Week 3: Slow progress

The past week in review:

• Again, I am being hampered by outside activities that are distracting me from what I want to focus on. I am nearing the end of the early stages of an App I began working on last year and have put that as the main focus recently to ensure that I can get it completed and out of the way while I focus on new things.
• I bought a two week window of advertising on a podcast.
• I spent 4 days, or rather wasted 4 days banging my head against a virtual brick wall trying to fix iOS developer signature failures. Turns out Apple's provisioning portal was generating broken developer certificates. They eventually fixed it, but not after a lot of needless hair pulling and frustration.
• Started working with Parse and TestFlight betas.
• Discovered that my Mac Pro is on the brink of death, it's hard drive is on the verge of a complete meltdown. It literally takes 40-50 minutes to just boot up. So I'm going to have to replace it.
• Today I bought an iPhone 3G for development purposes. There aren't many users on older devices, but I think it warrants a small investment to buy a device to test on so as to avoid problems in the future. I am predicting the 3Gs will soon become the "lowest common denominator" on the iOS platform within the next year or so.
• I haven't made a dent in "The Lean Startup", being too pre-occupied. I will have to rectify that soon.
• I ordered more stationary from Viking Direct, it arrived fairly quickly so I'm already using it to take notes on. I will have to start getting used to the idea of always having a notepad on me. 

For the future:

• The new goal is to begin working on something substantial by 1st of February. In practice this means no more other projects or apps, but to dedicate my time to narrowing down ideas. I have a big stack in the filing cabinet that need to be sorted through.
• I am considering very seriously applying to incubators like the NDRC, DIT HotHouse etc. so will be investigating those opportunities in coming days and weeks.
• I am considering some supplemental education, perhaps some business/payroll type courses.