Procrastination

I’m not big on commitments, but when I resolve to do something, I do generally stick to it. It seems though, that I’m going through a procrastination phase (again). Procrastination isn’t something new to me at all! Procrastination is a fascinating thing actually – and I might just build an entire 500 page website about it. (Notice the word “might” in that sentence? That’s real procrastinator’s language!) I’ve caught myself once again!

Okay, so here I am, after having made a decision to stop the procrastination phase immediately!

I have my site structure in place – everything is working, but I do still want to tweak some things. I think the reason the procrastination started was because I’m sitting with what I feel is a chicken and egg syndrome. I need people to visit the site (it’s not fully live yet so I don’t want them to visit just yet in any event, but I’m referring to the next step in the process).In order to get people to visit the site and stay, they need to feel that there is a community of sorts building. I suppose this is just a matter of releasing the site and getting the word out there. The thing is, when I visit a site and the forum is dead, it makes me wonder why!

Interestingly, as I write this down it doesn’t seem to be such a problem, but it’s been mulling around in my head, as a major problem. I’ll tackle it as I go along and not use it as a reason to procrastinate.

The next concern I am facing is how to go about handling business listings – legally. Do people need to approve that I list their business on my site? I know that most businesses will have no problem being listed -any potential source of revenue for a business is a positive thing. The potential problem is that I have included a rating system, where users of any service / company, can rate the company. This is where I anticipate a potential problem. A company who gets a negative review might just decide to take some kind of legal action seeing as they didn’t give me permission to list their business.

I need to investigate this fully and get some peace of mind before I continue.

I spent some time this week making greeting cards, and spring cleaning. Spring cleaning is always symbolic for me and almost a ritual in a sense. It gets rid of the cobwebs in the spirit, and unclutters the mind too!

So, here I am the house has been spring cleaned, and so have I!

The journey continues!