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86,400 sec. in 1 day: Time Management

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

86,400 seconds per day
Time Management

There are 86,400 seconds in every day.  How do you use your time every day?  You can’t save that time from day to day, the balance doesn’t carry over to the next day.  What if you thought of those seconds as actual money?  You don’t get those seconds back, so don’t waste them.  What’s interesting about these 86,400 seconds every single day is that every one of us has the exact same amount of seconds in a day. Not every person has the equal amount of money to work with, so we are not on a fair and even playing field with money.  With time we all have a more level playing field, so it’s up to us to maximize it daily.  I know people are thinking well rich people have a lot of time, and others say they don’t have time because they don’t have money.  Some self-made millionaires actually made their money by learning to value their time, and being very efficient with their time management.  How are you investing your time? How are you using Time Leverage to your advantage?  Each day you get to start over with 86,400 seconds and it quickly goes by each and every day, to understand this point,  let me recommend that you watch the short flash movie at the website www.thetimemovie.com
   How do you make the most out of every day?  You have to learn Time Management.  You need to learn priorities.  You need to learn what priorities are most important and why.  Also pick up on which priorities can be done in parallel with one another.  Throughout the weeks I will discuss what is a time waster, and time saver in respect to your daily 86,400 seconds each day.  Writing down goals and to do lists are also great ideas to get more things done in a day, but just that isn’t enough and the reason is that a random list of 100 things to do every day is not enough, you need to list it in order of priority, what’s most important to get done.  In the business world often what is most important is not always what costs the most money or makes the most money, sometimes it’s as simple as 1 step that is holding up three other people in a business deal.  I believe many people can have many different opinions on what top priorities are for each and every person’s lives, so over the coming weeks I will try to provide some of my thoughts of daily priorities.  What I am seeing more than every before these days is people that are taking up other people’s time because they are inefficient or simply are not in a hurry to get things done.  Being a person that values my time, whether I have other things to do that day or not, it’s a pet peeve of mine that people move so slowly.

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Time Leverage:Time is Money:Time Management

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Time Leverage RonOrr.com

Time Leverage RonOrr.com

Time Leverage-Time is Money-Time Management

What is Time Leverage?  The purpose of my time with you on this RonOrr.com blog is to talk about my message educating everyone on the concept of Time Leverage.  Why do I think that I am the one qualified to teach this topic? Before I get into my previous jobs from the past, let me tell you that my focuses in life to date are Time Leverage, Marketing, Personal Development, and Real Estate Investing.
Since the age of seven I have been working.  I started off at the age of 7 years old, distributing/delivering flier marketing through my dad’s advertising company.  I was sorting fliers (marketing messages) from the age of about 10 to about 17 years old.  Starting from the age of 17, I started with telemarketing, cold calling.  I did telemarketing for 5 years. For those that don’t’ know telemarketing (cold calling), that’s more than a lifetime in that field.
I paid my way through college and quickly worked on my major of graphic design where I got even more familiar with computers and did graphic design (marketing design). It was later on my nights that I learned during my off time how to design websites and learned internet marketing often until very late at night, every day.
After many years of trial and error and literally hundreds of online affiliate programs, I found the trick on how to get set on Auto Pilot, or automated money coming in from search engines, more specifically pay per click search engines.  I had one of the first, if not the first, PPC search engine in my state. I was doing that website back in 1999.  I was building websites and working with internet marketing as early as 1997.
I soon quit my graphic design job after 3 years and became self-employed by the age of 24 years old.  I had learned a way to make a very large sum of money monthly automatically, working zero minutes per day.  The only time I spent each day was just to fund my advertising accounts with money.  I did the internet marketing on autopilot for a year or two and that did well for me and left me with 24 hours per day free time. As far as I was concerned I was retired for almost 2 years. Looking back I should have done more with that time.  I later found my way into real estate in 2002 where I had time to study the business in the beginning.  I became an agent and later when I became a real estate broker I promoted my company www.MinnesotaInvestors.com.  I worked with my dad and networked extremely hard (network marketing) for 4+ years where I estimate I met with 500-800 people by phone, meetings, seminars.  For the first 4 years I did very frequent email marketing to my email list of real estate investors.  I put out fliers often at the real estate club to get phone calls and meet people.  I worked hard on branding. I learned to get the phones ringing off the hook based on zero advertising for years.
My entire life I have been surrounded by marketing, marketing design, and numerous ways to get the marketing message out.  My new project is to now market “me”.  Why market anyone else. If I am going to put out all this time, why not put it out marketing for me.  After all, I have a message that’s important for others to hear, and it’s coming straight from me. I believe each of you should do the same thing, market yourself.  I believe marketing is one of the greatest uses of Time Leverage, that’s why I will focus so heavily in my writings about various types of marketing.  This blog will also cover Time Management.  I will look to cover Time Savers, and Time Wasters.  Many people are familiar with money leverage, but I have seen too many examples of leverage mixed in with money that has become dangerous with unlimited downside.   I have seen leverage used without delegation and watched it turn into poor service and follow through.
My goal is to teach everyone Time Leverage and how it can help them get ahead in their lives.  You may ask, is Time Leverage the same as Time Management?  I would answer not at all, I would say it goes far beyond Time Management, let me explain:
Time Management is similar to your home budget.  There are only so many minutes in a 24-hour day, just like your normal home budget has only so much money monthly. Your job each month is to try to be very efficient and allocate how your time/money can be used most efficiently.  In other words, there is a “finite” amount of time and money per month.  It is at this point that people take the next step and use leverage of money to get wealthy.  I am ok with this “money leverage” concept in theory, but I have seen it not work well for too many people, including myself, due to the leverage working both ways.
My goal is to take the idea of leverage, but with time, and get the upside of leverage, while avoiding most of the downside.  I first thought about this concept when I learned how to make many thousands per month from the internet marketing with zero time invested daily.  As I ventured into real estate, my goal was to learn to duplicate the time leverage the same way in real estate.  While I didn’t duplicate it exactly the same, what I did do is came a long way and got pretty good with the time leverage through marketing of real estate. For example let’s say you work for months and months in real estate and after three hundred steps and communications you make $20,000, you are excited because you got a big check.  What if your marketing got you a solid lead, you wholesaled out which you made $5000 for one hours work?  You’d be even more excited right?  You see, It isn’t about the money completely, it’s about time leverage and $/per hour.  My best luck with time leverage in real estate was always with marketing.  I continue to this day, to do real estate marketing, but I am now getting back into internet advertising because of web 2.0 and social networking. Social Networking has piqued my interest in internet marketing again.
The next time I thought about Time Leverage was from the, literally hundreds of real estate investors, I networked with.  I quickly noticed that not every investor spoke at the same speed, talked about the same priorities, and treated or valued their time in the same way.   I noticed that, some investors, once more successful and with more experience, got their message across to me in a 2-3 minute phone calls, whereas novice and newer investors would talk for 30 minutes about almost nothing important.
Later in 2007-2008, I started getting very serious about my time management, and time leverage as the real estate market started to shrink and slow down.  I needed to be very focused on time to survive and get my properties sold.
In 2008, I am now looking at time leverage again in another way, as I often see too often that technology, and this new technological age and how it is literally stealing time from everyone.  The big businesses are using time leverage on all of us as consumers.
One of the biggest problems that people make is that they trade hours for dollars. Meaning that their paychecks are already pre-determined and their salaries are capped to a certain dollar figure for the week, month and year. I will also teach you that through personal development and education you can leverage your time and prevent common mistakes in life through learning from others experiences and mistakes.  I also like to think of time leverage as a sort of passive income stream.
Some final thoughts…Is the problem, that you don’t make enough money every month, or do you just have more month than money?  Is the problem that you ran out of money in retirement, or that you out lived your money?  No matter how you look at it, time plays a major factor.  My goal is to explain through my writing efforts that Marketing, Personal Development, and Real Estate Investing, all of which I spend a great deal of my time with, all play a vital key role to increase your time leverage skills.

Ron Orr, Jr.
RonOrr.com

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