List your goals then break them down in to small attainable steps. The task should seem easier. It’s almost like writing the recipe to achieving your dreams. Pretty soon you’ll be cooking up a storm, in a well-managed time frame.

Being decisive means you will assess the risks involved in each task (with the mail you’ll be worrying whether that bit of information is important or not. What happens if you toss it and was it important?). You will act on a task, rather than react to events around you. Being decisive helps you manage your tasks and goals more effectively. Once you’ve made your assessment you’ll be able to decide on a course of action and do it. Avoiding decisions often seems the easiest path to take, but all you are doing is making more work for yourself and not managing your time well. Be decisive and accept the consequences and you will stay in control of your life.

Are you a perfectionist? Perfectionists make great procrastinators. They can’t do the job because they want it to be perfect first go. You can’t write a manuscript of publishable standard first go. No one is that good - not even Stephen King. Having a time limit for a task and knowing that everyone makes mistakes will help the perfectionist in you to let go. You want to write that book so do it and give yourself a time limit for the first draft to be completed.

Are things of very high importance hard to get motivated for? Avoid procrastination by making sure the stages to reach your goals are in small measurable steps. If fear of failure is making you procrastinate work out how you can overcome this fear. Is there anyone who can help you with this task? Do you need to learn more before you tackle the project?

I recently found out how important incoming links are to a site. I have one site that had made it up to a pagerank of 6. For some reason it went from about 2,500 links down to about 800, and the pagerank went down to a 5. Five is still good, but not nearly as good as a 6.

So now I am working on getting more links to the site. For that I depend on Social Power Linking to show me how.

Jack Humphrey is a master at getting links. He is completely white hat, above board, and does not teach anything that could get your site banned. I like that.

There are many ways to get visitors, such as article marketing, leaving comments (not spam) at various niche-related blogs, submitting to social bookmarking and social news sites, putting up Squidoo lenses, and so on. Some people who read your articles, see your comments, or visit your Squidoo lens will follow the link to your site.

But the rules are constantly changing. Now there is Twitter, Mashable, Pownce and more that you can use to drive visitors to your site. How do you keep up with it all? Where do you hear about the latest Web 2.0 techniques?

You can join social sites such as Social Marketing Central (click the link in the sidebar). That’s a social site, similar in purpose to Facebook and MySpace, but for marketers interested in Web 2.0. At Social Marketing Central people discuss the best Web 2.0 tools. There is no charge to sign up.