I started to write a blog post about the thinking I have been doing this week relating to my online business. Three sides of A4 later I realised I was rambling and going nowhere. Given the topic, this was not good.
I turned to my iPad for a mental break. It stopped me dead in my tracks. The iPad has a feature I love. You can only do one thing at a time. For a serial multi-tasker like me that is refreshing, it’s like taking a rest. It brought my rambling to a halt and crystallised my thinking.
The most important skill for anyone working online is the ability to focus. If you focus on your objective and move steadily towards it, you will succeed. By focusing on each activity, investing time and energy only in those which take you forward you will succeed more quickly.
If you allow yourself to be sidetracked, to dabble in this, try that shiny new toy or worst of all, administrate and plan yourself to the point of inertia, you will not succeed. You will finish nothing and get nowhere.
Everyone knows it, I admit it freely – I am besotted by my iPad. I don’t care what anyone else says, I love it and today there is a reason to love it even more. The blessing and curse of life today is Social Media, it is an essential for anyone working online, and for a lot of people it is their social lifeline and, let’s face it, part of everyday life for many people these days. That said, timelines are not the easiest things in the world to read and you have to click on the links and chase down the conversations and…and and.. it can be the biggest time suck ever.
Then along come something like Flipboard which just turns the whole experience upside down, inside out and makes it an absolute joy. Suddenly my Facebook and Twitter feeds take on a life of their own. Flipboard turns them into a magazine style presentation. The link content shows up and so do all those fabulous pictures people share. I can access the conversation on that item direct, join in or move on as the mood (or whim!) takes me. Fantastic!
I can have my Twitter lists as sections, I can pick up various ‘presets’ or curated content that meets my needs and helps me follow the things I need to in a beautifully presented and easily digested format. This is the mobile web coming into it’s own, feeding us the information we want, when we want and where we want. At the risk of overusing the word – fantastic!
Flipboard has been struggling a little today as the entire iPad owning universe signs up and starts to read, if you are having a problem stick with it, trust me – it is worth it. Whilst you wait just watch the video below that tells you all about it.
Dare I say it to those who haven’t decided to take the iPad plunge – this is one damned fine reason to go get one!
I came across this today in my web wanderings and I have to say it is well worth taking a little while to study…. The site it came from is worth a visit too. Just click on the image to be taken through to a larger version. Infographic by PPC Blog
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I turned to my iPad for a mental break. It stopped me dead in my tracks. The iPad has a feature I love. You can only do one thing at a time. For a serial multi-tasker like me that is refreshing, it’s like taking a rest. It brought my rambling to a halt and crystallised my thinking.