I’ve written in the past about my lack of focus and I can say today I see a large part of the problem. I’m a website designer. In the beginning I chose to do website design because I saw the challenge of wanting to do something I didn’t know how to do, so I learned and I taught myself. As the years went on more skills had to be developed and pretty soon it was overwhelming. There was no way I had the time to learn all I needed to learn. As we all know knowing just a little about a lot of things can be dangerous and frustrating.

Today I find myself not wanting to do website design because I can’t seem to find the creativty in me anymore and I don’t feel I have enough skills to do it well. You might respond, so learn, and I wholeheartedly agree except it’s not web design anymore it’s website design, blogs, social media, seo, copy writing, graphics design, and so much more. I would love to learn learn learn but then there are other things too. I want to learn all the time, I want to read profound blog posts, I want to interact with my peers. I want to do it all.

I’m overwhelmed. I want to do it all and yet what happens is I freeze. What to learn, how to divide the time and yet I keep thinking maybe instead of moving forward I need to step back, disconnect from all the information and advice coming from all directions. Technology is a great thing but too much fries the brain. I think I’m going to take some time away, unplug from Twitter, limit my LinkedIn etc for a little while. Maybe my brain needs a vacation.