The weakness in me

mandyallen.com — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:52:36 +0000

Yes, I know this is a song title by Joan Armatrading, but I’m not going to write about the song or Joan Armatrading as it happens! John McNally would probably be very pleased if I did, given his great appreciation of music.

I am, not for the first time, going to talk about my own weakness. When I was thinking about this it just happened to come out in the form of the song title.

I am a risk taker in life. I find I am constantly faced with opportunities and I relish them. Most of the time I go right ahead and have a go at whatever comes my way. Of course sometimes I don’t for practical reasons; like the time I was offered an antiques business 90 miles from home. Completely impractical – I seriously considered it though! I came up with a hundred and one ways I could make it work. But it wasn’t practical, I knew that deep down.

But my weakness is not so much taking every opportunity no matter what it is; my weakness is that if I find I cannot jump over a hurdle, I just don’t! I feel so weak for not challenging myself enough. I feel weak for the feeble attempts I give to some things that I believe I cannot do. There is a better part of me that believes I can do anything and everything; but the reality is that actually I can’t.

I have found that with some of the technical side of the Internet. I believe I can’t do it, so I stop trying.

Good job I can outsource!

Enjoy the journey.

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mandyallen.com — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:59:18 +0000

There are a large number of internet professionals and internet companies who can be employed to take on part of your work load for you. In these times when we are all so very busy it is worth looking into out sourcing some of the more tedious tasks that are involved in maintaining a marketing website. If you have already become very successful and are finding it all a bit overwhelming think about the parts of the upkeep of your site that you either do not enjoy or feel you can better employ someone else to do and seek out a company that specialises in this type of work. There are people who offer the whole package from start to finish but probably far more practical are those that offer to take certain aspects of the work off your hands. Although you may at an early stage feel these are unneccessary costs, and some indeed appear quite expensive at this early stage of my internet career, eventually it will become apparant that passing some of the work over to another person is by far the most cost effective solution. Indeed the most successful of the internet marketers I have come across work with other people who take on some of the tasks for them.

Put yourself first, don’t waste time doing tasks you can ask someone else to do – I always say that about housework too…

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The weakness in me

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