Sounds like something my doctor would say, right? Nope, those words are coming from me to me. As a self-employed person, I know how important it is to keep telling yourself to work. You have to be the boss, the employee, and basically anything else the business needs.
That list includes motivator. As I chug along creating lessons, images, videos and everything else that will be seen once this program goes live, I'm still working full-time as a technician, and sometimes at the end of the day I'm just dog tired, and don't feel like picking up a different kind of work. Before starting this, I had no idea how much work went into designing, developing and implementing a program like this. It is a daunting task if I look at the "big" picture and the sum of its parts.
But, there has been great interest in this program I'm developing. I'm getting comments from people around the globe that "this is just what they are looking for", or "I'm really interested, please keep me posted".
On top of that, I'm creating this program to take me into my later years once I've retired from piano tuning. It's already taking its toll on my body, and I'm not even retirement age yet. The program will help me stay involved and will allow me to do what I love: teaching about something I'm most passionate about. So I have many reasons to want to develop and put some time into the program every day. Plus, I've promised that the program will be ready September 2014, one year from today.
Thus, this program development is my "apple". I may not eat an apple everyday, but I pledge to myself, and to those who may be following my progress or have expressed an interest in the program, to do a lesson a day. There are about 200 lessons to develop, but looking at them one at a time is a realistic and attainable goal.
Off to eat my "apple" for the day. :)
