I’ve been going through a lot of life changes recently, and this state of flux has created some bad habits for me. I get like this when my life gets too busy or I have a lot of projects going on that are particularly draining.
So what do you do when this happens? I’ve basically come up with a plan to get myself out of this productivity funk. It’s worked before in the past, so I’m hoping it works again. (I’ll let you know in another month if it worked this time!)
I just wanted to say a quick bit about Alltop Small Business. I’ve been using it as a home page for about a month now and it’s been really useful so far. Alltop is a collection of stories from "all the top" sites on the web in a single-page aggregation. (They have other categories at Alltop.com as well, not just small business.) I was also pretty happy to make Guy Kawasaki’s list myself, so I feel that I have to mention that part too.
I started this post on February 19th. That’s right—nearly a month ago. The irony in that is that the very things I was talking about, such as focusing on your life plan and having a lifestyle business, happened to me. My daughter, the light of my life, got a serious respiratory illness and I had to stop working for a week to take care of her. Then, my husband had knee surgery, and I had to care for him. To top it all off, well, let’s just say we got a little surprise that will be showing up around Halloween sometime, and I’m finding myself so tired and nauseated that working has been difficult for a few weeks. The importance of these events is that I didn’t quit my "regular job" to work from home (and to be with my family more) just to make the people in my life take a back seat to work. What I did was create a true "lifestyle business", employment that would be flexible enough to be second to those that really matter in my life.
The fifth podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here:
Marketing Your Website #5 of 5: Sync Up with Search Engines and Online Tools
To hear the complete series, follow these links:
I had been using Eudora for my e-mail for a very long time, as it was handed out as part of the computing package at my school, Cornell University. And then I disaster happened: while my mailboxes were compressing, I got an end-of-file error, thereby losing about half of the e-mails in my inbox. I didn’t learn my lesson at that point, however—it took a second time, losing most of my outbox, that I finally realized it was time for a change!
Side note: I didn’t get a chance to enter in this week’s CotC nor have I been writing much this week. I have a sick 2-year-old right now, and the world pretty much stops for her.
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists for January 29, 2008 is up at Bizosphere. This week’s host is cehwiedel from One Man Band. Of note in this week’s CotC:
The fourth podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here:
Marketing your Website #4 of 5: Create Press and Write Articles
If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link and save it to your hard drive.
Stay tuned to Small Business Essentials (perhaps by using the convenient subscribe buttons to your right, if you are viewing this at the website!) and I will update you weekly as each one is released.