My 3k post - a braindump.

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eliquid said:
Maybe there is only 6 hours when you break it down, but I doubt it for me personally.

When your working 2-3 jobs, it didn't matter to me how "productive" I was, as long as I got a paycheck. When I had 2 jobs, most of the time it was 2 full time jobs, so 16 hour days working 5 days a week.

Granted, this was when I was young and didn't give a fuck and the jobs I did were not all that "exciting". Working retail for 8-9 hours and then working in a mailroom for another company for another 8-9 hours a day left me time to go home and go to bed and do it all over again and party the fuck out of the weekend.
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Exactly, you weren't working productively for 16 hours a day, or you would have burned out in no time at all. Retail jobs and such don't require you to be thinking all day long. When I talk about work I mean vaguely intensive stuff, like copywriting, designing or programming.

eliquid said:
When I hit some good money with affiliate, I would often work 18 hour days easily. Every hour I was pumping out more and more and more work and raising my revenue while doing it. Studies might show only 6 hours came out of those 18 hours, but my FB account showed me a different story.. a story where I was split testing and uploading new campaigns left and right with new domains and l landers and products too. Without all that 18 hour work of doing that, I doubt I could have gotten to the same point in life if I only did 6 hours a day.
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You can do intense work in bursts, but it's not sustainable, fatigue accumulates. While I don't doubt you could do it for a couple of days, if you did it for any extended period you'd end up being less effective in your 18 hours of work than you would have been doing 8-10 hours.
 
yup I time everything I do and it can be revealing. I'd recommend Paymo. Absolutely bloody fantastic. It's so good I bet even Lori Gama uses it.
 
8 months in the suck, 16+ hours a day, every fucking day. Not a single "day off", no sleeping in, and depending on tempo, you'd have to pull 24-48 hours. My buddy did a 52 hour stint in which he was afforded a 12 hour sleep cycle.

You get numb to it. And quite honestly, you start to feel like you're doing something wrong if you've got time to fuck off.

And you start to realize just how much sleep you can really skimp by. However, I believe we all have a limit that lives between 6-8 hours of required sleep before performance starts taking a hit.
 
amateursurgeon said:
Personally, I've found that since having a child, and thus LOSING the ability to work all hours (I'm lucky if I get 8 in, it's usually more like 5-6 per day), my output has gone up.

Thanks for the shout-out, good post :)
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:) Thanks for the help.
guerilla said:
Nice to see you paying it forward with this post. That's how it should be done.

I'm also a Nevmed fan.
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No worries, thanks for the help :) I found his tramp post series quite interesting too, while we're on the subject.
BlogHue said:
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I knew there was someone I'd forgotten. Thanks for the awesome posts recently, and thanks also to Mgrunin for helping me out way back with my very first campaign.
wezcountry said:
yup I time everything I do and it can be revealing. I'd recommend Paymo. Absolutely bloody fantastic. It's so good I bet even Lori Gama uses it.
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ColdTurkey is awesome too, it blocks whatever sites you want, and if you try to get round it (by ending the task or whatever) it disables your internet for a week.
goldmercury said:
Great post sent you a PM about scrapebox :)
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Thanks, and I'll reply, but all PMs I may be a little slow to reply to, got a lot after this post :)
 
I get about 1-2 hours of productive work a day in. The rest is meetings, delegation, research, and just chatting it up.
 
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