Get your commitments on paper

One of the most daunting tasks of being self-employed is to stay focused. It’s so easy to jump along on the next cool idea someone present you with either because you’re curious by nature (which I certainly am) or because you need the money (which - in some cases - I’m guilty of too).

I have long struggled with a way to cope with this and actually get a more systematic approach to what I do and - more importantly - decide NOT to do. I have been thinking about writing it down in the form of a mind map for myself and then call it my strategy, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

But now I may. After reading ‘10 Reasons Why Documentation is a Startup Secret Sauce’ from FoundRead, I’m convinced that the idea about writing things down is excactly right. Because it’s not when everything is peachy that I need to sit down and look at the written commitments I have put to paper. Its when the going gets tough and I need to get reacquited with the original idea and concept behind what I d.

Better get that down on paper ASAP.