Day 030

Dear dreamer,

Cheers to 30 Days

That's hardly the point but it's worth mentioning. When I posted Day 1, I was so unsure if I would be able to keep it up. I remember wondering how long I would write for, later I decided to quit worrying about that. I only needed to keep writing as long as I could and we will worry about the rest later. I can dare say that I am becoming the magic in the writing. It was easier to write and I was managing to stay on my path quite well. Even though I had not launched any of the other products, I had the blog. A win is a win. The blog is 30 days...yay!!

This makes me remember what I grow everyday to understand better. The biggest challenge is always starting. You will eventually figure out the rest of the details with time. It might be hard to see what will happen in the distant future, don't bother about the details. All you need is a base plan. The rest of it will fall in place with time. As we speak, I don't see the end of the blog anywhere close. This was however not enough to throw me off what was going on actually. 

I had developed a new set of products, more than I can handle at the moment and I had to pick the focus for now. I was yet to finish working on product 2. I don't even think I know what I am doing. I have not been this confused in a while. What exactly was I supposed to choose now? I was thinking of picking something that would be central to the rest. All of them were awesome and something that I would definitely work on at some point. I was not even sure that money was the bottom line anymore. I wanted to make money though but my best shot is to do as much as possible. 

I chose the focusing question to decide what I had to do. Ever heard of the 80-20 rule? 80 percent of the results you get is determined by 20 percent of your efforts. That's the most crazy maths I have had to analyse. It means all you have to do is be smart, do the right things. That makes everything easier at least on paper and as long as it had to do with decisions. I will quote the focusing question from Gary Keller:

What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Truthfully, that was not the only issue. I could sense that I was going to crash soon so I was taking it easy. It's like trying to bring a faulty machine to a gradual stop to reduce the level of damage as much as possible. I was trying to see if there was something I could do now. Product 1 was now on the edge about to be crossed out. I had this one chance to live my dreams, I must grab it like my life depended on it because it actually does. 


                                      ~A Penniless Dreamer

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