Procrastination and Fear They stop us from achieving and melt our brains from over thinking I'm a big believer that those who achieve great things either: Were too busy to worry about it have massive cohones Seriously Whats the worst that happens? I'm writing this on the fly, based on a number of thoughts I have had and experiences recently Almost like a "living journal" I created an article recently for our website its a 10,000+ word beast with interactive video and calculators for seeing if digital marketing is worthwhile for your business You can track the roi before, after, analyse the market etc etc I'm not going to link to it here I'm a new user and I don't want to burn bridges You'll see it at some point in my signature or something, I have no doubt We create content daily for client, with no issue and its widely received I can do a few articles a day if the mood takes me, and the coffee flows free Our own article? Took me 3 weeks to write We had issues with software, coding, versions of the site copying and pasting over We released the article to the site dying-60 sec load times, and the theme overlaid itself 3 times... It really got to the point where i was wondering if it was worth it to release it or not! I went to go see a band last night I don't know about you, but I spend a heap of time in my business. I enjoy it, and so I rarely do venture out "If I go out then i cant achieve all the work I want to do for my business tomorrow" etc etc I saw a dutch blues band playing in a tiny venue in New Zealand... and i'm not a hipster This venue really lucked out This band had a huge following back home, and after about 40 seconds of hearing them start acoustically I could tell why But the venue was tiny The staff working were all drunk and actually causing more issues than any paying customer The sound levels were all over the place You could see the frustration on the bands face 1000s of miles to play in a venue with 15 paying customers poor sound system etc It wasnt until the band stopped for 30 minutes to sort all the issues and get the drunken sound check guy to come over and actually help that everything was resolved 80% of the people left during this time These guys should have walked off in fairness But the thing is Even with the poor sound, these guys rocked We had an awesome time If they had left or stopped, for fear of a lower quality performance-all that would have happened is that we wouldnt know anything more about them They were so good, even with all the mishaps and poor sound, they rocked (I even bought the CD-who does that anymore!?) And you know what, when they finally got the sound sorted, they played for another hour for 5 people And they were god damn amazing Its more important that you get your message out there Even if its garbled, messed up or the imagery isn't spot on "You miss every shot that you don't take" So we hit publish on our article And in the last few days we fixed the links, sorted the site speed (now 1.7 secs ) and created better imagery Don't worry If you can feel the fear its a sign your doing something right Now I know this is a Digital Marketing forum Often the more vocal clientele resemble the customers at 'Mos Eisley' And so I put my feelings at risk and fight against the fears Most will still be creating content Others need to hit go on that domain purchase or letting it go live What do you have to fear? I'm probably going to be called out by douchebags for this post But i'll probably help a much larger, much quieter group of people at the same time Click publish people! Daniel Daines-Hutt