07 Darren Rowse, Problogger - The Activity Pod, Where We Help You Get Stuff Done

Darren Rowse is one of Australia's top bloggers, as well as author, speaker and podcaster. In 2002 Darren stumbled upon an article about blogging and it changed his life. Today he earns a full time living from blogging at his two blogs, Digital Photography School and ProBlogger, where he blogs multiple times a week. For the last six years Darren has run an annual ProBlogger Training Event, this year attended by over 700 very excited bloggers (including us!). Darren has also authored a number of books and ebooks, is a sought after conference speaker and podcast guest and earlier this year he launched his own ProBlogger Podcast. You can find Darren at Problogger and Digital Photography School.  You can connect with Darren at Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  In this episode we discuss

what its like to have 5 million (!!!) views a month on your blog

Darren's daily rituals

establishing a template for the week and scheduling your priorities

maintaining focus as a dad - so that family takes priority

setting up signals when you work from home, so your family knows when you are working and when you are happy for interruption

separation from home and work when you work from home

how Darren started blogging

Darren's favourite social media platform/s

using Periscope

why Darren started podcasting and what he loves about it

what Darren loved most about 2015 ProBlogger event

seven steps to better use your time

outsourcing

staying focused and getting stuff done when you work from home

favourite apps

the importance of physical and mental health to blogging

Resources discussed in the show

Rescue Time app

Myers Briggs

Periscope

Blab

Medium

ProBlogger training event

Meet Edgar

Evernote

Fantastical

Wunderlist

Sprout Social

Canva

PicMonkey