I’ve been working with Matthew Walker over the past several months in a one on one coaching program with Book Yourself Solid (Michael Port).
One particular homework assignment was to find and order five books that had been recommended to me by others. At first glance I was only able to come up with three and quickly asked my Twitter pals for other recommendations.
@Coach_Michael quickly replied that “Getting Things Done” and “Ready for Anything” by David Allen literally saved his business. He’s a business coach so I figured I should probably listen to him. (and I really needed those last two recommendations for my homework assignment)
@Coach_Michael is a business coach who assists brick ‘n mortar businesses expand their reach through Social Media. He also assists business owners and their management team make more money in less time.
I’ve always been an avid reader but over the past few months I’ve had less time to read (between the lines: I haven’t made time to read) and it’s been eating at me. If I sit down to read wicked little reminders pop up and tell me I should be doing something else – learning WordPress, writing a newsletter, a blog post, cleaning the kitchen counter, a load of laundry, you name it….then later the guilt kicks in that I am not doing something I truly enjoy – reading.
So why don’t I blog more often? It certainly is not due to lack of ideas. I have all kinds of ideas for Excel, bookkeeping, social media, and general business ideas that I could blog about.
The core issues as to why I don’t blog more often comes down to three relatively simple things:
- My site isn’t “perfect” and I don’t want to drive traffic to my site if I am not happy with it (mainly theme related issues)
- I spent many years in the property management / real estate world where written correspondence tends to be quite “firm” and legal-ese and I haven’t found my writing voice yet – at least one that feels authentic to me
- I haven’t created the time to write the blog posts because I have so many “open loops” taking up all my “physic RAM
Come back tomorrow to find out what action steps I have committed to making. Will you share with me obstacles that have held you back from blogging more frequently?
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Hi Michelle,
I always love reading your posts and you always have such good and fresh ideas. Like you, I love to post things that might be a bit personal such as; sports, family, things happening in my personal life that I like to share and turn into a funny and humorous story. I find when I can connect in a humorous way, or poking fun at myself, it allows me to be me!
You have given me a great idea to add a category to my site similar to what your doing, a journey or something like that. I love to write and especially things that make people laugh. All to often we get caught up in our businesses, daily life struggles, financial issues and other things and I think it is very important sometimes to just stop, take a breath and read something that will make you laugh. I guess I should have been a comedian….lol…just kidding.
I’m getting ready to post a personal story about my experience with a snake in my tub!! Yes, I know, scary but oh so true. See I have things like that happen all the time and most of them are funny, or I’m able to find the humor in it and love to share it for the reasons mentioned above. (hmmm, maybe this is a niche I need to explore, what do you think?)
So you have given me something else to consider, as you always do with your master mind, and I’ll let you know when the snake story is posted. Oh yeah, by the way, I have not posted your other blog post on my site but hope to some time this week.
Keep up the fabulous work my friend and make it a superb day and keep laughing!!
Deb
I can really relate to your first reason for not blogging more: “My site isn’t ‘perfect’ and I don’t want to drive traffic to my site if I am not happy with it (mainly theme related issues).” I’m just getting started, but I’m not happy with the copy on my website. My husband says I’m a perfectionist. I guess it doesn’t really matter. I need to improve it for me to feel comfortable with it.
Writing doesn’t come naturally to me, but mostly it’s the topics I have trouble with.
Keep on keepin’ on.
Pam