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Been online a while? Steep learning curve, isn't it? Like me, I'm sure you remember all too well how overwhelming everything seems…
Publish or perish. If you're in academia, you know the expression well, I'm sure. It means that if you want to progress in your career, you will write books, articles, papers and theses and have your work published and reported in the leading journals. In other words, you are expected to make an original contribution to the body of work in your area of expertise.
I've just watched, again, an episode in the Back to the Floor television series, which aired on the BBC (United Kingdom) and PBS (United States). Once more, communication turned out to be a key issue, as it often does in business stories.
Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious benefits such as working your own hours, not having to face a stressful, tedious commute every day, actually seeing what your garden looks like in daylight hours, not having to answer to a boss, being home when your children are, working in a…
If there's one immutable fact of life when it comes to this business, it's that there's so much to do but so little time to do it all in. At some point around the one year mark, if you've been even moderately successful in your online business, you'll find you've reached the limit of what you can do with the time you have available.
Allow me to let you in on a little secret you're probably already wise to anyway. As often as not, the inspiration for article topics comes from struggles with my own personal demons. Writing about them is my way of giving myself a good talking to (a.k.a. kick in the rear end). And so it is with this one - the personal discipline demon.
