PB040: 7 Productivity Tips For Bloggers

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Become a More Efficient and Productive Blogger Today's episode is about how you can create more time to create great blog content by becoming more efficient in the way you manage your blog. In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about: 7 steps to becoming a more productive blogger 3 simple tools I use to manage my time How to analyse how you're spending your time How to design your ideal schedule and learn how to stick to it Further Reading and Resources to Become a More Efficient and Productive Blogger The to do list app I mention - wunderlist The calendar I use from my phone, computer and watch - Fantastical 2 The tool I use for writing and sorting content - Evernote The tool I use for team communication - Slack The social media management tool I use - Meet Edgar Also - here is the 'ideal schedule' that I developed for my own situation earlier this year. It has already evolved a little since this point but hopefully it's helpful to see. It was created in a Google Calendar. Lastly - as promised in the episode here is my process for creating podcasts (created in wunderlist)! Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hello. This is Darren Rowse from ProBlogger. Welcome to episode 40 of the ProBlogger Podcast where today, I want to talk to you about productivity and using your time wisely. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/40. In the last two episodes of the ProBlogger Podcast, I've been asking you questions. These questions came from a talk I recently gave at the ProBlogger event here in Australia. The first question was how are you? Behind that question was the idea that if you want your blog to shine, you need to make yourself shine. The well-being of your blog is tied to the well-being of you. I talked a little bit about well-being and as bloggers, if we want to be producing great quality content, we need to be looking after ourselves.  The second question was in the last episode. That was the simple question, what is your why? It was designed to get you to think about what is your purpose, tap back into why you started blogging, and talk about some benefits of having a why.  Today, I want to ask you one last question. Again, this was a question I asked at the ProBlogger conference. This one in particular really seemed to get a reaction from attendees. The question is this, how are you using your time?  Knowing your why, which was what we talked about in the last episode, we'll definitely get you started. Having a strong purpose gets you going. It motivates you, particularly in the early days of your blogging. How you spend your time in the day to day, that will get you to your destination. Let me say that again. Knowing your why gets you started, but how you spend your time day to day gets you to your destination.  This is where the rubber hits the road. You can have all the dreams, goals, and purposes in the world, but unless you're using your time effectively to take you towards those goals, dreams, and your why, then it's always going to be something that stays in your head and what becomes a reality. One of the things I learned over the last year is that I really need to do some analysis of how I'm spending my time and come up with some proactive ways of using time more effectively. My personality type, for those of you who are into personality type, particularly if you are into the Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I'm an INFP. We could break each of those parts down but I want to talk about the P part of that. I am a perceiver. I don't really like that word. On that spectrum,