If you have your own websites business and you are looking to move online fulltime, there is every chance that you are working each and every minute you can. Promoting, coding, content, marketing ideas and products to sell will be filling your mind 24 hours a day 7 days a week, you eat and sleep the internet – but where does it get you?

If the above scenario in anyway reflects your working life online then you may have to adjust your work style and reduce you working day, resulting in a win win situation where less time spent in front of the screen will actually result in better quality output and more of it!

Picture the situation, you logged on at 8am this morning, its now midnight and you have been online most of the day, checking what’s happening, tweaking your websites and trying to bring in more business. Long days online can cause havoc with your sleeping patterns which will in turn see the quality and quantity of your output fall as you become more and more tired. People in this situation are often unable to see the bigger picture and instead concentrate on what is in front of them at the time. No time for reflection can have serious implications for your long term business prospects. So why not try a different approach?

If you were working offline you would not expect to work anymore than 8 hours for a standard day, so why not give yourself a 4 hours stint in the morning and a 4 hour session in the afternoon. Write down your ideas and thoughts before you get to work, and use these to refer to as and when you complete the tasks you have set yourself for the day. The extra focus of having a list to look at, and the satisfaction of actually crossing something off your list, will give you a boost as the day progresses.

Use lunchtime to reflect on work you have done in the morning, could you better it, could you take a different angle, basically just think it through. In the afternoon maybe slide yourself in by reading a couple of blogs to see what is happening in the industry in which you operate, check to see if there is something you have missed, then start work again.

If you give this schedule a try for just a couple of weeks, you will see an improvement in your sleeping patterns, your work output and in due course your business. This really is a situation where less time (but more focused) can actually give you greater results than sitting in front of your machine hour after hour after hour. Give it a try and let us know how you get on……

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