The greatest lesson I’ve learned about making money online and optimizing your time is that you have to guard your Internet time like a hawk and KEEP your focus like nobody else.

If you’re not doing this, nobody else will.

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Nick at Internet Babel lists 5 distractions:

1. MSN Messenger
2. Google News
3. Wikipedia
4. YouTube
5. Google Video

In my experience, the TOP 3 web distractions that keeps me (and everybody else, including you) from focusing on our tasks and activities which produces direct or in direct income are these:

E-mail - checking and answering e-mails

Unless you’re getting paid to do this, or talk with someone who pays you for doing that (e.g. a client), then e-mail is a waste of time, in 99% of the cases.

SKYPE - online chatting or phone calling

Unless you’re not getting paid to chat or phone call, then you’re missing the real money.

(Internet) Stats checking - page browsing

Checking your Internet earnings, site traffic details or (RSS/e-mail) subscriber counts is a total waste of time, unless you’re getting paid for doing that.

I get trapped into this TASK almost daily and it’s a shame.

e.g. checking Analytics, AdSense, Aweber, etc.

BONUS Tip - sometimes I spent a few hours per month browsing through YouTube and watching my favorites music or some movie trailers.

My time is valued at $100, so spending 5 hours/month on YouTube is a $500 waste.

What about you, what’s your #1 TOP web distraction? I’d like to know - click here to comment now!

Hint - in order to avoid wasting time on useless tasks, I make sure to optimize it and track most of my activities using Rescue Time which is free and a must have if you’re serious about running a high-profit business model.

Cheers,
Codrut Turcanu - “Succeeding Against All Odds!”

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