Ways To Speed Up Productivity

[Lemmy]

This one's very generic and involves no nifty tricks, but if you master time management you'll be way ahead of 99% of the crowd.

If you're anything like me and sit down in front of your computer in the morning with the resolve to "get some work done" chances are you won't.

You start out by opening DW ans PS. Then you read the boards for 15 minutes. Then you check some stats for half an hour. Time for a cup of coffee. Answer some emails. Browse the content at 3 or 4 sponsors. Download a few zips and discard most of it. Visit Amazon. Check the boards. A quick trip to Subway for lunch. Build the index page of a freesite. Chat with a guy in Europe. And so on and so forth. At the end of 8 hours "hard work" you have produced half a freesite.

You need more than a to-do list. You must identify what needs to be done, weed out time wasting non-productive activities, prioritize that list, set up a time table and stick to it. Don't go to bed unless your list is cleared.

Sounds boring and rigid? Believe me, once you hone this skill (and it is a skill) you'll have a lot more free time on your hands.

Specific tips.

- Greenie once made a post that boiled down to building 4 freesites a day for a full month. Submit one the day you build it and schedule the remainder for submission 1,2 and 3 months down the road respectively. At the end of the 1st month you'll have an inventory of 90 freesites for future submission.

- Don't waste your time going to the sponsor site looking for content every time you build a site. Download 10 or 20 sets at a time, select, optimize and thumb everything so when you need it just grab and insert on your pages.

- Unplug your phone, lock up the kids and pets, send your wife off to work. In short eliminate all distractions and get down to business.