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As I mentioned yesterday, I recently had a minor catastrophe. Me, Mr. Monitor Eyes, had my computer finally give up. This was actually a good time for it to happen. Why? Simply because I’d been pushing the envelope and had the week’s worth of posts (but not the podcast) ready to go.
I try to avoid meta-blogging, but a few details may be needed here: Most blogging platforms will let you queue up posts to be published when you decide. For most of the life of this blog, I had been writing and publishing “just in time”. Recently I got feedback that more regularity and coherence was desired, so I put forth the effort and blogged two weeks into the future. I knew that this big jump was necessary because I would be unable to blog the first week, so I figured I should “flex the muscles” so to speak.
Needless to say, I did it, but I had pushed farther than was good for me. That started a chain reaction which ended up with me utterly exhausted and now trying to fight off the early stages of the local flu.
The Red Line.
Remember the red line on a tachometer? Your engine is designed to peak there, not stay there. I’d been running at the red line so long that I’d forgotten the cost that comes with it. You tend to wear things out. Now I’m paying the price.
Would I go back and change it? Absolutely not. Firstly, I managed to keep the blog (more or less) running like clockwork for you while chaos reigned. No small accomplishment if I do say so myself. More than that, I have gained a priceless lesson. Calibrating the “sweet spot” for the biggest payoff for effort takes all kinds of data, and most of it will be either lackluster results or feeling kinda like your brain has been deep-fried. The real challenge comes in picking up and moving on. Like I said yesterday, it’s really good to be back.
