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Following on from my piece the other day about over informing, which closed with the lines:

Reading is activity
Writing is productivity

Tonight I noticed myself reading blogs and pages that weren’t relevant to my main tasks for tonight. The information was useful to know - of course.

But years ago, I learned that there is a difference between productivity and activity. Productivity either makes you money, or directly has the potential too. Anything else is activity.

In BlogLand, productivity is writing posts and promoting your site. I’ll let you say putting ads on it, but that’s all. All else is activity.

Common activity includes: Reading other blogs, commenting on other blogs (ok it does leave a link so it does have a slight productive edge), tweaking your blog, and I’m sure you can think of many more.

I’ve seen blogs with very little advertising that are raking in the money. Because the simple fact is, it’s your writing that makes you money. And the more time you commit to writing, the higher quality your posts will be.

It’s really easy to spend so much time on activity, that you push the writing back until late at night when you’re too tired to do a decent job of it.

So today’s tip - and one I need to listen to too - is don’t waste writing time on activity.

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