Last night I bought a program called The Action Machine. It was first suggested in a thread at PAL by Kyle. When you go to the official website you are greeted by a sales page. Until recently I would have insta-closed a page like that. But I have been checking out other industries and from what I have read, pages like that do really well.
Anyway, I am in desperate need of gaining control of my days. It seems that days turn into nights, and nights turn into days. Before I know it most of the week has slipped by and I haven’t done much. I have a big list of all the content that I need to catch up on, so I am going to add it to this program.
So more about this time management program. Essentially, it is a to-do list with egg timers and added fanciness. You create all the tasks that you have to do and add a description about what that involves. You can create more than one list, so when one is complete, you can move onto the next one.
You assign a certain amount of time for each task. When you press play the timer begins to count down on that task, as well as the overall time you allocated for the day.
The key to get this to work is to stop everything that you are doing and complete exactly what you are supposed to. No checking email, forums or Skype. You can allocate 15 minutes for whenever you need to for that. Stick to doing exactly what is on the list.
I have just done up my first daily task and it is 5 hours and 15 minutes. That might not seem like much, but it is 10pm on a Saturday night and I already had a couple of red wines when I went out for Indian.
I will keep everyone updated on just how successful this is for me as an affiliate. I am all for tools that can make me more productive and increase my lacking of work ethic.
Here is a demo of the software:
You can check out all the videos on how it works on The Action Machine help page.
If anyone would like to get their hands on this tool to try it out for themselves then I will try to help you out. I hope you are all having a great weekend.
