I have created a time deficit for myself.
I know, join the crowd. Everyone in North America and many other places fill their lives with too much activity. Well, just because everyone else is doing it….
Time for me to reclaim some time! It won’t be easy, but you have to start somewhere. I need a little more leisure time to sit around, relax, drink beer, etc. The first thing I need to do is eliminate this crazy notion that I can do everything. Landscaping in the yard? No problem, I can do that cheaper than hiring someone. New siding on the house? Great, I can learn how to do that. Oilchange on the car? You bet I know how to do that. I can do all these things, but so could someone else, for me. It might cost a little more or not be ‘how I like it’, but I wont have to do it. Some other sucker could slave away at it for me.
Now, why should web design be any different? I have been worrying away at WordPress problems for a couple weeks now. Net result is, I am pissed off, my results are crappy and I think I might have to start over from scratch. I need to give my head a shake and hire this baby out to someone who can fix it up right. Sure, eventually I can do it myself for less. But is it really cheaper?
So far I have already wasted all of my spare time for the last couple of weeks to learn how to take baby CSS coding steps. And it didn’t make me happy. So I took all my spare time to be unhappy. Sounds great! Why don’t I do that for a few months, and then I’ll be a passable WordPress theme fixer upper. And I will be miserable.
I think instead that I should pay someone to be miserable for me. I have lots of fiddly little computer jobs lying around that I enjoy doing. There are all these unedited video files I have ready to start into. One of them has been yelling, “Tim, get over here. Please, PUHLEASE, PLEASE work on me! I need to be complete!"
And then there’s the dog. I haven’t been spending enough time with her, and look at her face. She will die of loneliness and boredom unless I get my act together here.
