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You need to know how you are
currently spending your time and
determine what activities are
leading to 80% of your success.
If you are spending your time on
the wrong activities, no matter
how well you manage your time,
you will not achieve the
productivity you are after.
Why time management won’t work
• Allows time for thinking
• Allows for preparation of
multimedia
• Ensures you write about
events in a timely
manner
• Makes batch writing
easier
• Makes the actual
process of writing posts
quicker
• Improves the quality
Why content planning improves blogging workflow
1. Survey analysis2. Set up weekly template3. Allocate monthly themed posts4. Place in seasonal posts5. Allocate monthly themes if
there is any6. Place in sponsored content7. Place in 2015 specific posts8. Place in time specific personal
posts9. Place in marketing posts for
own products
A content planning process
1. Understand your current
time use
2. Be realistic about how many
hours you have
3. Consider having a day off
4. Know your productive times
5. Use existing boundaries
What to consider when creating a weekly
schedule
• Remember email is not your
job
• Avoid the constant check in
• Set time limits
• Use labels and filters
• Use canned responses
Creating an efficient email process
• Monotask
• Block out distractions
• Start each work
session with a plan
• Try the Pomodoro
technique
How to stay focused with blogging work
• Pareto principle• The 80/20 Principle The Secret of Achieving More with Less Richard Koch• rescuetime.com• google.com.au/analytics• The ONE Thing: by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller • coschedule.com• wordpress.org/plugins/editorial-calendar• google.com/drive• three.sentenc.es• gmail.com• Gmail Labs - Open Gmail. Click the gear icon in the top right and select Settings. Open the
Labs tab. Enable canned responses. Also enable Undo send!• google.com/calendar• google.com/chrome• https://hbr.org/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski/• The Pomodoro technique• focusboosterapp.com• feedly.com• bufferapp.com• evernote.com
Resources to help improve your blogging workflow