Rooky Room (or the endless domain purchasing fiasco)

Hi all. My head is spinning and reading around note that many others have the same experience in the beginning.

How many hours have I been reading? Well, I don't know. Seems like about 2 weeks ago my life stopped. BIG plans afoot, sure. I have been reading about IM for 2 weeks solid, including weekends, all day, and into the night. (I work from home anyway, just finished big writing project, don't have another one scheduled to begin until the end of March so tight deadline to get a nice site up and running). My head hurts. I caught the flu (which I have now) and thought...from stress overload. I'm very very excited but getting disappointed, too.

So I thought I would start a thread to offer some advice (yep, advice) that I have learned the hard way already.

--DO NOT go into a domain buying spree. I did this. Kept thinking of new and better domains, then grabbing up so competition couldn't buy competing terms for 2 businesses. Guess what? I realized...you can't buy all of the possibly competitive domain names. This is NOT possible. Don't believe me? Make a list, don't buy anything, keep adding to the list for a week or so. Then you will see what I mean. AND after I bought all of those domains, I thought of *the best* domain for one of the two businesses...can't believe I didn't consider it before, so, alas, I still have to buy another domain name but that will be IT!

--try to pace yourself.

--take action, which I've started doing, but hard to stop yourself from researching the next Q.

--Don't be too quick to pull out your CC#. There are lots of offers.

Anyone else have any lessons learned to add?

I feel stupid but thought my domain experience might help someone.