Do You Have Online Tunnel Vision?

By: Susan Nichols - [marketing]
This week, as we work online, let's do our best to be patient with each other. It's also important to realize that the person to whom you're emailing might be taking a day off --What!! A day OFF??? Can we do that as online publishers and web site owners???

YES we can! -- YES, You can!

It's very important to break away from the stress and demands of all those emails that flood in every day. How many do you receive? In the hundreds? Some days, along with my daily online work, I just can't get to it all - can you?

We are working in an online environment where we can not visually see if the co-worker in the adjacent office is taking the afternoon off, going to a meeting, having a family emergency, sick with the flu, or... taking the week- end off, as normal workers should for their family growth and to keep good health.

Is your health important??? Well, what a silly question for me to ask! Of course it is!!! Can it be ruined by working 24 7 - Yes, it's logical that no one should work round the clock. We all know the statistics, the stress books, the ones in the hospital from not recognizing when they had gotten caught up with Online Tunnel Vision.

Have you become one-with-your-computer? Is your monitor attached to your brain? If so, then you have Online Tunnel Vision! Have you looked out the window in the last 3 hours? Do your eyes hurt? Get up and take a 15-minute break! Have you even gone to the bathroom lately? Urologists state that one of the reasons for kidney infections is from repeatedly not going immediately when you need to. Does your back hurt? Get up and take that 15-minute break!!!

What's the solution to break away from Online Tunnel Vision? Just Get Up and Walk Away for a few minutes or even hours. Your computer has no control over you - or does it??? Don't wait till you're sick in the hospital to realize that your life and family is more important than meeting the constant demands from your online mailbox. Your snail mail arrives only once a day at your office and home. Online mail arrives every single second of every single hour of every single day! Now, That's Demanding, isn't it!!! Only we can control ourselves from allowing these demands to saturate our mental logic and ability to keep this constant insistence from our mailbox to ruin our health.

1. Limit your hours of working online each day.

2. Be a good boss to yourself. You deserve 15-minute breaks!!!

3. When you receive an email from someone who is annoyed that you didn't answer immediately, do your best to be kind to them in reply, but let him/her know that you're human. Aren't they? Sure they are, but they've forgotten.

4. Yes, you have all that work to do today, but a good boss would tell you it's time to go home after 8 -10 hours and get some rest. Control your computer! Separate yourself from it! That's right - just get up and walk away. I'm going to do that right now and guess what - you're still reading this and it didn't disturb the world for me to take a needed break. I'll be back in a few minutes. ;)

5. Ahhhh! That was a nice 15-minute break! Try it - Just get up and walk away and do something relaxing for 15 minutes. Then come back and send me the results.

Susan Nichols, editor of the Interactive Marketing Ezine, provides essential marketing methods to generate online success! Subscribe and receive weekly Free ads: http://www.vectorcentral.com/adv-free.html ~ Susan is also a Solo Ad design expert. Receive personal attention for your promotion here: http://www.vectorcentral.com/adv-solo-ads.html

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