So we’re rapidly closing in on the end of the first month of 2010, and I thought I’d take this moment to do a little bit of motivational-navel-gazing. Just bear with me for a moment. Well, for this post.
We’ve found ourselves shifting gears in the past 4 months, and are gradually reaching some sort of level of pre-pubescent maturity as a company.
After 14 months of the thrill of the unknown, moving the business forward at a rapid pace, I found myself heading towards stasis towards the end of last year. With the start of PocketSmith being so exciting, with each hour of ‘work’ taking us significantly closer to our end goal, developing and formalising a proper ‘plan’ in the past 6 months drastically changed the way that I looked at my days.
I felt like I was cruising along during the last quarter of 2009. Of course, we were still achieving great things, but I did feel that I had lost some of that eternal drive that kept me going for 12-16 hours a day for the first year. So why did this level of drive peter out?
In thinking about this over summer, I realised something. We now have a plan; a defined strategy. We know what we need to achieve, prepare, build, tweak and enhance. We have a great market strategy.
So all of a sudden, I was no longer working from hour-to-hour, achieving something each minute; I was working day-to-day, achieving something each hour. It would appear that I thrive on the unknown, and the ability to make a real difference quickly. And since we are now relatively established, everything is planned and mapped out for the medium term – there is less unknown for me to feed on now.
How did I fix this? I looked deeper into our strategy and plan. The unknown is now in the details – not in the future. And since starting to look at things in this light, I’m firing again.
So in conclusion, here is to a fantastic 2010, and indeed a fantastic decade. May the excitement of the unknown find you!
