Now that I’ve committed to keep an Internet Marketing diary, I’ve gone and disappeared for a week. I know, I know – it reminds me of my friend’s blog: ‘How To Get Things Done’, which he set up seven months ago, and has yet to post on it!
I am still in the process of creating an effective timetable, and as I have a considerable backlog of stuff to get out of the way (not including my day job), I will need to incorporate it into the timetable.
I was going to try to get the backlog cleared before starting anything on IM but then I would never start.
The backlogs include scanning thousands of old prints and negatives, selling old equipment on Ebay, Filing; a whole 4 drawer filing cabinet needs seriously updating, and putting in order.
I’ve been blogging away every day on my niches, but until I’m earning any money I can’t afford to outsource the blogging.
Other people just copy and paste stuff into blogs and it takes only seconds, but I write or rewrite every post, and it takes at least half an hour, after I’ve swiped a photo, then found who to credit for it.
It’s Thursday tomorrow, which means Ebay Listing Day. Someone told me to always have 10 day listings starting on Thursdays or Fridays, so I can include two weekends. These have always been most fruitful for me too.
So today I have been photographing my old photo equipment, and a few other goodies ready to put up tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
52. Accountability
I’ve recently been slacking in my online work, and can’t seem to stay motivated. But I think I may have the answer. I’ve got another blog on healthy eating, and as well as offering tips and recipes I had the idea of using it as a food diary, so that I have to account for everything I eat every day.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
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