Building a Business 6/16-6/22

Week 6 6/16-6/22????

Last week was a mulligan. It was not an easy week, personally and business-wise. My usual weekly strategy wasn’t even close, as I hit 6.5 total hours worked. It was a 4-day work week with plenty of extra time to break records with how much work I could put in but it just wasn’t happening. It is fun and tiring that I am the one to have this on my shoulders. I can’t outsource the effort right now, and it is a major reason why I need to finish loads of finished drafts to be ready to post. 

Progress

I posted one blog, and three other social media posts. In a week, that just won’t cut it. 

25% of blogs and 42% on other social posts. Failing grades, I also need to get back to working on the spreadsheet for costs. That could be a fun thing to put content on. 

The email newsletter is an afterthought. No progress.

Learning marketing and just engaging were also not done with high priority. 

YouTube video was not made, and SOPs were not upheld. It has been difficult to uphold this.

Goals for this week

I want to ease back into it, but I also want to break a record for time worked. I know for a fact I need to rely heavily on batch work and get plenty in the bank. Creating a Tiktok, creating a blog, creating other posts is just so tiring. Who would’ve thought? And I am it. I’m the guy that has to start every day. No one else. I have read time and time again if I can get through this difficult part, this time where it doesn’t look great, where I don’t know anything and if I don’t quit, I can do great things. I’m feeling it. Batch work is a way my brain works well, but I haven’t made like Monday, blog day or blank is TikTok day, maybe I should have a batch work schedule with content schedule being heavy early in the week as it takes a lot of brain power. Later in the week, my brain is a bit tired so it’s hard to keep the levels of creativity. 

Monday

I should crank out as many blogs as possible. Today is Monday and I want to write. This is my favorite activity to do, teaching people my mistakes and hopefully having some wins along the way. Writing has been very alluring to me. I am currently trying to write 5 blogs today. Might be doing too much but I really enjoy documenting this life. It’s enjoyable, hard, and worthwhile even if I’m not hitting my goals as of yet. My other social media accounts will be more targeted into a niche, but I always wanted the blog to be personal. Speaking about the things I love to talk about. It has been fun for me and my favorite part. I put it on Monday because it’s a great way to start my creative mind up. 

Tuesday 

Having creative energy still and blogs to make Tiktoks off of this will be the Tiktok day. This is a bit more difficult for me to do as it isn’t really my favorite thing to do. Looking back at the time clocks of business creation. I can’t believe it has been two months now of trying to figure it out and consistently working on the business almost every day. It is still inefficient. Haven’t hit the cruising altitude yet, and I feel it, I burn a lot of gas. Currently, it feels like nothing works. A huge uphill battle that I start fresh every day and some days I struggle and some days I can get right to work. Still in the phase of testing everything out. It’s a long phase…. And very tiring. 

Wednesday

Just spitballing here, but I have no idea what Wednesday will be for. Maybe editing? Another item that isn’t too much fun for me. It could be typing up blogs and getting ready to post, as well as making the Excel sheet.

Thursday

Break day with no creative energy needed. The week is getting close to an end, so maybe just relax and work on the book; maybe we can use it as a day to go to the parks and get a B-roll. 

Friday

This is the worst day typically. I am tired and ready for the weekend. I propose to do my favorite things. Work on blog and YouTube scripts, just take an easy day and learn marketing. Anything, maybe make it b-roll day and hit the parks. 

Saturday

Something. Hopefully, I have done enough to ease off the gas pedal, we worked hard so we can relax now. 

I think I need a paper to read every day so I can put it into action and get what I need to do done. And I wrote that paper, as well as my why. 

Time to put it in action. 

Monday

The brain is a bit tired. I have written and written and written, my hand has gotten sore. I have written down all blogs I need to write, easy peasy. Put them on sticky notes and got the ones ready to type up. Systems are coming finally but it is Monday and I love the blog aspect. Let’s see the others over the next days. I have gotten to two hours worked pretty easily. I have worked on several blogs and completed a couple. I am trying to get overstocked to start posting the consistent schedule next week. Four blogs a week, is difficult but I can do it. My wrist feels like it’s about to fall off. I’m calling it quits, 137 minutes is a good number with how slow I started today. 

Tuesday

Oof. That easy day yesterday was hit by a massive amount of fatigue today. It is my least favorite activity to do but I made four TikToks. Which I made in 40 minutes of work. I didn’t have pricing down, review, or a tip ready to be made so it was slow. At this stage, I really just have to have a shotgun approach and fire to see what sticks. We will see tomorrow how much more I did but I don’t feel strong. Also, less than 7 hours of sleep isn’t great. Just gotta keep pushing, slow and tired as I was, I kept pushing. I wonder what happens if I get good sleep.

Wednesday

I have some more energy for sure. The last day was rough, I was tired the majority of the day, so I only worked 45 minutes. To make up for the day before, I have creative energy still left which when I wrote out the plan I said I wouldn’t have so I will continue to work on items. We zoomed to an hour of work pretty quick I think almost 3 hours is possible.

It went downhill after that.

Thursday & Friday

I barely did anything. I had no plan, no action, just kinda wasted the days away which included Saturday and Sunday. 

Only 5 and a half hours worked on this business. Which happens to be one of the lowest totals I have put together in a week. I am getting more fired up about numbers each day though. About index funds, retirements, and different investment vehicles. Soon, I will have an HSA Roth IRA 401(k), a 529 for my unborn child, and a decent savings rate. 

My goals for this week weren’t hit though. I wanted to get ahead. Have a YT TT IG and FB posts all ready to go. As well as 4 blogs and I just don’t have that. I just need to keep it pushing and I will find what works. I want to get better. I am just in a weird stage. 

Better luck next week. 

I hope July will be a great month of solid consistency because June was a mixed bag.

Future Justin here…. July was a bit mixed too. Whoops.