Procrastination

I could tell you about everything that's been going on lately and it would make a great list of excuses. I've been telling them to myself for almost two weeks now. There's always a good reason each day why I don't have much time to work on the business. My child's teething. I've been up to late. There's too much to do around the house. We're hanging curtains this weekend. Etc, etc, etc. The problem is there will always be good excuses not to work on the business. I guarantee that unless you are independently wealthy with no family or friends your life will have things to keep it busy. I know mine sure always does. What it comes down to is I'm procrastinating and the excuses are what I tell myself to keep from feeling guilty.

Why am I procrastinating? I'm afraid of doing something wrong. It's a lot easier to do nothing than to do something and have to face the consequences. The only problem is you get what you give. Do nothing. Get nothing. I'm not getting anything. It's time to face up to the fact that it's better to try and fail then to not try and definitely fail. :) Now to give myself a kick and stop my latest form of procrastinating. Writing this blog post. I'm off to get something done.

What's In A Name

I'm stuck. I'm trying to think of a name for my business. Thinking of names is actually easy. Thinking of names that have a free web domain is hard! I've been using GoDaddy.com to test possible names since not only will it tell me if a name is taken but it will give suggestions of similar ones that aren't. However I'm still totally stuck. To add insult to injury the first name I thought of and loved turned out to be a porn site!!! Proving that if you can think of a word someone can relate it to porn. Here is my current criteria for a name:

• Available as a .com. I definitely don't have the capitol to buy a domain from someone just because it has a cool name.
  
• Easy to spell. If I have to pause for a second then my customers might as well. (I'm not a good speller so this is a very good test.)
• Creates an image in peoples minds of what my web site is all about. For example, www.onlinemoms.com (which I'm sure is already taken) is too generic. I want someone to see or hear the name and immediately form a picture in their head of what they will find there.

I'd share some of the names I'd ruled out but I'm not yet ready to give any more details on the sites content. Please wish me luck. Time to pull out a thesaurus.