It’s been a funny old week you know. I don’t think I’ve ever suffered with jetlag quite so badly. Perhaps it’s a sign from the great affiliate gods that I need to calm down my travelling ways and stay put for a wee while! I’ve languished the week away in my jim jams, sat like a poor wee waif hunched over my keyboard in the hope that some kind of notion to work would strike.
It’s hard to get back to reality and work after such an awesome trip. Once more I find myself in the difficult position of trying to get my affiliate groove back on after a hiatus. I’ve written about this quite a few times, and I still think it’s the most difficult part of our job. After all, the vast majority of us have nobody expecting us to do very much – and so at certain times that’s what happens… NOTHING!!
Onwards & Upwards Rodney…
So this time my “getting back into it” checklist is as follows: -
- Tidy house to within an inch of its life and make sure everything is where it should be once more. Although this actually sounds like an avoidance strategy, it’s very important to me that my house and surroundings are perfect before I can work. Mess stresses this affiliate lassie out big time.
- What on earth was I doing before I left? Yep, first thing I need to do now that I’m actually able to do more than sit and look at my stats is to try and work out where I’d gotten up to with my projects at the point I left for the UK. I hope you’re not looking to an answer to that one… I tend to just sit and scroll through my sites until unfinished tasks jump out at me and make their way in a notepadward direction!
- Motivate myself to jump back into work on Monday. Errr…. ok, this is where the problems might just start, LOL. Personally, I’m motivated by the potential for results, so on Sunday evening I’m going to sit down and work out what I’ll achieve when I sit down and do 3 months hard graft. Hopefully this will get me pumped and mean I start the week running.
- Motivate Duncan to jump back into work on Monday. Answers on a postcard
Was It Worth All This Schedule Havoc?
Oh god yes! There’s no job like this in the world and who else honestly can just nip off for a month and still earn a full time wage.
Hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of things soon and be blogging away like a mad thing. If anyone has any Ask Kirsty’s to help me get going again, please drop me a line… you’ll be doing this affiliate blogger a big favour.
Finally, We Have A New Team Member To Help Us Out
Meet our newest employee. For once, he’s not a poisonous spider!
This is Lazlo and his self appointed role here at Affiliate Stuff towers is keeping my lap warm when I’m working, and making sure to savage my fingers whenever any important phone calls that I really need to concentrate for are on the go!
Every affiliate should have one of these important organisational tools, here’s hoping he’s going to help ease me back into work. He sure does make the office a much more pleasant place to hang out!
- Oops, this article is clearly unique!
May 8th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Hi Kirsty, while I can’t quite relate to taking off a *full month* and still getting paid
, I can relate to the difficulty of getting back into the groove after holiday. That said, once the groove hits (perhaps a week after I’m back), I find that the mind is fresh, the ideas flow, and I can get a lot done in relatively little time.
You gotta take time to sharpen the saw!
May 8th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Right on Jason, I like your way of thinking!! You are right now I come to think of it, once you get started you do really find you have a lot of energy to push yourself on to bigger and better things.
Now how to convince my husband this is so. Hmmmmm!!!
May 8th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Welcome back! I would love to travel like you do and know I have to work hard to make it happen. I get distracted a lot which is not always a great thing.
Lazlo is adorable! I have Pebbles (cat), Caleb(Basset Hound), Bam Bam (Blue & Gold Macaw) and Taz (turtle) all keeping me company during the day. Lots of fun!
As for questions, I would love to know more about how you keep all affiliate programs, links, websites, etc. organized.
Thanks!
May 8th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Hi Kirsty,
I can totally relate to your need to ‘tidy your home to within an inch of it’s life’. I work from home and the weekends are ‘our’ family slack time, total emphasis on fun and quality time.
This often means that Sunday night I am up a bit later than usual tidying everything and setting the house straight ready for the start of my working day the following Monday morning.
Nothing worse than looking away from the computer for a minutes inspiration only to be distracted by clutter and mess…
Thanks for sharing,
Karl
May 8th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Thanks guys, it’s great to be back and I’m hoping to be up and at ‘em as planned on Monday. Quite worryingly after a big flight I have the lurgey as well so I seem to be one sleepy lady at the moment!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Welcome back to reality Kirsty
Hope you can get back into the swing of things.
Beautiful cat, where did you get him? A shelter i hope..
Looks like a purebred
Now what will happen when you go on holidays? Pets make it hard.. got 2 cats, 2 dogs, 3 birds and a fish tank myself. If there’s one way to make you stay put at home, its having a menagerie of pets!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Oh i just read you have other pets – a macaw.. my my, they are expensive in Australia!
Where do they all go when you’re traveling?
May 9th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Hey Dillan, its not me that has the menagerie its Angie! Lazlo wasn’t from a shelter but we did get him free from a friend whose cat had an unexpected litter.
He’s not purebred either, and his mother doesn’t look like that. There was one more like him in the litter plus a pure grey, a blue and white, and a tortoiseshell. Seems like our Lazlo simply benefited from a really gorgeous throwback to a sealpoint siamese from a few generations ago!
May 9th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Oh, and we will probably get friends to look after Lazlo when we’re away short term and get house sitters to care for him if we are away on a long trip. Failing that I’ve sourced a really luxurious kitty hotel nearby!
May 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
empty wine glass, credit card out… been doing a spot of internet shopping? lol.
I’ve just broke up for summer from uni so I’ll be joining the full timer AM’ers for the next 4 and a half months, so for me im the opposite, im extremely motivated. No idea how long that will last for! Aswell as staying motivated, how do you constantly find tasks to do?
is it a case of once one sites done you start again with another?
May 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Hey Rich, a lot of sites need more content and products adding on an ongoing basis. Coming up with those tasks is a bit of a logical progression.
My new site ideas come from my PPC activities. That way I usually already know they’ll make me money before I even start putting time into them.
May 11th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Yep Dillan it’s me that has the zoo. Every year we go to Jamaica and we leave our Basset at the kennel and then my stepson house sits and takes care of all the other pets. I hate to leave them every time but it’ a nice break and they seem to love us more every time we return ha ha