Publishing online at EmpowerWomenNow.com and real-time here on this blog are great ‘accountability measures’ for me, becuase it forces me to practice what I write.

Saving time is my “thing”. I thrive on using my time efficiently.

Saving time means pacing yourself, being organized, and always prioritizing your duties, responsibilities and efforts.

So, with my press releases sent out this week for my upcoming book, Empowering Women to Power Network, and the launch of EmpowerWomenNow.com , I’m getting traffic…along with some ezine subscribers…posts to the message board and more.

Pacing yourself also means allowing time for unexpected situations, such as having enough time to check the ever-growing inbox, setting-up special autoresponders for people who can’t subscribe to the ezine successfully, and other technical issues of running an interactive website.

One great thing I trained myself to do was to check my inbox a couple times a day. I also do not keep my inbox open the whole time I’m online, which forced to check it every minute. I check it in the beginning, reply, write new emails, and close it, project #1 done.

[I even write a list who I'm supposed to email and why to keep me focused. This way I'm not trapped into reading and writing social emails.]

As part of networking, you have to make your regular appearance, post some replies, add a new one, then leave, project #2 done. No time for chatting.

By being personable in your posts, people feel your personal touch. You don’t have to instant message on the message boards, just to be “personal”.

If you’ve been checking back and forth, you’ll see I added a couple new blogs, such as Shoestring Book Pub to organize my book publicity and build a forum for my fellow PA authors.

I also linked my other two blogs here as well: my personal one The Sabra Girls, and the local work-at-home-moms Toledo Home-Business Moms Expo. This way you can find out everything that’s going on as a typical work-at-home-mom’s life…just in case you’re interested

Also, I get to post where my mood and focus for that moment brings me. I always have something to say…for what, or where…it depends.

A huge time-pacer for me comes mostly from my physical & mental limitations, and family committements. I actually said I will NOT hop online when the girls are awake. If there’s a quiet hour or naptime time, I will…but I think I popped online only 1-2 times this week…and I accomplished a ton of work. Quality not quantity, my dears

I’ve been trying something like 9 different medications this past 2 weeks, and I finally think I have the “acceptable mix”…less pain and less dizziness.

So, I’m babbling today, oh well…that’s what blogs are for…at least sometimes.

My point is: pace yourself. For your health, your family, and ultimately your business.

Another thing about pacing yourself is acceptance. Know your limitations, and accept that whatever you accomplish within a certain perscribed timefrane IS worth a pat on your back.

Be proud and close project #99–the computer.

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Posted on February 18th, 2005 by ponnsabra
Filed under: Entrepreneurialism