PB065: How to Work Out What To Focus Upon with Your Time

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. Tips to Help You Make the Best Decisions For Your Blog's Success Today's episode is about how you can learn to make decisions for your blog more quickly and with confidence, freeing you up to focus your time on what really matters most. One of the most common questions I'm asked is how I manage to fit everything in - blogging, social media, speaking appearances, product development and family life. The truth is, I don't get to do everything I would like. But I have learned skills and developed habits that make me feel less overwhelmed and stressed about making decisions about how to spend my time. If you're feeling like you don't have enough time to fit everything in, this episode is for you. I share tips that will help you get more focused about how to choose to spend your time to make your blog a success. In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: How I juggle blogging, social media, speaking appearances, product development and family life without going crazy Tips you can use to help you decide what opportunities you say 'yes' to Why learning how to say 'no' can free up your time and energy and make you more productive 10 questions you can ask yourself to help you make decisions about what tasks you will focus on and what to let go Further Reading and Resources for How to Make the Best Decisions For Your Blog's Success Episode 40: 7 Productivity Tips For Bloggers (it includes my ideal schedule and my workflow for creating this podcast series) Time Management for Ridiculously Busy Bloggers The Curse of the ProBlogger – Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up Time Management for Travel Bloggers … and Others Do You Know These Time Saving Blogging Tips? 9 Habits of Bloggers Who Have Huge Audiences How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there and welcome to episode 65 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and today, I want to talk about answering a question I get all the time, "How do you work out what to focus your time upon as a blogger?" You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/65. Do you ever feel like you don't have enough time to fit everything in? Like there's some opportunity staring you in the face to start something new, but to take it on would mean everything else you are already doing would suffer. You know that feeling I'm sure.  You’re working away on your blog, creating content, updating your Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts everyday, responding to comments and emails from readers, then you got to read other people's blogs and comment on those, watch other people's Periscopes and create the occasional product for your blog and update your advertising page.  The list goes on and on and on. The things that we all do as bloggers everyday, but then comes along an opportunity. Sometimes the opportunities are real ones. Someone asks you to do something, “Would you like to guest post on my blog?” or, “Can I interview you on my podcast?” or, “Would you like to come on my Blab?” “Would you like to speak at my events or work with us as a brand?” Then some of the opportunities that come along are more perceived opportunities. Everyone else seems to be doing something, so maybe you should be doing it too. Maybe it's a new social network like Periscope, MiChat, or Blab, or maybe everyone else seems to be podcasting and you wonder if you should be doing that too, or this other blogger has a second blog and maybe you should start a second blog as well. Invitations, whether they are real opportunities or perceived ones,