@ Juliet – Welcome! These temporary decisions help us to get going and it’s somehow easier to start when you have the expectation that what you’re choosing to do isn’t permanent. It’s good enough for now and we move on.

With respect to site design, I think Daphne’s comment “It’s only to ourselves that our blogs look imperfect, I think. Everyone else just wants the content.” is important to keep in mind. For us if a site is simple and is easy to navigate it’s perfect…and good content of course. Thanks for your comment Juliet!

What you say is a good way to get over that hump of procrastination. Have at least something to work with and then continue.
We are on the third version of our website design!

Juliet

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Thanks for the interesting idea!

Seems to me that life changes constantly, so no decision is ever going to be perfect. It may be perfect in one moment of time, but that moment passes very quickly and something new might be appropriate. In this sense, it might be healthy to view all decisions as temporary. Stick with them until a new decision is needed.

I like that way of approaching decisions and am now thinking about areas of my life where I’m stuck and what temporary decision might help things along.

Ian

@ Daphne – We find ourselves falling into the same trap. We try dividing our time between writing posts and responding to comments, reading other blogs and tweaking our site. We have to remind ourselves that producing content is most important when it comes to blogging and that’s what we should be focusing our time on. Thanks so much for your feedback on the appearance of our site. We only see the to do list and what still needs to be done so it’s good to get a different perspective.

Great idea about temporary decisions to get moving. I completely identify with wanting to get the blog theme and icons and everything just right, but starting first and tweaking as we go along. I think I’ve changed themes more than ten times in half a year of blogging! Your blog looks great to me, by the way. It’s only to ourselves that our blogs look imperfect, I think. Everyone else just wants the content. I’m trying to learn this lesson but I just love tweaking nonetheless.

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@ Roger – I’m glad you like the temporary idea. I know it helps us a lot to get moving forward, past the fear of doing the wrong/suboptimal thing. After a while if it’s still working then we leave it if not re-evaluate and keep going.

I like your idea of make temporary decisions. Also, I remind myself that making no decision is also a decision, so I really can’t avoid making a decision.

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I learned a while ago that there is no such thing as being perfect. We are all works in progress so everything basically is a journey and sometimes you just have to go with what works for now.

Nothing is better than going with the flow!

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