Internet Marketers Resist the Temptations

Internet Marketers have a lot of temptations. We spend all day on the computer and there are plenty of temptations on there. You have access to pretty much everything online.

It’s tough for me because I have so many hobbies and interests. I love sports, film, music, video games etc. Well, all of those things are only a few clicks away.

I can go to ESPN and check sports scores and read dozens of articles. I can go download about any song that I want. I can go buy or download any game that I want.

That’s a lot of temptations and I know that I shouldn’t be doing those things when it isn’t my free time. A person needs to focus on their project and get it done.

I still find myself cheating a little and going to these websites when I should be working, but I’m getting a lot better. One thing that I do is not let my mind get restless.

Don’t give yourself time to think about the outside world. I just focus on my work and don’t think about anything else until it’s done for the day. I block everything else out.

The Internet is not the only temptation. Since we work at home we have the normal home life distractions. They are different for every person, but everyone has plenty of them.

What I do is get up in the morning and tell my girlfriend that I’m going down stairs to my office and no distractions unless it’s important. No phones calls or nothing unless it’s important.

I basically lock myself in my office and get to work. I come up and eat lunch and that is my break time. Then I go back down to my office until later on in the afternoon. If I have any errands to run, then I go ahead and get them done.

After that I eat and usually have the night to do what I want, relax etc. Unless I’m really busy and I have to keep updating something online. I find that by cutting out the distractions I not only get more work done, but I have more time to play and relax.

When I used to get distracted during work, I would go to a website. I would say to myself, oh just a few minutes. Well that few minutes would snowball into an hour. I started to lose a lot of time on just useless distractions. Keep focused people, it will really pay off in the long run.