Nutritionist and peak performance coach Julie Meek has the following simple tips that will help you to perform at your best.

1. Treat your life like a sprint, not a marathon. Put another way, keep the finish line in sight. Creating short-term, achievable goals helps to give today and tomorrow urgency and meaning.

2. Create cycles of intense effort. Rather than watching the clock for 8 hours divide your day into 90-minute segments. Make it your goal to go all out then have a break. Get up, walk around and reward yourself for a few minutes. Then get back to it for another 90 minutes of intense effort.

3. Get moving. Study after study have shown that people who are active are more productive. In fact, just 20 minutes of exercise every second day halves your chances of developing Alzheimer’s.

4. Take performance enhancing supplements. No, that doesn’t meta contacting the Essendon club doctor but it does mean taking some basic supplements including fish oil tablets (or eating more fish), a probiotic such as Yakult, and — this is my favourite — up to 3-4 cups of brewed coffee per day.

5. Take a break. Whether that’s a physical break such as a weekend off or deliberately quitting a project that’s not working it’s important that you continue to be the person with the hand on the steering wheel of your life.

So far this year I’ve written approximately 180 blog posts. As best as I can figure it I’m about 2 off the pace of a post per day, a challenge I set myself at the start of the year. So far, so good.

But there’s a problem. There’s no single, unifying theme to my posts. Possibly there’s a general theme of commitment but it’s more inferred than explicit.

So it occurred to me last night that I could use the theme of gratitude for the last 6 months of the year. The posts would create a series called 184 Things I’m Grateful For. When I write about a person I’m not writing about a thing, so I’d need to change that to 184 People I’m Grateful For.

It seemed like a plausible idea but then I started listing the people I’d put on my list. I got to 17. That’s a long way short of 184.

Rather than make it such a daunting task I could break the last 6 months into two. The first 90 days could use the Grateful theme and the last 90 days could be something else.

I could even beak the last six months into monthly chunks. July could be the 31 Things I’m Grateful For. August could be 31 People Who Inspire Me. September…that’s ages away.

So that’s it. The rest of the year will have six different themes starting with gratitude.

The best leaders communicate vision and mission. Yet, they do more than that – they use communication to create shared vision and mission. That means communicating doubt and having the courage to admit they don’t know all the answers.

As a leader I’d much rather have all the answers and everything perfect. But getting results and moving fast demands that you stay fluid and ask for help. That pulls people into your world and gives them a sense of how they can be a bigger version of themselves by helping you.

Getting things perfect is the reverse of what works to get results. Artists know that no portrait is ever perfect. Authors know that no words are ever good enough. There’s always something that could be done better. But the great artists press the go button. They declare enough. They stop painting and move to another canvas.

And that’s what’s needed in this life, the ability to communicate something that isn’t perfect and let the world deal with that imperfection in its own way.

For now, keep hitting the publish button. Keep putting things into play that aren’t quite right. It’s that activity that gets things done.

Here are 5 simple tweaks you make to your website right now that will get you more free search traffic immediately. Not next week, not next month, now! More traffic means more sales, so get cracking.

Here we go.

1. Give every page a unique TITLE tag.

I see a lot of agent sites that include TITLE tags that don’t relate to what the page is about. Make them short (usually less than 60 characters) and descriptive (not just a bunch of keywords).

Most of the real estate specific content management systems provide for a way to customise the TITLE tag, even for each property listing.

2. Related to point 1, load the keywords you want to rank at the front of the TITLE tag.

Agents often place their business name at the front of the TITLE tag so that it reads “Smith and Jones | Real Estate in Upper Kabbah”. They repeat that on all of the pages on their site e.g “Smith and Jones| For Sale | Real Estate in Upper Kabbah”.

That’s fine if the agency wanted to rank for the search term “Smith and Jones” but most agents would want to rank for “real estate [suburb name]”. As search engines place a greater emphasis on the first words in the TITLE tag using the name of the agency at the front is working against, not for, getting found in search.

3. Keep your TITLE tags short.

Every word you add that isn’t what you want to rank for dilutes the SEO impact of your TITLE tag so keep them to less than 60 characters. Stuffing keywords into your title tag makes your site rank worse, not better.

4. Add links to your most important products (services/properties) directly from your home page.

This will help search engine crawlers find your most important pages easier.

Provide a link to your main services (sales, property management, strata management) in the body of the home page. Also provide a link to the properties you have for sale and to rent in the suburbs you want to rank for using the search phrase as the anchor text.

For example, if you want to rank for “real estate Scarborough” add a section called Find Properties for Sale with “Real Estate Scarborough” linking to a page that contains all the properties you have for sale in Scarborough.

5. Write a good META Description.

The META description is usually displayed as a short paragraph in the search results. That’s called a snippet. A good snippet acts as an advert for your content and will increase click through rates leading to more traffic. Take the time to write a good one. Google will ignore a META Description if it thinks there are words in the page content that provide a better description, so make sure yours is accurate and meaningful.

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