I have a terrible problem with procrastination. I am always waiting for things to be perfect in order to do something I want to do. The weather, my mood, my health, my environment. It's too loud, too quiet, too sunny, too grey. And these are things I want to accomplish... honestly. I guess I am intimated by the process in some cases.
Today I was contemplating my blog redesign I've been planning/desiring/threatening/sitting on for months now, and I was reading Zen Habit's Dead Simple Guide to Beating Procrastination. Specifically Number 9: Forget about perfection. Just start doing it, and fix it later. In the spirit of that, I have removed my template and applied a Movable Type template. Over the next few days, I am going to be adding content back to the site using their new Widgets methodology. I wanted to do some cleaning up of the sidebars anyway. After the content is the way I want it, I will be changing the over all design.
If you are an RSS subscriber, this won't make much difference to you, unless you comment. Perhaps I could just redo the whole thing on a clone blog, perfect it, and then do a grand unveiling. But it's that kind of ambition that has made me put it off this long. I learn by doing things, and I'd rather just jump into my blog, and get started. Even if that means some construction messiness for a couple of weeks. I won't want to leave it in a generic template for long, so it's bound to motivate me to finish.
I can see your house from here.