Again, it’s not how much you do, but how efficiently you do it. One project is working on it’s own toward completion and the other is getting 100% of my attention. The key here is my focus is fully on the project that can’t be automated. If I can go click a button to fetch data from thousands of websites, while I go work on another project, that’s multitasking. There are many great things in this tech world and automation is one of them. That being said, I don’t know if many of those studies accounted for automation. Sometimes I like to call it “ too many irons in the fire.” No matter what you call it, one person can only do so much before their quality starts to decline. The more you do, the lesser quality you produce. There have been study after study talking about the effects of multitasking. As you can see, it doesn’t matter when I do these things, it only matters how efficient I am. I’m working on expanding my brand, building my blogs, and providing more services for my customers. When most people are eating dinner, watching TV, or getting ready to sleep, I’m working. I can’t say this is every night, but for the most part, I do my best work at night. At night is when I find my thoughts to be the clearest and my energy level increases at around 8pm. You can’t have a service-based business without customers. I respect my customers and do everything I can for them. This doesn’t mean I ignore my customers during the day (just ask them), because my business is built on them. At night is when I can sit down, pound the keyboard, and do my thing. Why? I can get down to business with my websites and blogs. I typically don’t go to bed before midnight. Most of my customers know I’m up late at night. I chalk that up to lack of knowledge on running an e-commerce business. Automation isn’t perfect and I wasn’t utilizing the time I did have to push the business forward. I learned a lot from that business and used the failures I had there to launch my blog management business. When you’re dealing with customers, you have to do it right. This doesn’t mean I didn’t have to bust my butt at the business. Why do the same thing over and over again, when you can just press a button and have it done for you? That’s how I approached my e-commerce business and that’s who I was able to run it during the day when I was gone. I make people’s lives easier by automating their mundane tasks. You might ask how I was able to run a business with customers while I was at a full-time job, but the answer is simple. I was fixing bugs, responding to questions, marketing online and getting the orders ready for the next day. While the stores were closed and my distributors had packed up for the day, I was doing work. All after my full-time job working nine to five. I ran a side business in consumer electronics that sold over $1 million in revenue a year. I don’t want to dig around for worms, I want to catch mice! I’m a freaking night owl! I do my best work after 8pm. I’m No Bird! I’m a Night Owl…īy the time I get up, all the worms have been spoken for. It doesn’t matter when you get up, it only matters what you do with the time you have when you are up. It’s the age of the internet and 24/7 commerce. That’s so old school! We need to transform to the future.
I guess we are still measuring success by what we can accomplish on a 9-5 work schedule. The issue with the whole early bird getting the worm is only those who utilize their time efficiently actually get said worm.
You can do things when stores are open, businesses are running, and commerce is happening.
While I will say those who get up early do have more chances to complete tasks that are based around the typical work day. While I don’t get cranky or bite anyone’s head off, I don’t like being up early in the morning. There are just some people out there that just don’t do mornings. Here’s why! It’s Not About When You Get Up, It’s About How You Utilize Your Time Why are the ones who get up early afforded a better chance at success? How is this success measured? Is it basically just a saying for productivity? If you get up early, you have more hours to accomplish tasks than those who don’t, right? I call BS. I just want to say that I hate that phrase. Whomever starts first has the best chance for success. The premise of this saying is those who get up early get more stuff done and have more opportunities throughout the day. Who hasn’t heard the saying “ the early bird gets the worm?” It’s been one I’ve heard over and over again my entire life.
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