And it all comes together.
The days of planning, the days of researching, the days of gathering together all of the necessary parts and ingredients are here again. It is a never-ending cycle with us but we don't admit it. We think it is the end each time. We think we can relax and kick our shoes off.
I have learned by now. It is never the end but the beginning of something new. It is in everything that we do and everything we learn. It is in everything we teach. There is never an ending. Just like our goals, they do not ever get finished because they are set low. Or are they?
Do you challenge yourself? Do you set your day up with a comfort zone day that gives you a schedule which you know you can skate through with no challenges or do you set yourself up with goals that are a little harder to make/reach? You know the ones I am talking about, the ones that will make you think a little more, research a little deeper to get the proper answers, follow up with the leads a little more aggressively to get to the right person for the story to be true, you remember don't you?
Do you make it a really goal worthy day and put goals that are almost unattainable and press yourself to the limits? I mean where you barely have time to run to the bathroom because you will fall behind your own timelines. Lunch will be taken at your desk by choice and your calls to be made are done during that time because you think you have better chances to catch your leads breaking than at work. Maybe staying an extra hour or so to make that final sale to make the quota, do you set goals like this for your day?
Whatever type of day you have chosen for yourself, you are right to have chosen. No one knows what type of schedule works for you. No one knows what type of schedule motivates you more and no one but you knows which type of schedule gets the most productivity out of you but you. Therefore, Make THAT kind of schedule for yourself. Do you know why you want to do that?
You want to do that because in the end, you want it all to come together functioning on all cylinders. To make this happen, you have to be at your sharpest. To make THAT happen, you need to have a schedule that optimizes YOU. You need to take a look at your daily/weekly planner and see when you are most productive or feel the most productive. Put your priorities in those places.
If the website is not your priority, then you must put what is first. A full time job may come first. Block out all time during the week that job takes. What is remaining? Block out sleeping time. What is remaining? YES Sleep is that important. You must block 4-8 hrs a day/night for sleep. You will not function well without it. In the time that remains, if you have not yet put your website in your time schedule, now is the time to block it in.
Block it in sections. Maybe a 3 hour section into 3 sections of 1 hour each. In one section, use certification training. Then the next, writing/posting a blog. And then maybe the next section being about researching new/old keywords. These are just ideas/examples of block scheduling to make it easier to format a work at home schedule if you are not used to not having a boss to give you a schedule. You still need to make it yourself. It will all come together for you as you start to make it. You will feel it fall into place. It will feel right.
On the first block schedule, write the actual task you did at the time you did them so you have a guide to go by. After the first week and the actual time you do the tasks is different than what you set for it. Then, when the next week scheduling is to be done, you have a more accurate marker to take from and you can adjust it accordingly. You can add tasks you didn't have marked before you needed and did and subtract tasks you did not need to have slotted and skipped.
Before you know it things will all come together for you and you are fast tracked with a personalized homemade block schedule that can be changed (known as red-lined, in old corporate America when they would need to make changes and use a red pencil and cross off the day's schedule with one red line) at any time. And it all comes together just like that easier than you think and faster than you thought.
Mike
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I an feeling a little better now. I am breathing better now. I am not as congested but my head is still stuffed some. I slept most of the day today still. Sleeping more than being awake but close to `10 up/14 down now most I can do at a time.
bur that is getting better than what I was.
Mike
I really appreciate your words.Ive at times felt consumed with too much info, and then end up with mental block.I often give myself talks on staying focused. So to hear that same guidance come from someone else really helps in some way.
When you get a mental block the best thing you can is step away for a bit. Take a break and change the setting/pace you are at. I have been a writer for years and have many different stories that I have run into a mental block that I learned to overcome by getting away from it and letting it come to me. Trying too hard creates a bigger block. You get stressed because you are blocked which creates a bigger tension. That tension makes it harder to think which can make even more of a block and so on. Walk away and let your mind unwind and restart,
I know this is how I do it. I go away and stop trying to think about it and let my mind wander. Senseless TV or music to let the mind flow helps me, I hope this helped a little.
Mike
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Great post! I hope you are feeling better.
Thanks! I am starting to feel a little better more and more each day.
Mike