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[I've raided Anna's archives again, for another timeless article. I could have written this yesterday. I bet some of you could as well. -Dave]
Do you ever feel like you don’t want to stop to sleep anymore? Do you ever feel like just going and going and going … until every incomplete website is built, until every article is written and submitted, until every new plugin is uploaded and set, until every email is answered or sorted or deleted, until every blog you should visit has been visited, until every PDF is written or edited, until every job is done, until all of your bookmarks are organized, until every incomplete social profile is updated …
I don’t know how many of you who visit my blog Building From Nothing have husband’s, wives, or mothers.
But you know that expectant look you get when they are wondering if you are going to go to bed soon?
Or sometimes it’s only a feeling you get, even if they aren’t looking at you directly. Even if you can’t see them, you feel their eyes on the back of your shoulders sometimes … they are trying to be polite. They know you are busy and enthusiastic. But at the same time they are wondering…
“Does she ever sleep?”
Or is this just me?
I don’t advocate going day after day without sufficient sleep. It can ruin people. But sleeping too much can ruin people too! And an occasional all-nighter never hurt anyone. So, me…
…I’m tired of sleeping.
I’ve finished a lot of projects. It just never seems to be enough!
For every big project I complete online, I seem to have 5 more new ones tugging at my sleeve and nagging me for attention:
“Mommy, mom, my turn! I’m just a poor little baby website with only one page and I still have a comment from Mr. WordPress on me! Its my turn! Its my turn!”
I’m not just referring to my main blog, but other niches as well. But I could easily spend all day every day on Building From Nothing, just adding content and pages and posts that I have been meaning to write and carrying along in my head. I don’t diverge or disperse out of my current niches, and any new project I’ve recently embarked upon is complementary to the old. I have old websites to overhaul, new software to learn about and implement, posts and articles to write … and everything I do is something that I know will be well worth it in the long run. I don’t even think I do things out of sequence. But sometimes there just seems to be so much to do!
I spent the majority of the past three weeks building up a Squidoo account with 50 Lenses for a certain niche. Well, I finished that, and that’s great. But as far as sleeping is concerned … sometimes I’d just like to put it on hold.
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I could easily turn into a night work owl given half the chance. Having to get up early to get the kids ready for school really keeps me in check!
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Well, it may be my bad but the answer is no. I am through with one dimensional living. There has to be a balance in life.
“But you know that expectant look you get when they are wondering if you are going to go to bed soon? “
Uh huh… I know that one. Then my initial thought is, bah, just this one last thing I can’t leave it in the state it’s in now!!!
Fantastic post Anna. You’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head. As I’m typing this it’s 6am and I’ve been up since 5.30am.. partly because the cat keeps scratching on the door, but also because I wanna get some more things done.
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Thanks for all the comments, I can see some people can relate :) Wow I wrote that post so long ago and I still have the problem sometimes. But it is getting better as time goes on. It’s so important to remember to live as well – in three dimensions. But I don’t think there is anything wrong with a few all-nighters here and there as well!
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I could always sleep :)
Bur really, i spend about 6 hours a day at a computer, spread out off and on so that my family has the impression that i’m on it all day. Not really. I can’t sit at a computer for more than a couple hours.
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I find that that is the biggest problem with internet stuff – it is always there and it is so much harder to finish up for the day, as there is always just one more thing to do.
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Nice post! I fully understand you. Let me help you with my advise :).
What you need to do is organize your work in groups and in tasks. Then divide and organize all your work in the time frame you want to spent for your work. Also make concrete goals telling you when you want to finish every job. Now if you just follow what you wrote and do the things in the time frame you specified, then the feeling that there is no time will go away! The feeling that you have not done enough work will be gone! All that matters is that the work that is for this day (for example) is done in this day. That is it.
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Exactly! I can never seem to get enough time blogging and staying on the net. It always seems like there is so much to do, and one can never do enough, one can never market your website or your products enough, it just goes on and on and on!
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