Posted by Laurie | January 11th, 2009

On Saturday I took my laptop to 7yo’s soccer practice. There is no wifi in the sports complex so I’ve never bothered taking it with me before. I do often check my email and check in with my Twitter peeps from soccer, since I can do those things on my smartphone, but getting any “real” work done is difficult without the internet. Or so I thought. Turns out that soccer practice is the perfect place to draft up a few blog posts!! As much as I love being always connected it can be distracting! So I think I’ve learned a valuable lesson today. Sometimes you need to turn the internet off!!!

It kind of forced me to stop multi-tasking, other than trying to keep an eye on my 4 year old, watch soccer practice and type lol. I couldn’t have my email open, my client’s email open, my Tweetdeck minimized and a couple of search pages going. I simply opened up Notepad and started typing. I got a draft of a post for my Halo blog, a draft for a guest post over at Freelance Parent about virtual assistance (watch for it next week!!!) and a draft for this post started. It felt great to get all that done, as often I have all the ideas swirling around in my head but I don’t stop and get them drafted and next thing you know my blog is three days or a week with no new material. Not going to get my pagerank up that way, lol!

Now, it’s Sunday night and I have a pile of things to finish before I can get some sleep, plus I’m multi-tasking again – attending an online VBAC leaders meeting, while finishing up blog posts! I have a lot on my plate for the coming week too:

• Need to go get passports for me and the boys!
• Need to plan postcard for my VBAC group
• Need to do some meal planning
• Write an article for my new Type A mom editor role (changed from 30 Something Moms to Family Finances!)
• Going with friend to an appt on Friday and then having lunch together

And of course, client work and plenty of Twitter networking!

Tags: blog, internet, networking, productivity, vbac