{"id":188,"date":"2012-10-12T02:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulchilversgrierson.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:13:39","slug":"unless-you-have-a-plan-what-is-the-point-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/unless-you-have-a-plan-what-is-the-point-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Unless you have a plan – what is the point? [Part I]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking at yet another of the seemingly endless WSOs (Warrior Special Offers<\/strong><\/a>) everyone and their brother seem to be telling me about lately.<\/p>\n

This time it was a business bundle of premium themes, i.e. WordPress themes.<\/p>\n

I already have more themes than I know what to do with.<\/p>\n

That’s probably because I haven’t actually had a plan of how to use them all.<\/p>\n

And the day before I was just reading something from Andrew Hansen<\/strong><\/a> about using ONE theme as a template with everything the way you want it – in which case you don’t need a bundle.<\/p>\n

In the past I have been quite trigger happy with this kind of thing if the price was right, i.e. a no brainer.<\/p>\n

Or part of something I was getting already, in which case the trigger would be the right mouse click to download the zip file full of goodies.<\/p>\n

Which are still on my hard drive.<\/p>\n

Along with many others…<\/p>\n

…waiting for me to do something with them…<\/p>\n

…because I haven’t had a plan of WHAT to do with them….<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

So lately, since I now do have a kind of a plan, but it doesn’t at this stage involve anything that needs lots of themes, business or other, I feel a kind of calm when I look at these offers and their urgent calls to action before the price goes up or the offer disappears.<\/p>\n

Because I know that (a) there will be more later if I do need them and (b) I already have a hard drive full of them…<\/p>\n

This realisation about the pointlessness of getting all this stuff if I don’t currently know how to use it is saving me a lot of money – and frustration.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, deep down (or maybe not so deep down) I knew it all along.<\/p>\n

But then, we don’t always act on what we know, do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking at yet another of the seemingly endless WSOs (Warrior Special Offers) everyone and their brother seem to be telling me about lately.<\/p>\n

This time it was a business bundle of premium themes, i.e. WordPress themes.<\/p>\n

I already have more themes than I know what to do with.<\/p>\n

That’s probably because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","category-mindset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulchilversgrierson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}