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Workpost 60: Anger
I feel a lot of frustration and anger about not seeing any results with my ads.
I feel anger because:
- I worked so hard and intelligently compared to so many people, yet I didn’t really get any sort of results, not even site clicks
- I don’t understand why this is happening. I get it if people come to the website and don’t convert. I don’t get it that no one even goes to the website?
- I feel extremely angry that my client will take it as further evidence that they are correct (“you just need to be viral” “its not words and images that will get you there” “no one cares about your values” “people wont buy even if its free”)
I think the reasons why it’s failing is because the offer or the video is not good in some way. There must be something wrong with it.
Maybe its possible that the audience settings are not perfect either.
The reality is that my client has no idea what is going on and just wants us to succeed.
He knows that I’ve been working super hard at this project and I’m sure he appreciates it.
He has certain biases that he wants to enact, but those will have to wait until after my period.
Workspace 47: Goals for Today
- Come up with my strategy for door-to-door sales*
- Finish website for coaching*
- Work on personal development and my relationship
- Work on my left knee
- Research who to hire for viral video*
- Research conferences for art coaching
- Come up with an approach for AI consulting company*
- Fix DBA paperwork*
- Figure out financial strategy for businesses*
Final selection:
- Come up with an approach for AI consulting company
- Figure out financial strategy for businesses
- Come up with my strategy for door-to-door sales
Workpost 38: Time Off
Today I feel mentally and physically drained. I went to bed at 3 AM last night. I feel defeated, anxious, and sad about my relationship. I keep asking myself what it means to own a startup, what it means to be in charge. I think what it means is to be able to take a day off if you need to.
Let’s take a look at some of the different areas of my life right now:
STARTUP
- I’m disappointed in both the effectiveness and efficiency with customer projects as well as the level of sales outreach.
- I feel disconnected from my partner with quite a bit of friction, feeling that there is always a barrier to do what I want to do.
What might be the next steps?
- Identify areas my partner is strong in to involve him more on things I need help with
- Identify areas I feel strongly I should lead and take more leadership in that area
LIFE
- I’m a bit stagnated on my todo list
- My life systems for food and exersise are seeing big wins
- Huge desire to get more sleep
What might be my next steps?
- Fallout during the day only for leveling up people
- Netflix and long fallout sessions at night in bed
- To do list cleaning/grooming on fridays
COACHING
- I’ve stopped completely
- Undecided on whether to work on my own art projects or continue coaching
- I want to work on my youtube channel and an art group
What might be my next steps?
- Finish artist interview challenge
- Outreach for potential clients
RELATIONSHIP
- I feel misunderstood a lot, mismatching values, too much physical distance
- I love my girlfriend very much
What might be next steps?
- Journal more on the painful feelings
- Use them to grow and understand myself better
Workpost 31: On an Adventure
I feel like I’m on an adventure, even though I am only 40 minutes away from my apartment in Austin. I am in the city of Leander, northwest of Austin and I’m feeling a bit tired but excited about the solar eclipse today.
I’m in the library and I feel at home but also lonely. I think there is something about being in close proximity to books that remind me of my childhood and about daydreaming and reading about people’s lives and wanting to find close friends and conquer the world.
I feel lonely, and I wish it was easier to connect with others.
The library reminds me of elementary school when everything was pretty simple. If you wanted to be friends with people, you just became friends with them.
I’m feeling really tired because I didn’t go to bed very early last night. I also think the sleeping appliance and my sleep mask are not things I’m used to sleeping with so I don’t sleep as well with them.
I’m focusing on recentering on my house, and that anything is possible in my house.
Today there is a solar eclipse, and I’m excited for that. Maybe I will read a book really quick, then get some work done and drive over to watch the eclipse from this really cool park nearby.
Workpost 78: Tired
Today I’m tired and might be mildly sick. But I’m going to make the most out of it.
Today I would love to create a new landing page concept. It could level up our business by a lot.
For fun, I would like to play Valorant again. It was super fun last night.
I would also like to do some drawing while relaxing outside. That would be really nice.
Finally, I want to do some jiujitsu and maybe take a nap.
It would be nice to make some good money today as well.
Workpost 16: Risk and Challenge
So I’m pretty frustrated because this is the second time I am writing this blog post. The first time I wrote this blog post, the post was bugging out and didn’t save properly.
Not too happy about that.
In the spirit of growth, I am going to let go of that blog post and focus on creating an entirely new one without losing the essence of what I wanted to say in the first one I wrote.
This morning I was feeling really stressed out and I was really enjoying my walk. I feel like this whole questions meditations thing has really worked out. I really like journaling at night, and walking during the day. Before when I was forcing myself to go outside because I felt like I had to, I kinda hated it. It was nice once I got outside, but before then it was pretty awful.
Now, since I know I’m going use the time to meditate on some of the questions I have in my heart, I feel really excited and motivated to go outside in the morning.
Here are the main things I was stressed out about this morning:
- My career, didn’t know where I was going next
- My medical bills, spent 8k on a new medical device, hundreds more for my GI doctor
- My financial issues, I spent 700 more than I made yesterday
- My coaching career, still not anywhere close to making enough money to be self sufficient
- I could move back home, but then I’m worried about having a place for my girlfriend to visit me
And through my amazing short 20 minute walk, here are the answers I got:
- Acknowledge that you are taking a huge risk by paying 1,700 per month on rent with very little income and building coaching business from 0
- Risk is not a bad thing, it is an incredible catalyst for growth
- Risk means, now is the time to shine. Focus on the few things that matter most
- Building an really strong foundation of health, a very strong structure for getting stuff done
- Changing the lives of my current coaching clients
- Work slowly towards my career in AI
- It’s ok to invest money in the medical bills because they directly help with my foundational health goal. Double down on the investment by focusing a lot on sleep and digestion.
- Let go of all other goals and distractions because now is go time. Just work on small projects or really gradual work.