It’s a busy world, and we are all pressed for time. Especially in a recession, things start piling up at work as you end up doing your job plus some. Here are some ideas to help better manage your time!
Write down a list of all the things you have to do. You’ll want to keep the list to daily chores/work tasks and the like, just a running list of the things you think you need to get done everyday. Prioritize your list, and then you’ll find you can probably eliminate the last 2-3. Stop doing them and see if anyone misses them. (If they do, clearly they’re more important than you thought.)
Recruit friends/family. If you can, look to your closest friends and family (especially if any are skilled writers!). See if they can fill in with a post every now and again. You can use them as a sounding board, too, or ask them for post ideas if they share your interest. Not everyone wants to blog, but they may have some fantastic ideas for topics and ideas you should write.
Make a to-do list. You should have one, since you prioritized your daily to-do activities, but nevertheless, you should come up with a to-do list, even for your blog. I find whenever I make a to-do list for the day, I am infinitely more productive. It feels so good to cross things off your list as you do them, and this way you’re also prioritizing what you need to get done.
Save up similar tasks and do them together. My blog involves a lot of product reviews, so one way to streamline some of the nitty gritty details of reviews is that I save up and take photos of several products, rather than just one at a time. This way I can also upload, crop, resize, etc. a whole bunch of photos in one sitting. This also means that, should I have extra time (ha!), I’ll have the photos ready for a review, too.
Tell your friends/family about your blog. Your blog shouldn’t embarass you, especially when it comes to your good friends and family. Let them know about what you’re doing, and then maybe you’ll feel better about saying, “You know, I just can’t stay out until 2am tonight, I’d really like to blog a bit!”
5 Tricks to Better Managing Your Time
5 Tricks to Better Managing Your Time
It’s a busy world, and we are all pressed for time. Especially in a recession, things start piling up at work as you end up doing your job plus some. Here are some ideas to help better manage your time!
Write down a list of all the things you have to do. You’ll want to keep the list to daily chores/work tasks and the like, just a running list of the things you think you need to get done everyday. Prioritize your list, and then you’ll find you can probably eliminate the last 2-3. Stop doing them and see if anyone misses them. (If they do, clearly they’re more important than you thought.)
Recruit friends/family. If you can, look to your closest friends and family (especially if any are skilled writers!). See if they can fill in with a post every now and again. You can use them as a sounding board, too, or ask them for post ideas if they share your interest. Not everyone wants to blog, but they may have some fantastic ideas for topics and ideas you should write.
Make a to-do list. You should have one, since you prioritized your daily to-do activities, but nevertheless, you should come up with a to-do list, even for your blog. I find whenever I make a to-do list for the day, I am infinitely more productive. It feels so good to cross things off your list as you do them, and this way you’re also prioritizing what you need to get done.
Save up similar tasks and do them together. My blog involves a lot of product reviews, so one way to streamline some of the nitty gritty details of reviews is that I save up and take photos of several products, rather than just one at a time. This way I can also upload, crop, resize, etc. a whole bunch of photos in one sitting. This also means that, should I have extra time (ha!), I’ll have the photos ready for a review, too.
Tell your friends/family about your blog. Your blog shouldn’t embarass you, especially when it comes to your good friends and family. Let them know about what you’re doing, and then maybe you’ll feel better about saying, “You know, I just can’t stay out until 2am tonight, I’d really like to blog a bit!”