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Go to your nearest brew house, get yourself a nice Americano, then take in the following:

When I worked for the banking industry, I found that the people that succeed, either at production or managerial levels are numbers freaks. The company literally tracked everything that had an impact on sales and production. No, I don’t mean like the number of calls you do, and how much you broght in at the end of the month for the company, but everything that could be quantified was tracked. And in real time, or updated every couple of hours.

I didn’t know what the numbers meant in the beginning and I hated keeping up with all of the numbers, it would be too confusing and I would become frustrated. But after about a month, once I learned how all of the numbers and stats worked, and no longer had to consiously thinking about what they meant, I began to use them to my advantage. I became obsessive about the numbers, they spoke to me.

The numbers told me what I need to work on, what to fix, what to focus on and they also told me where I was doing a great job, and when I should celebrate.

Moral of the story?

What is driving your blogging productivity?

So lately, with so much to do on my plate, I’ve thought about my productivity and am asking myself the following questions:

• What’s driving my blogging productivity? A system or random burst of feelings?
• If I’m to succeed, what do I need to produce? How many posts per day? Per month? per year?
• How many blogs should I have? and what is the reason for each blog?
• How do I divide my time so that I can maximize on results?
• What is the best method of planning and tracking my productivity?

I’ll be considing these questions and writing about them here, and it will do you a great deal also to answer these and related questions to increase your blogging productivity.