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One day, Chicken Little was walking around the woods when an Acorn fell on her head. Panic sets in for Chicken Little, “Oh my, the sky is falling! I must run and tell the Lion.” …
One of the things that most people struggle with when they are building their own online business is that nagging feeling that they aren’t reaching their full potential and that somewhere they are missing out on opportunities because of it.
In yesterday’s post, I talked about the value of taking a day off every once in a while to let your batteries recharge and just being kind to yourself in general. The truth is, this is something that many of us, myself included, need to get much better at so that we can maintain balance in our lives.
I’ve had a couple of long hard weeks at the day job. Let me be clear, I attend meetings, draw on whiteboards, tell people my ideas, read documents and occasionally write stuff, so when I say “hard”, we shouldn’t think I was out on a chain gang breaking rocks or anything – I have pretty soft and supple computer nerd hands.
Since mentioning over the past week that I’ve taken more of an interest in figuring out how to write more books, I’ve been devoting a bit of time to figure out how the authors in the business and marketing, non-fiction arena become successful. It’s been a bit of an interesting process of discovery for me because I was expecting there to be a lot more to it.
The last few weeks have been pretty full on from a work perspective. I’ve been leading a big proposal for a tender that we’re responding to and the process for getting these things priced and governed internally to meet the client’s deadlines has been pretty tight. I don’t think I’ve worked under 50 hours at any point over the last three weeks.
The other day, a friend of mine asked me if I would speak to a single mom of three young, primary school aged girls on Skype for half an hour to see if I could help her out. She’s been having a rough go the last couple years for a bunch of reasons and was really struggling.
This day has just stunk. Everything about it has been rubbish. Pretty much everything that I touched has turned to crap right before me.
Very rarely do I listen to podcasts and get inspired to reconsider something about the way that I run my businesses. Generally speaking, I listen to podcasts to pass the time and lately, I’ve steered clear of listening to most business podcasts altogether, preferring to listen to more philosophical things or for fun, a podcast like “31 Thoughts” which is a hockey podcast.
Well, let me just say how much fun I had talking with Scott Duffy about his journey from full-time software developer, to side hustling online course creator and finally through to full-time online business entrepreneur. It was great hearing Scott chronicle his progress and talk about some of his thoughts and motivations as he progressed over the last few years.