Keith Goodrum

Jason Bloom wrote a post on Saturday called How Can A Blogger Survive The Flu. He’s been sick the last week, and had a hard time keeping up with his posting. He noticed that his blog stats dropped off dramatically during the week. He came up with a plan to combat this in case he gets sick again in the future. (Personally I’m going for the 3rd step in his plan)

To paraphrase a famous quote written so many years ago by Robert Collier… It caught my attention because it’s the conversation that’s been going on my mind. Funny but when it boils down to bare bones… all of us are turned in to our own thoughts pretty much all of the time.

Being laid out last week really showed me how vulnerable my business was to forces outside of my control. And because I didn’t have a system in place, I was caught off guard. I ended up writing a couple posts last week when I really didn’t feel like doing anything. I wrote the posts, but it was not fun.

Jason’s system or plan will allow him to keep adding content to his blog, while he recovers next time he is sick. As I previously mentioned in Without Systems A Business Is Skating On Thin Ice this flu was a wake up call for me. And I have already written a few extra blog posts to as a first step in my system for the next time I feel ‘under the weather’.