I’m not sure where the fear comes from not wanting to promote our selves. Perhaps its the fear of people rejecting us.
With this upcoming project I know I’ll have to promote myself and my design work.
There’s this person I’ve been following on youtube for years. This year she celebrated 5 years on youtube. She started out promoting herself everyday for a year as online as an experiment.
Check her out: youtube.com/shamelessmaya
Yesterday, I shared a few things on my todo list and today I’m attempting to make the move to a self hosted WordPress site.
A few challenges and snags:
After spending about an hour with a happiness engineer I decided maybe my hosting site would have something set up. And I was right.
I’m publishing early today in case I need some tutorials for later.
I’ve written out my landing page and even had someone edit for me.
This weekend I’ll be working on flushing out the content.
Stay tuned to the new updates !!!!
Today’s lesson was about lead magnets. Basically, something you give away to your subscribers for signing up for your list and it gives them more information to let them know what’s to come. Earlier this week, we touched on goal setting – making time blocks to achieve what it is we are looking to accomplish.
I am certainly someone who has a problem saying no. I like to over compensate and over achieve – and who am I in competition with? No one other than myself.
One of the main points to achieve our goal after making an outline is to work on something that excites you. At the moment, what excites me is moving my blog to a self hosted wordpress account.
So far I’ve done a bit of research – my biggest fear is breaking something. However, there are plenty of online tutorials. And I’ve scheduled Saturday as the day to tinker and move things around.
I’ve already gotten my outline completed, and I need to expand on the content.
I need to design the cover of my lead magnet and thanks to Nathan Barry for sharing some online resources like:
II’ll be using site ground for my hosting – they are a bit more expensive but I’ve heard nothing but great reviews from them.
I’ve shared my outline and will have a few people review it in hopes that they have actual questions for me.
Another really great tip that I got was to schedule out the week I’d like to have – all 24 hours of a each day – for a week. As a visual person it helps to see what I’m doing with my time. It’s also something I did in college.
As of right now, about 12.5 hours is spent on my commute to and from work. Add 7 hours of sleep and I’m left with 4.5 hours to work out, meet with other people and most of all work on my side project.
If there’s anything I’ve learned, you need to believe in your product before anyone else will.
From Here, To There 
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