Spend time with your own words

Yesterday me and Lucy spent the day going through categories 21 Products (etc.) and 31 Marketing (etc.) in our own small business JDex. They're where the bulk of our stuff is, and they'd been neglected as we spent a few months with our heads down rebuilding this site.

There's about 23,000 words across those two folders in maybe 100 separate notes. It was a bit of a chore, honestly. But it needed doing, and I'm glad we did it. Because that's my business in there. Ideas that I've had, patterns, thoughts, notes-for-future-me. Yesterday morning I didn't really know what was in there. Now I do.

I don't think there's a way to shortcut that work. I know it can be tempting to get the machine to do it for you, but would that move you forward? Would you now be in a better situation than we were yesterday morning? I don't think you would be.

They're your words. They're thoughts that came out of your brain. If they're worth anything at all, spend some time with them.