Back to the Grind
Posted on | January 8, 2009 | Comments Off
So I have an awesome excuse for not updating my blog – My internet was out an entire week. As you can imagine, I was quite devastated and had to spend most of it in a safely padded room.
Yeah, right.
For the most part, I didn’t really miss it, and when I needed to have it, I went and mooched from the coffee shop down the street, and I was able to accomplish everything I need there (like keeping up on the cheeseburger cats.)
I did miss the internet when I couldn’t instantly figure out where the closest church was located on Sunday morning, and when my boyfriend-type person informed me that he was actually suffering from the norovirus after I had just returned from the coffee-shop (and spent half an hour studying up on e. coli . . . which only kind of sounds like the norovirus)
Gratefully, AT&T realized that they had broken something and fixed it and now I have no excuse to not post. I’ve learned that I can live without the internet (at least for a short period of time), that I’m more productive when I’m working at someplace that’s not my couch, and I still need to find a late-night coffee shop that’s within walking distance.
The other grind that I get to get back to is my job, which I was worried would slow down a little bit at least in the beginning of the year. Boy was I wrong! The first email of the year was sent to me on the Third (that was a Saturday) by my boss, reminding me and the SEO engineer that she needed proposal in a matter of days.
My boss and I often talk about excuses, especially the excuses I make. I’m pretty talented at justifying various modes of procrastination. Bare with me, I’m going to connect this to SEO in just a second. So I’m making all these excuses to blow off projects I really don’t want to do, and she’s an athlete, which somehow gives her a creepy ability to see through all my lame excuses, and I wish I could bottle the essence of her eyeballs when she’s angry and sell it as a snake oil for better productivity
What has been more inspiring though was what I refer to as the Elbow Agreement, which occurred when she told me that we should be able to walk into a sales meeting going “We Are A Team!” and held up her elbow as if we were arm in arm. I’ve always had trouble getting up and getting out of bed in the morning, but for some reason the elbow agreement has made me a little bit more motivated to stay dedicated to my projects.
Okay, here’s the cheesy connection to SEO and blogging: good seo and blogging takes dedication, especially if you’re working on the project with other people. Sometimes you have to do things like delegate yourself to projects you know need to happen, and sometimes you have to remind yourself of the bigger picture, the overall goal that you have, and ask yourself if your day-to-day tasks are fulfilling that goal. This goes for the specific posts in the blog and pages in the website – You can’t let them stray too far from the task at hand, or you could find yourself with several irrelevant posts and very little on the topic you originally chose. Irrelevant blogging doesn’t get you attention unless you happen to be so good at it that it comes off as comedy or you’re already famous anyway.
Speaking of irrelevant blogging, I’m starting a new chapter in 2009. Tomorrow I’m taking my first class as a grad student, and I’m studying the incredibly relevant and timely art of creative writing. Creative writing traditionally has very little place in the corporate business world, but it does play a big role in SEO. But that’s another post for another time.
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