I've been blogging about sustained action and sustainable motivation over the last week and some more ideas have developed over this weekend.
I was talking with my friend Richard Francis, whose early stage online letting agent and landlord services' portal is starting to show real momentum. This is because Richard is one of the best exponents of doing stuff I know - he is a master of sustained action. He tellingly said:
"I was thinking over New Year about how I am going to orientate myself into 2010. Now that we have our broad strategy proven, I am going to worry less about that. What I am going to do is to fill in as many little bits of the big picture as I can - but that's not a process that has any end.
"When I look around me I see that so many people think they are working towards an end point and they slow down and then they can get complacent, or never achieve any significant scale, or get swallowed by a new competitor. For me it's now about incremental and permanent growth in everything that I do."