This blog is suffering the fate of most new blogs, namely, wavering motivation and less frequent postings. There’s a common saying that 95% of new businesses fail within 5 years. This probably also applies to new blogs: 95% of new blogs fold within the first 5 months.
My time has been consumed by wedding planning and new home ownership duties. I also got an intra-company transfer to a nearby location that cut my commute from 30 miles to 7 miles. Timewise, it went from 1 hour to 15 minutes. And I’m loving it. No rush hour madness. No being stuck on the freeway. I didn’t realize until now how much the commute drained me. I now feel like I have a life again.
My 9-to-5 isn’t feeling as onerous now, but I’m still staying on the path to being free from 9 to 5. Not much progress has been made in the past month, hence no new postings, but I mean to stay on this path, however long it takes.
I have noticed that quite a few fellow bloggers and micro-ISV owners have made great progress on their products. I envy them and I wish them the very best:
Userscape
Ataraxis Software
Component Factory
NGEDIT
- Thanks for reading
- Car Buying Tips
- Automatic Millionaire, Implemented!
- Get your financial house in order before quitting your dayjob
- Carla Blazek, free from 9 to 5
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September 21st, 2005 at 11:38 am
I feel the same forces - the busier (or more productive) I become, the less time I have to spend writing about it.
Oh, and wedding planning takes time (thankfully I didn’t have to deal with too much of that for mine!)
Congrats on the cut in journey time - wish I could do that. I went from a half hour walk to a half hour car journey. Now I should be spending extra time in the gym to make up for it! Try fitting an extra hours walking into the day!
Everybody takes their own path to be free from the nine to five. I’m nowhere near yet - nor probably will be for 5-10 years or so (as a conservative estimate).
I went to a talk by the co-founder of the Egg online bank (available in the UK at least) and I’m going to blog about it in the next few days but one thing he said was about visualising the end goal (in great detail) and work backwards from that. Perhaps that’s useful.
October 1st, 2005 at 6:13 pm
It is easy to lose one’s way toward the greater goal because of the confusions of everyday life.
Continue blogging, whatever else you do and don’t get into worrying about your lack of progress.
Nothing just happens. You have to make it happen. Every day you lose focus is a day lost.
You have to create your own magic. Remember to take breaks every day to refresh your humanity. Have coffee with a friend. Send an email to someone you care about.
If you can’t manage to do these simple things, you may be ignoring the presence of a toxic individual who is making less of every effort you make to improve yourself.
I think you have it in you to achieve your goals. Don’t lose heart. You may need to set and achieve some intermediate goals to get your spirits up and your creative juices flowing.
Go for it!