Goal: Launch in June

Goals keep you honest. It’s harder to let a date slip when you set a goal to be done by a certain date. And at least for me personally, posting my goals publicly makes me feel more accountable.

Goals also help you to focus your efforts. They give you something to aim for and give you the means to adjust your plans if you’re not on track. One of my goals is to launch my website in June. I’ve been a little loose about that, it may be June 1st or June 30th, but it’s about two months from now give or take a bit.

I realized that with all of my work with CouchDB that I wasn’t making much real progress. Nearly three weeks of effort with nothing to show for it. Sure, I learned a lot, but I hadn’t built a single page yet. That’s when it occurred to me that I should just start building even if it’s not in the most optimal fashion. I know how to work with MySQL databases. I can use MySQL for now and migrate the data later if/when it becomes necessary. After all, no one will know the difference except for me!