May 16, 2008 | General
Wow, I can't believe that it has been so long since I posted a blog!!
There have been a number of reasons for this but it is also a question of once you get out of the habit and, more importantly the discipline of doing something, it can be really difficult to get back into it.
This can be both one of the biggest pro's or the biggest con's of having your own home based business. There is no one breathing down your neck everyday to push you on (except maybe the wife) but when you do pull things back round and start making progress, then you get a far greater feeling of achievement and satisfaction because you've done it all by yourself. You have to search out your own motivation and momentum but if you can achieve that it is infinitely more powerful than that provided by someone else.
I was absolutely gutted when I wiped two of my three sites completely off the web, but after I'd had a stiff drink I realised that it wasn't exactly the end of the world. Although I had spent a lot of time on them, there wasn't actually that much content on them that couldn't be replaced. I even had about half of the 6 - 8 blogs that I'd posted on this site saved in Word documents but there didn't seem much point in reposting them.
I decided that it would have been a lot worse if it had happened in six months time and I certainly won't be making THAT same mistake again. I'm also a lot more aware of backing up, I was able to go through the whole 'setting up' process again (a lot quicker this time), I changed the theme and I made improvements in the back office of the sites that I probably wouldn't have returned to for a while.
So, in answer to the point raised in my last blog, yes, 'Whatever doesn't kill you DOES make you stronger'.
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