When growing up on a farm in Southern Michigan during the 1930's and 1940's, we spent time workinng out in my Grand-mothers berry patches. I was a little guy at the time but I can remember her favorite saying was Auswahl mit beiden Händen in English it is pick with both hands; or she would say Arbeit mit beiden Händen which is to say; work with both hands. I remember those lessons well. She was a very industrious lady, she had to be she had 17 children. My Dad was among the younger set. The sad part of this little story is that my Grand-mother outlived 11 of her children, one of that 11 being my Father. He died at a very young age of 34.
I really got a little off the track, but I wanted to relate this to the job of surfing traffic exchanges. If you don’t surf with both hands you are wasting a lot of time. There is a method of surfing that can increase your productivity by at least 40 percent. It just takes a little discipline and practice. I dare say that by the end of the day you will never go back to surfing with one hand.
Prior to surfing it is important to have your computer running well and you can refer to my blog title, How is your PC running? Slow and sluggish. This will help you in getting your computer well and up and running fast.
For surfing I personally prefer using the Firefox Browser, I am assuming you know how to set up tab browsing. Just click the link to download your Firefox Browser, it’s free.
The Procedure For Surfing Fast: Get comfortable and go:
Number 1. Place you left thumb on the Ctrl key hold and place your index finger on the tab. This will advance the tab. Be sure you are comfortable and relaxed.
Number 2. With the mouse in your right hand left click the TE surf bar selecting the correct response to advance to the next site for this TE. Repeat step 2. You are in the “Circle 2 Step Dance of Surfing”.
When you start, just take it slowly it will take a few pages to get used to; however I guarantee if you keep it up, you will love it and it will save your mouse arm from fatigue. It is really great. “Work with both hands.” If you spend 3 hours a day surfing, I’m sure you could cut it down to the very minimum of 2 hours. Or if you prefer, your 3 hours of surfing would be much more productive. Actually you probably could cut your required time required to surf in half. If you surf 6 days a week at 3 hours a day that would mean a savings of 7 to 9 hours. Now that’s a full day of work that you could cut out each week. You figure it out, in a years time that would be a tremendous time savings.
I am left handed and I use a right handed mouse. I have no idea how this could work with a person using a left handed mouse. Since you live in a right handed world, do as the Romans. What you would be doing would be considered almost ambidextrous. Give it a shot, the time savings is really worth a day or two getting used to it. In the past I have had to learn how to operate many right handed machines, I know it can be done. Of course if you don’t have the use of both hands, this would not work. I remember having to post from an adding machine. I astonished one of my co-workers because I keyed with my right hand and entered the posted item by pen into a ledger with my left hand. He interrupted me and asked me how I did that. I told him, "Practice".
Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky
I really got a little off the track, but I wanted to relate this to the job of surfing traffic exchanges. If you don’t surf with both hands you are wasting a lot of time. There is a method of surfing that can increase your productivity by at least 40 percent. It just takes a little discipline and practice. I dare say that by the end of the day you will never go back to surfing with one hand.
Prior to surfing it is important to have your computer running well and you can refer to my blog title, How is your PC running? Slow and sluggish. This will help you in getting your computer well and up and running fast.
For surfing I personally prefer using the Firefox Browser, I am assuming you know how to set up tab browsing. Just click the link to download your Firefox Browser, it’s free.
The Procedure For Surfing Fast: Get comfortable and go:
Number 1. Place you left thumb on the Ctrl key hold and place your index finger on the tab. This will advance the tab. Be sure you are comfortable and relaxed.
Number 2. With the mouse in your right hand left click the TE surf bar selecting the correct response to advance to the next site for this TE. Repeat step 2. You are in the “Circle 2 Step Dance of Surfing”.
When you start, just take it slowly it will take a few pages to get used to; however I guarantee if you keep it up, you will love it and it will save your mouse arm from fatigue. It is really great. “Work with both hands.” If you spend 3 hours a day surfing, I’m sure you could cut it down to the very minimum of 2 hours. Or if you prefer, your 3 hours of surfing would be much more productive. Actually you probably could cut your required time required to surf in half. If you surf 6 days a week at 3 hours a day that would mean a savings of 7 to 9 hours. Now that’s a full day of work that you could cut out each week. You figure it out, in a years time that would be a tremendous time savings.
I am left handed and I use a right handed mouse. I have no idea how this could work with a person using a left handed mouse. Since you live in a right handed world, do as the Romans. What you would be doing would be considered almost ambidextrous. Give it a shot, the time savings is really worth a day or two getting used to it. In the past I have had to learn how to operate many right handed machines, I know it can be done. Of course if you don’t have the use of both hands, this would not work. I remember having to post from an adding machine. I astonished one of my co-workers because I keyed with my right hand and entered the posted item by pen into a ledger with my left hand. He interrupted me and asked me how I did that. I told him, "Practice".
Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky
1 comment:
i liked reading this article.
i would have loved to see you key with your right and pen the info with your left!! i too would be amazed...thats awesome.
im going to have to check out the surfing with both hands as you mentioned, never heard of that before! sounds great.
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