Getting Off My Own Back and Sprucing Up

It may be past spring but it just seems like a good time to clean things up a bit. I’ve men­tioned in ear­lier posts that some changes were com­ing and they are. More so with my actual busi­ness than the blog but they still effect it.

First off, you may have noticed that the con­sis­tency in my post­ing has, well, gone down the drain. It’s been one or two posts a week lately. That’s due to sev­eral fac­tors but the point is I’ve been beat­ing myself up about it.

I’ve been hold­ing myself to high stan­dards with this blog. That’s not to say I don’t want high stan­dards by any means, I have just been hold­ing myself against stan­dards that aren’t appro­pri­ate for the time being.

But no one is perfect.

So I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that I need to get off my own back and let things go as they are. I’m still work­ing a full time job and tak­ing care of my fam­ily. If I am to reach my dream of work­ing from home then I need to cut a few things and con­cen­trate more on others.

But this blog is not going any­where. In fact I still have some ideas in line for it and a new redesign at some point. So the blog is far from dying. And I had to remind myself that. It seems I was my own worst enemy in hold­ing such high stan­dards against myself.

The post­ing fre­quency may come and go here, as well as con­sis­tency (what am I say­ing? that’s already gone lol), but it’s still going to keep going. I’m clean­ing it up and fix­ing a few things. It’s time to take out the dust rag, clean up, and pol­ish some wood eh? So if you notice some­thing dif­fer­ent, it’s sup­posed to be that way. Hopefully.

Spring Fever! er.. Cleaning

Speak­ing of clean­ing things out, I’m at the point where I have a ton of friends on Twit­ter and Face­book, but I don’t have much inter­ac­tion. So what is the point of me hav­ing over 3000 fol­low­ers on Twit­ter when I only talk to a frac­tion of them?

Qaulity ver­sus Qaun­tity. This of course is another debate alto­gether but the point is I’m going to be clean­ing those out as well. That way I have more room to con­cen­trate on the peo­ple I can build rela­tion­ships with. Which is what social net­work­ing is all about right?

It’s time to put things in order and focus on my dreams. Or rather to focus on achiev­ing those dreams. The first main goal I have is to start mak­ing enough that I can quit my full time job and start work­ing online full time. That in itself will be a huge landmark.

But, as I said, in order to do that I need to cut out some things and spruce up oth­ers so that I can focus more on my writ­ing busi­ness and move towards my goals.

Focus and hold­ing myself back. Seems that fix­ing one is help­ing the other. Amaz­ing what a lit­tle effort can do eh?

~Chris

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