One of the most significant challenges of this blog has been to ensure that I have the discipline to keep the posts coming on a daily basis. When faced with low (but rising) readership and a significant workload in the real world, it can be difficult to maintain the updates here (and make sure that they are interesting and engaging).
Priorities are important when it comes to starting anything new up from the ground up. There always comes a time when the demands of today will take their toll on what is needed for tomorrow. When that happens you must ask yourself if you have the fortitude to say no to today’s demands to ensure that you still have new demands for your time tomorrow. Even though I’m working 60+ hours every week right now I know that this blog is important to me and where I want to be. Therefore I must make time for this.
This comes into play when you get 15 requests from people that could become clients today. If you can’t serve them all you have to make the judgement call of what’s important. Some important items have no immediate revenue opportunities. Some may not even pan out. Success is taking these risks though and moving forward with a plan.