Take Off Those Beer Goggles
You ever have your ‘beer goggles’ on and meet a ’strobe light honey’?
You’re at a club/bar, and after a couple of jello shooters you’re feeling a little wobbly. You start talking to the foxy little number next to you.
The lights come on after last call, and you realize the person you’ve been talking to all night really, REALLY isn’t your physical type.
Blame it on the jello shooters and the strobe lights!
New Project Addicts often get wrongly swayed with their own beer goggles and strobe lights.
A new project can look so attractive, when you’re knee deep in the details of an existing project.
Perhaps it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. You feel like you must try it. It’s singing to you like a siren at sea.
He-e-e-e-y freeze… take off those beer goggles!
What I do is seek out the negative parts of an attractive project, and begin writing down those aspects.
For instance, I’ll read an article about creating blogs that generate thousands per month. I can see the possiblity of blogging for thousands. It’s looking good.
But upon further research, I see that it requires 5+ hours of writing per day. You constantly have to seek out new readers. It takes time for your blog to get good search engine ranking.
The ‘Aha!’ moment comes, and you realize that it’s not all peaches and cream.
Most times I can shut off the immediate pull to a new project.
But when I can’t, I use the negatives of a possible project to keep me on track.
Takin’ it one project at a time,
Alexis Dawes
