This is a dominatrixed post and assignment. Click here if you missed the first one, you spiffy soul, you.
Today, we talk possibilities. Like, you need to get breakfast for the kids while editing client photos while shopping for shoes online while watching the latest health report about the breakfast you’ve just finished feeding your kids on the Today Show. Once the kids are out the door, you have a minute to yourself.
It’s business time, right? It’s business time until you start considering all the things you could be doing with the next few hours.
You could be marketing with local vendors. You could be blogging. You could be shooting personal work. You could be editing personal work. You could be researching the virtues of content-aware fill in CS5. You could be meeting with clients in person. You could be mastering SEO or Marketing or Firestarting or…or…or…
There are so many things you could be doing that you end up watching CSI and blog-stalking from the comfort of your home in your pajamas. I call this possibility paralysis.
You’re so overwhelmed by the 3.427 things you could be doing in your business that you do none of them. This is not good for your business, and there’s a simple solution. This week’s assignment: choose three business tasks to complete for in the next seven days that are above and beyond your normal workload.
Make these tasks manageable, but push yourself a little. Putting ‘Read SEO School‘ on your list is manageable. Putting ‘Conquer SEO once and for all’ on your list only sets you up for failure.
Three tasks. No more, no less. When the urge to do anything beyond them strikes, push it away. Focus. Don’t let yourself freak about all the things you’re choosing not to do. And enjoy your business time.
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And how did you know about the pajamas thing? Spooky!
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