It's easier for me to listen to other people's success stories than to write my own. I am concerned that I spend too much time learning how to be successful and

It's easier for me to listen to other people's success stories than to write my own. I am concerned that I spend too much time learning how to be successful and not enough time actually working on being successful. Holy cow you stole words from my brain! But, after battling with this feeling for a while, I've finally come to a working solution. The mistake I was making was taking other people's results as the lesson. That led me down all the wrong rabbit holes and left me feeling exactly as you do. What I now do when I listen to Mixergy or any other startup stuff is treat it as stories and try to learn what experiments to run, what to test within the framework of my work. I do not let any of it derail my own plans. This means I don't randomly read or listen to stuff any more. When I am working on my site's marketing, I will go and find some marketing material. If I'm working on A/B testing, I'll read up on that. And finally, sometimes I just have to let go and watch some random stuff because I do enjoy it. It's like war stories to me. Don't get down. If you're really not getting much work done, then just shut it all out for a bit and get the work done.