Posts Tagged ‘motivation’

Holy Freaking God

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

So, um, I started NEIS yesterday.

Noooooo!!!!!

It’s so much work! There is so much to know! There is so much to do in such a short period of time! This course, Certificate IV in Small Business Management, is not supposed to go for like a month. It’s supposed to go for a year!

Just these past two days have been… the definition of “crash course”. I’ve come home on both days feeling like I want to go right to bed. And yet, I can’t, because I have homework to do!!

From what the past two days have taught me, I have to:

  • Do a metric tonne of research including surveys, statistic tracking, reading, talking to people and studying competition
  • Register my business name
  • Make sure my home has Public Liability insurance
  • Write an extensive Business Plan on which I will be judged on the 17th of February, along with copies of things including insurance, driver’s licence, ABN and BRN.
  • Work out pricing
  • Choose a host and domain registrar sooner rather than later (like, before the 6th of February)
  • Make sure my website is up and running soon!

Who knows what further bombs will be unloaded on us… though I feel like it may include marketing and whatnot.

Oh man. Freaking out.

Logo and Business Name!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

My Web Business has been on the backburner for a while, purely because it scares me. But, with the NEIS course less than one week away, I need to get on with it. So, tonight, I decided upon the name I came up with earlier, and created a logo:

Site Flight Web Design

I am very proud of it. I created it with the free illustration software Inkscape.

The most important things I need to do from here include:

  • Register business name
  • Get ABN
  • Storyboard the website
  • Create the web packages/templates
  • Work out pricing
  • Purchase domain and hosting (Servage, as well as being susceptible to hacking, does not offer .com.au domains)
  • Make the website

And that’s not even taking into consideration the actual business side of things. Guh.

Getting Organised

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Long ago, I set up an account on Remember The Milk . I did absolutely nothing with it.

That was probably a mistake. You see, I work so much better when I have self-set goals. It worked when I was losing weight, it worked during many web sites I worked on in the past, and recently it’s worked like a charm for NaNoWriMo.

It doesn’t work well when someone is cracking a whip. That’s why I was so slack with homework in high school. I can’t stand people trying to control me. So, I kind of act passive aggressive and either do a bad job, or I don’t do it at all. Now, this is different at work, because I want money and I know that I need to do things to have money. But when there is no tangible and impending motivational factor, such as being at school or TAFE, I just slack off and do what I feel like. Procrastination to its extreme.

When I have my own goals, my own motivation and my own rewards, that’s when I do work. And hell, I enjoy it too.

So that’s why I’m making a to-do list on Remember the Milk.