Sunday, April 03, 2005
Getting addictive
I was back to working most of the day on One Stop Web Support today and reached another milestone with it. It took longer than I expected, but I got the free ebooks up.
Setting them up to download turned out to be laughably easy. I expected it to be a whole new technical skill I'd need to learn, but it was as simple as uploading them and then linking to them. The test downloads I did with them came off without a hitch.
What took the time were the actual pages. The first one took forever while I figured out exactly what I was going to do with them, but once I figured out the pattern I was going to use, I was able to get into a nice rhythm and finish it in a way that left me pretty pleased with how they turned out.
Makes me think of something one of my long-time-ago supervisors said about me: that "If you ask Jeff to analyze something for you, you won't get an immediate answer. He'll think it over, but when he finally answers, the answer you get will be more thoroughly thought out than anyone could give.
I think that's why I often find it so hard to start a big project: the energy it takes me to analyze all the ins and outs and interrelationships involved in the task is like climbing a steep hill. Once I get to the top I have everything decided. And once I've reached that point, it's just a matter of coasting down the other side of the hill. But that climb sure is daunting.
But I've drifted away from what I planned to talk about: the addictive nature of building my own website. I get back to doing my own site and I just want to keep rolling with it. Now I'll have to drag myself back into my MasterVisions work. I'd love to just keep pushing on toward that next milestone on my own site.
But there has to be a balance between what I'm laying the foundation for and what brings in the income right now. And once I get back into the MasterVisions work, I'll enjoy that, too, as I did a couple of days ago (see Fun With SEO a couple of days back).
But seeing continual progress on the site I had long left dormant is definitely adding a bit of excitement back into my life, as I'm sure that growing your own business is doing with any one of you taking the same path. There's nothing like challenging your skills against the unknown to get that adrenaline rushing!
Jeff
I was back to working most of the day on One Stop Web Support today and reached another milestone with it. It took longer than I expected, but I got the free ebooks up.
Setting them up to download turned out to be laughably easy. I expected it to be a whole new technical skill I'd need to learn, but it was as simple as uploading them and then linking to them. The test downloads I did with them came off without a hitch.
What took the time were the actual pages. The first one took forever while I figured out exactly what I was going to do with them, but once I figured out the pattern I was going to use, I was able to get into a nice rhythm and finish it in a way that left me pretty pleased with how they turned out.
Makes me think of something one of my long-time-ago supervisors said about me: that "If you ask Jeff to analyze something for you, you won't get an immediate answer. He'll think it over, but when he finally answers, the answer you get will be more thoroughly thought out than anyone could give.
I think that's why I often find it so hard to start a big project: the energy it takes me to analyze all the ins and outs and interrelationships involved in the task is like climbing a steep hill. Once I get to the top I have everything decided. And once I've reached that point, it's just a matter of coasting down the other side of the hill. But that climb sure is daunting.
But I've drifted away from what I planned to talk about: the addictive nature of building my own website. I get back to doing my own site and I just want to keep rolling with it. Now I'll have to drag myself back into my MasterVisions work. I'd love to just keep pushing on toward that next milestone on my own site.
But there has to be a balance between what I'm laying the foundation for and what brings in the income right now. And once I get back into the MasterVisions work, I'll enjoy that, too, as I did a couple of days ago (see Fun With SEO a couple of days back).
But seeing continual progress on the site I had long left dormant is definitely adding a bit of excitement back into my life, as I'm sure that growing your own business is doing with any one of you taking the same path. There's nothing like challenging your skills against the unknown to get that adrenaline rushing!
Jeff
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