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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