Be More Efficient With Sprints

byDavidHale

962 followers

8 years ago

Hi Everyone,

So as I was writing my most recent blog for my language learning site I once again came across something that might be helpful to everyone here.

I was writing about efficiency, more specifically about examples of the Pareto Principle and how we can get maximum results from our effort. (See my previous blog).

One of the examples I gave was doing Language Sprints - this involves focusing on learning only 1 aspect of a language for 2 weeks. This idea can definitely be translated across to making money online, so give it a shot to see if it will make you more efficient.

Here's what to do:

1) Choose you time frame - I'd suggest anything from 1-3 weeks.

2) Find a weakness in you site - this is what you will need to focus on for your Sprint

3) Find an action to take that will turn that weakness into a strength

Let's look at some examples:

• Writing a blog post per day for 1 week
• Write 1 blog post every 2 days for 2 weeks
• Spend 1 week improving the aesthetics of your site
• Spend 3 days reviewing your site and identifying opportunities for linking or adding affiliate sites
• Spend 5 days developing an email marketing system with high quality auto-responder emails
• Spend 5 days earning 5 comments per day on your site

The opportunities are endless! Remember the idea is to focus on only 1 area for a short period of time. Don't think about anything else but achieving your goal. The goals are kept to a short time period so the next goal can be on a different area. This will keep your site well rounded.

I hope this helps! If you'd like to see my original blog for other efficiency tips related to learning a language then you can find it here.

Let me know in the comments if you have other ways to run your site more efficiently!

All the best,

Dave