MarketUP: Marketing & PR Services

Morning. Early. Coffee. Feed pets, including 'wheeking' guinea pig (who knew they could be so bossy??) Multi-task: watch news, read email-blogs-RSS feeds, check Huffington Post for entertainment and politics.

Then to work - much of which involves similar activities: Reading, analyzing, decision-making, responding. Interacting, commenting, Tweeting, posting on LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.

And when you are a marketing services provider who (most likely) manages the blogs, Facebook pages, websites and Twitter accounts of your clients - that can involve a good part of the morning. Or evening. Not to mention 'feeding yourself'. What I've found is that it takes an incredible amount of self-discpline to keep on task and not get distracted, particularly if it's for my own MarketUP business.

When we were frustrated as kids, we often shouted intended insults at each other to try to label someone 'not as good as us'. 'Liar!' - when we didn't want to believe something. 'Cheater!' - when we weren't winning, and clearly we couldn't be fairly losing. 'Stupid!' - when we felt inferior and needed a boost over an intellectual superior (or we were just plain mean).