I just saw a video by a very successful Internet marketer who says he works an average of four to eight hours per week. Mondays is work day. He writes his blog posts, records and edits his videos, and does everything else he needs to do for the week. Then he takes the rest of the week off.
This might not work for everyone, he acknowledges, but it works for him. It allows him to finish things more quickly because he gets into the flow of whatever he’s doing, and keeps at it until it’s done.
Could a lawyer do something like this? Probably not, at least to this extent. For one thing, most attorneys put in many more hours than this fellow. We couldn’t get everything done in a day. In addition, much of our work is dictated by other people’s schedules and agendas.
We could use the concept of “batching” our tasks, however, to get certain things done in less time.
For example, we could dedicate a day (or a half day) for all of our writing. We could write a week’s or a month’s worth of blog posts and articles in one stretch of time and have the rest of the week or month for other things.
I haven’t tried this. I typically write a new post each week day and I don’t know what I’m going to write about until I sit down to do it. But I like the idea of cranking out a week’s worth of work in a few contiguous hours. I might give this a try.
I found another Internet marketer who works a full week. He is prodigious, producing tens of thousands of words each week, and claims batching as a key to getting so much done.
How about you? Do you think you might get more done if you designate two afternoons a week for client meetings instead of spreading them throughout the week? Could you block out Tuesday mornings for file review and get most of your week’s dictation done in one or session?
Something to think about?
Now if I can just figure out how to get a year’s worth of work done in a week. . . let me get back to you on that.
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