18 Feb 2008 04:53:24 | eRix
How to take a day off?! 2004-08-30
Every beginning webmaster’s dream is to have a successful
website right off the bat. This successful site would enable us
to pay the bills, feed the kids, and then pay for that dream
get-away or high-ticket item we set up as a benefit of our
financial goals. But every webmaster knows that to have a
successful website, it is a commitment that knows no other. The
love affair between the perfectly laid out front-page and the
total disregard for time and proper rest, begets the most
fundamental laws of logic. How can a human being survive on two
hours of sleep? How can a human being remember so many passwords
and IDs? How can a human being convince somebody to buy
something, when every thing you say has already been said? Logic
rests that you will become like all of the other mediocre
webmasters unless you can find one attribute that sets you apart
from the rest.
How can a stay-at-home webmaster even think about competing with
the corporate web machines?
Basically, you buy a laptop computer with wireless internet
capabilities, attach it to your lap, and then build and promote
your website(s) twenty-two hours a day; that leaves
approximately 2 hours for proper rest, nutrition, and family
inter-action. This webmaster schedule is not a joke. It happens
to millions of us, every day! Seven days a week! Inside is this
tremendous feeling that if you take one day off from promoting
your website, then the traffic you build will come to a halt,
sales will fall, and the bills do not get paid. Every World Wide
Web Entrepreneur has had to have had this feeling before.
How can a stay-at-home webmaster even think straight after the
endless hours of endless hours?
I believe that most webmasters could relieve some of the stress
from the day-in and day-out promotion of a website, if they
could learn to take a day off. With the so-called luxury of
working from a home office, sometimes it is hard to not work
every day—albeit some workday hours are longer than others;
therefore, it seems logical that the stay-at-home business
person really needs to schedule a day during the week in which
the person stays completely away from the building or promotion
of their websites. You always dreamed of having a website
goliath that runs on auto-pilot 24/7, well, now is the chance to
learn what it feels like to trust your work and let your website
work for you for one day. This time away from the computer doing
other things can possibly lead you to a new direction or
exciting idea to add to your website, TOMORROW!
Here are a few ideas of things to do on your scheduled day off:
•Convince your child to hold a worm for the first time.
•Go to the mall with your family or another person.
•Go to a park and watch other people walking their dogs.
•Volunteer your time to a cause greater than yourself.
•Tell every person you come in contact with to ‘Have a Great
Day!’
•Just do something that does not involve computers!
Written by eRix © 2004-08-26 Permission to Reproduce in
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