How to: Overcome your Biggest Time(Money) WasterWritten by Abdulrehman on March 25th, 2009
I know it’s been a long time since I last wrote an article, but I’ve been pretty busy with examinations going on in my school. It’s not that I was too busy to come online but just didn’t catch enough time to write an article. Well during these 7 days I learnt how to control myself from one of my biggest time wasters online.
In my case, I can easily complete my daily online work on the computer(including writing articles) in about 2 hours. However, usually I end up sitting in front of the computer for more than 5 hours and end up without even writing an article for my blog. Which shows how my time is creeping away without me even knowing, I’m killing my own money.
So I usually use the computer with the intention of doing the routine work, but I’m often mislead to wasting time reading dozens of articles in my feeds and checking my blog’s statistics. I was literally wasting so much time, that once I realized that I was logging into my Google Account to check Google Analytics only to find a few more visits for more than 5 times in one hour.
It is crazy to waste so much time on those things and hence, there are 2 tasks I had to come over: Surfing the internet like I’m totally free and stop checking blog statistics every ten minutes. As for the first one, I took a deep breath and deleted all subscriptions in blog’s feeds, eventually I will subscribe to only 20-30 blogs to make sure that I am able to read all posts in one day and not waste too much time on them.
Being addicted to site statistics is like a honey bee addicted to flowers, you can’t stay without it. Hence, it was very hard for me to stop myself from checking the stats again and again. By stats, I am referring to almost everything, blog visits, incoming links, SERPs positions, Organic traffic, etc.
So how to overcome this is pretty obvious and simple, just stop checking! I loved how once Eli over at BlueHatSEO said that ‘let the money checks in your mail be the only statistics that you check on your blog’. Although, it may seem the other extreme of it, but checking statistics once a day is fine. Moreover, it is best to stay focused to what you have to do when you come online because when you do not know what to do next even though you’ve got some work, it’s very easy for you to get distracted.
We shouldn’t allow our time to be wasted because time is money! After all, the internet consists of more than 3 trillion pages, and it’s not hard to get distracted at all, because even the best content is just a few clicks away (3arn.Net, lol). Hence, when you want to make money online, you should be determined enough in your aims that you do not get distracted and avoid all time wasters that stop you from making the most out of your time.
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I know it’s been a long time since I last wrote an article, but I’ve been pretty busy with examinations going on in my school. It’s not that I was too busy to come online but just didn’t catch enough time to write an article. Well during these 7 days I learnt how to control myself from one of my biggest time wasters online.
In my case, I can easily complete my daily online work on the computer(including writing articles) in about 2 hours. However, usually I end up sitting in front of the computer for more than 5 hours and end up without even writing an article for my blog. Which shows how my time is creeping away without me even knowing, I’m killing my own money.
So I usually use the computer with the intention of doing the routine work, but I’m often mislead to wasting time reading dozens of articles in my feeds and checking my blog’s statistics. I was literally wasting so much time, that once I realized that I was logging into my Google Account to check Google Analytics only to find a few more visits for more than 5 times in one hour.
It is crazy to waste so much time on those things and hence, there are 2 tasks I had to come over: Surfing the internet like I’m totally free and stop checking blog statistics every ten minutes. As for the first one, I took a deep breath and deleted all subscriptions in blog’s feeds, eventually I will subscribe to only 20-30 blogs to make sure that I am able to read all posts in one day and not waste too much time on them.
Being addicted to site statistics is like a honey bee addicted to flowers, you can’t stay without it. Hence, it was very hard for me to stop myself from checking the stats again and again. By stats, I am referring to almost everything, blog visits, incoming links, SERPs positions, Organic traffic, etc.
So how to overcome this is pretty obvious and simple, just stop checking! I loved how once Eli over at BlueHatSEO said that ‘let the money checks in your mail be the only statistics that you check on your blog’. Although, it may seem the other extreme of it, but checking statistics once a day is fine. Moreover, it is best to stay focused to what you have to do when you come online because when you do not know what to do next even though you’ve got some work, it’s very easy for you to get distracted.
We shouldn’t allow our time to be wasted because time is money! After all, the internet consists of more than 3 trillion pages, and it’s not hard to get distracted at all, because even the best content is just a few clicks away (3arn.Net, lol). Hence, when you want to make money online, you should be determined enough in your aims that you do not get distracted and avoid all time wasters that stop you from making the most out of your time.
i was right....
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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Ouch!
I should be earning big time right now. Too bad. But, well I hope its not too late. Nice post.
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Nice post. Thanks for distracting me!
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Add social media to the mix, which tends to be addicting, and you have a whole new issue.
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The biggest online time-waster for me is twitter. Whatever I do I can be sure to spend at least half of my time twitting, retwitting, reading… I think I’m addicted.
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Hey!
Nice warning. Most of my time is wasted by the surfing some websites, such as ads, online games, I surely know they take my too much time, but I am still addicted , You are right time is money, I could not control myslf and my time when I was online. Thanks for sharing us.
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I am so guilty of wasting time! I get online to check my email and spend two hours surfing. I have to discipline myself to do what I came to do and not get sidetracked.
BTW, I changed the link on my top Entrecard droppers post so it comes directly to your URL instead of Entrecard. I was trying to save time by copying and pasting from my RSS but apparently that doesn’t work. Do you know a quicker way to link to the top droppers without having to type each droppers URL separately?
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This topic is quite trendy on the Internet right now. What do you pay attention to when choosing what to write about?
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It’s hard to stop checking your site statistics. It’s something you just have to make yourself stop doing. As for not getting distracted surfing the internet, that’s even more difficult. There’s just too many things I’m interested in not to spend a lot of time reading on the web.
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