I just finished updating Being Seen into the new self-paced lesson format.
I gotta say, it’s made me really AWARE of how much maintenance is required for “property.”
Around this home, even though we rent, there’s yard work, cleaning, organizing, pressure washing the decks and touching up the paint, cleaning out the dryer vent pipe, etc., etc., etc. I could easily make a list 100 items long.
But WHOA. On thrivingnow.com and all the other areas (like this one, the email system, the invitation system, the shopping cart system, etc.) I could EASILY come up with 1000 items of “maintenance” to bring an article back up to date, to move content and categorize it, to take items and put them into the new learning system, to change and update link language (we’re circle members now, not the former “team members” as one example.
I’m trying to focus on what matters, what helps us move forward. There’s a part of me that just wants to trash all the “old stuff” but, you know, some of them see 50-100 people each year who actually spend time on them. Do I do the maintenance, then, or delete, or leave it?
I feel the “debt” – that each new piece of content or idea that gets going and then pauses (like the podcast) has with it a kind of “claim” – a debt, an IOU… or more accurately a U-Owe-Me.
Anyway, just needed to share that right now, as I seek clarity about what to keep and maintain (and upgrade, as I have been with the courses) and what to let go of…
Rick