What good is advice if you don’t take it?
Quick Blogging Tip #5: What good is advice if you don't take it?
This week's quick blogging tip focuses on similiar concepts that I discussed in last weeks tip "Read less. Write more." but I believe it's important enough and different enough to warrant a seperate post. So here it goes:
On my way to and from work I spend some time reading other blogs or forums that focus on the web work I'm involved in. I will frequently see a wide range of great ideas from ways to improve traffic, increase RSS subscibers, make money online (lol. Such an over used term) and more. The problem is that for those of us that are still doing the 9-5 thing, it's often hard to spend time blogging, marketing our websites etc. This could be due to a number of reasons, wether it's lack of time, laziness or something else. So I've decided to really focus on taking notes on various things I need to get back to. As an example, if I read something that I know can be beneficial to my online business if I will write it down in my ongoing to do list.
Now that I have this to do list I'm able to keep track of all the great ideas I read about and can later go back set a time to execute them. With the to do list when I have some free time I'm now able to simply look at my list and see what stuff I want to work on first without having to try and come up with ideas without a clear record to act on. As an example, I'll say to myself, "Ok, I'm going to work on my websites from 7:45 PM until 10:00 PM and then I can go watch American Gladiators on my DVR (lol I'm a Hulkamaniac)." Then I'll open up my to do list and work on what's I believe is the most important item first. Keeping a to do list is a terribly simple concept but I know that in the past if I didn't take the time to write down what I needed to implement on my websites after reading about an idea it'd never get done.
Do you actively focus on implementing the advice you receive from others or are you just a passive reader?
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I would have to agree with you Chris, it is good to take notes and get a “to do” list going. I think picking out the best content is key, great post.
But, I also think that as bloggers, some of us spend way too much time on other sites and less time on our sites. I have been reversing the process and it is working out pretty well for me.
Thanks for your tips and insight,
See you around,
Fabien
Small Fish Big Money Dot Com