Check your workflow

Review EVERYTHING.

• Look at where you work
  • Desk setup
  • Are you in an external office or do you sit in your living room at home
  • Do you need to find a new spot
  • What are you sitting in
    • Type of chair matters
  • How many monitors are you using
    • Do you need a new one?
    • Do you need to add another?

You can’t be productive if you are distracted or uncomfortable

• How do you work
  • What is your text editor of choice
    • Does it access FTP?
    • Do you work off of your local machine and upload via an FTP client like Filezilla?
    • How often are you checking your results.
      • Upload changes often and make minor tweaks along the way vs doing giant loads of work and fine tuning later
      • How much time do you waste sweating the small problems vs waiting until the end of the day – or even the project – to move pixels
  • Are you taking time to update your software?
    • Very important, especially if you are using wordpress
    • Checking for theme and plugin updates can be the difference between a hacked site and a site that loads quickly and efficiently
  • Biggest question
    • ARE YOU USING YOUR TIME WELL
      • Biggest distractions:
        • In home
          • Kids
          • Pets
          • Technology
            • Tv or phone
        • Office setting
          • Co-workers
          • Technology
          • Disorganized business
            • Random meetings
            • Too much watercooler talk

How do you fix the issues

• Force yourself to take time – maybe 5 minutes a day – to organize your desk, clean up your computer desktop, reorganize files and folders

On top of basic housekeeping ask yourself this: Can I improve myself

• Are you keeping up on current topics in design and development
• Are you trying new resources

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