I’ve often advised people to remain focused on one activity and not to multitask to be most productive. While focusing is such an important aspect of being successful and getting lots of work done, it can be a double edged sword. If you focus on an activity for a short period of time then you may have not given that activity enough time to work. If you work on an activity for too long then there’s a chance you’re focusing your efforts on something that will never work. So how do you know where to focus? I tend to only focus on one activity with all my efforts and then let time take care of the rest. I see a lot of people give up on something too quickly before giving it a chance to work. I guess its a habit that grows on people who work online. They want instant gratification because they heard things were supposed to be easy and quick online. When compared to offline marketing, doing things online does often time provide faster results but you still have to give it time to work. I’m referring to things that you may do on a regular basis such as generating backlinks to a website or waiting for your site to get indexed using a certain method. Back to the issue of focusing, I will try my hands at different methods and then once I see some results, I will focus my attention on which methods worked the best. You should cast a wide net and then hone in on what works with intense focus. Study what worked for that method and try to improve on it. You will never know for sure why something worked but if you focus on it then you will get a better understanding of the method. This will get you a lot further than to randomly do one thing here and one thing there with no way to actually measure your success factors. So the main point of this lesson is to try many things and then focus on what works best. You can use other people’s experience as a base for making your own discoveries. Only once you focus on a single task will you be able to analyze it and really know for sure how to make it work best for you.