Tips For Selling Your House

If you're planning on selling your house in the near future, it pays to do your research.

Look at what other similar houses in your area have sold for. By thinking how yours is better or worse, you should be able to get a fair idea about how much your house is likely to sell for. Is that an acceptable price for you?

Think how you can improve your house to get a better price. Do your sums and make sure the cost of improving isn't going to be more than the value you calculate it will add.

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Mastery Depends on Focus

In today's age of distraction, you need focus more than ever. Focus is the key to mastering an area.

Think what separates a professional sportsperson from any other. It is focus. They focus their entire life around mastering that sport. What they eat, when and how much they train, etc.

You can achieve mastery in any area of your life that combines your passion, talent and enjoyment. But the first step is to focus on mastering that area.

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Optimize Your Website For Mobile Viewing

If you have a website, is it designed to handle mobile viewers?

Many times, people visiting your site on their iphone, blackberry or android phone see the same version of your website as those on a desktop or laptop.

Think about it for a minute - your site looks great on a big screen, but what if it were shrunk down to a quarter (or less!) of the size? Would it look as good? Would people still want to read your posts?

The good news for people running a wordpress site is that there's a free plugin called "WP Touch" that automatically detects that the individual viewer is reading your site on a mobile device and serves to them a beautiful, app like interface that's optimized for them.

When it's easy to read your site, people will stay on for longer. Don't continue to turn off a whole section of your visitors!

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Delete Wordpress Revisions

From time to time, you need to clear out the old revisions in your wordpress site.

The simplest way is to use the wordpress plugin "Better Delete Revision".

This will remove all the old versions, leaving just the latest revision of you posts and pages.

Unless you have a large (>100 posts) wordpress site, you don't need to worry about this.

To check how many revisions you have, just scroll to the bottom of any post or page in your admin area and it'll tell you.

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Clear Distractions

When you're distracted, everything seems like a chore. You need to clear space in your mind so you can take on new information.

One of the best ways is to just write down everything you're thinking. Just pull out a pen and paper and write until your brain feels free again.

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How Productive Were You Today?

How do you know whether you've had a productive day or not?

The system that works best for me is to decide in the morning what 1 - 3 things I'll do that day, that if I do them, I'll have a successful day.

Then it's just about doing it. At the end of each day, I can say with certainty whether I've had a productive day or not.

Try it - it might help you a lot.

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Reflecting on 10 Years

Take the time to write down all you've done over the last 10 years. You might be surprised at how much you've accomplished.

Write down the things you've done that you're most proud of. Then keep that list somewhere so that when you're feeling low, you can look at it and say "wow! I've led a pretty good life so far!

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