Beginner Blogger

I want you to answer these questions:

• What is it you want to DO with your blog in the next 7 days?
• Do you already have all the resources like ebooks, RSS feeds, reference material online or offline required with the information in them for what you want to DO?

OK, I may be stabbing myself in the foot here and the many hundreds and most likely thousands of bloggers/marketers out there but if you answered YES to my last question then it’s time to shut the door and stop subscribing to blogs, email lists, RSS feeds, ebooks etc that are no longer providing you with VALUE.

If you answered YES to the previous question then you do not need to be aimlessly browsing around the internet and continually reading new RSS feeds if you already have all the information you require at your disposal. Personally I have hundreds of Ebooks that I’m yet to read. As I’m sure many of you have done, you’ve signed up to email lists and continue to get email from them that may no longer add value and which are potentially wasting your time.

Spring Clean

I recommend you stay current with the email lists that you have either formed great relationships with the authors themselves or they are providing great value that isn’t causing a problem with your ‘information overload’. But it’s time to unsubscribe, stop reading pointless emails and take action on the information you have at your disposal.

Will you miss out on valuable information if you do this? Sure maybe, but the reason that unsubscribing and stopping reading all RSS feeds is because you may already have enough information at your disposal.

You may get to a stage where you don’t know what else to do with your blog. You may be stuck in a bit of a rut where you’re not gaining anymore traffic or sales and you seem ’stuck’. THIS is when we should be gathering more information to create new ideas with. Once we have the IDEAS from the INFORMATION we gather from various sources, then it’s time to stop gathering more information and start TAKING ACTION.

Take Action

When I get to a stage where I don’t know what to do with my blog or other online ventures I will go out and read other blogs, sign up to email lists etc to get some inspiration and get more ideas. But right now it’s time to TAKE ACTION on all the information I ALREADY have at my disposal. And you should do the same. Achieve your goals and stop wasting time with all this information overload.

Again – It’s time to take action on all the information you ALREADY have at your disposal.

I’ll leave you with these final questions:

How many hours this week did you put towards working on your blog this week?

Out of that time you put towards working on your blog, how many hours this week did you REALLY spend on tasks for your blog and actually getting stuff done?

Maybe it’s time to do a bit of a spring clean (perfect time of the year, right?) and remove some of that information overload.

How do you deal with the information overload that is the internet?

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