Ok, so I’ve now left the warm bosom of my other half’s family in Perth after ten days of tourist fun. I always have trouble getting back down into a work routine after a few days off. I jokingly said at the end of my last post that I’d be posting about affiliate procrastination syndrome next. However, I have a lot of problems concentrating and find it too easy to skive off after a holiday. I also know other affiliates do too!

I’m not sure if anyone takes it to quite the level I do… I had some learning difficulties when I was a wee tot, and I still have similar symptoms. I’ve just learned how to deal with my lack of organisation as an adult!

I usually find that for at least a week, I seem to be able to while away the majority of the day just bumbling around the internet THINKING about work and kidding myself on I am being productive.

I don’t have a week to waste right now, I’ve got 5 weeks to do a block of work so I can do nothing for 6 weeks in Fiji, Hawaii, and the United States. so there are a number of steps I usually take to get my concentration levels back up and get right back into work in a productive way.

1 ) The night before I am going to go back to work, I sit down and identify what I was working on before I went away and write a list of those tasks in priority order.

2 ) I set myself 5 key tasks that are easily achievable for each day of my first week back in the saddle. That way, when I set off on one of my regular internet wanders I can snap out of my haze easily by referring to my wee list on my desk.

3 ) I have a good look at what has been performing well when I have been having my time off. An easy first post-holiday step is to have a good look at my campaigns and see if anything has seen a surge in sales that I can build on. It’s usually a quick and easy way to do something productive without it taking too much complex work to achieve.

4 ) I give my PPC spend a good old spring clean and make sure that everything I have running is still paying for itself. It’s amazing how those small campaigns that are costing below a fiver a day can eat up my beloved profit margin if I lose sight of the intricacies of my advertising spend. This is a great way to feel as if I’ve really achieved something positive early on.

Well, hopefully I will follow my own advice this week and get things pushed back on a bit. We are borrowing the other half’s uncles holiday home in Margaret River so I have an indoor toilet and everything!