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This is a good topic.
What works for me is to keep an idea notebook. I write down all my goals and ideas in here and create my to-do lists from that. Then I organize those ideas into to-do lists based on what I think are going to be most profitable.
I also have 5-10 single daily actions that I try to commit to every day. Send one email requesting a link exchange, create 1 page of content, review the online casino and online gambling news, etc.
Other than that, I don’t keep a rigid schedule. Seems to be working for me so far though.
thanks – I think its a good topic too
and one that can be beneficial to ALL of us here at CAP …Will be interesting to see how many lurkers and how many contributors the thread gets!
The idea list is a great idea, Randy, I have so many ideas but before I carry many of them out, they steal away into the twilight zone, never to be thought of again until something jogs my memory.
Basically, my workday is unorganized. My primary function isn’t webmaster, it’s mom to a two year old, so I can’t really follow a tight schedule at this point. I do almost all of my work at night, while my daughter sleeps.
So, during the day, I check emails, read gambling news and forums, chat with webmaster friends on IM, while simultaneously playing with lego, reading stories and saying cool phrases such as “time to go potty?”, and “no-no, sweetie, don’t put mommy’s phone in the doggie’s water…”
However, because I have three grown children, I have just begun to form a sort of association with them – and have actually handed over the running of two sites – pokerbaron.com and slottips.com to two of them. I find that running one site the size of casinogeek.net is enough for me – at least for now.
I think adding a page a day is a great ambition. The search engines will respect that, and that’s my goal now. I used to do that – until I started up the other sites (and Samantha started running/climbing), then I fell back. The thing that really made adding content so hard was the time I spent getting links! I’m a reformed link-a-holic now, and things are really going to start moving.
That is a valid question. I have no schedule whatsoever, i go to bed when I want and get up when i want. I take a couple of weeks off if i want to go on a vacation, or work 16 hours straight. Anything goes.
A couple of years ago I started writing down on notepad what I needed to do the next day, that way when I get up i see it and it reminds me of what needs doing. I dont always follow it but it helps.
I also dont work straight. I might do an hour, go to a store or for a drive, work again, read some, work a little, etc.
Antoine
I’m all over the place, much like Ant has said.
( I am a little less worried about me now that I know I’m in good company)
but anyway, I can only offer this one piece of advice which I try to follow strictly, but like everything else in my life, is also all over the place.
but my advice is to get up and exercise every couple of hours doing anything “off your ass”.
if my theory is correct and our metabolisms are respondent to what the body “thinks it needs” rather than to what is actually used; then it stands to reason that if you were to say, …. get up and run for 10 min,… that your metabolism will respond as such for I’d guess about the next 2 – 3 hours.
so in other words, as long as you were fooling your body into thinking you were exercising all day, it would in time respond with a metabolism that you’d find on someone that really does get exercise all day long.
and even if my theory is completely wrong, its still a good excuse for getting up every couple of hours and blowing the dust out of the machine.
I think it does get more oxygen to your brain = better production of the time spent actually working.
I don’t normally use a to do list except for things where I don’t have anybody that is waiting on it. Most of my website stuff falls into that category.
I tend to check the forums first and then try and get a few quick wins out of the way so I get the ball rolling and if I don’t achieve anything else in the day, at least I have done something.
I think it would be a tough thing to spend a day on one task and then another day on another task. Much better to go with, “send a few link exchanges, write a review, add some pages etc”.
The worst thing that can happen for me is I’m trying to get something working that I’m not really sure about and it doesn’t work I normally throw the hands up in the air and look for something else to do. That’s when I normally think about doing my accounting/tax stuff as the quarterly returns come around really quickly.
Basically I think you have to make sure you keep the promises you make to yourself and work the best way you can. Up early in the morning and finish early works best for me. I guess we are lucky in that we can work when we want and goof off when we want. Just depends on the levels of income we need to keep and maintain those things that are important to us.
I turn the machine on in the morning and I have a bunch of windows open permanently. I go through those as they all are open because I am active there. I make lists of things to do, but not all get done. Some resolve themselves, some get more important.
I leave the computer on all day and close down at 5pm. I don’t sit here all day though – I wander off all the time and do stuff around the house or outside or go shopping etc.
I don’t have a schedule – my only guideline is the to-do list.
I usually end up putting in a fair amount of hours daily – on weekends too. But I never work to where it becomes an annoying activity. Gotta keep it fresh and stimulating.
i’m a combo of these things. first off, i’m a list guy. big-time. daily lists, weekly lists, someday lists, house lists, site lists, brick&mortar lists, etc.
i almost always make a list of the day’s ‘”to-do” the night before. it frees the brain for sleep that night.
i should do this:
I also have 5-10 single daily actions that I try to commit to every day.
and when i get brain jams during the day, i used to run up and down our hill (about a mile and a half). that’ll jog the ideas loose, or at least be a good use of the body while the brain takes a vacation. i’d grown away from that, but steve’s right. things of that nature are a good habit, and i need to take it up again.
hehe, after my second trip the girl child would always say something like “boy dad, you’re really stuck, aren’t you?”. hehehe.
i used to have SEO wednesdays, but my schedule has changed a bit. now sometimes it SEO fridays
My problem with lists is I need a list to tell me where my lists are:
but you made an excellent point that is enough to get me to try a list again, and thats that it “frees the mind up”.
That WOULD be a great way of stopping all that; “I gotta do ” stuff that comes around about the time I’m trying to sleep.
I’ve always been an insomniac and since entering into this biz, is the first time in a heck of a lot of years where I can go until I’ve just nothing left and can lay down and go to sleep like normal people.
* I still am amazed when my mate (any of ’em current or past) could lay down on a bed, shut the light out , and be asleep in about 5 min time.
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7 min if we “did it”.
(he looks around to see if there’s anybody here who could give away that its actually only 6.5)
Sounds like we are all freebirds – a little of this and some of that …
As I stated I work an hour play an hour, work a day, golf a day, work 80hr weeks, take an entire week off! Hell I have had stretches where I didn’t touch a site for nearly six months and others where I worked 16hrs a day for a month straight.
I think I have grown content with the status quo – being content on making a decent profit when I could probably make more. Thus I am considering how a structured schedule might allow me to get more out of this business if it were ran more like a standard business operation. Maybe that’s out of the question – I don’t know, but I think I’m going to try it out. I surmise that the basic idea of “change” will be the biggest obstacle.
I too think the get my ass out of this seat idea presented by bb1 is legit and getting back into the gym a few hours a day might be part of my schedule.
Be careful arkyt, if you start turning it into too much of a business it might take the fun out of it.
I generally start at 6:30 or 7:00 am each day and work until 9:00-10:00 pm Monday thru Friday. On weekends I spend about 4 hours each day.
I try to schedule myself around lists of most needed projects, but stats checking is a daily morning ritual (first thing I do) and is static.
Interesting thread.
Being on the other side of the world, I tend to keep YOUR hours – I get up and check mail around 1 pm my time (1 or 2 am EST), check stats, read boards, and head out of the house at 3 pm. Get back at 8, and start working again until 5 am my time, so I do 11-12 hours per day, every day when I am not traveling.
When I am traveling (which is once a month, and right now I’m in Japan dealing with 7.0 earthquakes – 2 in 5 hours – and a huge typhoon on the order of Frances), I check in generally once-twice a day depending on whether or not the hotel has internet service or not (this one does, high speed too).
Though I have a very hectic work and travel schedule, for the most part I am still my own boss – and can do as I please – so if I want to play golf, I can (and do) – or if I want to just relax, I go have a Thai Traditional massage for two hours (3x per week since I have chronic stiff legs and a bad back) – let me tell you how nice it is not to have to work 9-5 and report to a boss.
It’s hard work – but life is much more enjoyable in the long run.
Hey Everyone,
I do most of my internet work in the fall, winter, and early spring. In the late spring, summer, early fall I vacation most of the time. My work day during vacation usually is 2 to 4 hours with a few exceptions. In the winter months I sometimes work 16 hour days. My day always starts off with checking stats, and then working on any projects that I am in to. My summer vacation will soon be ending and I will be back to work full time.I am also all over the place and go between spurts of energy to days off hanging at the pool (drives the wife crazy).
There is always a min of items that need to be tended to and always an ongoing list of projects to be done. But like others it works for me.
brian
