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Workpost 49: Onwards
Byjack
Make up something for the answers to each of my questions:
- What are my target audiences and how can I reach them in a way that is consistent with my vision?
- What is a way that my funnel will achieve my mission and vision in some way?
- How do I make the funnel effortless and almost self-perpetuating somehow?
AI Consulting
- Target audience is startup or small businesses
- My vision is to help them reach their full potential
- I think the best way to reach them is probably through a facebook funnel
- That means walking them through some free content, free newsletter, and possibly free community
- Maybe 3 offerings: strategic consulting, innovation project, business overhaul
- Strong brand on brighter future
- Once funnel is created, should be able to just talk to consultations, maybe live streams
Art Coaching
- Target market are people who are looking to or about to retire
- My vision is to foster the creation of more masterpieces
- Best way to reach them is to hand out business cards at conferences
- I think the best way to achieve my mission is by having some content on a website that is inspirational for artists, magical, fun, simple way to book a free consultation
- Create a business card that is magical and artsy
- Strong brand around dreams
- Once funnel is created, just go to conferences and hand out business cards
Ok, now that I worked through all of that, time to go through the same stuff as yesterday:
UNIT ONE: Logistics
- Log the new DBA documents
- Switch Epiphany AI over to a new account
- Switch expenses that are related to business over to new business bank account
- Apply for a second business credit card
UNIT TWO: Longterm planning
- Answer the question, how much time and money do I want to put into each experiment?
UNIT THREE: Business planning
- Finish business plans
- Finish financial plans
- Finish self growth plans
- Finish marketing plans
Final Updates:
- Brand for funnel of Art Coaching is children’s books, fairy tale, fantasy. The website is an invitation to start an adventure.
- Plan for AI consulting is to explore CRM pipelines such as Zoho, Zapier, and Hubspot
Workpost 53: Time to Kick Into Gear
Byjack
It’s time to think through the plan for each of my businesses a little more carefully.
I want to spend 3 months setting up the funnel for each of my businesses and 3 months trying out and running the funnels.
Let’s breakdown what that looks like.
Art Coaching
Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total
What needs to be done for the funnel:
- Payment/banking systems
- How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
- Website
- Business cards
- Calendly
- Client contracts
- Mailing lists/CRM
General Aim: To make a beautiful creative world on my website, business cards, social media that reminds me of adventure, magic, and dreams
Next step for MVP…
3 day challenge – Make a mess
By the end of the challenge:
- Print out business cards
- Have a WordPress website with basic information on it
- Figure out how to do scheduling with Calendly
AI Consulting
Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total
What needs to be done for the funnel:
- Payment/banking systems
- How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
- Website
- Business cards
- Calendly
- Client contracts
- Mailing lists/CRM
- Branding
- New contract for funnel
General Aim: To create a place where business owners with the talent and potential can go to unblock their problems
Next step for MVP…
3 day challenge – Create website
By the end of the challenge:
- Website that clearly shows brand and services
- Clear way to schedule a consultation with me
- Be able to talk to local meetups
Workpost 25: Tired and Weak
Byjack
Tired
I feel so tired
And weak
I just want to sleep
But the worries gnaw at me until I am awake
I look for comfort
Anywhere I can find it
I’m just feeling exhausted and I wonder what it takes to get well rested again. Maybe I can try to take a nap. Right now my physical health is the most important things to me. My eyes ache. My back aches. My sinuses ache.
The main issues that I’m working through is trying to understand what I am selling for coaching and also what I am selling for AI. For coaching I figured out the high price which is 25,000 for helping someone make their dream (creative) project a reality, whether it is a book, video, painting, etc.
I’ve been told multiple times to look for things that might be more affordable, but I actually thought about it a lot and I don’t think I can think of anything like that.
I just want to work on coaching a few clients who want to do something really special, beautiful, and profound.
Turning my attention to AI, I want to do something similar. Make the impossible possible. Provide 10x value, charge high prices.
Workpost 55: Refocusing
Byjack
Today I want to spend some time solidifying knowledge from my project for my AI consulting business.
I also want to spend some time on my art coaching business. Also, I want to spend some time gaming and working on my project.
I think I will spend 1 hour on each of those things. AI consulting business in the morning, project in the afternoon, art coaching at night.
The reason why is that I’ve been out of balance, spending so much time working late at night. I need a little recharger. I want to work at stage 2 (like 60-70% max workrate).
If I feel 3 hours of work is at the lower end of stage 2, maybe it’s 40%, max workrate is maybe 8 hours. That makes sense, I think 8 hours is pushing it for absolute maximum amount of effective work (you can obviously work ineffectively for longer than that).
But now I think about it, maybe it is less about how many hours I work, but more how intensely I think. I dunno, interesting concept.
Ok so after feeling out of sorts all day, there is feeling I want to process:
Hopelessness and exhaustion. After obsessing about the project for many hours every day, I gave it my all, and all in all I think I failed. I got a few “this is great” “good work” but deep down I don’t feel people were inspired and even if they were, I don’t see a vision anymore. I’m not excited for the vision and I feel extremely tired and burnt out.
I feel sharp pain and burning in my heart and buzzing exhaustion in my head and eyes, and tension in my stomach.
The wounds coming up are: my work is meaningless. Nothing I do has any impact. Everything feels gray and uninteresting.
Feels almost like a stitch in my side but in my heart instead. My eyes feel sore and dry and my mind feels numb. There is a strong feeling of emptiness in my head, almost like meditation but instead of open, I feel drained, empty.
I feel anger in response, frustration burning in my abdomen, hatred for feeling so stuck by people who are not inspired. I feel disconnected. I am alone. I have no meaning.
There is also fear in my heart that nothing will have meaning, even coaching and AI consulting.
I feel really burnt out.
I feel pressure not to get left behind, to face the overwhelming work with little motivation to spare.
Ok, well I felt the feelings for some time. Here is my response:
- This is good, because it allows you to take a break from work and focus on what you love
- My client always tells me that having a good vision is not enough…that’s his coping mechanism he learned as a child, it doesn’t mean I have to agree or stop my creative process to prove him wrong
- My job is to be inspired and spending time on things that inspire me is not a waste of time
- Maybe it will be a good opportunity to meditate and see what comes up
Workpost 2: Moving Forward Slowly
Byjack
Today I am feeling unsure about my path moving forward. I don’t know what the future holds for me, my career, or relationship.
I want to execute on my plans but I am falling behind. I feel like it takes so much time to make content even if I move at lighting speed, but I will try nonetheless.
It is really helpful to think about vulnerability as emotional work. Sometimes, I feel like I’m being vulnerable just to be vulnerable and that doesn’t feel good or productive.
Ok so lets first look at AI consulting.
My deadline for step 1 is 27th of February. That is one week from now.
My progress so far:
- Generated 56 video ideas
- Generated 35 prompt ideas
- Generated 14 post ideas
Out of the 91 prompt and video ideas, I narrowed down to 18 and asked people to vote on them. Here are the final results.
- What kinds of people have job security in the age of AI? – 1
- How to build an AI model with zero dollars – 2
- Will AI ever be conscious? – 1
- Can AI feel emotions? – 2
- Did chatgpt pass the turing test?
- Can AI be creative? – 1
- Can AI be used to create a cure? – 4
- What skills are still needed in the age of AI? – 2
- What should you learn when AI knows everything? – 1
- How to transition to an AI related career? – 1
- How to use AI for better business decisions? – 2
- How can AI be used to develop innovative products? – 3
- GPT Prompt: Imagine a future where a specific societal problem has been solved.
- GPT Prompt: Write a rap verse about your favorite food.
- GPT Prompt: Take a boardgame and invent new rules
- GPT Prompt: Take everything in your fridge and ask for recipes – 2
- GPT Prompt: Play a game with the language model, such as Mad Libs or Would you Rather?
- GPT Prompt: Ask AI to explain a really difficult concept to you on a 2nd grade level – 3
My goal is the same – make a name for myself so that when I reach out to people…they will recommend people to me.
It is actually sorta interesting how this worked out because in the process of polling people on the video ideas automatically helped me network. I’m discovering a whole new way to network! The step sorta go like this:
- Reach out and mention something about what they did recently
- If they respond, chat with them for a bit
- When you need feedback on an idea, any recommendations for people, reach out to the people you resonate with…or even people who never responded!
I’m a little stumped on where I need to go next.
I want to follow the Mr. Beast formula of spending a lot of time on the title of my videos and the first few seconds. But does that mean I wait until all the results come in?
My feeling is that no, that isn’t the case. If I want to make a name for myself in 7 days, I need to start working on videos. Perhaps, my first step is to start breaking down a video and doing some research on here so I can be better informed on which videos would produce the best results.
Workpost 5: Panic Attack
Byjack
I was just on the border of a panic attack when I went to go exercise.
My Head Hurts
Eyes are swimming in a pain in the back of my head
Heart beating like its a race
And no matter how fast it beats
It isn’t fast enough
To catch up
With the work I want to do
After hanging for a little bit, I decided something. I need to go back to basics. As the level of work, my ambition, my organization go up…so have my stress levels. It is beginning hard to relax, hard to feel in the moment. It feels like I’m in an endless race with no chance to catch my breath.
So here are the basics:
- The planning I’m doing in these blog posts give me a huge edge in terms of direction and thought process in a huge number of goals at the same time. However, I now need to do the opposite. The basic I have in mind is this – focus on one thing at a time. Make a todo list. Create prioritization. Make it emotionally make sense (choose what emotionally feels important to focus on first, not logically). Clear all distractions and focus on one thing.
- Use the taoist approach to achieve fulfillment. Work until you feel empty.
- Use the coaching mindset…let the world come to you, have patience.
I also realized I did not work on the product research goal.
So here it is:
Goal: Create free products in 1 month | UNIT ONE: Complete research | Part 1 Transcribe and think, what is the million dollar problem or breakthrough?
- One interview per day