Up On Main Street

While creating a website or even adding new content to my existing ones, I find that I, at times, lose my focus.

Whether I am using keywords to help me build content for my site, it seems that many times I need to search for information and when I am in the process of looking for certain info, my mouse just seems to take on a mind of its own and starts to click on certain links that looks interesting. Then it seems that I have “wasted” maybe up to an hour of my time looking at stuff not even related to what I started out looking for.

Call it anything you like, I call it “Getting off Task”. Here is a few things I try to do when I find myself doing that.

1. Take a break from the computer. I mean actually getting up and going into another room. Even if it is just for 5 minutes.

2. Close out of all the open windows that you have on the bottom of your task bar and only keep on the one that you were originally working on. I, at times, have 10 -15 different pages open in my task bar.

3. If I am really stuck on my content words that I want to write. Move to another topic.

4. Keep a to-do list near my computer on paper. If I see it on paper then I can do #3 and still keep working on the items that need to be taken care of.

5. At times nothing seems to work and my mind just seems to jump from one place to another and can’t keep a thought in my head. For this problem I shut the whole system down and take a nap!

So if you find yourself “Getting off task”, don’t feel bad as you are not the only one.

We, as a society, have our days filled with work, family, problems, laundry, bill paying and so much more that even taking that 20 minute power nap can rejuvenate and help get yourself back into what we wanted to do.

Even if you need to shut the computer off for the day, don’t worry the Internet will be there tomorrow. It may do good for you to take a break, smell the flowers and feel the sun on your face.

As Scarlett O’Hara said ” After all…tomorrow is another day.”