{"id":3560,"date":"2017-05-10T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2017-05-10T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:45:39","slug":"how-to-increase-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/how-to-increase-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to my favorite podcast series recently, Freakonomics (you should check it out!) and heard about habits of highly effective people and I want to highlight some of the things that I learned:<\/p>\n<h1>Create a big, long term goal<\/h1>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to shoot for the stars with this goal. For example a sales goal. Maybe you have the goal of selling $12,000,000 in potty training products in a year. If I know that my goal is to sell $12,000,000 in a year then I know that I have to seek big contract deals and be creative with my time. \u00a0It is important to set a goal for yourself in order to know where you are going and to stay focused on achieving that goal.<\/p>\n<h2>Break Your Long Term Goal Into Short-term Goals<\/h2>\n<p>Creating a long-term goal can feel extremely overwhelming and unattainable. After you have created a long term goal is in important to break that goal down into small goals or benchmarks, which being added together allows you to see the achieve the overall goal.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the potty training goal further if break my $12,000,000 down into months that is $1,000,000 a month and $250,000 a week and $50,000 a day. Now I can look at how much my business organically brings in a day and calculate how many sales I need to make a day.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of breaking\u00a0the goals down will gives you a place to start and make the overwhelming goals slightly less overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to my favorite podcast series recently, Freakonomics (you should check it out!) and heard about habits of highly effective people and I want to highlight some of the things that I learned: Create a big, long term goal Don&#8217;t be afraid to shoot for the stars with this goal. For example a sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}