What does a typical day look like for you?

Here is another great question that I have been asked multiple times in the recent past. I figured today would be the perfect day to answer this question as it has been a typical Monday!

I typically start my day at around 6:00am or 6:30am. When I get up in the morning, I am usually ready to get my day started and I don’t need much time to come to my senses. I like to head straight to the office which requires that I open our back slidiing glass door, walk outside, close the door, then take about 12 steps. I am then standing at the front door of our newly constructed office that was completed the first part of May. I am normally at the office no later than 6:30am on a typical work day.

When I get to my office I like to start of with bible reading, prayer, and some good quiet time to think about all that is going on in my life and business. Once, I am finished in my preparation for the day, I dive right in to my emails. With spam, I receive between 300-500 emails daily to give you an idea of what I must deal with on a daily basis. My morning email duties can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 1 hour usually. I like to then get my daily reports updated which tracks income spread across all my sites. This usually takes about 20 minutes or so. These are things I do nearly every morning unless I am faced with some type of emergency.

The rest of my days is spent on my forums, in multiple IM chat windows, responding to emails, talking on the phone, and reading through some of the forums I frequent like SitePoint or DNForum. I will normally go home and get a bite to eat with my wife and kids for lunch at about noon, although we do get an invite next door (our grandparents house) for lunch a couple of times each week. One of my goals is to make at least 3 posts per day on all of the forums I run, and this can take up to 1-2 hours a day depending on what issues arise on any given forum.

The end of my work day usually hits between 4:30pm and 5:30pm and lock up the office and head home. In less than 26 seconds, I am in my house visiting with my wife and/or playing with the kids. We like to eat an early dinner, so we are usually through eating by 6:00pm. Our kids go to bed at around 8:30pm, so after dinner we focus on playing or reading with the kids until they get ready for bed at about 8:00pm. Once the kids are in bed, my wife and I spend time talking and hanging out. We may watch a movie some nights (thanks to NetFlix) or play a board game. We are usually in bed by 10:30pm or 11:00pm. This is a typical work day in the life of Lee Dodd.