You have just started your new money making online business. You, of course, are doing this working at home. Nothing to it, you think. If you’re lucky enough to have a room you can use as your office, all you have to do is shut the door and you’ll be able to work as long as you wish undisturbed. If like most of us, you have a corner someplace in your house for your office, it’s a bit more difficult, but you figure that you just tell everyone not to bother you and you’ll be fine. However, the reality may be something very different. Even having your office in a room where you can close the door, you find the distractions are frequent and often long. This is just your first problem.
Unfortunately, the distractions are not just from the outside of your office. Your money making online business is tied closely to the internet. Today, while checking your emails, you find a message from a friend, and, of course, you have to respond. And you must check your other emails. Some of that is business related, but a lot is not. That is more time spent away from money making online. And as yet, I have not mentioned surfing the internet. You start with the plan, let’s say, to check your key words on Google or to work on an ad you have on adwords or write a blog. The next thing that you know you are looking up all kinds of things that you are curious about. Does any of this sound familiar? If not, you are truly dedicated, but most of us find ourselves distracted from time too time by these things. So what can you do about it?
First of all don’t beat yourself up. Some breaks from the grind are necessary. But, you need to control them. Start by planning in advance what your work schedule will be. You can adjust it later, but have a planned work period. Then make a list of the activities you are planning to do at least in broad categories. As you go through this work period, note how much time you spend on each category, and if you get distracted, note what the distraction was and how much time you spent on it. Finally, consider how much in dollars each activity and distraction is worth to you. Once you’ve put a dollar value to your time, it will be easy to concentrate on the important money making activities, and reduce your time on the less important ones.
This will also help into step two, which is organizing your time based on the activities you find are the most important for making money online and worth the most to you. Notice we are talking about the most important activities, not maybe the most fun. Every business or job requires activities that we would rather put off or not do. If we could, we would pay someone else to do them. But even then, you cannot escape some jobs that you don’t like, which only you can do. And a money making online business is no different. So list your activities in order of importance to you so you can set your priorities.
The final step by now is obvious. At the end of each day spend fifteen minutes to prepare your work pan for the following day. Break it into Group A and Group B. Group A, which includes the most urgent money making online activities, must be completed before you start on Group B. This approach will save you time when you sit down at your desk the following day so you can dive right into the Group that needs first attention.
You probably will say that all this is just common sense, and you will be correct. But you need to identify the problem first before you can solve it. Then common sense can put you on your way.
Managing distraction does not make the days shorter, but it does make it possible to take control of your time. It will help you maximize your productivity and get the most out of your time; one of your most priceless and irreplaceable assets. And it certainly will help you to become more successfulon your new money making online business.
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