More Focus Pays Off

I’ve been allowing myself to get overwhelmed recently with too many projects. I’m working on rebranding my eBay shop, this involves relisting every item, between 250 and 300 products.

I’m using a standard template for all my products so they will look more attractive and contain all the information about the product and terms clearly stated. It also requires me taking new pictures.

This is all a part of my rebranding strategy. I’m also doing some work on my website, keeping my blog going and I’m working on some internet marketing which involves me learning new things about building sites. It’s all so time consuming.

Over the last week, I’ve become a little frustrated because I was trying to do a bit of everything but felt like I was achieving nothing. So, on Friday, I decided to take some decisive action. From now on, I’m only going to concentrate on one project at a time.

I’m going to focus on it totally until it is completed. I will of course, still have to do day to day things, like keep my blog up to date and deal with eBay, but as far as projects go, I’m going to pin them down until they are done, finished, before I move onto another one.

I’ve implemented this new system this weekend and I’m pleased with the results. The hours that I’ve been working I’ve focused totally on one project, forgetting everything else. The project in question involves me building a little site, which has meant I’ve had to do some learning as I’ve been going along. I’ve now reached the position where I’ve almost completed the site. I’m amazed! I’ve done this by focusing for small amounts of time on one thing only. I broke my time down into forty minutes of total focus on the job I was doing. After forty minutes, I took a break then started again.

I now actually feel like I’m accomplishing things. I feel like I’ve achieved a lot this weekend without impinging on my family time. I also took some time out to do some housekeeping on my computer.

I had accumulated over a hundred EBooks on various subjects; I decided to throw them all off along with everything else that was sucking time from me. I’ve unsubscribed from all but a handful of my favourite business and life interest blogs.

So, it’s been a good weekend, I’m writing this post with my feet on the desk after just returning from an hour and half cycle ride. I can feel the sweat running down my neck and my body is encased in a warm glow, one of my dogs is staring at me, wanting to go out, and my wife and son are arguing downstairs.

Life! Love It! Live It! Well better take the dog out then.