Increasing Your Productivity on Steemit

in #steemit7 years ago

Steemit can be a very lucrative way to earn a living but it is by no means a free ride to wealth. Similar to blogging business, this also involves so many different responsibilities in order to be successful. Responding to comments, researching content, composing post entries and tweaking your layout are just a handful of tasks anyone has to perform. With all the responsibilities to look after it is essential to learn how to boost your work productivity in order to make your efforts worthwhile.

Your ultimate goal if you are on Steemit to make money is to satisfy fellow steemians. It therefore makes sense to focus more on those activities that accomplish this goal.

Let’s take a look at 5 principles you should keep in mind to help increase your work productivity so that it will make your efforts all the more effective.

The 80/20 Rule

We have all heard of the 80/20 rule where we can expect to get 80 percent of our value from 20 percent of our efforts. As time goes on learn to identify what activities you are performing that are getting you the results you are looking for. After a while you will be able to shift your emphasis from the less productive to the more productive activities. The net result will be a more rested and productive you.

Don’t Over Think

Parkinson’s Law states that any task will seem more complex and require more time to complete in accordance to the time you’ve set aside for it. In so many words ‘getting ready to get ready’ will only make an otherwise simple task more difficult to start and therefore longer to finish. Just do it and before you know it you will be finished and moving on to the next task.

Group Your Task

When you have a number of mundane tasks that may be boring or time consuming just group them together and complete them one after another. Using this ‘assembly line’ approach will spare you the ‘start up time’ and will also help you focus better on the individual tasks as you are performing them.

Take Aggressive Action

Don’t wait for situations to occur to react to but rather think ahead and take the necessary actions to increase your steem power and steemit value. By reacting to everything is the equivalent of swimming in quicksand, nothing gets done you are just struggling to maintain the status quo.

Concern yourself more with what else you can do to engage fellow steemians, researching content, or maybe better writing.

Learn From Setbacks

I have a prediction here and that is that you will make mistakes, gasp! Ok now that we have got that out of the way learn from your mistakes. You make a mistake so what! Learn from these errors and don’t beat yourself up about it or you will miss the lesson you could/should be learning.

These internal whippings serve no purpose and in fact will succeed in demoralizing you resulting in lost productivity. Move on and feel good knowing you won’t make the same mistake again.

Steemit can be a very enjoyable and rewarding experience. The experience however can be even more satisfying and productive if you learn to put your time to better use. By more closely adhering to the 5 principles that we spoke of above both you and your commentator's income will most likely benefit.

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Gave you an upvote, I like your attitude!

Thanks a lot!

Excellent points! It looks like you're fairly consistent with publishing 2+ posts/write ups daily. How far ahead do plan out your articles? How do you manage your posts in terms of publishing?

Writing doesn’t usually take too much time, but the topic research and proofreading is what requires an immense amount of revision and fine-tuning. A year back I was probably spending more time fixing the inaccuracies and the funny thing , it was taking me just as long when I had written the articles myself! So I bought myself “ Grammerly premium ”.

I do not waste my time researching about the topic just to decide what to write or what not, instead my approach is to:

  1. Stockpile ideas as I run across them and develop a few simultaneously
  2. Consult a variety of sources to find inspiration for write ups before sleeping
  3. Plan out articles but leave room for unexpected topics that might pop up

Beside this, I plan my day the night before and it has drastically increased my productivity. I research the day before I write to sleep on it. I often find I can write articles in my sleep and have them ready to go the next day if I read the research the day before I write. I use mind mapping tool to organize my write up ideas.

Thanks for these great pointers @adisrivastav! I made a starter spreadsheet based on your approach above and going to give it a try. I wish I could resteem this comment!

Ps. System wouldn't let me upvote on your comment, so I went ahead and upvoted on your other more recent posts.

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