In science it's called “cause and effect.”

Boy kicks ball. Ball rolls.

Exercise and eat less. Weight loss.

Sell stuff. Make money.

Alabama crushes Texas in the BCS Championship. Everyone's happy.

When you know the outcome you want [effect] and you ruthlessly pound your plan [cause] – you are ruling your results.

Leading into 2010 we'll look at five laws that literally can change your life. They will change your business without a doubt.

Rule Results: Law #1 – Control Your Time; Control Your Destiny.

Become compulsive about time. You're not getting it back. It's finite and none of us knows how much of it we have.

One person may have 60 more years and another 60 more seconds. You can't accurately value time because the amount is unknown and unique to each person.

What we CAN do is control the time we have.

My son, Steven, controls his time.

He knows exactly how long he will play a video game before starting homework. He knows how long his homework will take. He knows when he will do both. Rarely does he miss his mental numbers. It's strange, but fun.

(And the kid is an athlete, which makes his time obsession odd.) 

But maybe he got it from me. I'm definitely time irrational.

Controlling your time allows you to get more done, faster and more accurately.

It's 5:38 am, Saturday, December 19, 2010 as this is being written.

I began at 5:30. I'll be done at 6 am and headed to Cracker Barrel for a great southern breakfast with a friend.

I'm controlling time right now. I'm controlling destiny.

In the short-term this article will help all who apply it. In the long-term it will bring more customers. Which means more income. Which means helping more orphans.

How do you control your time?

First, what amount of your time is FIXED?

Someone else controls it. Someone else commands it.

Write down how much time of the week you have no influence on, it's already planned for you.

Second, everything that remains is FLOW time. You control the flow of it. You determine what to do with. You decide how to use it.

Flow is where people waste the most time because they usually don't control it. They're haphazard.

Instead, become decisive about time.

If you have 60 minutes a day to devote to your online business then DEVOTE it. Don't allow anything to interfere. Be relentless. No excuses.

Average online entrepreneurs kiss even their flow time goodbye. They spend time surfing around. Spend time in forums with folks who have no clue, but act like they do. Tweet their life away 140 characters at a time.

Get time conscious and time focused. Become acutely aware of when and what you do and shape it. Mold it like Michelangelo.

Control your time; control your destiny.

Success is NOT an Accident!

Paul Evans

Join me inside Nicheology right now...