Saving Time When Surfing the Web
With all the enthralling products, games, and social networking sites, it’s easy to waste long hours searching for what we need on the internet. We can begin the day, for example, researching details on marketing to Generation X and end up perusing the newest cellphones at Best Buy, the new styles from our favorite department stores, or posting on our favorite social networking sites. The following nine guidelines will assist you in complete your web work quickly.
1. Stay focused! Creating a list of the searches you want to make before you start, will assist you in keeping on-target. Resist the temptation to respond to ads, news, or interests that follow you wherever you search.
2. Monitor the time you spend surfing each day. If you place a limit on your surfing, you’ll use your time more efficiently.
3.Use a timer or portable alarm clock. If each search is fifteen to 30 minutes, your productivity will increase and you’ll accomplish more. If you don’t find everything you need in one session, you can return to it another time when you or the web are more productive. This will reduce the stress of not finding what you want when you want it.
4. Avoid time wasters: those sites that require too much security and verification, that aren’t working properly, or that are “teasers” and promise information in the browser window, but don’t give it to you when you visit the site.
5. Get off the web and use another resource. Ask a co-worker, colleague, or friend. Figure it out yourself. Look it up in a company or personal library or book.
6. Take frequent breaks between searches and engagements. Doing something you like to do, such as talking to a friend for a few minutes, can refresh and energize you and make your searches go more quickly.
7. Attitude, Attitude, Attitude If you approach any task with the intention of making a game of it, having fun, or doing something you like to do, your work will be accomplished in a fraction of the time.
8. Delegate pass the task to someone else such as an employee or a son or daughter who wants to help. If you have your own business, you can hire people to work as independent contractors to carry out certain endeavors.
9. Think smarter and be creative. On the web, you can always find an easier and faster way to accomplish activities such as using an app or downloading a program that will do the work for you.
Following these guidelines will assist you in finishing all the research on your daily list with time to spare.
Ken Wasil is a freelance writer in addition to writing books. He has written The Quick Style Guide for Writing for the Web and English Usage, A Great Escape: Short Stores for Travelers, Mr. Thoreau Goes to Boston, Rivers of Words, and African Safari Bootcamp for Women. His books are available at www.amazon.com. Don’t miss his Free Fridays on Amazon. The Quick Style Guide is free on Fridays between now and the middle of December 2017.
