Mamas On The Web

How Often Do You Actually Take Action?

May 17th, 2007

The internet is loaded with free information on virtually any topic, so it’s no wonder that you can easily spend your entire day just reading while sitting in front of your computer.

However, earning money online takes more than just reading about how to make money on the internet. You have to actually take the information you’ve learned and apply it to your own online business.

Yaro Starak suggested in his last newsletter that only a small part of your day should be spent actually consuming information. The rest of your day should be spent working and using that information to create something of your own.

This sounds like common sense but if you actually compared the number of hours you spend reading to the number of hours you spend actually working, you might be surprised.

If you get caught in the web of free information, maybe it’s time to change your schedule (or create one if you haven’t already). I like to spend the first parts of my morning checking emails and reading anything that’s on my list of ‘things to learn more about’. Once that time is up, it’s off to work. If I come across something interesting later in the day that I’d like to read, I’ll bookmark it and add it to my ‘to read’ list for the next morning.

Since adopting this new routine I’ve cut down my ‘consuming’ hours drastically and my work performance has increased. It doesn’t feel like I’m missing out on anything either. All the information I’d normally be reading right now will still be there when I decide to get to it. In the meantime, I’m building my content and gaining exposure to my sites because I’m actually WORKING!

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