I’m having a day off (well after I write this anyway) So shoot me ! : ) 

 

Joking aside this is one aspect of working online that I really appreciate.

 

Its the ability to play to your strengths basically.

 

Lets face it we are not performing monkeys - even if society and the traditional world would like us to be 

 

Sometimes we wake up buzzing and ready to put in some serious productivity - sometimes we just don’t.  

 

Thats what make the whole 9-5 thing so outmoded in today’s world 

 

In that system we are supposed to perform like clockwork day in day out from 9am till 5pm (although usually a lot longer)

 

But nobody is actually created that way.

 

When you escape from these constraints you might find yourself working completely “in your flow” for much longer than a 9-5 shift one day

 

And a few hours or not at all the next  

 

But you’ve created a ton of possibilities 

 

Yesterday morning for example I created a video and a long blog post which I then repurposed for a Facebook ad which is now running 

 

After lunch I got on a Skype call with my friend Alison and we worked on our Dementia Care website for a couple of hours.

 

I then brainstormed with another marketing friend over product ideas for that project and filled a to-do list for next week. 

 

I woke up very early this morning with a head full of ideas.

 

In my experience from years of writing songs and music Its best to get up and write them down

 

I did that then went back to bed for a couple more hours.

 

When I got up I polished them up a little and emailed them to Alison before adding them to  Trello - a great productivity tool we use (well worth checking out and completely free) 

 

So I feel that I’m perfectly entitled to take a day out and spend it working on music projects (Come to think of it it’s a bank holiday weekend anyway……those always pass me by) 

 

The great thing about this is its completely guilt free.

 

I have an ad running and have bolstered my online real estate considerably this week so the business can take care of itself 

 

Coincidentally I often find that my best results happen when I’m taking a day off 

 

The truth is when your business is online, largely automated and has a lot of evergreen content working away in the background

 

It never really stops working - even if you do.  

 

Have an amazing weekend 

 

Cheers! 

 

 

Dave