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Experienced bloggers know that blogging can take so much time to work on every day. One of the most important things when you are a blogger is to find a motivation to post something more on your blog, anytime you have some spare time.

In this article I would like to show you how to get more motivation to work on your blog. This can be done by saving your overall work and decide which priorities you want to do first. It is all about the time and your own concentration.

So, I am going to show you how to write a post most effectively, using the maximum concentration for it and working ONLY that! A lot of bloggers try to do several things in one time because we are all used to work on multiple tasks at once on our computers.

Benefits of This Model

I personally know that I spend a lot of time to check out my Facebook statuses from my friends, twitter updates, received emails, browsing through internet much more often than necessary. This can save you a lot of time every day if you do it right!

• Focus on the project
• Produce better content
• Do more in less time

There are many more benefits of this model, but these above are the most essential and important for your blog. This model can help you to save a lot of time and write your own posts more effectively than ever before.

Do Not Waist your Time

One of the most important things to get more motivation and be maximum effective is try not to waist your valuable time. By that I mean you should remove or forget anything that may lead you to an action from your sight, including the following things.

Cleanup your Desktop

Clean your desktop from unwanted applications and services you might use a lot, at least while you are working on your computer. The best way is to log-off your current account and login with another account – let’s call it your working account.

Note: If you do not have additional accounts you can create them easily through Control Panel. You should know that this works on Windows operating systems. You can create an additional accounts on other platforms, but I am telling you my own way.

By default, a new account would get a new and clean desktop. All applications and icons on your desktop will be removed. Additionally, your documents wouldn’t be accessed through that account. Below, you can see my working desktop… looks pretty simple and basic, but it is a very effective and productive for work:

If you want to download the wallpaper I use, feel free to download it from here. I think it is one of the best “motivational” wallpapers available on the internet at this moment.

You could notice that I have left only Firefox and some basic folders in this account. This makes me more productive and effective. Giving me more time just to work – not clicking around to see Tweetdeck updates, MSN chat or any other stuff…

Good thing here is that Firefox is already installed separately using multiple accounts. When I login with my working account my bookmarks and other unnecessary settings (for work) would not be presented.

Organize your Priorities

Every day I think what would be my own priorities. Which posts I am going to write and publish, which blogs I am going to update today and many other stuffs.

First of all, you need to work one thing at a time. This you should strongly remember! Working on one project, in this case a blog post, you will concentrate on only one thing! This may strongly affect your overall post quality – and we all know how worth is it!

Most bloggers try to work on multiple posts at a time – this is one of the worst mistakes bloggers usually do. This is strongly related to the quality of posts they write.

Remember: Spending more time on only one article can be more valuable than working on multiple articles at once! This way you rise up it’s quality and boosting up your blog productivity easily and most effectively!

Stay Focused!

A lot of people like to do some basic stuffs every now and then on their computer. This includes a manual backups, checking an email accounts constantly, browsing through the bookmarks and much much more. The most important thing is to stay focused on your current work!

Automatic Backup

If you manually backup your website and other files on internet, you know that can be a very long process! The best way is to do an automatic backup of your files using some automated services you can find through the internet easily.

I would recommend you a few services which you are going to like:

• iDrive – Probably one of the most popular services on the internet, when it comes to the online backup and services. Gives you 2GB of completely free space to backup your files online on secured servers. You can use this great service completely for free and fully automate a whole backup process for you!
• Amazon S3 – I personally use the most popular (commercial) service to backup my websites regularly! S3 gives you a very affordable online and secured space for a very low fee! Many CMS has already a plug-ins which works with this service with which you can easily backup your sites automatically! I am very pleased with this service!

Not only you can automate a backup for your sites with Amazon S3, you can backup any file you want! There is no file size limitation with this service!

Organize your Messages

Personally I use a lot of time before to check out every email I get. It can take so much time, specially if you use only one account yourself.

Now, I use 3 mail accounts actively! First one is my private mail inbox, second one is for the registration process on many sites, forums and other registration purposes, the third one is for my websites, attached to the contact form on each blog and website I have.

This save me a lot of time per day because every mail I get is automatically separated. If it comes to my private or my website accounts I would read them as soon is possible. If mail comes to the registration account I would open and read it later – simple as that! I would recommend you to do the exact same thing – through email is completely free (and easy to setup) these days!

Because I use Mozilla Firefox a lot, I keep my webmail accounts notified with one great extension for this browser – WebMail Notifier. This little but essential add-on announce me every time I get mail on any of my email accounts. It supports most popular services like Gmail, Yahoo!, Windows Live and much much more… If you use Firefox you would need to have this extension installed for sure!

Like you see, there is more than 3 accounts, but really I use only 3 accounts actively. And by that I mean I use them every single day! I recommend you to create a multiple email accounts and use them only for what they are intended to use.

Useful Applications

When I have covered the main reasons to help you to stay focused on your blogging (or any other) work, I am going to show you some applications I use to greatly improve my writing and a blogging experience even much more.

All these applications are completely free to use. I recommend you to download and try each because they really save you a lot of time. Allowing you to finish your work much quickly than ever before!

I would list the most essential applications I use. I also recommend you to see my previous article where I talk about a blogging resources which you may use additionally.

Windows Live Writer

What can I say more for the tool which is developed from Microsoft and It is created for just one purpose – a blogging.

Windows Live Writer is an essential tool I need to have installed on any computer I work. I actually write every post in this great blogging tool, including this article too of course. With it you can easily compose an article for your blog, setup or edit pictures, insert video files, add watermark to each photo you insert, add tags, save drafts and much much more!

If you are a blogger, I definitely recommend you to try out this tool! Believe me, it is a life saving application for every serious blogger around!

SearchStatus Add-on

This is one of the most important Mozilla Firefox extensions I use. This little add-on would give you so much search engine related information for any site you visit.

Including graphical view of the current page rank, alexa rank, compete and mozrank. Gives you so much information about meta tags, link reports or even notice out an NoFollow meta links on any website around internet.

It is one of the most essential app for every blogger or a webmaster. Includes so much useful information in a very nice user-interface. Absolutely recommended app!

PicPick

PicPick is a small application which can help you a lot. This is a small software with which you can easily capture images on your computer.

It has a very nice user-interface and it uses little system resources. You can do much more than “just” screen capturing with this application. Allowing you to use magnifier, color picker, pixel ruler and many other webmaster-useful tools.

This application is completely free to use. If you tend to capture a photos from your computer and upload them to your website, this is my first recommendation!

Notepad++

Notepad++ is one application that can be a very useful, specially if your are a blogger or a webmaster. It is small, effective and fast – much better alternative than the default Notepad in Windows.

This enhanced Notepad allow you to do many things that usual MS Notepad does not. I specially like the user-interface and a code-color support. From now, you can easily and fast change any code you want on your website.

Notepad++ supports tabs and work on cross-platforms. I strongly recommend you to use this application on your computer – it is completely free software!

If you have your own application, which helping you to do your regular blogging work – feel free to post comment below. I would like to hear which applications you use to improve your blogging (and other useful) experiences.