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Week 4 - Take the plunge
My change for this week is to go public with the "Personal Development 101" web site.
When I first decided to launch the "Personal Development 101" web site a few weeks ago, I had a plan.
The plan was to write up a number of short articles, and get the formatting of the site fixed up the way I wanted it - all before the actual launch.
So I spent a lot of time fooling around with the technical parts of getting the software tuned just right. The banner had to be the right color, and the words had to be in the right place. The left column needed to be a certain width - not too wide and not too narrow. Same with the right column. Then there was the correct font, and the font colors. More and more details. In addition, I was writing some material, deciding what to name the topics, and so on.
Each day I worked on this project there were several things that didn't seem just right, and so I would re-do them, refine them, and polish them.
But the site wasn't getting launched, was it?
Obviously I could have continued refining, continued to create a longer series of articles to be published. Just as obviously, as long I was doing that the web site would not be launched.
So my change for this week is to publish the web site. This means taking the small number of steps need to make it accessible to the public and the search engines.
In one sense this is quite an easy change. It is purely mechanical: Click the mouse, type a few words, click the mouse. Although it is a change that is mechanically easy, it is difficult to take the plunge.
As with all new ventures, there is no certainty about the outcome, the future is totally clouded, and more than a few things could go wrong.
That's why I call it "Take the plunge."
Sometimes there is no amount of planning, re-thinking, re-doing, revising, data-gathering, or preparation that can possibly be enough. You can always do more. More thinking, more analysis, more data-gathering, more, more, more.
At some point you just have to jump in. Take the plunge. Go for it.
How about you?
- Is there something you are "almost ready" to do?
- Can you tell yourself that there is no way to be certain about the future?
- Take the plunge.
Ross Runkel, Post Office Box 1031, Salem, Oregon
97308-1031.
Phone 503-399-8028. Fax 503-566-8844. email Ross@LawMemo.Com
