Market!

Whether you are a working professional looking to help your career and expand your network, a business owner, or organization, you can use this very effective medium to improve your business!  Drive traffic to your site, sell your products effectively, promote your services and events, generate buzz, connect with other businesses and watch your business and brand GROW!

I’ve got a question to the readership…….when you implemented a trusted system for getting things done, was it easy or was it hard? Did you resist it, or were you ready to accept whatever changes need to be made?

I am of the opinion that when change is afoot, the body may sub-consciously not want the change, and sets up roadblocks or excuses for that change not to occur. I’m not sure if the conscious mind knows this or not.

What have your experiences been when trying to direct change within yourself or other people? Does resistance occur? Do you think it’s consciously or sub-consciously?

Let’s ponder on this……can you give me your thoughts?

I have seen it happen more than once: you’ve been in such an unorganized state of chaos that once you start to get organized, you have a hard time trusting yourself again.

Do you find this to be true?

When you’ve come from a state of total disorganization, you’ve learned not to trust yourself. You haven’t had a system that has ever worked for you, because you’ve still forgotten things or felt that you haven’t lived up to your expectations of yourself. When you don’t trust yourself, you have a very hard time being able to trust others to be able to Get Things Done for you and be productive for you. Disorganization can truly have rippling effects all throughout your life, both personal and business. It really is amazing how far the effects can be seen.

Once you start to turn your life around, either by yourself or with someone’s assistance,  it is amazingly transformative how much of a far-reaching effect there is on your entire life. It can be very hard to get organized, especially on your own. It usually takes a catalyst like a book you’ve read or speaking to friends. For others it takes one on one training and coaching in order to be able to take the baby steps with confidence. Once you’ve been in a state of distrust for so long, it can be very hard to step out on your own because you have a hard time trusting yourself to be able to accomplish tasks and get organized.

Once you are on your path to recovering from being disorganized, I have seen people forget to trust themselves to be able to Get Things Done and get a great deal of productivity out of their lives.it can be a difficult change to get accustomed to once you’ve not trusted yourself for such a long period of time. It is completely normal to forget to trust yourself on the beginning of your organization and productivity journey, but once you get fully into the swing of things, you will see that your ability to trust yourself will slowly be restored. This is not a process that will occur overnight: try to remember how long you’ve been unorganized and then realize that it will take so time to get your trust of yourself and your systems into your routine.

It can be done, and the rewards are more fulfilling than can be described. Once you’ve been on your path, how long has it taken you to trust yourself and your system?

Recently I’ve become aware of the fact that sometimes people have a tendency to put things in boxes when they don’t need to be in boxes. While it can be very good and efficient to organize things and categorize them so that you know how to access them there some things in life in which you should not categorize in place in boxes. I’m not talking so much about physical tactile things like paper or CDs or books, but I’m talking more about things that you need to survive in life. Like other peoples feelings, how you feel about things and opening your mind to new horizons.

Let’s take an example: interacting with people in your life. When you interact with people in your life. It is good to experience them for who they are and not have preconceived notions about who you want them to be when you meet people for the first time. It is difficult not to make judgments about them aka making a first impression feelings. That’s not uncommon, what is a bad thing to do is to meet a person and automatically expect them to fit some sort of profile that you created in your head in which you think they must fit.

You may think that you need to meet a certain type of person in order to have a good solid friendship with them, when the fact remains that there may be people that you wouldn’t even dream of fitting into your box that will actually be very compatible with you and you will be very compatible with them.

  I’ve known some people throughout my life that have the notion stuck in their head that they must have this, this and this in a person in order for them to be compatible, and to be able to have a very successful life or successful friendship together.

I can attest to the fact that meeting people that are outside your box is a great thing to do because you just never know who you may meet. My SO is not a person that I would have gone hunting for: but we are compatible and have a very successful relationship. Granted that we are not alike in many ways, but we do share common interests, enjoy each other’s company and have the same drive and desires in life. Had I kept my focus on someone that was to fit inside my box. I would’ve never found this person for several reasons. One reason being that I would’ve never looked for this person where they were found. Second reason being that it is possible I would not have even engaged in a conversation.

Please try to remember throughout your life to keep your options open: do not put yourself in a box or feel that they are certain things in your life that must fit within a box. You will limit your availability to meeting people and experiencing new things in life. We all know that when you experience things in life you grow as a person and without growth, life is meaningless.

So tell me… what have you done in your life that has been outside the box. And what have the results been? I would really like to know. So please tell me in the comments.