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March 8th, 2011 | 
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Random Thoughts
Since this blog is supposed to chronicle the journey of building a business, I guess I should include the warts and all. So here are some random thoughts about the last two weeks of this journey. I’ve put off mentioning them because I don’t have any pithy answers or solutions for them yet.
- My personal life, which is my main priority, keeps getting in the way of my day job and my new business. It’s been a whirlwind of graduation and college enrollment. All of which have been fantastic, but there’s been a hint of guilt festering in my subconscious that I should be working harder on the business.
- I’m having a really hard time motivating myself to work at my day job. Although I’ve disliked it for years, the feelings seem to be intensifying. I’ve tried a variety of ways to reward myself if I will just buckle down and get it over with. These techniques aren’t working. The gnawing in my stomach as I sit down and review my daily To Do List is getting worse and I find myself wasting valuable time.
- It’s increasingly difficult to shift between thinking about my business and thinking about my day job. Just as I get into the groove of one, it’s time to think about the other. Neither really get the attention they deserve.
- There are parts of my new business that I really don’t like to do and I find myself putting them off, just like I put off unsavory tasks with my day job. It’s easy to think that a new business will be perfect when you’re dreaming, but reality is that all things have a good side and a bad side. I know one solution is to hire these tasks out and I’ll probably look into that at some point.
- Writing in this blog has been uneven. I’ve had several things I’ve wanted to write about but they didn’t seem substantial enough so I’ve left it idle. I’ll need to decide whether every entry needs to be filled with advice or go more with the diary approach. Without a doubt, leaving it idle is the worst blogging sin.
None of these issues is new for me, I’ve been dealing with them for a long time and when I get a little more organized, I’ll probably write about them in more detail. But for today, I simply feel torn in lots of directions and am accomplishing very little.