We are at the end of the first month of 2010. Time really flies.
I made pretty ambitious plans for the year. And January was going to be the measure of things to come. But it has been disappointing to a great extent.
For starters, I was could not really get back to a pattern since the move. There were some great days that I managed to pull off pretty crazy hours, but most days I ended up organizing the office or home or doing something in the process of settling down. (We moved houses at the last week of December). This hampered my output quite a bit. Adding to that, my assignments were also pretty wary. My client did warn me that January is usually a slow month.
And we had a presidential election. However much you want to keep away from politics, you naturally get dragged in to it. Where ever you go the conversations are about it, and you cannot help but to form your own opinion. And this time, we had the most cyber intensive political campaign ever in Sri Lanka. And as an IT professional I was also involved, very lightly in the cyber media campaign of one of the candidates. But that is work that you don’t get paid for.
Thirdly, mainly due to the elections, some of the local business ventures that I was planning to venture into were delayed. Some of my partners wanted to see the out come of the elections. There are two potential ventures that I was planning to out my effort into. So they were also put on hold till February.
Due to these reasons, I had a pretty erratic month to say the least. My income this month is going to be lower than the last few months. And I had set higher targets for income in 2010. Well, the start had not been good. But I sure hope the remaining 11 months are going to help me catch up.
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