Write everything down. Have an idea for a niche you think would do well? Write it down. Thought up a creative ad copy you haven’t seen before? Go ahead and write that sucker down. Need to talk to someone about something you are having trouble with? Write it down. Writing is a bit of a muse for me, when I write things down, I tend to get into deeper thoughts with it. I brainstorm, basically, and I might find myself writing a whole strategy on how to absolutely crush a traffic source.

To make sure you write things down, buy yourself a nice moleskine or high end paper notebook, as well as a decently priced pen. No Bic ballpoint pens allowed here. As these are higher ticket items, it might subliminally message you and let you know it would be a shame not to use them.

When I’m at a loss of what to do next, I flip through my notebook and read, looking at ideas I haven’t implemented or expanded on yet. And doing so allows me to constantly have something to do, no matter the time or day!

So, shoot! Ask away!

We all need that off time, and luckily, being our own boss, we can do that. But what should you spend your time doing? Here’s what I ended up doing.

Catching up with friends

I got to hang out with some of my friends at a pretty awesome concert by one of my favorite Thai bands. We partied, we all had fun, and it was nice to see people I don’t normally get to hang out with because of my schedule. If you’re full-time like me, you probably have friends always asking when you’re gonna hang out with them again. Take a break and chill with them once a week. It’s the least you can do.

I also got to hang out with my girlfriend. It’s tough for us to meet, as she’s at college Mondays to Saturdays, so getting together once a week is the luckiest I get. With a long weekend, I was able to afford some extra time with her.

Read Some Books

I actually took time to read a book. I only get through 1 – 2 books a year, just because I’m lazy, but the time away from the PC afforded time to read. I finished “Eat That Frog” which will probably become inspiration for future blog posts. Google it. It’s a great book on productivity. It’s also a very stress-free activity, which, unless reading a book is like running a marathon for you, I highly recommend doing.

Reorganized the office

I took some time to put together my home office in a cleaner more productive layout. Previously, my view of 1 of my employee’s workspace was blocked. I now have full sight over what both my employees are doing. I’ve seen a significant improvement in use of time from this employee, as well. Someone knows I’m watching. Haha.

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

I hardly sleep, ever. 6 hours a night is a good day for me. The other 18 hours I’m in front of the PC. I made sure I got caught up. I’ve had about 4 days of 10+ hours of sleep each, and I feel extremely refreshed and ready to start working again.

I know this post isn’t mind blowing stuff, but it really has cleared my mind of stress and prepared me for this coming week. You can’t expect yourself to work 2 all-nighters in a row, or to come up with 5 more profitable campaigns this week. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way. If you’ve got a lot of stress, find the best way to get rid of it, step back from the PC, and rest. It has helped me rejuvenate, and now I’m back and ready to start building new campaigns, bossing my employees around, fill up the forums with new downloads and case studies and write some kickass blog posts!

Your income will never be consistent forever, but by constantly working your ass off, doing research, designing new landing pages and searching for new traffic sources, you can better your chance for an early retirement. It gets hard to work with billions of fun websites at your finger tips that you can dilly dally on all day. I know I suffer from this. That’s why I downloaded LeechBlock.

LeechBlock is a Firefox plugin that lets you block out websites you frequently visit throughout the day. You can day-part, setting which days and hours you want it to block sites, which is perfect for my 10 AM to 6 PM work schedule (lately I’ve had to flip it around though, as I’ve found myself being quite the night owl). Block Facebook, Twitter, Wickedfire, and all those other pretty useless sites that get in the way of your productivity. Nickycakes even suggested this tool.

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