Multi-tasking is dead. It never worked and it never will. Intelligent people love to sing its praises because it gives them permission to avoid the much more challenging alternative: focusing on one thing. -Tim Ferris
This week was big for me. A major blog– blownmortgage.com, an Inman news top 25 most influential Eeal Estate blog has agreed to have me contribute 3 posts a week. (First post: here). I’m excited about the opportunity, to be sure. Writing in general is the road to all wealth (another Scott adage). Anyway, I’ve got 3 blogs to manage and to post to:
GenuineChris.Com- my personal transparency/accountability blog (you are there).
TenDayTeam.com-my mortgage blog. As long as it lasts, I’m fully committed to being a lender–it’s looking like a cul de sac right now, so we’ll see.
RightRightNow.com- (coming soon: the business that I’m moving towards…)
That’s a lot to manage and maintain, and it can get really easy to not hit the sites that matter–and spend time spinning my wheels. Of course, we can create a document/spreadsheet for that. I identified 28 posts per week that I wanted to create. That sounds like a lot, but of those 28 posts, only 8 take more than 10 minutes, and of those 8, probably 6 can be recycled at some point.
With only 8 new posts to write, it would be a shame if I missed some commitments. That’s not a lot, particularly if I bang them out first thing every morning.
Enter google docs, as usual, with the 90% of features we need, and the rest being left to the can. (I do want to be able to align the top row of some columns, but I can get by without).
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p
This may seem crude, but it’s not more difficult than necessary. It will be live, and I’ll maintain it. The only problem I can see is with the “URL” and the time vs. value proposition. I may have to outsource that or have someone else do it–I don’t know.
Now, I’ve also created a section: Comments. To get some google juice, I’m committed to being on a comment schedule on a daily basis. Finally, I’ve got a third section: ideas/to be used. This puts all the ideas I get and note in google notebook in one spot, and I can move ‘em as needed and always have material I have opinions about.
Still, I’ve got time–if I’ve got 12 hours a week budgeted (plus 40+++ open hours) having 8 posts is more than plenty. Creates an impressive body of work, fairly efficiently, doesn’t it?
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