So let’s call this a review where I’m not really doing any kind of review. Maybe you can call it commentary.

Yeah, that works. This is commentary.

I work and work and work, but I don’t get anything done. Am I lazy? Nah. I’m very misdirected though. However, I don’t think he’s wrong.

People will understand my argument – if you put more effort into something you earn greater rewards – yet will go back and spend their time on activities that have less impact because they are easier.

People…will understand how important…articles are, will learn all kinds of great marketing ideas, and will be inspired and energized…. Yet, even with this new awareness they will spend their time reading other blogs and websites, watching television and lamenting how much they hate their job.

These people, as much as they like to complain, have no one but themselves to blame for their current situation. How they currently live is a product of the choices they have made leading up to today….

He goes on to encourage action as the way to keep from becoming one of these people. Yaro Starak wrote this in his Blog Profits Blueprint, which is a great little ebook and something you should definitely read if you’re as addicted to websites as I am or if you’re interested in making some money from your website/blog. Click here to download the Blog Profits Blueprint.

This is a fundamental problem with me and my websites. I’ve discussed before how shallow I am about choosing domains and deciding on what I’ll make of a site (worded somewhat differently, but the meaning was there). I actually went looking for the post so I could link it, but the truth is, I couldn’t find it. So it’s either buried in this site somewhere, or it’s one of those posts I thought about writing but never did get around to getting it down on the computer. In case it’s the latter, I’ll say it here so you know what I’m talking about. I like to buy cool domain names—let’s not obsess over whose definition of cool I’m talking about here—and then never really do anything with the sites because I didn’t think that far ahead when I came up with that oh, so cool domain name.

I spend a lot of time reading about websites, thinking about websites, but not doing the kinds of things that really move things forward. I wouldn’t say I’m lazy, in the traditional sense of the word, because I work hard on my websites, just never on the things that matter for forward momentum and growth.

It’s a lot of hard work reading voraciously and learning about website creation and monetization, but I guess it must be even harder work to actually do something about it. You know…you actually have to make decisions.

That’s the kicker. The decision-making process uses skills most of us haven’t ever really developed that well. Making a decision, sticking to it, and then following up to make sure your progress stays aligned with the outcome you decided you wanted.

So yes, I am lazy, not with work but with decisions. I don’t want to make them, and I don’t want to stick with them. And that’s something I’m working frantically to change.

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