How many hours a day do you spend working?

i work one hour a day. felt like i "made it" when my online income equalled the amount i was making in my day job so i could quit. i do spend several hours per day now trying to learn new things that could potentially result in even more income such as joining this forum and learning about IM.

7-8 hours a day on IM right now. I Have a lot of sites on the go atm. haha.

I went from about 18 hours a day, to a couple hours every week. I'm not super rich, but I have enough money to survive, spend time with my kids, and not worry about being able to pay the bills.

16 hours. The other hours in the day I'm sleeping

Very good question. There is a huge difference between the number of hours most people think they work and the hours they actually do!

I find that without a TO DO list, I end up doing everything else online apart from working. I usually aim for at least 3 hours a day though.

It depends on my workload. I've started doing a bit of freelance graphic work and it can take several hours a day to design something and communicate with clients. Obviously I can get things done faster if clients are quick with their responses, but while I wait I usually browse WF and do a bit of reading.

I do about 2-3 hours per day.

e.g

Around 1:30 hours spent watching a webinar or some recording related to my niche.
About an hour writing an article/blogpost, video or setting up ads. Then about half an hour spending time in forums and social networks.

Then PS3 lol. Funnily enough, I've met some other IMers playing Gran Turismo 5 online. May end up doing some JV's with them, who knows!

well i spent almost 12 hours. if you think you work is your "playground" it is more fun.

10+ hours and I have 6 hours of school a day. I like money, and I like to be able to determine my pay. I don't have a gf, don't have a family to pay for. Right now all I do is make money and have fun

I don't think people what the term 'work' is, going onto the warrior forums is not working unless you were looking for someone to hire. Educating yourself while it is very useful is not work. Remember always ask yourself the question "Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?"

i'm a virtual assistant, so i spent almost 12 hours.
Have a nice day!

Used to spend every hour I could possibly spend on IM.

HOWEVER, what you have to understand is that it's not about how much you spend, but how well you use the time.

When I was spending 20hrs a day on IM, they were so unproductive. Now, doing 5hrs or so, I tend to do far more in those 5hrs than I did in those 20hrs.

I haven't done work on my IM for a few months. It's on auto pilot now. These days all I do is check sales figures. Make plenty of money but haven't made enough yet, so I'm getting back into it soon.

Recently I've been trading several hours a day, I enjoy that much more than IM, can be quite lucrative but I have good and bad weeks.

I have been spending 10-12 hours per day getting ready to launch my first WSO...it has been worth the days of no sleep and exhaustion as we have killed it!

If you haven't seen it search for PayPal PowerPlay?

Now back to work.....preparing for my second launch.

Cheers

Anton

At first I thought only newbies would have to work 10+ hours a day, but it's staggering to see how many "pros" are still working that much.

Most of the time I try to reduce the number of hours I work, that's EXACTLY why I decided to try IM and my day job. I outsource all the hard work and I usually don't work more than a few hours every day, excluding weekends.

I enjoy the freedom, and that's exactly why I started on this journey. I'm currently offering a WSO to help other people achieve the same, that's the only reason I spend so much time on "work" now. But working several hours a day is not usual for me. I'm not saying this to brag, but I think the most important and valuable thing you can get out of owning your own online business is the freedom to live your life without attachments.

Definitely worth it, so go for it!

Edward

I'm still at 10 hrs a day even week-ends
How crazy is that?

When I was still writing articles, I work for 3-4 hours per day. I can make 2-3 articles in that timeframe.

Every waking hour of every day, in programming terms, its like a cron job,
But its not all really work, some of the things I do are for my own
personal growth, like gardening, (totally therapeutic and fun,)

(plus you can blog about your hobbies too.)

I guess it all about how you look at what your doing, some people
likely consider any kind of activity as work, when you are looking at
developing a work from home type job you have to learn how to manage your
time, because if you do not manage your time...

Just a few thoughts, ) a good balance of work play fun is really the
key to a successful and happy life.

I really vary. Because I'm disabled I have good and bad days, so I work as much as I can when I feel well, then let it slide a bit when I'm more unwell.

It's why being freelance suits me best - I can work at 4am if that's when I'm well enough, I don't have to be well enough to be at an office at a certain time.

I dunno, I work and procrastinate and work again.

The time I spend working varies from day-to-day. I like to set deadlines for myself. I usually make a list of all the things that I have to do for every project. I then take from that list and assign task for every day of the week. Whenever I do not complete a task I simply move that task to the list for the next day. There are days when I work as few as 2 hours and there are days when I work as much as 17 hours on my online business.

The important thing to know is that when you are passionate about the work you are doing, you will not notice the time slip by!!!

In the week an hour a day, on the weekend 5 hours or so.

I completely agree with these points. If you are marketing part-time (like me) you really have to make the time you do have count. A mentor is essential - find someone in the area you are in who is successful. Someone who is where you want to be. Do what they've done to get where they are and it will save you an awful lot of time! Being "laser-focused" is another great point. Working from home you can be very easily distracted - the phone will ring or someone pops around, you check the post or look through your emails and before you know it an hour has gone by and you've got nothing done! Those of you with children at home will know that they are a big distraction (or little "time burglars!"). A big piece of advice from me is to have a To-Do sheet or Goal Sheet for that day and your aim is to get each and every one ticked off; or to a point where you cannot do anymore. That will definately keep you in check! Good luck!

On regular days I spend around 2-3 hours working but I can usually crank out about 8 hours on days I'm feeling particularly productive.

There is a massive difference between when I actually get down to business and when I'm "Working" on the warrior forum.

I started off by spending 10-13hrs a day learning and researching. Now I'm getting a better grasp of things, so I'm down to 4-6hrs.

What is this a bodybuilding forum? Everybody doing little hours and making money that answered this thread. COme clean for jijutsu sake.

8-12 hours per day. Might extend this and work for more soon.

In the beginning I worked 16 hours, now I work about 8.

+1 for having a To Do list to make your time spent working actually end up being time spent working.

As for the question in the OP, I always make a point to get in 30 hours minimum during the business week and then give myself freedom to work as much or little as I want on the weekends.

I find that this allows me to enjoy the occasional weekend grinder (always a good time), while still allowing me plenty of R&R both during the week and on the weekends when I feel I need it.

Some days 1 hour, some days 16 hours. I really don't think I have a set number now that I think about it haha.

Just depends on client workload and how many of my own sites need to be tweaked/updated/etc.

As a general rule to keep my sanity, I like to take weekends off if possible.

I spend 8 hours working for 5 days. In terms of approach, I'm in between. It works pretty well on my end. I choose to use this schedule so that I can have enough time for myself to do my other hobbies as well as to rejuvenate my brain.

I work 8 hours for straight 5 days, I prefer to work on this schedule so I can have enough time during the weekend for my family and other hobbies.

I do most of my work on the weekends (3+hours) and I like to spend at least 30 mins of doing real work a day (not check stats)

its not the number of hours that counts, its the amount of success you're able to achieve

I work 7:30 to 4:30. 10 hours a day. Weekends off.

I spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week working as a Virtual Assistant.

Well, I can only feel that I've made it every end of the day's work and think I did my best to get the job done.

Looks like there are a lot of hard workers here at WF... good to see that. Although I may be working a lot right now, I plan to have things set up for me in the next few years so I can cut it down to maximum 30 minutes a day just checking up on all my campaigns -- or hire someone to manage them. Hopefully I can get up to that point because early retirement would be great

I work for 6 hrs per day, 5 days a week . I feel myself fresh after performing my job because
i love my job and pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I schedule an eight-hour day, just like a "real" job. But I'm pragmatic about it; the reality is that an eight-hour day is divided into three parts.

First, half of your day is spent on things that have nothing whatsoever to do with your actual work, but are important for your job. Like I have to participate in Skype groups and post on forums and show up in masterminds. I do this for about two hours at the beginning and end of my day.

Half of what's left is spent on things that aren't your job, but that you need to do your job. Like I have to build download pages and register on affiliate platforms and make PowerPoint presentations and such. I do this in the second half of my day.

And then you have the actual work, which for me is building products. I have a two-hour block of time set aside for that every day, after my initial two hours of forum posting and Skype chat and masterminds.

So my day basically goes like this:

- Two hours socialising
- Two hours doing "core" work
- Two hours doing "support" work
- Two hours decompressing

This maps pretty well to how the average "day job" goes for white collar corporate types: you get into work and have a bunch of morning meetings and conversations about the day's work. Then you buckle down and start working. And then you go to lunch. After lunch, you get a bunch of people coming up saying they need stuff from you, so you do all the stuff they need. And then you're fried, so you putter around pretending to get work done until it's time to go home.

I still work a few hours a day, as 90% of my businesses are outsourced,

I am A GENERAL IN THE ARMY... not a SOLDIER IN THE TRENCHES...think about that one for a second.

When you step back and are able to work on your business and not IN your business, you whole outlook and income will change dramatically.

All my goal is to generate leads, and turn them into buyers.....or get my buyers, or list of buyers to BUY even more. Pretty simple but it works for us.

its like this start out putting in as much time as humanly possible when you start reaping that benefit in monetary form. Boom re invest in outsourcing and cheap paid traffic then you can tweak the amount of time you want to put in by your financial needs. I hear Brian Tracy say in the beginning you need to be at full throttle and then you can taper off. If it you always just go at a mediocre work speed and put in a mediocre amount of work then you will be cruising like that the rest of your life. Anyhow just put enough time in to get some momentum take enough action to make a difference .DONT spend too much time in the WF looking for validation ."Because whether you think you can or think you can't you're right..." Henry Ford

It depends. Some days zero, and somedays seven.... but right now I'm in the process of getting offline clients on board so although it's technically work, but it's something that I enjoy doing these days.

I have my VA's worked for me. So i don't have to work the whole day on my business.

It really depends. Some days 13 hours, others only 1 or 2. I always ask myself: What do I want to archive within which time?

5 hours a day.. If I work more, then it's more like a fun or chatting with likeminded people

Being a newbie to IM, and a first-timer posting to WF, my time varies considerably from day to day... Still learning techniques in Blogging/SEO/Affiliate Sales, etc., so struggling with trying to stay focused and concentrating on one thing at a time. Still wander from topic to topic but finding it a bit better as I progress.

Spending 3-4 hours in productive work four days a week, with extra time reading, browsing, learning and discovering new things to apply to this new business.

Not many enough.

a key note to remember

people have different definitions of work

14 Hours of work .

8 Hours Regular Offline and 6 Hours Online

My goal is to fit in 4 hours of Productive work each day.

When I say Productive I mean no email, no facebook time. Just focusing in and getting tasks done. I'd like to do more but that's as much as I can give it at the moment.

4-5 hours per day and then have a cigar and relax the rest of the day watching my income flow

when i started, i did it around my day job so for me it was anything from nothing a day up to 3 hours max, but on average i was spending 90mins a day.

it did however take me 9 months before i started making any real money

thanks

TheKaver

Some days from dusk till dawn, some days few hours, some days I don't work at all.

Ii all depends on how I feel, cause I don't work well at all on a strict schedule.

This way I'm way more productive, and work comes very easy to me.

I have a full time job so at the moment, I only manage an hour a day during the working week and a few hours at the weekend. Nowhere near enough I know but I get very good holidays!

Depends. I disagree that continuing education isn't the same as working. I do a lot of SEO and marketing work for my company, and I split marketing work with regular web development and design work.

I'd guess around 30-40 hours a week, but part of owning a business is you're never really off the clock. So around 5 - 8 hours during the week, less on the weekends.

I'm spending about 6-8 hours nowadays.

Hope to get some great result.

I used to spend around 10 hrs per day doing IM (even while at my day job).

Now, since I quite my day job and I earn twice the amount I was earning there I have some time to sit back and relax.

I might spend 6-8 hrs per day at my own leasure now, but that's only because i want too.

I spend as much time as I can everyday to making myself money on the Internet.

I spend as much time as I can working on growing my business. Usually I spend 12 - 18 hours a day; however, there are days when I only get about 2 - 4 hours of productive work done -- it depends on how I feel and how many outside forces impact my day.

Overall, I really enjoy what I do online and really lose track of time. Staying focused and not allow myself to procrastinate when it comes to getting some serious work done has been a challenge at times.

3-4 hours is enough for me there is always something to do but you got to keep the balance. I could work all day but that was not the reason I got into IM.

Very random..sometimes 18..sometimes none ....sometimes go for weeks without working..if you have a good staff under you....this can happen....of course expanding more will take more hours....what you put in...is what you shall get out!

Normally spend about 8 hours a day working and promoting websites and building links.

I normally work for around 13-15 hrs a day. I enjoy doing my work so I can't complain.

It depends, as long as my work is not done yet I will finish it so that I can pass my report on the exact date. Working online is cool!