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Get Rich Fast-About 10 Years
I came across a video by the YouTuber Ali Abdaal in which he discusses “The Book [He’s] Ever Read about Making Money.” One message that stuck with me was that the timescale for getting rich quickly is actually about 10 years. That should be what you have in mind, not becoming a millionaire in a year. Statistically, I’m sure it will happen to some people, but it’s probably not replicable.
Instead, think about building your business over ten years. Think about what if you had intently focused on building a successful business ten years ago, where you’d be today.
I think it’s easy to want financial success quickly, especially when you’re young, and overlook the paths that seem to take longer and/or give up on endeavors that aren’t progressing overnight like you’d hope. It’s easy to jump from one scheme to the next or just become discouraged altogether and just…work your regular 8-5, which there’s nothing wrong with. Then, years down the road, maybe you’d wish you’d started business xyz.
The thing is, the time is going to pass anyway. Why not pass the time working on something that’s a little more proven to work out in your favor. You’re probably not going to get rich overnight, but if you think about a ten-year timescale, you’re much more likely to have success.
Even then, if everything goes well, you’re going to gain more income in different phases. Maybe by year 5, you’re not rich yet, but you’re making an extra $50,000 year than you were before. That’s still pretty satisfying.
Anyway, the video was good, the book The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco sounds good. As I write this, I think I’ll watch the video again. I also used one of my Audible credits to get the book. I do think Ali Abdaal said that the book is more textbook-like, so it might be better if you read it rather than listen to it, but if you’re more likely to listen to a book than sit down and read one, listen to it.
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Stop Putting So Much Pressure on Yourself
I’ve been listening to this book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman unrelated to the work I’m doing on the blog and a key takeaway is that, in the grand scheme of things, whatever you do won’t matter.
That’s not to make you feel bad about yourself, but to think of it as a relief. If you realize that you won’t make a dent in the universe, you’ll stop putting so much pressure on yourself to “change the world” or “write the best novel ever” or “create the wildly successful blog.”
Perhaps, then you’ll realize that some things you’re already doing are impactful. Spending time with your loved ones has meaning. Giving a stranger a compliment is impactful. Writing that novel anyway is impactful even if it only touches five other people. That’s five other people that were influenced by what you wrote.
To be clear, that doesn’t mean to not do good work or attempt to achieve your ambitious goals, but to keep it in perspective. They’re not the end all be all.
Featured Image: Man Stressed At Work Illustration by Ciphr via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
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Back to the Basics
It’s time to stop procrastinating and start working on the “serious” blog again.
For almost the past year, I picked up a side gig, an unpaid side gig, that really took up my time. I’m grateful for the experience though.Since that’s been done, I’ve been procrastinating working on the big blog again by posting on my personal blog.
Speaking of, for the personal site, I thought of different names for a related Instagram page dedicated just to art. I’ve been playing around with AI art generators recently and most of them have just been sitting on my computer.
I’m back at it though.
I decided to go back to the basics and follow along with a tutorial video on Bluehost and WordPress by “Create WP Site” on YouTube.
I thought of some taglines for the site with the assistance of Bard and ChatGPT.
Right now, I’m using the Yith Wonder theme on my site. Do I want that? Did I choose that last before or was it chosen by default? This preview doesn’t seem to help much either.
I do, however, remember searching for themes that display posts in several columns similar to some other sites I researched. “Yith Wonder” doesn’t look like that. I’ll probably change it.
I did change it. There are a lot of themes to choose from though. Good luck to all who enter WordPress theme land.Plugins to consider adding
- Elementor
- WooCommerce
- Yoast SEO
- Ninja Forms
- Shared Counts
- Wordfence
- Envira Gallery
- One Click Demo Import
- Mailchimp for WordPress
The YouTube tutorial was pretty good though. I feel more comfortable going into launching this blog.
Image by vined mind from Pixabay
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Trudging Along
I don’t have much to report today. I was able to log in to my host’s site today. I haven’t figured out how to get rid of the static homepage for my site though. I thought I got rid of it awhile ago.
It confuses me that I click a preview of my page in one location and it shows me what I want the site to look like, but everywhere else I have this static page there. I don’t want that. I want the first thing people see when they come to the site are the posts. They’ll be all right without a welcome page.
I revised some of the writing for my first post today too. It’ll eventually come along.
In my last post I said I have 2-3 posts from the one long one I was working on. Well, it looks more like 2 posts. I have another document that I worked on before I changed the topic slightly that I might could use as well. I’d rather stick to the common theme first though.
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Getting the Ball Rolling
I haven’t worked on the blog much over the last few months. I picked up a new obligation that took some time to get used to and that simply required a lot of time and attention. I’ve had a break and it will pick back up soon, but I think I will be better to equipped to manage my time. I’m trying to get back into the swing of things now though.
Today, I wrote again. I think I need to go ahead and launch the site. Before I do that I need to polish up a post or two. I think I have a solid 2-3 posts to start off with. I think the advice I’ve seen before is to have at least 5 good long-form posts before you launch your blog. This will have to do for now because I’ve also seen the advice to just start; it doesn’t have to be perfect.
So today, I tried thinking of a better introduction to the first post. I think it is an improvement and a lot of it will be in the final version. So, in the next few days, I will get a solid draft of the first post.
I also tried to log in to my hosting company’s site, but to no avail. I always have a hard time logging into it. I’ll have to wait until I get home to figure it out.
Side note: I’ve also seen someone say that you should promote your blog before you launch it to have a successful launch. This sounds like decent enough advice though I honestly don’t want to follow it. I would much rather “build it and they will come.” It’s unlikely, but hey, that’s just how I feel. I’ll ruminate on it and maybe gather the energy to follow that advice.
Featured Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
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We’re Back!
I was supposed to update the world on the progress of my other blog every day. Let me tell you. I took on an additional obligation outside of my 9-5 and all of that fell by the wayside. I told a career coach that I would launch the blog by December 2022 at the latest. Instead, I let it languish.
I’m picking it back up! If for nothing else, I’m still getting charged for hosting. That reminds me that I received an email the other day about an annual renewal charge or something like that. I need to look into that.
Maybe I should at least launch something by the end of the month and in the meantime continue to post here every day-ish. Be on the lookout.
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Put Your Personality into Your Content via Darius Foroux
I got a nugget about blogging from The Darius Foroux Show podcast, episode titled Diversifying Income: Starting A Profitable Blog. This episode was published on June 26, 2018, about four years ago from the day I listened to this podcast. In this podcast, Foroux said he thinks he’s going to start a blog or a website about blogging. And it’s funny because I have seen his name before and read some of his articles. I did not intentionally seek out this podcast of his. I just wonder if this was the beginning of that career, which is interesting to see.
Foroux’s advice on starting your profitable blog though, was, basically, to insert your own personality and/or backstory into your content. His view is that you can probably find plenty of people writing about the same topic that you are, but what’s going to set you apart is a piece of you. That’s writing something that’s in your voice or has your perspective or literally your own personal story in it, I don’t think we need the backstories for recipes though. Just get straight to how to make the dish. At the very least, put it after all of the instructions, but that’s just my personal opinion.
Hopefully, people connect with what you have to offer and you’ll build an audience from there.
This transcript was generated by https://otter.ai on July 1, 2022.
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/collage-photo-of-woman-3812743/
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Where’s that Guide?: Daily Update
I finished the research paper I revisited yesterday and wrote some notes on that. I did not purchase the domain name for this site yet though.
I might listen to another podcast about building a profitable blog later on. I once found this guide that was a thorough step-by-step process for creating a profitable blog, but I could never find it since then. I would be interested in finding another one of those just to see what is says.
Originally written on 6/30/2022
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What’s in a Name Change?: Daily Update
Today, I listened to a podcast about how to build a profitable blog. It was about one woman’s story. The notes should be within this folder. The main takeaways were that she used ads from the beginning, then incorporated affiliate marketing in her second year, then sponsored posts, which she started off charging $200/post when she had 10,000 visitors a month, but started charging $2,0000 a post later on, and by her third year she started selling her own products starting off with a course telling how she turned her blog into a six figure blog.
Later, I finished the review paper for my first post or potential first post. I started on another paper, or returned to another research paper rather and wrote on that as well.
Later on today, I might actually purchase the domain name for this site, tolearnalot, the blog about the other blog I’m starting. (That did not end up being the name of this blog.)
Originally written on 6/29/2022
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Writing Schedule Continued: Daily Update
Today, I continued reading the review paper and made some more notes. I think today’s reading was insightful both personally and content-wise. I suspect that I will end up condensing a lot of it though in the final draft. This is a good start though to have to remove or edit down content rather than find information to add.
Also, to note, the first daily entry I made was on 6/27/2022, but that was not the start of this new blog. I should probably write a post summarizing the work I have done before that date. (I probably will not. I do not remember at this point)
Originally written on 6/28/2022
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