UNPRODUCTIVE MULTITASKING
I have not been focused on developing this site. I told myself that I am working hard on it - BUT - it wasn't productive when I pushed on in the jungle of dofollow blogs, never leaving a comment. It wasn't productive when I shuffled through various forums, trying to find suitable ones to participate. It wasn't productive when I tracked down possible benchmark blogs and competitors also unproductive was all the reading about SEO and marketing. I went on headlong and got information and ideas, but productive that was not. It wasn't productive, because you have nothing new to read about.
PLANNING TO PLAN
Gotta have a plan, because having a plan makes it all better. Good plans are not too tight, but leave room for occasional broken leg or missed train. It is a wonderful feeling when long planned project gets going and in the end finally gets accomplished.
However, plans tend to change constantly, and then we need more planning and some more and finally someone stole your idea or was it that they just made it slowly. Then again, maybe it was all because I was just planning to start planning. Huh, can't keep up with this reasoning. One thing I know is that if you focus on your plan, you can finish it.
DO THE WORK
Taking small and repetitive steps is a more productive and better way to reach your goal than detailed and complex plan. Actual work, which has been done (really done and not just - yeah, well that's just about done) no matter in how small parts remains very concrete.
The beauty of this approach is that after every accomplished step comes a possibility to change the direction. You need to know only one thing - where are you going. If you don't know your destination, you are in great danger to start going in circles, just exhausting yourself and never making the road. What worked earlier, will work again - focus. Focus on the goal and then focus on every single action you do to get there. You WILL get there.
FOCUS
It doesn't matter where you lay your focus on, you will find a way, which works for you, just make sure that you are focusing on one thing. Focusing on many things is cheating yourself, it's not focusing, it's cheating. Seth said it well in this article.
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
FOCUS
Posted by Jarkko at 01:44
Labels: dream plan, Jake, marketing, motivational
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2 comments:
Really good article. I agree that planning should be detailed enough to get you going, but not so detailed that you end up making excuses for not even trying.
For me the plan "headlong" has always worked the best. The more I have pondered something the more it has become that desert never to be crossed.
Many a time it has happened that from the wreck of the failed attempt rose a beautiful sprout of a new project. But was that offshoot successful or not?
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