Sadly, the past two weeks, I didn’t show up.  I got caught up with programming and inundated with emails about feedback for Snpptz and everything else faded to the background.  I got caught up and so focused on programming that I missed an important email and therefore missed two important events.   I didn’t show up (quite literally).  To counter this, I’m going back to something that i’ve strayed from since i’ve been focused on shipping Snpptz, which is getting back into a normal schedule and more importantly, getting organized.

So, how am I going to do this?

- Back to my to-do lists! I use a to-do list system that I built in my spare time called Simplizt.  It helps me get organized by just dropping all my to-dos in my head into simple lists.

- Back to a regular sleeping schedule. While I was focused on launching, I would stay up to late hours to fix bugs and get the product launched. I think I need to get back into a regular sleeping schedule to help me stay on a regular schedule

- Scheduling my own time. Part of the reason i missed the email was because I was multi-tasking and scanning twitter/facebook/email/coding.  This has been shown to NOT work.  Instead I’m going back to a scheduled time for each of those tasks and shutting down every other distraction.

- Getting back into ‘Getting Things Done’.  David Allen’s Getting things done really has helped me prioritize and organize my own tasks.  When in coding mode I tend to stray away from it.  Now that i’m out of shipping mode, I need to get back to getting organized and getting things done!

- Working out again. I tend to find when I ignore my body, everything else  seems to get disorganized.  Not sure why this is the case, but it’s time to clean up, get healthy again and start working out again!

Hopefully, all of this will help me so I can follow my own advice, and just show up.

I’ve started trying to get the word out there.  I think this is probably the toughest part of launching any start up.  So far I’ve done what I’ve read about in the blogs, I’ve created a minimally viable product (MVP), that hopefully I can get user’s feedback on. I’m working on hitting the 10 things that Fred Wilson has mentioned are needed to make a successful web product.  Finally, I’m trying to get users as I continue on this journey towards making Simplizt the de-facto task management system!

Won’t you join me and help me test out my product?