When starting a business or making it grow, you must take stock of your strengths and weaknesses.

I know my strengths; I have good ideas, I research thoroughly, Me have good words, etc. (In case you didn’t catch it, that was a joke.) I truly enjoy getting my ideas “out there”, and receiving the feedback. The basis of everything that I do is “content”. It is why you are reading this blog. It is why I have an above average eHow payout. However, to create this content I must bring the ideas from my thoughts into this written medium. Therein lies the rub… I type like a drunken monkey with arthritis.

That is my weakness. I cannot type worth a crap. In my head, I have already written an eBook, but the thought of typing it out is incredibly daunting. I needed to look at this critical weakness and find a solution.

I decided that I need a speech to text translator. The concept is simple. I speak into the microphone and my spoken words are rendered as text. I was in luck… My good friend who writes for the Washington Times uses a program called Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance software. I am not plugging it yet, but my friend tells me it is quite good. I should be receiving it in the next few days, and after I give it a week or two trial, I will give you my review on it.

If it works as advertised, I will be able to increase my blog entries. Also, increase the length and depth of my blog posts. I may even be able to meet or surpass my eHow article writing goals. Beyond that, I may be able to start on my first eBook. It has been in the works for months, but I just cannot seem to force the arthritic drunken monkey to get started.