I’m not a religious nut about to start talking about some doomsday cult or how we’ve been given extra hours to worship the Lord of Zog. This post is all about learning to manage your time better, and prove you have got more than enough time to build a successful site, I’ll break it down;

  • TV

Watching the newest episode of FlashForward, or catching up on your hidden pleasure soap opera, will destroy your development. Think about it right now, If you spend any amount of time watching TV that you could be working on your site then you need your head seeing too. Think about it, if you get in from work at 6 and have something to eat, maybe put the kids to bed, talk to your partner about the day you’ve had, its going to be about 8pm. So what are you doing for the next few hours?… If the answer makes you feel guilty, stop it right now.  Get your site done first, do that new post, update that new page and promote the hell out of it!

  • Surfing Net

Browsing Ebay for the newest digital camera, Searching YouTube for the sneezing panda, or updating your iPod and before you know it you’ve wasted an hour, that you could have been spent cracking the first chapter of your eBook, By all means escape from it all, but get a grip of your aimless surfing, and make a success of yourself.

  • Do it today, tomorrow will never happen

This is an age old saying but it is so relevant. Why are you waiting till tomorrow, There is no reason for it. Get it done today then you can get even more done tomorrow, and the things you can get done tomorrow, do them now, no one said having a successful website is easy, Its not easy, and takes a huge amount of dedication and passion, but the battle is won if you don’t keep putting it off and get it sorted right now!

  • Aimless Social

By all means check your email, comment on the latest picture of your friend on facebook, but either do this on your lunch break on your phone, or get it all done in ten minutes, I’m being serious here, set a timer for ten minutes and get all your social eLife (I like that term, I should TM it!) done and dusted in that time and that time only. You need to spend time on social networks but for the purpose of promoting your website, not to catch up on the gossip.

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  • Day dreaming

I put this in here, because I dream a lot, but I recently found myself thinking what the hell am I doing? Why am I dreaming about my plans, and not implementing them. That said day dreaming can be a good thing to do, but do it in the car, start talking out loud pretending its a year in the future and how successful your site has become, talk about how many visitors you get, how your changing peoples lives, how much money your making a month and more importantly how your spending that money. Positive thinking is the key to success.

  • To do list

Write it down! At work make an ‘To Do List’ , or do it in the morning with things you need to do today, and tick them off as you go, for instance; 1; Reply to all tweets and emails (Website related), 2; Write new post, 3; Promote post on social media, 4; Work on future plans for site – Get it in written order of what to do, and tick it off when you have done it. Having a written list makes it harder to ignore.

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