In September I left my full time job to work full time for myself, officially kicking off TechKnowMe as a real, not just in my “spare” time, business. It has been a leap of faith and a fascinating learning experience. I keep telling myself I’m going to blog about the experience for you, since I do think it’s something many of you will find interesting, but I keep running into the same problem - no time.

Time management has always been a weakness of mine. I can easily find myself taking on too much at once or deciding to take a “10-minute break” that lasts an hour. One of the best things about working for one’s self is the freedom and flexibility it provides. That also happens to be its greatest curse.

I’ve been trying various methods of maintaining my schedule and keeping myself in line. I find that when I know precisely what needs to be done, I’m far better at plugging away at it. I’ve implemented some tips and trick divined from Getting Things Done by David Allen, which is chock full of powerful ideas. Some days, though, I fell things have gotten so far away from me that even taking the tim to organize them is daunting.

So this is one of my uphill battles at the moment - finding a way to balance work and life and keep everything moving happily along. There are so many things I want to do, but it’s difficult to find time amongst the things I need to do. One thing I want to do is, as I said, share my experiences in the new venture with you, and I’m going to make a commitment to do that, however sporadically. On days like today, you’ll get a bunch of posts out of me. Then you may not hear from me for a week or two while I push on to get some other things done. All I can ask of you is to be patient and keep reading and, please please please, leave comments sharing your experience and advice. I’ll try to be better at responding to those as well.