Working 16 hours a Day at Being Unproductive
At times I feel like a fish on the dry, convinced of my swimming capabilities, yet having a hard time to stay alive, grasping for air.
In my post Keeping the Momentum Going earlier this week, I already talked about the feeling I have had for the past time, the feeling that I really need to organize and schedule things in order to get them done. While commenting on somebody’s post a few days ago, I felt I am not the only one who struggles with the same things I am going through.
However, the only one who can change this feeling is Me.
When I first started learning about affiliate marketing and other ways of making money online, I immediately felt that was the right way for me to go. I had already been running a website years before in a niche on one of my passions, in a language that I could hardly speak and had great difficulty writing in.
And without doing a lot of linking or SEO and with a horrible design which to date still makes me blush, the website actually had well over 30.000 unique visitors a month.
That particular website has since stopped to exist, but even now, after 4 years there are still over 1.000 pages linked to it… If only I had known then what I know now, that website would have made me quite the extra pocket change.
My problem now is different though, it seems my mind keeps shattering in all directions but the right one, and even though I am putting in 14-16 hours a day of “work†and scoring 70 points in my little system, none of my projects are really working the way I would want them to. Because every time I am working on something, my eye falls on yet another interesting “opportunity†that I really need to check out as soon as possible.
Staying motivated this way is pretty hard to say the least so this morning I decided to go back to basics, getting out of the cycle I have been in way too long. I moved my temporary work area from the living room couch back to my office that I had cleaned and decluttered last week with all the best intentions of actually using it.
And for the rest of the day I am only going to focus on 1 project that needs to be tackled out of the list of all my unfinished things to do.
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Great post. I don’t think I actually understand time. I can get into a project as the sun is rising and look up at the world again as it is setting, thinking only an hour has passed. It doesn’t matter if it was actually a project or just a time waster. Sometimes I have to set alarms. Most of the time, I have to decide everything in advance, because once I’m in, I’m gone.
This also messes with my ability to estimate projects. If I say something can be done in a day, I have to multiply that by 16 or so. LOL
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Stephan, I so hear you! Same happens over here, hence the 16 hour work days … although I am more of a project hopper, going from one thing to another, something I really need to work on to get things done!
One thing I have already changed is not doing any site design-twitching-changing in the afternoon, it has already happend more than once that something goes wrong and I don´t want to turn off the computer untill I have found and corrected the mistake, having me up at 4 am in the morning … ouch!
BTW, I LOVE your blog!
Focus Focus Focus.
I think that the points system should be adapted to being focused. You earn no points if you do lots of unrelated things… hmmm.. I’m going to have to work on that.
I’ll let you know.
Cheers,
Alex.
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Alex, I think that if you use that system, you have to adapt it to your own style in order for it to work … prioritize … and don´t try to “score points” with things down in the lower part of importance … I think that later down the line, I will break the system in 3… things to do in the morning when I still have the whole day ahead, things I can do in the afternoon when my “low” hits in and things I can do in the evening, without having to focus too much on not “screwing up”
Keep me posted on your progress! Heck…. I´ll just follow the commentluv
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hahaha cheeky :P:P