I think the 40 hour workweek is a waste…
Nobody has the attention span to work on ANYTHING for 8 hours straight in a day. I read a stat somewhere that on an average work day, most people only actually do 2 hours of “real work”.
The rest of the time is spent browsing the web, checking emails, chatting on instant messenger, talking with co-workers, spent “in meetings” and other non productive work just to fill up an 8 hour shift.
I wonder who came up with this schedule for employees?
Even though I haven’t worked a 9-5 job in many years due to my internet business success, I still carry on the same values I’ve always held about how much work time is optimal.
Personally, I can get more work done in 3 hours than almost anyone who works an 8 hour shift. So, that’s what I try to do with my internet businesses as well.
Here’s how I do it…
Think about what goal you need to achieve for any given day. Make a quick bullet point listing of each task you must get done.
Next, turn off your cell phone, your instant messenger system, close your door and do not allow any distractions whatsoever.
Then, you just dive right in.
When you are 100% fully focused on a particular task, you can get it done so much faster than if you have distractions around you.
This technique is what I call my 3 hour work block and it works amazingly well.
In many cases, by blocking out a certain amount of time like this, I’m able to get ALL of my work done for the day in just three hours. And I still get more done than I would in a typical 8 hour workday without this extreme focus.
I don’t care if you work a job or if you have a full time internet business, try this and see what happens.
It’s very refreshing when you start at 9am, plow through all of your tasks and by noon, you are basically DONE working for the day.
I don’t recommend working this hard for more than 3 hours at a time because you will get burned out. If I’m a little behind or want to accomplish more and get ahead, I simply work a 3 hour block, take 3 or 4 hours off to relax and then do another 3 hour block.
Still only working a total of 6 hours, but the amount of work I get done is incredible.
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