Apologies all round
27/11/09 12:04 Filed in: Diary
Anyone who has followed my diary in the past will notice I have been very lax of late in completing it. I now realise my ambition to publish a daily diary was aiming too high.
Anyone who has followed my diary in the past will notice I have been very lax of late in completing it. I now realise my ambition to publish a daily diary was aiming too high. With the majority of my time and energy being focussed on the business (the rest going on my partner, the kids and ok, I admit to some TV watching!), this blog isn't given the time it deserves.
I even created a weekly timetable in an attempt to schedule some time for writing, but as you can see it didn't work. I should have guessed it was doomed when it was already failing on day 1. I was due to finish work at 6pm according to my timetable, (having started after the school run in the morning and re-started after the afternoon school run.), but was still working at 9pm. I tried to stay positive the next day and return to the planned schedule, but again it didn't go as well.
The timetable idea was driven by my partner. I think he got fed up of coming home every night and listening to me complaining that there weren't enough hours in the day. He would ask me how today went and I nearly always replied so-so. I was achieving things, (most days), but it never seemed to be enough to reduce my list of things to do. Part of the problem is that my partner is an ideas man and whenever he would come up with another suggestion for promoting or directing the business I would jump on it straight away and start trying to implement it. That means other areas, (such as this blog), wouldn't get a look in. His argument was that he didn't mean for me to stop my planned work and start some new activity straight away, he was just throwing in suggestions. The trouble is his I would often agree with his ideas and I would feel obliged to try anything new to bring customers to the company.
So to manage my time better I generated a timetable and there on Friday morning was this blog. However as the first week progressed planned activities took longer than expected and other activities couldn't be started because I was waiting on other people. Everything business related overshadowed this blog. After all, this is done because I really enjoy it. The business, although enjoyed, is the money earner. Much as I would like to just write every day nobody is beating a path to my door to pay me for it. So the business must come first. So my very colourful timetable has been slowly, and gradually, abandoned.
It wasn't a complete waste of time. It did make me realise that if I don't keep checking my emails as soon as they arrive, or monitor every twitter update from those I am following, I actually have quite a lot of time within each day. I have also decided I will try and maintain some aspects of it, such as resisting all temptation from accounts and only looking at the company finances once a week.
So what will happen to this blog now? Will it be abandoned forever? No, never!
I am generating a revamped website which will show all of my blogs on one page. Any diary entries I do manage to do will be combined with any rants that overcome me. You, the readers, will be able to see all of my spouting's in one place. With an archive for the older diatribes that anyone may have missed. So it should actually make it nicer. Also the fact that I can just write about what I want, when I want, and wherever I want should result in more entries than ever. (Now stop groaning you know its want you want!).
What about the original idea for this site? The one stop shop for your local area? Well I still hope to achieve that over time but that is, I am afraid, definitely relegated to the back burner. Maybe one day, when the company is established, and we are earning enough for me to breathe again I will finally complete what I set out to do with this site. By then there will probably be a hundred competitors for the idea, but at least I will enjoy getting there in the end.
I even created a weekly timetable in an attempt to schedule some time for writing, but as you can see it didn't work. I should have guessed it was doomed when it was already failing on day 1. I was due to finish work at 6pm according to my timetable, (having started after the school run in the morning and re-started after the afternoon school run.), but was still working at 9pm. I tried to stay positive the next day and return to the planned schedule, but again it didn't go as well.
The timetable idea was driven by my partner. I think he got fed up of coming home every night and listening to me complaining that there weren't enough hours in the day. He would ask me how today went and I nearly always replied so-so. I was achieving things, (most days), but it never seemed to be enough to reduce my list of things to do. Part of the problem is that my partner is an ideas man and whenever he would come up with another suggestion for promoting or directing the business I would jump on it straight away and start trying to implement it. That means other areas, (such as this blog), wouldn't get a look in. His argument was that he didn't mean for me to stop my planned work and start some new activity straight away, he was just throwing in suggestions. The trouble is his I would often agree with his ideas and I would feel obliged to try anything new to bring customers to the company.
So to manage my time better I generated a timetable and there on Friday morning was this blog. However as the first week progressed planned activities took longer than expected and other activities couldn't be started because I was waiting on other people. Everything business related overshadowed this blog. After all, this is done because I really enjoy it. The business, although enjoyed, is the money earner. Much as I would like to just write every day nobody is beating a path to my door to pay me for it. So the business must come first. So my very colourful timetable has been slowly, and gradually, abandoned.
It wasn't a complete waste of time. It did make me realise that if I don't keep checking my emails as soon as they arrive, or monitor every twitter update from those I am following, I actually have quite a lot of time within each day. I have also decided I will try and maintain some aspects of it, such as resisting all temptation from accounts and only looking at the company finances once a week.
So what will happen to this blog now? Will it be abandoned forever? No, never!
I am generating a revamped website which will show all of my blogs on one page. Any diary entries I do manage to do will be combined with any rants that overcome me. You, the readers, will be able to see all of my spouting's in one place. With an archive for the older diatribes that anyone may have missed. So it should actually make it nicer. Also the fact that I can just write about what I want, when I want, and wherever I want should result in more entries than ever. (Now stop groaning you know its want you want!).
What about the original idea for this site? The one stop shop for your local area? Well I still hope to achieve that over time but that is, I am afraid, definitely relegated to the back burner. Maybe one day, when the company is established, and we are earning enough for me to breathe again I will finally complete what I set out to do with this site. By then there will probably be a hundred competitors for the idea, but at least I will enjoy getting there in the end.
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