I’ve been very quiet recently, for a number of reasons. A couple of illnesses, a house move, power outages and then being flooded. All great fun in the overall scheme of life – well  it is when you look back on it years later, at least!

But it’s rather disruptive to a good work cycle so it’s pushed back several things I’ve been planning. And as many of you will know, catching up is sometimes not easy.

Anyway, I’m just putting the finishing touches to a new product. It’s an automatic niche blog builder service with a major difference. Right now it looks like it will be ready to go live either tomorrow, or possibly next week depending on a couple of outside factors.

It should have been ready a month ago, but as I said, I’ve been playing catch up for a while now. Things are finally getting back to normal.

So, to return to the question in the title of this post: what happens when you’re ill? Do you have systems in place to deal with work? Does your income stop? How does it affect your daily life?

For me, the one thing it shows me is that I need to outsource more of the technical aspects of what I do.  The simpler things are easy to outsource, but that’s because they’re simple. There should never be too serious a problem getting someone to handle those jobs.

But the more complex stuff, well that takes a little more time. Time to build trust, time to teach systems. So right now that’s one of the things I’m going to focus on in the coming weeks.

2010 is coming soon – just a few weeks away, actually. My intention is to start 2010 with a stronger strategy for delegating work.

What about you? Add a comment – let me know your thoughts, ok?