Building a New Business 7/7-7/13

This week in business 7/7-7/13

Last week, I was humming. Everything was so easy. I had a ton of fuel to do well. A great amount of sleep fueled me to get to work with ease. 12.8 hours of extra work on this venture actually. I have a container full of rough draft blogs, that have stayed in there a little bit too long but a decent plan to tackle this week. 

4 blogs. M W F S

I have the topics chosen. 

I’m ready to rock. 

I have 4 or 5 ready to post about to have more tomorrow as the batch work has just been working incredibly well. It’s not some huge wall for me at the moment and I just pump them out. Tiktoks are getting over 600 views every day. Which is a lot for me.

Email newsletter

This is a good way to keep track of everything. Gives me a posting schedule and I did work on this on Saturday but unfortunately my work didn’t save so I gave up. 

YouTube

It’s another element I need to add, and it just doesn’t seem exciting to do. Not sure what software to use to edit, or what to write on, but, just start is everyone’s advice. Just start, it can be ugly. 

Learn marketing/engage 

These two are always a good weekly goal to have because I am so weak in these areas. Well. I guess I am weak in every area at the moment. But marketing is one of the best skills to learn. Marketing yourself in every aspect. Need to learn it but I just don’t know how to learn it. 

I just really want to reinforce what I said about batch work. It has helped me tremendously and is a great strategy for when school starts soon. It will be difficult, sure but if I can get the strategy down, I should be able to keep my head above water. The publishing schedule will be reinforced and added to homework assignments and things should should go okay. I don’t want to get my teeth kicked in by school once again. It has happened a lot. 

7/8 Monday

Batchwork has been excellent. I have written so much that my wrist hurts, and my pencil is only but a nub of graphite. I love when I write so much my wrist hurts, it brings me back to when I first fell in love with writing back in middle school. It provides me a lot of joy. Just letting the imagination rip. I love it. Doing the things I love fires me up so pardon my passion. Hopefully, I can keep up this momentum going into tomorrow I just hit my goal of two hours worked, and I’m not tired, I could keep going. Last Monday, I worked for three and a half hours so to just be fired up on Monday once again excites me. It also gives me a cushion to slack off another day of the week, but I will not do it. Right? Future me editing this?…. Right? 

7/9 Tuesday

I worked for 30 minutes and made 0 TikToks. Starting slow but I need to get higher. I only have three ready this week. I could make four today, and it wouldn’t be difficult. Just have to do it. 

7/10 Wednesday 

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish strong, time got away from me and my sleep amounts just haven’t been enough. Also, to add it is extremely busy at the job so I can’t put as much work at the job, unfortunately. People are running back and forth and talking loudly and it is just chaotic which makes me take longer on my jobs so I can’t take as many breaks to work on side projects. But that’s okay. I also did not hit two hours yesterday and I would post four blogs I would have to post four days straight to hit my goals. It will be tough but need to maximize this day, this is my typing and editing day. Tiktok day did have some success, I have 7 in the bank. Wish it was 30 so I could slack off for a month if necessary. 

My parents are coming into town soon and I have not been studying marketing or engaging which isn’t great. I am tired. I’m trying my best. Consistency has been something I am most proud of so far. It is for sure difficult, but I somehow do something each day. Any amount of Progress is still progressing 7 days of effort showing. 

I don’t have to be perfect every day. Most people can’t. And I know I can’t. But if I show up every day. I will win. I will progress. 

I think it will be a rough day like yesterday. Work is once again a nut house. 

But. I feel like I am needed in personal finance. I want to help my friends, but they don’t listen. Why do they make silly money mistakes. I see a bomb about to go off, but people skip over it like nothing. Like they HAVE to do this stuff. Have to buy a crazy expensive car compared to income. It’s unfortunate. 

I finally hit Friday and I hit that Friday wall. I don’t think I hit over 7.5 hours slept this whole week and it has all accumulated into a very tired worker. I don’t have much creative energy. I didn’t have the energy to do anything really. I didn’t hit my 4 blogs per week, this week that’s for certain. It has been a few months now and I haven’t been able to get traction. The system of batch work has been solid but no one cares. I’m not getting seen. I have pumped out blogs. I just need to have a large editing day where I get everything ready to go which with editing and everything takes about an hour per blog. If I can sacrifice a few nights and get 2 or 3 pumped out per night that would be great. When school comes back everything will be harder so I need to lock this in. I sound like a broken record, but it is scaring me for sure. I know I have been doing a great job hanging in there. Really giving everything a go. Consistently each day outside of weekends mostly I have been doing 5-15 hours a week for the past 3 months. That makes me happy. I just need to do that for 36 months and I should be able to really see some progress. To me, that’s the most exciting thing. I’m new. If I can keep it up for an extended period of time, I should be able to see some success and hit the effort investment critical mass point. Which is just so exciting to me. Like with everything, you just have to have the faith or the push to keep trying, and one day, after enough hours of work that seemed unsubstantial will finally all come together and you can see progress or success. I love that idea. I used the word push because that’s how I feel today. Pushing up the hill. Which I am trying to do even if I haven’t been great. I am more susceptible to distractions and just not adding value. 

Putting an end to the week which this weekend FLEW by. Blinked and it was gone. I am doing great with each day doing something. My time spent on the business during the week was 541 minutes which is about 9 hours. I was able to hit my 2-hour per day goal only on two days worked last week which isn’t great. An email newsletter could have helped, but unfortunately, the file didn’t save properly and I got discouraged and didn’t remake it even if it would take 20 minutes. 

I have to type up blogs, edit them, and post them. I have so many just waiting to be posted. Maybe soon, I will have that schedule locked down because school is coming, and school will come first. Overall, not a terrible week. If I counted the B-roll shots I got at Disney I would have hit my goal of 10 hours worked. Not a bad week. Some failures of course, and some successes. I love batch work, and I am starting to show amazing consistency. Which is something I struggled to have with past endeavors.