As a solopreneur, it’s so easy to get carried away with the day to day activities required to satisfy your clients and keep the business running; that you completely forget to pay attention to the bigger issues.
This leads people to obsess about finding the best tactic out there for every single thing; and lose focus of the bigger picture.
Question: How long should my blog post be?
Answer: As long as it needs to be.
I might as well end this article there; but let’s dig a little deeper.
Truth is, there’s no hard and fast rule on content length.
Some experts say write as few as 200 words; while others encourage you to write as much as 3,000 words.
Which of them is right?
We all grew up learning how to be independent and figure things out on our own. As a matter of fact, it’s often seen as a sign of weakness when someone asks for help.
Over time, we get so used to this subconscious training of self-sufficiency that we forget how to reach out and ask for support — even when we desperately need it.
As a result, things get way out of control before we consider talking about them & getting help.
We humans often have the tendency to sway towards extremes — it’s easier to stick to an extreme than go through the discomfort of finding a balance.
Our society today can be viewed through 2 lenses: One group of people is the high achievers group — people who are always switched on, constantly doing, with no time to rest, smile, or live; they are always doing.
And then the other group of people are those who are so eager to break away from the pressure faced by the high-achiever group that they end up doing so little or nothing at all.
Nobody likes the word boss (except bosses themselves).
The word usually triggers this picture of someone giving you countless instructions and telling you what to do.
And then, rather than let you do what they’ve asked you to do, they stand and watch over your shoulders to ensure that you’re not surfing Facebook.
Just do a Google search for “be your own boss”; and you’ll see the sheer number of articles written to help people navigate away from the corporate office environment and become their own bosses.