I hate maintenance. I’m a builder, not a maintainer. I love rearranging my room. I hate making my bed. I love reformatting my computer. I hate keeping my files orderly.
That’s why I loved building ChurchStageDesignIdeas.com and Sunday| Mag. It was a building process. I was designing, strategizing, making things happen. It was all new and fresh. But now I’m working on those projects full time. They’ve been built. Now I need to maintain those suckers.
It sucks.
But I realize the reason it sucks is because I get trapped in the mundanity of keeping it all updated. I post new stage designs because that’s what I’m supposed to do. I assign and edit articles because the magazine must live on. I subconsciously shifted something I owned and was building, to something that owned me.
Hold on. Let me push my chair back. Let me think.
This is my project. This is still something I’m building.
So why do I need to maintain this? What am I trying to accomplish through this maintenance? Do I need to adjust some things I’m doing to better accomplish my goal? There’s still more building to do.
So many of us get caught up in mundane maintenance, because we forget our goals. The goal is never to maintain.
My goal for my sites is to inspire and connect creatives. It’s not to make advertisers happy or crank out posts and articles.
I don’t need to do this. There are many ways to accomplish my goal. But right now, this is the best way to make it happen. To crank out posts and articles. I can do this!
You see, big picture thinking is crucial to avoiding burnout. I can do the same tasks and get two different results – I could get burned out or I could get inspired. The key is remembering the big picture. The passion. The goal.
So I encourage you…we all have elements of maintenance in our jobs. Don’t let your job become about maintaining… Always remember why you do what you do.
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