My First Opinion on a New Blog

First, introduction. My name is Ken Siew (pronounced: see-you real fast). This is the place where you will read about the miscellaneous ramblings of myself about the world. I have a primary blog on personal development and financial planning for young people, but sometimes I come up with ideas on things that are remotely related to the topics there, and so this would be the place I can just write about anything on my mind.

I’ve just installed the Thesis Theme for WordPress and made some designs to it, noticeably the yellow navigation bar and blue site background, plus some other small tweaks. But after only about couple of  hours using it, I’m already loving it! In fact, I’ve already bought the Developer Option from Thesis, and would get the rights to install the theme on anyone (read: clients) for a fee. If you’re a blogger who’s thinking about upgrading your site design, click on the Thesis banner on the sidebar and find out more! I guarantee you won’t regret it.

Actually, I might even install the new theme on Think Big Think Money, but then again the design there is as good as it is, at least for now. I’d be mostly creating good contents over there, so the design will have to wait for a while. It’s often easy to get stuck in perfecting the details, than taking real action that would help you reach your goals. The best way, in my opinion, is not to be bogged down by the conventional rules and requirements, and just do it.

Take starting a business for example, you don’t need a website or a logo to do business, you need your customers/clients. Heck, you don’t even need your business cards, you just need to build good relationship. Just give them your phone number, if they think you’re great in whatever you do, they’ll save your numbers. Those details can come later, and they’re great help, but not significant enough to make or break your business.

The key is to break out from the perfectionism trap, the voice at the back of your head that says “You need to do ‘the 10 things’ before you can have a business running, and you need to do them well before you can make money.” I gotta agree they’re probably important, but if they’re so time-consuming and daunting that you’re sitting in front of the computer watching YouTube videos, you’d be better off scrapping them and doing some real work.

A good technique I know is the 80/20 rule. 80% of your results come from 20% of your time. Stop doing what you’re doing and take a look at what really works and what doesn’t. That reminds me that I’ve written a post on this concept. Also, Rami Sethi, founder of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, has written a fantastic guest post on the 80/20 rule for freelancers. Definitely check these 2 articles out.

Anyway, I’m not going to categorize this post, add tags, create SEO tags, or whatever. Those gotta come later since I created this blog this afternoon. It feels great to just write about what I want without thinking about all those details!

Okay, it’s Sunday night and I’m going to continue working. Now, go make your hard work pay off!