Dailiness

Sticky notes “to the future” from Chris Glass.

2008 for Hit Those Keys has been a year of growing pains. I have enough of a profile now¹ that I get plenty of requests-for-proposals, but the volume is high enough that my turnaround even on proposals is woefully slow. (Hint: if you’re waiting for a proposal, don’t hesitate to contact me and give me a nudge. You’ll go right to the top of the list.)

So it seems counter-intuitive in the face of a such a pressured work-load to take any time to reflect, but that’s what I’ve tried to make time to do since the girl and the boy went back to school.

Counter-intuitive, but not wrong. I haven’t stopped working on the projects I’ve promised people I’ll work on. I have, however, tried to be mindful during the times that I’m not actively engaged in work to not beat myself up for not working longer hours. (The latter is hardly possible.)

1. I’ve realized I’ve even made my online presence much more muted in an attempt to dampen things down a bit. But that’s another post, on some design tweaks I don’t have time to make right now. Hmm. I think I’m back to those growing pains again.

Havi at fluentself.com has been making me think about a range of issues, but the one that I want to chase down right here is the idea that the thing you need to get unstuck, the balm for the hurt, the holy grail, is probably something that you’ve been tripping over. As in, direct from The Department of the Bleeding Obvious.

What have I been tripping over? While I muse on that privately, what have YOU been tripping over? It could very well be the thing that will help you “do the thing.”