Doors Closing...A New Door Opening

It's been another interesting week.

A couple of doors closed...and a new door opened wider & sooner than the newly closed doors.

The Door That I Closed Myself

Last month I agreed to work on a new website focusing on Costa Rica real estate.

My rationale was to develop a really good SBI real estate website to be used as a model for real estate agents.

At the time, the person with whom I was to develop the site agreed with this rationale.

However, last Saturday it seems that comments from some of his friends stimulated him to change his vision for the site, turning it into a power-sell website.

Since that was most definitely what I had signed on for, I decided that there were other and better uses for my time so I pulled out.

But not before my work served as an excellent refresher course on SBI site building.

I made several improvements to my own site that I would not have made without the short stint on the new site. And traffic to my site has been increasing by approximately 3% each day this week.

By closing this door, I will have about 10 more hours each week to use for other things.

A Door Slammed Shut

For reasons that have yet to be explained, on Wednesday, one of my business English students canceled his remaining classes.

While I will miss working with him, I will definitely not miss the twice weekly rides on the Leon XIII bus to get to his office.

The first third of this bus route is through one of the dirtiest and roughest areas I have ever seen.

There seem to be as many homeless people lounging and lying on the sidewalk as there are street vendors, almost shoulder to shoulder, loudly promoting whatever they are selling. Maybe I should say shouter to shouter.

No more Leon XIII bus rides...no regrets.

And the loss of these four hours of teaching also generates another 10 hours or so each week that I can use other things.

A New Door...Wide Open

When I knew that I would be pulling out of the other website, I started to prioritize the 8-10 tasks that had in mind for my own website.

This led to the realization that, as usual, writing more content was priority #1.

This is turn led a list of 13 new pages, which at the time I decided I could finish by the end of the month.

I had written one and a bit of another when I learned about the cancellation of the classes.

Long story short, yesterday I uploaded 4 new pages of really good content to my website.

And as an added bonus, these pages also offer the opportunity of a new e-book. But that will have to wait...I still have priorities 2-10, below top priority content to finish off.

I continue to be absolutely amazed at the number of exciting new opportunities that flow through newly opened doors.

And what's even more unbelievable is that the time to pursue these new opportunities has been made available as a result of other doors closing.

Life's funny that way....but in the best of all possible ways.