Working Through Distractions…. Like Hurricane Ike
So I live just south of Houston. If you’ve been watching the news you’d know that means I took a direct hit from hurricane IKE this weekend. We were blessed to make it through the storm untouched and even more blessed to be a very small percentage of the Houston area homes with power.
With that said, I have a good amount of roof damage, a fence that blew down, some car damage and a lot of cleanup to do. As a person that works online full time it’s going to quite a juggling act trying to keep everything in the air. No matter who you are sometimes life happens and you get dealt with unforeseen distractions. How you handle those distractions is what matters.
For me it comes down to time management. Time management is a critical skill to any self employed entrepreneur. I’d go so far to argue that it’s one of the required skills to be successful. In situations like I have now it’s not really a matter of prioritizing what I do when between the hours of 7 am and 5 pm. I have to ask myself the same question I did when I was running my sites while also holding a day job.
Where am I going to find the time to do everything I need to do?
This will differ from person to person but in the end some sacrifice must be made. My personal options have always been family time or sleep. Taking time away from my family is never a viable option so for me it’s sleep. Until this mess is settled I’ll be falling back into my routine of old getting up just before 4am and moving to about 4-5 hours of sleep. I wish it were just a case of prioritizing my tasks but there is just too much to be done.
Times like this make me realize all the make easy money online and 4 hour work week gimmicks really just reduce the amount of “legitimate” competition online. It’s not easy and anyone that says it is would be lying.
