Working Space

As Internet Marketers we spend many hours sitting at our desk glued to the screen in front of us, typing away furiously when a thought or idea has taken us into a creative area of our world that cannot and must not be interrupted at any cost. This process can take several minutes or it can drag out to several hours, depending on the size and depth of the project that we’re committed to and the volume of creative juices that are flowing through our system at the time.

A topic I find myself deeply entrenched in right at this very moment. The idea appeared for something poignant to write about. Within a few seconds of that happening, the blinkers came on and the world outside the periphery of this desk diffused into nothingness. The need to hammer the words onto the brightly glowing, flat liquid crystal display before me using the keys of the typing pad as finger sized punch-bags at a speed resembling that of a demented two handed table-top finger-drummer is imperative. Spend too much time thinking about which word fits best between the next two and a good proportion of the idea could be wastefully lost.

How easily we can drift off-topic, following half-grasp ideas that lead us off along tangents and crazy arcs spiraling away from our original topic.

So it’s all about the work space we use to compile our literary ramblings and musings. We all have a different area in size, layout, format and whatever. But it is essentially the same thing in that there is most likely a desk, chair, computer, screen, mouse and keyboard with some writing space and printing space.

That working space is rarely ideal when we work from home, because household interruptions are always waiting to pounce on us unawares. The phone could ring or someone could call to us because they didn’t think we were doing anything important!

Lots of things like that can stop us in our tracks and the next piece of creative genius could be lost in a blink of an eye.

So as hard as it may seem to be, sometimes we just have to close that door and shut everything else out of our little world in order to get things done effectively. Then our little world becomes a cocoon of creativity. Let’s face it, if we don’t create, we don’t earn.

Terry Didcott

The Honest Way