Evaluating Priorities

First off, I want to thank the many of you that sent me notes wondering if I'm OK. Of course, there is always Shimmy, who constantly shows his Photoshopping skilz. I'm just fine, actually I'm great. And that's what I want to talk about today.

For a long time, I've been counseling readers, friends and clients about the need to constantly evaluate your priorities, pretty much every day. If you are in a security role, you understand how important this is. There are always new attacks, new devices, new applications, and users that do stupid things to keep us busy.

If you don't make sure you are working on the highest priorities, you are wasting time and not providing value to your organization. And in this kind of economy, none of us can afford that.

So basically I'm eating my own dog food and about a month ago decided to evaluate my personal priorities. I only have 24 hours a day and I wanted to make sure I was spending it in the most effective way. Turns out, I drew the conclusion that I needed to focus - for the first time, in a long time - on myself.

I've started spending 1-2 hours a day on personal development. That could mean a lot of things and I'm not necessarily going to go into great depth. Suffice it to say I'm focusing on improving myself, both on the outside and the inside.

Alas that means I don't have as much time as I used to for the Daily Incite. As I get into a better rhythm of juggling my personal, family and job priorities, I hope to return to a 2-3 times a week frequency on the blog.

In the meantime, I'll be looking into doing a little bit of link publishing through a service like de.licio.us or something similar. Basically I'll be able to post some interesting content, add a quick comment (in Incite style) and have it automagically published to the blog and posted to the email list.

Thanks for your patience.

Photo credit: Alan Shimel