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If you were a mountaineer climbing a vertical cliff what would you be thinking about? I would guess you would be 100% focused on the cliff face and where your next hand or foothold was. It would be the same if you were walking the high wire. You would not be spending your time on a forum about how to walk the high wire you would be focusing on your next step and your balance.
So it should be the same with your online business. Concentrate on what you are doing. Don't get distracted by an email offering the latest internet marketing product. If you must, you can set aside some time of day to do that later but right now, you should be working.
Is reading this blog working? It may be if it helps you progress your online business and helps you to focus after reading this article but how many blogs will you read? How many forums will you spend time on? We all know how doing anything on a computer can seem like a time sink. You sit down full of good intentions but get distracted from what you were intending to do and before you know it two hours have gone by and you still haven't got started on what you meant to be doing.
We all need a break every now and again. It can help you concentrate if you allow a few minutes relaxing every hour or so but don't let that few minutes of browsing the web turn into a whole afternoon or evening if you seriously want to develop your online business.
There are a few downloadable tools that will set timers for you so you can allocate a certain period of time to a task and these time management tools help some people stay focused on the task in hand but they are just support and the real challenge is to train yourself to be focused and self disciplined about your work.
Do you know any lazy successful people? There may be a lucky few but most, even those that like to appear otherwise, are serious hard workers when they are working but thanks to their singlemindedness they get on with the task in hand, get it done and then relax and chill out. That is a good model to follow so buckle down and do what you have planned and then relax and read the blogs and forums if that is what you want to do to relax.
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