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There are so many social networking sites these days it is hard to stay focused on any one individual task. You sign on to twitter and start chatting with some people, then you open up facebook and start talking to people there, check out the top digg’s, etc. We live in a world full of distractions, don’t we? Many people call this multi-tasking and indeed that’s basically what it is. It’s also distracting!

I have a bad habit of trying to multi-task a lot. That’s mainly why I am writing about this topic. One of my personal goals for this year is to make sure I complete one task before I move on to the next task. This saves an incredible amount of time. Really, it does! Why? Well there are start-up times involved with each task you do. That’s why it is best to complete one task and than move on to the next.

Social networks are incredible. They connect you to so many people and so many ideas it’s no wonder you can spend all day on them. I was once asked by one of my twitter followers, who was having a hard time managing her time, how I manage to not get distracted and spend all day talking to people on twitter? and believe me, that is easy to do.

At the time this was a tough question to answer. Basically, I was getting distracted by my social media networks and I was not realizing it. I would have multiple sites open and be talking to multiple people at the same time as I was trying to do work on my sites, ebay, marketing, etc. That’s when it hit me! I needed to stay focused.

Staying Focused

Half the battle of staying focused is admitting that you are distracted. That’s what really opens your eye’s. Once you can admit you are not being as productive as you could be, you can begin to solve the problem and change your work patterns. Staying focused is actually really easy to do. Anyone can do it!

Tips For Staying Focused

• Make a list of the tasks that you need to get done.
• Arrange the list in order of priority – most important goes first, least important goes last.
• Determine how to spend your day.

There are two different approaches you can use to determine how to spend your day and it is based on the tasks you need to do and how much time you have.

1) Option #1

This option is best for people that are online for a long time during the day. It’s an easy way to split up your day and still stay focused. Plus, you do not get “bored” and tasks are no longer mundane.

Spend 1/3 of your day on creating new content and working on sites, etc.

Spend 1/3 of your day marketing your site.

Spend 1/3 of your day obtaining new knowledge.

2) Option #2

This option works great if you only have an hour or two here and there to work on your project. Spend all your time on doing one task. So, if you only have a few hours available than spend it writing new content for your site. Then, the next time you have a few hours available spend it on marketing your site.

Option #2 is really the better option. It maximizes your level of focus and you can really get some work done FAST! Option #1 is also great if you are working all day long on a site. Often times people can get bored fast, or run out of ideas quickly so it’s a good idea to mix up what you are doing. But, always remember to stay focused!