How To Put Your WordPress Blog On Autopilot And Spend Most Of Your Time At The Beach.

When most people look at my lifestyle design, they wonder when the hell am I applying for jobs and writing blog posts. After all, if you’ve read my blog up until now, you know the majority of my time is spent at the beach, surfing.

Believe it or not, publishing blog posts every single day and spending most of your time hanging out at the beach is not as complicated as it sounds.

It all comes down to two simple words-”Time Management”. If there’s anything business school taught me, it was how to effectively manage my time. I’ve always been pretty good at it, but business school made me better. The truth is I don’t spend that much time writing each single week. I might spend about 2 hours writing, and 2 hours promoting blog posts.

Truth be told, I HATE spending time in front of the computer. My best friend put it well when he said “you know, with evolution, we spent 2000 years learning to stand upright, and now we sit in front of a computer all day.” Many conditions such as repetitive strain injury didn’t even exist about 25 years ago.

4 Simple Steps I Use To Put My WordPress Blog On Autopilot.

1. Write multiple posts at the same time.

In one of my posts on coming up with ideas for blog posts, I mentioned that you should keep a notepad document and jot down ideas for a blog post every time you think of one. In my queue of potential topics I may have 5-6 ideas for posts at any one time. Sometimes I can’t figure out what the post will be about, but I know it will come to me, so I let it brew for a few days. With regards to writing, when you write, you tend to get into a flow state. That flow state will probably last up to 2 hours. So, leverage the hell out of it and write as many posts as you can in that time. My average time spent on writing a post is 20-30 minutes. So if I sit down for a writing session, I’ll hammer out 3-4 posts. Like most things, this is about training yourself. Once you train yourself to write multiple posts in a sitting, it will become easy.

2. Use the WordPress publishing schedule function.

This is one thing I love about WordPress. I could literally be on vacation for 5 weeks and have posts continually publishing. Since you can specify when you want the post to be published, put everything on a schedule. I usually put everything into my queue on Sunday night, specifically so I can be at the beach as much as possible.

3. Leverage Guest Posts.

This week I had 3 posts and I was thinking I might have to write another post. Thankfully, Gilbert from Soulhiker sent me a guest post. So, that took care of most of the week. If anything I may have to write one article later in this week.

4. Place a time limit on yourself.

Believe it or not, placing a time limit on yourself is a really useful way to speed up your writing skill. You may not believe it’s possible, but when you put yourself in a situation where it’s a must, you’ll find that you’ll meet the time limit. Eventually you’ll just do it without thinking about it.

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