How You Can Manage Time and an Internet Business
We all know the Internet is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you have an Internet business, you may also find yourself
open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You read all the advice on time management. You're told to set
regular work hours, make lists and prioritize. Well, if you're
like me with a newborn and a toddler, there are no regular
working hours. There's no regular anything and your to-do list
is probably so huge, you need another to-do list to remind you
to work on your original to-do list. So, what do you do?
Take another look at the to-do list and the deadlines you've
set. Use your to-do list as a guideline, not gospel. Is your
to-do list filled with things like...
change font-face on all pages do keyword research for product
pages write one more article for ezine ...ask yourself, "Who is
going to notice if I don't do these things?" The answer is,
inevitably,"Me". If you constantly find yourself with a to-do
list filled with things that your average visitor or customer
wouldn't notice, you have three choices:
Allow yourself to feel pressured by these unattainable goals
until you finally explode. If funds permit, hire someone to help
you with the tasks you can never seem to get done. Hire a
virtual assistant, a web designer, a search engine expert or
whatever you need. If you don't have the funds to hire anyone,
then you'll just have to start letting thingsslide. Scrap them
altogether or set them aside until you have time. Yes, I'm
recommending procrastination. It's not healthy to spend all your
time at a computer and there's only so much one person can do.
Send out your ezine a day or two late. Or send it out with one
less article. Is the font on your website really that important?
The search engines can wait for those keywords until after
you've had a good sleep. If the only person who will notice is
you, why are you putting yourself under such pressure?
Remember what your mom used to say? "It's a beautiful day. Go
play outside." Now go do it!