How many times have you finished a two hour work session only to wonder what you’ve accomplished? You remember starting out on a project and before you were done you were on something completely different. Worse, the job you started out to do is still undone. I know how frustrating this can be because I’ve done it countless times myself. I have found a way to combat this and I’d like to share it with you.

Multi-Tasking Is A Myth

First of all, let me disabuse you of the notion that so-called “multi-tasking” really accomplishes anything. Studies have already found that people who think they are working on five things at once are not doing any of them any favors. Usually, the whole system perpetuates having to revisit and revisit and revisit projects that could have been completed in a small fraction of the time. All the person needed to do was quit deluding themselves into believing more activity equals more accomplishment.

It simply isn’t so.

My honest opinion is the multi-tasking myth was created by people who had a ton of stuff to do but were too overwhelmed to start any of it. So, they made themselves feel like they were accomplishing something by getting in the middle of as much stuff as they could. In the end, all of it suffered including the human.

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We Need To Save Our Ideas

All of us are constantly looking for ways to streamline our businesses and become more productive. One of the ways we do this is to consolidate our planning and doing processes.  We’re being told all the time to keep a small notebook with us so we can write down ideas that come to us.  Whether they’re for articles or products or ways to expand our reach, we’re told to get as much down as we can as quickly as we can so the details don’t slip away from us.  We all know how frustrating it can be to look at our chicken scratch note and not be able to figure out what the hell we were thinking.  We could end up like Jerry in the Seinfeld episode where he writes down a joke idea half asleep and then spends the entire episode trying to get it deciphered only to find out it was crap to begin with.

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WordPress And Akismet

Anybody who uses WordPress probably uses Akismet.  Not only does it come with WordPress out of the box but if you don’t use it you’re buried in spam.  Every time I update my blog I check the spam to at least scan it to make sure there are no false positives. I rarely find any.

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What’s All This Talk About Outsourcing?

While most of us feel like we’re overwhelmed with too much to do and not enough time to do it, others seem to move through their affiliate marketing business with consummate ease. What’s the difference between the two and how can you benefit from this knowledge.

In a word, outsourcing.

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This is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart because it seems like nearly everybody you ask this question to has a slightly different answer. I realize this is probably because sharp people (like my readers) will take a “system” and adapt it to their particular situation rather than trying to force an “out of the box” solution to work for them.

So, here’s your opportunity to be heard, help me understand what’s working for you and, if you’re part of Disqus, write some content that ends up on your FriendFeed for all your followers to see.

If you would leave a comment below and tell us what has been working for you and what hasn’t, we all stand to learn from it.

That is the ultimate goal of any community, isn’t it?

Best,

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