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I know this is a big problem for a lot of us who
work online - distractions and information overload. We check the email. We log into forums. We read gossip news. We engage in unnecessary chatter... And this can suck precious productivity from us whereby we could have better use it to do something more worthwhile... Like writing a sales letter...driving traffic...or making a courtesy call to an affiliate who have been driving you ton of traffic lately... Here's a quick fix dirty solution: - get the "LeechLock" plugin here => https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 It blocks blood sucking time-wasting site that murders your productivity. You can block them a period of time. And you can focus this block of "free time" to quickly do much needed work that can bring you profit. After which you can then reward yourself by surfing these "blocked" sites after you get what you want done - done! Here are more details of what it does: All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them. - You can specify up to six sets of sites to block, with different times and days for each set. - You can block sites within fixed time periods (e.g., between 9am and 5pm), after a time limit (e.g., 10 minutes in every hour), or with a combination of time periods and time limit (e.g., 10 minutes in every hour between 9am and 5pm). - You can also set a password for access to the extension options, just to slow you down in moments of weakness! - The sites to block can be specified using wildcards (e.g., *.somesite.com) and exceptions (e.g., +allowme.somesite.com). - LeechBlock also keeps track of the total amount of time you have spent browsing the sites in each block set. I've exploded my productivity after using this crazy little plugin. I wish I've had discovered this earlier. Use it. It's free. You just need a firefox browser. 10 minutes from now, you will be on the path to getting more things done. => https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 Jag |
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Very cool plugin! Most people would look at this is an extreme but if you do it in this way with focused chunks of time, you're looking at tons more product work, that's for sure.
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-Mike
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I'm sure people will get great value out of your post. Kyle Tully recommended "Self Control" for Mac because Self Control goes to the core of the OS, so one can't switch to another browser.
This is good for the creative type as well and good if one offers certain services where they don't have to get back to people right away and that customers are cool with it and/or are aware of a delay in time for email replying. I have my favorite sites as well so it helps tremendously and these tools really help stuff get done if one of your focuses is content creation. Similar concepts and are noted in different, well respected time productivity courses for marketers. Scott |
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Hey Scott, Mike,
Thanks for your input! I like to add on a bit more here... Tony Schwartz, the productivity guru, said that self discipline is overated! A lot of us don't have it. If you think about it, it's true. If you are stuck in a habit of engaging time-wasting activities, you will keep repeating it. Even with LeechBlock on, I still mes, subconsciously find myself clicking to other sites when I should have been hard at work. And when LeechBlock blocks the site, I will be going..."Damn! There goes my chance to slack off...!" The truth is - LeechBlock has "saved" myself on committing crimes on time-sucking activities countless times. Some may view it as extreme, but it is necessary. Because it forces you to stick at working on something - 1 at a time (no multi-tasking!) - which you otherwise may find it extremely hard to do on your own. Jag |
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