Tips to be more productive in your online business.

1. Be More Productive And Stay Focused – A Cure
For Shiny Object Syndrome
Learn to be more productive and nip Shiny Object Syndrome in the bud!
Shiny Object Syndrome or SOS for short, is a
sometimes fatal virus you get from the internet.
The problem is, it doesn’t infect your computer
as other internet viruses do, it infects YOU!
What are the symptoms of SOS?
• Pain and discomfort of overwhelm
• Excessive time spent checking your email
• Long trips down rabbit holes found in
your email inbox
• Excessive time spent on social media
• Paranoia – fear that you might miss something if you don’t check out every offer
• Financial Fatigue from buying many of those offers
• Guilt set on by Financial Fatigue of buying and not using all those products,
plugins and courses
• Total lack of focus and productivity
If not treated SOS can cause Premature Evacuation of your online business. Sorry…too much? OK,
enough silliness.
Chances are you have SOS, so let’s talk about how to take control of it.
This is something most of us face more than once in our online career. There are so
many shiny objects scrolling across our screens, in our inboxes and literally everywhere
we go online today. Offers, freebies and giveaways galore! It’s the nature of the
business we are in. We make offers everyday in our business. If you don’t you aren’t
doing it right. That’s how this thing works. There’s nothing wrong with that, but on the
receiving end you have to know when enough is enough and sift through the noise to
focus on what’s important. Otherwise overwhelm takes over and stops you dead in your
tracks.
No one is immune to Shiny Object Syndrome
There’s no vaccine. There are however some simple things you can do, so SOS doesn’t
get you.
First, when you sign up for an interesting giveaway and find that it’s not what you
thought or doesn’t really fit your niche, unsubscribe. If you find that you are on

2. someones list that blasts offer after offer day in and day out without teaching you
something or giving you good content that adds value to your day, unsubscribe. If it’s
someone you may be interested in later, but now is not the right time, unsubscribe, set it
up so their mail goes directly into a filtered file or at least send them to the junk or bulk
mail file. That’s where their emails will end up until you are ready for them.
Also, schedule specific times, with time limits in place to check your email. I check
mine first thing in the morning, spending no more than 15 minutes, handle what needs
handled and leave the rest. Again at lunch, dealing with only important stuff, then I go
through the rest at the end of the work day. Taking control of your email is one of the
most important things that will help you to be more productive. This will alleviate
falling into a rabbit hole that takes you who knows where.
Don’t worry about all those incredible, once in a lifetime offers that come your
way. The fact of the matter is, we as internet marketers are infamous for buying
products and courses we think we will need some day and never use. Stop it! If you
really need it now and will use it now, go ahead and look at it and or buy it. Then use it!
If you think you may need it someday, don’t bother with it. It will be there when you
are ready for it. Trust me, if it’s not, someone else will have a course or product like it.
If not, then it wasn’t worth buying.
Schedule your day, plan your work and map out your projects. Look straight ahead and
focus. Take your Shiny Object Syndrome under control. You can do this! I believe in
you.
With love and blessings,
Celene Harrelson helps you take the training wheels off of your business, so you can ride like the wind!
TheHappypreneur.com