Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

All fired up
I was grumpy pretty much all day today. I really wanted to work on my site, but I kept telling myself that I had to complete a couple of billable projects and an update of my church's website before I'd allow myself back onto my site (which had occupied most of my attention the past three weeks).

Finally, this evening, I had one hour before the time I had planned to knock things off for the night. I had finished one thing and needed to get started on another. I looked at the other things I had told myself I needed to do and then decided, "Nah, I'm doing something on my website."

It wasn't much—I added the next autoresponder message in my bonus tips for those who signed up for my newsletter—but it changed my outlook completely around.

Getting back into writing helpful tips was the tonic I needed. Or maybe it was just getting back to my site (I haven't added anything new to it in a couple of days and am beginning to feel I'm letting visitors down).

But it helped to take a break to do what I wanted to do instead of what I told myself I had to do. Maybe I need to get a couple of new articles up tomorrow before I get back into the billable work—just to keep my energy up.

It's always a learning process of finding out what you need to do to function at your highest level. Hey, there's no one looking over your shoulder when you work your own business, no big stick ready to come down on you when you don't meet deadlines. There's not even anyone setting deadlines for you (although the need to get billable work done for others has somewhat of a deadline feel to it).

But you've got to pay attention to your own internal rhythms and needs, and put them to work for you or you're right back in that box of feeling like someone else is controlling your life.

So, happy rhythm hunting, all!
Jeff