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What do you do in the guise of working? What sucks up your time? (funny)

Here are my answers:

1. read blogs - but i learn a lot from blog posts
2. email - i stay in touch with my clients, friends n family
3. twitter - i network, follow, learn a lot
4. browsing around aimlessly - my source for brain waves
5. downloading files / saving files in appropriate folders - keeps my comp organized + save search time
6. backing up files on external hard drives - relieves me of tensions about loosing files
7. forums - good source for learning & networking
8. blog comments - same as above
9. writing content - oh no, can’t skip it. no writing, no online business
10. learning new SEO techs n tips - i will do this only till i find a glue to adhere googlebots on my sites.
11. looking for gr8 downloads, freebies, products, giveaways … - i love 2 c some smiles on visitor’s faces.

Sleep - my biggest time waster. 6-7 hrs in a 24hr day. Frownzzzz.

Aren’t there any seo tweaks and tags for us “net-addicts”, to stay un-indexed by the sleepbots.

meta name="sleep” content=”no index, no follow”
meta name="Revisit-After” content=”I make my first $1M or get 1M visitors per month, whichever is earlier”

;) shri

My Question to you: What sucks up your time?

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Comment by Adry Viola http://www.modmami.com on December 18, 2008 at 2:53pm: Time wasting? Oh boy...where to start!
1. Answering the phone that won't stop ringing.
2. Watching TV late at night when I should be sleeping.
3. Feeding my OCD with constantly mopping the floors but then again with a 2.5 & 4.5 yr old, can you blame me? 4 times a day is a bit much though don't you think?
4.Wiping pee off of the toilet because it seems that I am the ONLY one that can pee and hit the WATER in the toilet!!!
5. Loading the dishwasher 3 times a day...when will they invent a dishwasher that will load and unload itself!
6. Going through piles of junk mail each day.

I'm sure I can come up with much more...but as you can see it is 1:38am here and I'm at the puter instead of sleeping!

Adry Viola
http://www.modmami.com
http://modmami.blogspot.com

Comment by Ruthie Appleby on December 5, 2008 at 9:53pm: Talk....!!!! I work in sales...and I have about 12 hours to sit around a day...I don't but if I'm not careful I end up talking :)
Ruthie
http://www.homeinteriors.com/Ruthieappleby

Comment by Joy on November 22, 2008 at 4:33pm: LOL

one of my favorite time wasters is http://failblog.com

i tend to think about millions of great ideas and things i want to do with my business and then execute very few :-( guess if i spent less time f*ing around online i might get more done!

joy
@seekingsanity

Comment by Ann Levine on November 17, 2008 at 7:32pm: How is it that no one mentioned the biggest two of my time wasters:
1. Facebook (but it keeps me in touch with my clients -really)
2. NeimanMarcus.com Last Call Sales

Comment by ShriNagesh on November 9, 2008 at 4:36am: @Megan Calhoun - Thx for featuring it Megan :)

Comment by Wendey Tackett on November 6, 2008 at 8:45pm: Sounds a lot like me! Other things that suck up my time?
1. Planning my day, and then replanning after I just wasted 2 hours online!!
2. Changing dirty diapers on a 3yo who won't potty train
3. Repeating myself 500 times to my 7 & 10 yo boys
4. Fighting with a 3yo about everything - "I do it myself!"

no wonder I'm having trouble finding time to work!!

Comment by Megan Calhoun on November 6, 2008 at 7:39pm: Hey, just ran across this post. I love it! Just featured it on the home page. Thanks for sharing, I'm sure lots of these moms can relate -- I certainly can!