The Triple D Strategy for Success

On any given day, most of us dedicate time to our children, spouses, careers, friends, charities, churches, parents, siblings, clients, household activities, and, oh yeah, if there is a little extra time left in the day, ourselves.


So why is it that only a select few of us can make it look easy... while so many look like they have been run over by a tractor trailer?

The answer is simple.

Most busy people don't evaluate the project or the task at hand before they begin. This holds true whether they are working on their business lives or on their personal/family lives.

Instead of taking a hard look at the task or project, they simply try to get it done. They do whatever it takes.

But unfortunately, the price they pay is very high.

They sacrifice special moments and milestones with their kids. They risk losing the closeness and tenderness of their spouses. They even jeopardize their own health. They take on all these hardships in order to prove that they are "superparents". And to add insult to injury, in the end, they often miss their deadlines, fail to properly complete the project, and neglect their spouses and children.

Why do they do this to themselves?

Because all of our lives we have been told they have to multitask. You have heard the old mantra, "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself" about a million times. And you don't want to appear inferior.

If this sounds remotely familiar, I need for you to make yourself and me a significant promise.

You need to vow here and now that you are ready to read this issue in its entirety and apply my Triple D Strategy to your life starting today.

This strategy is so powerful that you will have an immediate sense of accomplishment and fulfillment.

When done correctly, it will allow you to have more free time and make more money in your business. Your friends and family will notice immediately that you are not stressed and moody. But most importantly, your "happiness meter" will be heading in the right direction – up.

And here's the really beautiful part – it is so simple!

Allow me to introduce my Triple D Strategy.

Ditch, Delegate, and Duplicate

When you start to evaluate every project or task that you THINK has to be done and done by you every day, you will soon find that the task could fall into three possible categories:

1) Ditch: This is extremely important if you have a hard time with simply saying "no." Most are unable or unwilling to say that a task is not important enough for their time or anyone else's. Look: we all have the same 24 hours in a day – no more, no less. So why is it that we sometimes feel that we should accomplish 28 hours' worth of tasks in a single day?

In order to turn down a task, just ask yourself the following question: "What will the result be if nothing is done about this project?" This makes your decision very easy. And when you are completely honest with yourself, you will find that 20% to 30% of the things you spend time on don't need to be done at all!

2) Delegate: The art of delegating relies on finding the right person whose strengths are YOUR weaknesses. You need to do what you do best. Not spend time and energy on tasks that you are not particularly good at or that don't excite you. Your time and energy should be spent on your natural gifts; things that are innate and that you love doing. You should apply this rule at home and at the office. For example, I'm not particularly good at building websites; this is something I delegate to team members. At home, I don't enjoy cleaning my house. This is a task I delegate to a cleaning woman who comes to my home and – believe it or not – loves to clean.

Because I do not spend my time on tasks like these, I get to devote that time to tasks that play to my strengths. At the office, my strengths are marketing and content creation. At home, one of my strengths is helping my kids with their homework. These are things that I am very good at and I love doing.

3) Duplicate: Have you ever wished you had a clone? I sure used to! Now I have several. Being able to make more money and have more free time comes down to doubling, tripling, and quadrupling your output without YOU doing the actual work.

The reason so many people don't duplicate is because they don't understand the correct way to do so. Most people think, "I will never find anyone as good as I am." Here is the beautiful part – you don't have to.

You see, you must simply find different people who can do specific tasks as well as you can. So perhaps you need to find three or four people. These people need to share some of your qualities. You need to check your ego at the door and strive to find people who have the ability to be as good as and even better than you are.

If you write all of your promotional copy, make all the affiliate deals, and develop all your products, you need to find three duplicates: One person to write the copy better than you do now while maintaining your voice and style. One person to cultivate new affiliate deals. This person should have your vivacious personality and be extremely outgoing (if these are your personality traits). And one person to develop products – someone who has even bigger ideas and the ability to get the products completed faster.

These are three simple things that you can implement TODAY. But they only work if you do them and do them right.

In the name of full disclosure, you should know that while this Triple D Strategy will help you immensely in your quest to balance your work and personal life... It's not the only proven, easy-to-implement technique you can use to create a happier, more productive, more balanced (and richer!) life for yourself.

By Mary Ellen Tribby

[Ed. Note. MaryEllen Tribby has created the site, www.WorkingMomsOnly.com, as the leading website and newsletter for the empowerment of the working moms. Her mission is to supply the tools that can give EVERY working mom the ability to lead a healthy, wealthy, and more balanced/blended lifestyle. To create a community where millions of working moms from all over the world come together in support and celebration of each other.]

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Why You Shouldn't Be Scared of Silly Ideas

It was an experimental wine that Thierry had been working on...

He thought it had potential, so he decided to share it with Guy.

He poured two glasses. They sipped it.

After they'd both appreciated it for a few minutes, Thierry declared in heavily accented English...

"Now zat iz what you call a phet best-ard!"

And so the wine -- and Thierry's winery -- was named.

The point: Don't be afraid of silly ideas...

That's the advice Paul Arden gives in his book It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be.

And it's advice that I agree with big time.

Fat Bastard wine is just one example of a silly idea that turned out to be very successful. I mean, who in their right mind would call a wine Fat Bastard?

Yet, it worked brilliantly...

In just six years, it became an international success, selling hundreds of thousands of cases. In fact, the brand was described by BusinessWeek as a "marketing phenomenon."

I actually remember first seeing a bottle of Fat Bastard in a Tesco in Grimsby a couple of years ago. And I'm not surprised it's stuck in my memory...

Imagine looking along your typical supermarket wine shelf. There's Chateau This and Chateaux That -- and then, right in the middle, there's a bottle of Fat Bastard!

It's an absurd name -- almost juvenile. But attention-getting... and unforgettable.

Arden quotes John Cleese as saying:

"High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought."

That's what happened with the wine... Thierry and Guy weren't thinking critically when they decided to name the wine. They just went with it.

I bet there was a lot of critical thought afterward, as various "suits" undoubtedly told them it was a silly idea. But they stayed with it, and ended up with a hit on their hands.

Using Silly Ideas to Solve Your Problems

Arden also talks about how "thinking silly" can help you overcome a mental block...

This resonated with me, because it's something I often do if I get stuck. You're faced with a problem at work and you need to come up with a solution, but your brain just isn't firing.

It happens to us all, right?

You sit there trying to figure it out, but you end up going round in circles.

The problem remains.

One of the reasons your brain might not be firing properly is because you're being too critical of yourself... You're so concerned with coming up with the right solution, first time, that you're blocking your brain.

As Cleese said, "creativity is responding to situations without critical thought." So, you need to dump that critical thought and start thinking freely, start thinking "silly."

Arden's approach, here, is two-fold...

First, he recommends doing the opposite of what the solution requires...

And second, he recommends looking out the window and using whatever catches your eye -- be it a man in the street, a television aerial, whatever -- as a possible solution to your problem.

Both ideas sound strange, but it's exactly this kind of illogic that shakes up your brain and gets it thinking about your problem -- and its solution -- in a different way.

So whenever you're struggling to come up with a solution to a problem you're facing...

By Glenn Fisher

Follow Paul Arden's advice and start "thinking silly"... Your silly idea might just turn out to be the best one you ever have.

[Ed. Note: After studying business, economics, politics, and creative writing -- and working for many years in local government -- Glenn Fisher joined Shortcut Publications as the editor of their flagship publications, Shortcut Bulletin and Shortcut Confidential. Glenn has developed a loyal following by helping and inspiring his readers to achieve personal and financial freedom. To receive Glenn's free, daily e-letter, go here.

And for more help coming up with and developing your own "silly" business ideas, come to ETR's biggest event of the year, our Info-Marketing Bootcamp. Glenn Fisher and the team from Shortcut Publications come every year. And they're joined by hundreds of industry experts, Early to Rise readers, and small business owners eager to learn the next steps they should take to get their online ventures booming. Find out all about Bootcamp here.]

The "Be Here NOW" Success Technique

Recently, I observed a training session for the employees of one of my clients. When a couple of the attendees started goofing around, Lisa, the woman running the session, raised her voice and said: "People -- this was paid for by your employer. You are on company time, and I intend to maximize the use of that short time we have together. So please work with me and be here now!"

"Be here now." That phrase -- referring to the awareness of not only being in the moment but staying in the moment over an extended period of time, free of distractions -- struck me as being very much in tune with the overall goal achieving process.

Here's how to apply it to your goals:

Rule #1. Concentrate on defining your objective.

What do you want to accomplish? What matters to you? Why do you want to achieve that particular goal?

Rule #2. Concentrate on one part of your goal at a time.

Break down your ultimate goal into smaller chunks. Keeping on eye on the big picture is great. However, you have to focus on the individual steps that will get you there.

Rule #3. Concentrate on controlling your situation.

When focusing on those individual steps, control your natural tendencies (we all have them) to drift away from the task at hand and/or stop trying if it becomes too challenging or takes too long.

Rule #4. Concentrate on completion.

To achieve any goal, you have to make a commitment to reach the finish line. Strengthen your resolve and keep yourself motivated by visualizing the end result -- how excited you'll be and how great you'll feel when you reap the rewards of your hard work.

By Bob Cox
[Ed. Note: Bob Cox is a success coach who can help you achieve goals in every area of your life: professional, social, personal, and beyond. Check out his program here.]

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Why Should I Make a Budget

You say you know where your money goes and you don’t need it all written down to keep up with it? I issue you this challenge. Keep track of every penny you spend for one month and I do mean every penny.


You will be shocked at what the itty-bitty expenses add up to. Take the total you spent on just one unnecessary item for the month, multiply it by 12 for months in a year and multiply the result by 5 to represent 5 years.

That is how much you could have saved AND drawn interest on in just five years. That, my friend, is the very reason all of us need a budget.

If we can get control of the small expenses that really don’t matter to the overall scheme of our lives, we can enjoy financial success.

The little things really do count. Cutting what you spend on lunch from five dollars a day to three dollars a day on every work day in a five day work week saves $10 a week… $40 a month… $480 a year… $2400 in five years….plus interest.

See what I mean… it really IS the little things and you still eat lunch everyday AND that was only one place to save money in your daily living without doing without one thing you really need. There are a lot of places to cut expenses if you look for them.

Set some specific long term and short term goals. There are no wrong answers here. If it’s important to you, then it’s important period.

If you want to be able to make a down payment on a house, start a college fund for your kids, buy a sports car, take a vacation to Aruba… anything… then that is your goal and your reason to get a handle on your financial situation now.

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