Today was my first SOLID day of productivity - HERES HOW I DID IT

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katoved

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This post is going to be short. However, I want everyone to know that today was one of the first solid days of productivity for me in a long time. I have been traveling as of late and my internet skills are out of wack. But today was great. I finished up a site, killed tons of things on my to-do list, laundry, bills, etc..... Heres how I did it:

1. The shit piled up so much that I finally had no choice but to do it, purely for physical reasons.
2. The legal pad of to-do's was very helpful. After I finished one, I said to myself, damnit, just do another one! Got rid of about 30% of my to-do list.
3. To-do list was a big help, just re-iterating its importance.
4. I ate a healthy breakfast (V-8, Wheaties, Clementines, and Coffee).
5. I have no job, but tell all the girls I know that I do, so I felt pressured to finally start working.
6. I limited myself to looking at WickedFire maybe 6 times, instead of my usual 20 or so. I think this is going to be big going into the future. Maybe limit myself to doing certain large time wasters (DrudgeReport.com, Yahoo Finance, few others) Look at them all only once at night.

Im going to add a few more here that helped me:

7. I worked out at the gym. I ran 2 miles, did the stairmaster for 6 minutes, then the bike for 3 minutes to cool down. Its when I lift weights that my mind really starts to spark. I usually get flooded with ideas and it slows down my workout. But I think the adrenaline/endorphin rush stimulates my creative thinking.
8. No TV whatsoever. It will kill an hour or more without u even knowing your dead.


Hope this may help or inspire some of you to finally get off your asses and start earning. Time to go on a date with a girl that has huge tits and a pretty face; yeah, shes a little portly ;) But you practice one the less desirable catches to help u attain the premium catches. Ill have our waiter take a photo of us tonight and post it on here when I get back.

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REPUTATION POINTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF THIS HELPED YOU
 


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+ Rep because this made me laugh.

I don't have ADHD like so many on WF. So I have to use to-do lists to help me get things done. If I have one in front of me, I can focus like a laser.

I'm still working on the breakfast part. For some reason it is really difficult for me to eat in the morning. I have no desire, and I literally have to force myself to eat some cereal or leftovers from last night.

oh yeah and WickedFire = crack
 
Good work buddy... keep up the hard work.

That's what I always have to remind myself to do... instead of always researching, reading, debating, poking around... just DO IT. There's actually an arbitrage thread on here somewhere where ENGAGED just kept shitting on me... saying shutup and fucking make a site

He said it a bit harsh... but you need to implement, work, implement, work
 
engaged is absolutely right too. he knows his stuff, so if he calls you a homo and tells you how you should be making 5 arbi sites/day than you better do it if you want to be as successful as he is.

My biggest trouble is with managing my work time versus break time. It is so tough not to check my email, adsense, rss aggregator and wickedfire every few minutes.

Time needs to be set aside for kicking ass, then prop your boots up for few minutes, then going out and kicking more ass.
 
Good job on staying focused!

DruSam said:
engaged is absolutely right too. he knows his stuff, so if he calls you a homo and tells you how you should be making 5 arbi sites/day than you better do it if you want to be as successful as he is.

engaged's advice fits in well here and to be honest his "just do it bitch" approach has pushed me further along faster then I would have done otherwise. Hats of to engaged. :D

Also, I thought it was 30 sites/day. :p
 
Xrproto said:
Good job on staying focused!



engaged's advice fits in well here and to be honest his "just do it bitch" approach has pushed me further along faster then I would have done otherwise. Hats of to engaged. :D

Also, I thought it was 30 sites/day. :p

30 sites per day, is for you peeps that aren't in school... :music06:
 
Hey dudes, thanks for the shout outs. I hope I am encouraging you guys, b/c arbitrage isn't rocket science.

Once you get some $ build something to automate your site (I did mine in PHP/MySQL with some nice content scraping and it only took about 5 hours to program and another 2-3 of more customizing, etc.). Once you know your specs hire out an Indian to do this for $100-$150 if you can’t program.

Now I can pump out a near infinite amount of pages/sites per day. I did set up some timing delays to not get my IP banned from scraping, so I guess not infinite.

But arbitrage can definitely be automated in some ways. Be more efficient than the rest of the people. Innovate.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend who is the biggest arbitrageur I know (office of 15 people, spends about $4,000/day on PPC). He gave me just 1 tip and I was able to get one of my sites from spending $100/day to spending $500/day, with a healthy ROI. I am going to be moving this idea to some other sites over the next few weeks once I get a better grip on tracking these changes.

Keep working hard, experiment and network.
 
engaged said:
Hey dudes, thanks for the shout outs. I hope I am encouraging you guys, b/c arbitrage isn't rocket science.

Once you get some $ build something to automate your site (I did mine in PHP/MySQL with some nice content scraping and it only took about 5 hours to program and another 2-3 of more customizing, etc.). Once you know your specs hire out an Indian to do this for $100-$150 if you can’t program.

Now I can pump out a near infinite amount of pages/sites per day. I did set up some timing delays to not get my IP banned from scraping, so I guess not infinite.

But arbitrage can definitely be automated in some ways. Be more efficient than the rest of the people. Innovate.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend who is the biggest arbitrageur I know (office of 15 people, spends about $4,000/day on PPC). He gave me just 1 tip and I was able to get one of my sites from spending $100/day to spending $500/day, with a healthy ROI. I am going to be moving this idea to some other sites over the next few weeks once I get a better grip on tracking these changes.

Keep working hard, experiment and network.

Care to share this shattering tip? Wow, 15 people arbitrage team. It seems like hiring people to do arbitrage work for you would be difficult. They would pick ip up and start doing it themselves.
 
katoved said:
Care to share this shattering tip? Wow, 15 people arbitrage team. It seems like hiring people to do arbitrage work for you would be difficult. They would pick ip up and start doing it themselves.

He keeps them doing their own tasks, plus they sign non-competes. I cannot share this tip at this time, too good.

Where is the pic of your and your date?
 
Anyone can make 5 , 1 page sites a day! Slap a couple relevant paragraphs and a adsense block on the page and be done. Enough content to make the ads relevant and not enough content to satisfy there lust for knowledge:)

I have been doing some tests with another WF member and we are starting to compare an ugly /bland looking site with a nicer more colorful site.

Just like engaged says Just do it Bitch,,, I use the philosophy GOTFC. ( GET OFF THE FUCKING COUCH ) put the playstation down, turn off the tube and get to work.
 
Mill said:
Anyone can make 5 , 1 page sites a day! Slap a couple relevant paragraphs and a adsense block on the page and be done. Enough content to make the ads relevant and not enough content to satisfy there lust for knowledge:)

I have been doing some tests with another WF member and we are starting to compare an ugly /bland looking site with a nicer more colorful site.

Just like engaged says Just do it Bitch,,, I use the philosophy GOTFC. ( GET OFF THE FUCKING COUCH ) put the playstation down, turn off the tube and get to work.
I'm going to have to get all the work done I can because in a couple of months I'm going to be spending a lot of time playing with my Wii. :p
 
Book

All you ADHD fuckers, like me, should read this book.

"Eat That Frog"

Book has made a big difference in how I do things.
 
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