Comments on: Focus Your Efforts – Ten Habits Day 10 http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/ The Renaissance Woman Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Focus by Elimination and Smart Work – Ten Habits Day 9 – Angela England http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-672 Focus by Elimination and Smart Work – Ten Habits Day 9 – Angela England Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:50:00 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-672 [...] the Ten Habits Day 10 to learn more about how to focus your writing efforts. Share and [...] [...] the Ten Habits Day 10 to learn more about how to focus your writing efforts. Share and [...]

]]> By: Ten Habits of Successful Blogging – Angela England http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-671 Ten Habits of Successful Blogging – Angela England Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:41:09 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-671 [...] times. Delegate. Write ahead. Plan a series instead of single, stand-alone pieces. Let go. More: Focus Your Efforts (by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlin) Eliminate When Needed and Work Smarter! Seven Day PR Focus (by John [...] [...] times. Delegate. Write ahead. Plan a series instead of single, stand-alone pieces. Let go. More: Focus Your Efforts (by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlin) Eliminate When Needed and Work Smarter! Seven Day PR Focus (by John [...]

]]> By: Chris McLaughlin @Suburban_Farmer http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-670 Chris McLaughlin @Suburban_Farmer Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:23:17 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-670 Oh my....I have all KINDS of ideas rolling around right now after that post - Thanks, Laurie!! Oh my….I have all KINDS of ideas rolling around right now after that post – Thanks, Laurie!!

]]> By: AngEngland http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-669 AngEngland Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:11:55 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-669 That's where you, like me, will benefit from writing ahead when able. So when it's slower with private contract work don't post daily for two weeks only to disappear for a week or two. WRITE daily for two weeks but scheduled your posts out over the next month. If you're able to continue writing, write! If you pick up a private contract job, you'll be covered with that "safety net" of pre-written posts that will only take five minutes to dust off and push live. Angela < That’s where you, like me, will benefit from writing ahead when able. So when it’s slower with private contract work don’t post daily for two weeks only to disappear for a week or two. WRITE daily for two weeks but scheduled your posts out over the next month. If you’re able to continue writing, write! If you pick up a private contract job, you’ll be covered with that “safety net” of pre-written posts that will only take five minutes to dust off and push live.

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]]> By: Erica Mueller http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-668 Erica Mueller Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:53:04 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-668 Schedule? That's one of my goals for the first quarter of this year... set a schedule. It's hard when you have more than one job... If it were more than one blog, I'd do like Laurie and post certain places on the scheduled days. However, I design, do print work, and blog and the first two are very on-off, sometimes swamped-sometimes dead. When I'm busy with a couple big projects, my blogging tends to suffer as some of them can take a week or more. I'm working on it! Schedule? That’s one of my goals for the first quarter of this year… set a schedule. It’s hard when you have more than one job… If it were more than one blog, I’d do like Laurie and post certain places on the scheduled days. However, I design, do print work, and blog and the first two are very on-off, sometimes swamped-sometimes dead. When I’m busy with a couple big projects, my blogging tends to suffer as some of them can take a week or more.

I’m working on it!

]]> By: AngEngland http://www.angengland.com/focus-your-efforts-ten-habits-day-9/#comment-667 AngEngland Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:21:18 +0000 http://angengland.com/?p=910#comment-667 I love that Laurie is able to set a writing schedule like that. For many, that is one of the final keys. For me, especially with my lovely kiddos, I have a more loose approach to writing schedules. At the beginning of the month I go through my brainstorming and write out the titles of the posts I want to publish at the various venues. Then as I am able - usually on one of my husband's days off, I WRITE LIKE CRAZY! Lol! No time for writer's block - I have work to do! It's nice because he gets a "Daddy day" with the kids and I get a chance to really get some quality work done when it ISN'T eleven o'clock at night. :-) Takes a lot of the pressure off me to know that I've already finished the entire week's worth of work. If I CAN write ahead, I do. Because I know that as a wife and mother of little-bits, my time is not my own. Thanks so much for this great advice, Laurie. The quote you shared at the beginning of the post is one of my absolute favorites bar-none. I love it and try to live by it. It's easy to say "Oh I wish I would have done that a year ago" and freeze up. Well - guess what. It's not a year ago. It's NOW. What will you do NOW so that in another year you aren't saying "Oh, I wish I would have done that a year ago." :-) I love that Laurie is able to set a writing schedule like that. For many, that is one of the final keys. For me, especially with my lovely kiddos, I have a more loose approach to writing schedules.

At the beginning of the month I go through my brainstorming and write out the titles of the posts I want to publish at the various venues. Then as I am able – usually on one of my husband’s days off, I WRITE LIKE CRAZY! Lol! No time for writer’s block – I have work to do! It’s nice because he gets a “Daddy day” with the kids and I get a chance to really get some quality work done when it ISN’T eleven o’clock at night. :-) Takes a lot of the pressure off me to know that I’ve already finished the entire week’s worth of work. If I CAN write ahead, I do. Because I know that as a wife and mother of little-bits, my time is not my own.

Thanks so much for this great advice, Laurie. The quote you shared at the beginning of the post is one of my absolute favorites bar-none. I love it and try to live by it. It’s easy to say “Oh I wish I would have done that a year ago” and freeze up. Well – guess what. It’s not a year ago. It’s NOW. What will you do NOW so that in another year you aren’t saying “Oh, I wish I would have done that a year ago.” :-)

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