I am wondering how productive people think that they are. If I was going to put a number to it, I would say that in the time that I put aside for my work, personal business work not day job, I am probably around 85-90% productive. However, this is a new thing. I used to be closer to 50%. The reason was that I was in information overload. I spent a lot of time reading other blogs, participating in other forums and basically wasting time. Sure I didn’t think that it was a waste of time then, but now I do.

I am on an info diet. I took the marketing rule of 20/80 to heart and have added it to my daily life.

I have really cleaned house.

I check my business email once in the evening, and take care of everything that I can right away. Moderation of my forums, blogs and directories, following up on business transactions and participating in my forums now take me 30 mins most. It used to use up over half of my work time since I would be going to the blogs and forums immediately when I got an email to moderate something. NOw I do it once a day.

The other thing that used to kill me was keeping up on all of the forums that I participated in. So I have cut that back to only the ones that have served me VERY well in the past, whether that means that it was a great information source, great people or some great deals.

I still have some fat to trim, but I am getting better. I have a hard time figuring out how productive I am when I am researching niches, keywords, etc. But the more I do the more I know when I am “barking up the wrong tree”

So in the end, take a look at what you do with your time, and what makes you happy. There is a good post over at Hoserlife about some reasons why a Low Information Diet is good for you.

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