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How to Become a Millionaire
Byjack
Questions Raised:
- Should I drop something to focus on my art coaching or AI consulting?
- What is the hungry crowd for my coaching, for my consulting?
- How do I build my businesses for the long game?
- Do I not pay myself the whole salary?
AI Answers My Questions
Byjack
AI
Before I can provide informed answers to your list of questions, it would be helpful for me to understand more about your background, current situation, goals, and resources. Please allow me to ask you some questions to gather this context:
- What is your current profession or line of work? Do you have experience running businesses before?
- What specific skills, expertise, or qualifications do you possess that are relevant to the potential AI consulting or art coaching businesses?
- Do you have any existing client base, network, or portfolio to build upon for these businesses?
- What are your primary motivations or goals in starting these businesses? Is it mainly for income, personal fulfillment, or a combination of factors?
- What is your current financial situation? Do you have savings, investments, or other sources of income to support yourself as you build these businesses?
- How much time and effort are you able to dedicate to these business endeavors on a weekly or monthly basis?
- Do you have any partners, team members, or support system in place to assist with these business ventures?
- What is your level of expertise or familiarity with AI technologies, and what specific areas of AI are you most knowledgeable about?
- For the art coaching business, what is your artistic background, medium, or areas of expertise?
- Have you conducted any market research or identified potential target audiences for your services?
Please provide as much relevant detail as possible in response to these questions. The more context I have about your specific situation and goals, the better I can tailor my advice and recommendations.
Me
- I currently work as an AI consultant where I do advisory and coding services for large companies. I also do a little coaching of artists on the side.
- I studied art for many years, went to a magnet art program in high school, and got a full ride to college for art. I have also started a non-profit children’s magazine when I was in middle school with my sister that used comics and cartoons to talk about social issues. The magazine is no longer running but when it was, we won over 26k in grants. I studied art and mechanical engineering in college, and worked in the software industry for over 6 years and have focused the last year on generative AI and large language models.
- I do have an art portfolio, I don’t really have a strong client base, maybe a 2 or 3 who may not be ready to by. I am working on my network, I do have some connections on linkedin that I have not fully tapped into. I estimate maybe 20 or 30 solid connections on linkedin (even though I have over 1000 total connections).
- It was personal fulfillment, I feel art coaching makes me really happy, I want to see more artistic masterpieces in the world and I feel I’m really good at coaching. AI is also really interesting for me and I think I’m really skilled at designing clever AI solutions.
- Yes, I have a 40k emergency fund, 120k in stocks, and about 35k in cash. I also still do some AI contract work that nets me about 4k per month (which about covers my living expenses)
- I have to work 24 hours per week on the AI contract, I’m willing to dedicate another 24 hours on these ventures
- I don’t really have anyone. I do have a girlfriend who is supportive but she doesn’t really understand the space. I have a life coach, and also a good friend who also wants to start businesses.
- I have a pretty advanced level of knowledge when it comes to generative AI and more basic knowledge on AI in general for other types of machine learning
- My background is in painting, but I also sing, play the piano, dance and write
- I did a bit of market research for my Art coaching business. It told me that people struggle with a couple of things: balancing art with a different fulltime job, they miss a community, and sometimes need inspiration
AI
Thank you for providing such detailed context about your situation. Based on the information you’ve shared, here are my thoughts and recommendations:
- What should you focus on first?
With your background in both AI and art, I would recommend focusing initial efforts on building up your art coaching business first. This aligns with your passion, leverages your artistic expertise directly, and can be a lower-risk entry point compared to starting an AI consulting firm from scratch. - How to divide what you want to do into steps?
For the art coaching business: 1) Build out service offerings and pricing 2) Create marketing materials and online presence 3) Tap your existing network for first clients 4) Continuously improve/expand offerings based on client feedback
For AI consulting: 1) Define your niche and unique value prop 2) Build case studies from past work 3) Network and prospect for clients 4) Decide pricing/engagement models
- AI or Art Coaching?
Focus primarily on art coaching initially, using your passion as a competitive advantage. Maintain AI skills through contract work while validating the coaching business. - Should you do AI consulting?
Yes, AI consulting can be very lucrative, but wait to fully commit until the art coaching business has traction. Use contract work to learn the consulting landscape. - Finding a partner?
Having a partner can be helpful for AI consulting eventually, but for art coaching, it’s better to lead solo initially to control vision and branding. Hire contractors/staff later if needed. - Legal business setup?
For simplicity, operate the art coaching under a sole proprietorship to start. Incorporate (LLC or Corp) for AI consulting when you’re ready to go full-time. - Make life easier?
Prioritize optimizing your energy and focus. Batch routine tasks, automate what you can, and protect deep work time for high-leverage activities. - Marketing businesses?
Art coaching: Build an online presence (portfolio site, social media, content marketing). Network locally. Get featured on relevant platforms/communities.
AI consulting: Content marketing, networking, prospect outreach, referral partnerships. - What are you missing?
A formalized business plan and growth strategy for each venture. Dedicate time to properly scope, plan, and set measurable goals. - Art coaching success without burnout?
Set boundaries from the start. Limit number of active clients. Build passive income streams like courses/workshops. Focus on your unique methodology. - Maintain AI expertise?
The contract work helps. Also, publish content, study the latest research/trends, and collaborate on code projects with others. - Make it fun while achieving goals?
Celebrate small wins. Inject creativity into your work. Spend time with supportive people. And be sure to safeguard work-life balance. - Something to start succeeding at today?
Update your portfolio site and start promoting it. Reach out to warm connections about art coaching services. Attend/participate in art events. - Are your goals properly scoped?
Your goals seem reasonable, though having finite milestones will help measure progress. Adjust as needed based on traction. - Speed up progress today?
Conduct a time audit. Identify low-leverage activities to reduce/eliminate. Also, batch similar tasks for efficiency. - Make a lot of money in a month?
With your skillset, freelance AI projects could generate sizable income quickly, though likely requiring intense effort that month. - Small shift for massive impact?
Consistently publishing valuable content and leveraging your existing network can be high-impact, low-effort activities. - What to hire out?
Once cash flows allow, hire for time-consuming tasks that don’t directly generate value (administrative, marketing execution, etc). - Make you happier/more successful today?
Spend an hour reviewing your goals/vision. Realign your daily priorities accordingly. Then tackle one high-impact step for each business.
The key will be patience, persistent effort, and continuous optimization based on what data tells you. Let me know if any other questions come up!
Workpost 29: Health
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling really tired. I felt undermotivated to do the things that I want to do: take walks, write in my journal. I think I’ve also been finding it hard to retain purpose for some reason, or motivation or energy to power that purpose.
I realized this morning that a big reason as to why is simply health. I felt too much discomfort in my stomach in my head, too tired.
Today’s goals are simple:
- Clean up my apartment to a level that I could invite people over and feel good about it
- Focus on my health and wellness, drink lots of water and take naps, eat good food
- Move around a lot, I have a lot of todo list items, and I can take them different places
I’m really excited for the last one, to get outside my apartment a little more. I have more money now to do these sorts of things, so I would like to explore austin a little more, go to the library, parks, coffee shops and just have a good time while I’m working through all the different to-do list items. I have some truly excellent protocols for figuring out how to work on the move and I want to use them.
Like A Dried Pizza
Byjack
Like A Dried Pizza
There is a dried pizza on my table
The last piece that I didn’t eat yesterday
It’s dry and cold
I feel I know what the pizza feels like
Last night
I didn’t sleep
All night
Tossing turning
Hoping the audiobook was loud enough
To tune out my thoughts
I felt so sure
In my stomach
That this was the end of the road for us
She isn’t the right one for me
I don’t know how I knew
But I knew it was over
I asked her to reassure me
And I felt her warmth
Like a blanket for a shivering man
I love her so much
I think about how vulnerable she is with me
I know she’s ready to stay with me forever
You don’t meet someone like that every day
The sadness in me
For once isn’t about comparison
It isn’t about comparing her with someone else
It’s just telling me
I can’t be with her any longer
I can’t keep up this act
I feel tired
So tired of explaining myself
Of feeling misunderstood
Yet
I don’t know
Her devotion feels like the cure for all pain
What is a drop of discomfort
For a lifetime of love?
Workplace 20: Basics
Byjack
I’ve been feeling quite down and unhappy recently.
I’ve decided after some meditation, journaling, and deep breathing that I want to focus back on the basics.
Here are the basics I already covered:
- Morning blog post and walk
- Nighttime journaling (most nights)
- 11-12 PM bedtime
Basics I want to further incorporate:
- Music and dance in the morning
- Deep breathing when I feel drawn to distract myself (indicates pain)
- Focus on creating delicious meals, taking time to enjoy eating and cooking
I’ve been processing the rejections in my previous post and I wanted to write a poem:
She Stared at Me
I remember the times when they just stared at me
As if they were surprised that I would even dare to ask
The girl in art history class
In the library
On the bus
That stare
Then that feeling I was reaching
For empty air
Something that didn’t exist
The feeling of people watching
Seeing me fail
Yet now I think about it
I was quite brave
I am a brave person
Willing to take the risk
I often didn’t believe in what I was doing
When I was trying to pick up girls
But now
With my career dreams
I do
Isn’t that worth a few stares?
Don’t I get the opportunity to shock
People out of their square lives
Square thoughts
Into my world?
Workpost 18: Addicted
Byjack
I’ve been playing pokemon go so much recently. I’ve made a lot of progress in the game, but I really worry that I’m getting addicted because of how stressed out I am right now.
I stressed out about my relationship and about my career path moving forward. I want to make sure that work does not take over my life and that it stays aligned to what I want to do moving forward.
Every time I feel stressed, I reach for the pokemon go. Holy shit, I am addicted.
I feel very tired, but no longer sick. That is a good thing at least.
I’m going to walk around the airport. And this time, instead of catching pokemon, I am going to meditate and think.
On the plane I meditated on some of my issues and I came to a big realization. The first step to feeling or processing any pain is to notice and name the pain that exists. I spend so much time avoiding thinking about painful emotions or experiences, avoiding thinking about how things hurt me it makes it hard to face the pain at all since I’m not taking the first step,
I want to focus on doing that more now as the first step to processing more emotions.
How to Become a Millionaire
Byjack
Questions Raised:
- Should I drop something to focus on my art coaching or AI consulting?
- What is the hungry crowd for my coaching, for my consulting?
- How do I build my businesses for the long game?
- Do I not pay myself the whole salary?
AI Answers My Questions
Byjack
AI
Before I can provide informed answers to your list of questions, it would be helpful for me to understand more about your background, current situation, goals, and resources. Please allow me to ask you some questions to gather this context:
- What is your current profession or line of work? Do you have experience running businesses before?
- What specific skills, expertise, or qualifications do you possess that are relevant to the potential AI consulting or art coaching businesses?
- Do you have any existing client base, network, or portfolio to build upon for these businesses?
- What are your primary motivations or goals in starting these businesses? Is it mainly for income, personal fulfillment, or a combination of factors?
- What is your current financial situation? Do you have savings, investments, or other sources of income to support yourself as you build these businesses?
- How much time and effort are you able to dedicate to these business endeavors on a weekly or monthly basis?
- Do you have any partners, team members, or support system in place to assist with these business ventures?
- What is your level of expertise or familiarity with AI technologies, and what specific areas of AI are you most knowledgeable about?
- For the art coaching business, what is your artistic background, medium, or areas of expertise?
- Have you conducted any market research or identified potential target audiences for your services?
Please provide as much relevant detail as possible in response to these questions. The more context I have about your specific situation and goals, the better I can tailor my advice and recommendations.
Me
- I currently work as an AI consultant where I do advisory and coding services for large companies. I also do a little coaching of artists on the side.
- I studied art for many years, went to a magnet art program in high school, and got a full ride to college for art. I have also started a non-profit children’s magazine when I was in middle school with my sister that used comics and cartoons to talk about social issues. The magazine is no longer running but when it was, we won over 26k in grants. I studied art and mechanical engineering in college, and worked in the software industry for over 6 years and have focused the last year on generative AI and large language models.
- I do have an art portfolio, I don’t really have a strong client base, maybe a 2 or 3 who may not be ready to by. I am working on my network, I do have some connections on linkedin that I have not fully tapped into. I estimate maybe 20 or 30 solid connections on linkedin (even though I have over 1000 total connections).
- It was personal fulfillment, I feel art coaching makes me really happy, I want to see more artistic masterpieces in the world and I feel I’m really good at coaching. AI is also really interesting for me and I think I’m really skilled at designing clever AI solutions.
- Yes, I have a 40k emergency fund, 120k in stocks, and about 35k in cash. I also still do some AI contract work that nets me about 4k per month (which about covers my living expenses)
- I have to work 24 hours per week on the AI contract, I’m willing to dedicate another 24 hours on these ventures
- I don’t really have anyone. I do have a girlfriend who is supportive but she doesn’t really understand the space. I have a life coach, and also a good friend who also wants to start businesses.
- I have a pretty advanced level of knowledge when it comes to generative AI and more basic knowledge on AI in general for other types of machine learning
- My background is in painting, but I also sing, play the piano, dance and write
- I did a bit of market research for my Art coaching business. It told me that people struggle with a couple of things: balancing art with a different fulltime job, they miss a community, and sometimes need inspiration
AI
Thank you for providing such detailed context about your situation. Based on the information you’ve shared, here are my thoughts and recommendations:
- What should you focus on first?
With your background in both AI and art, I would recommend focusing initial efforts on building up your art coaching business first. This aligns with your passion, leverages your artistic expertise directly, and can be a lower-risk entry point compared to starting an AI consulting firm from scratch. - How to divide what you want to do into steps?
For the art coaching business: 1) Build out service offerings and pricing 2) Create marketing materials and online presence 3) Tap your existing network for first clients 4) Continuously improve/expand offerings based on client feedback
For AI consulting: 1) Define your niche and unique value prop 2) Build case studies from past work 3) Network and prospect for clients 4) Decide pricing/engagement models
- AI or Art Coaching?
Focus primarily on art coaching initially, using your passion as a competitive advantage. Maintain AI skills through contract work while validating the coaching business. - Should you do AI consulting?
Yes, AI consulting can be very lucrative, but wait to fully commit until the art coaching business has traction. Use contract work to learn the consulting landscape. - Finding a partner?
Having a partner can be helpful for AI consulting eventually, but for art coaching, it’s better to lead solo initially to control vision and branding. Hire contractors/staff later if needed. - Legal business setup?
For simplicity, operate the art coaching under a sole proprietorship to start. Incorporate (LLC or Corp) for AI consulting when you’re ready to go full-time. - Make life easier?
Prioritize optimizing your energy and focus. Batch routine tasks, automate what you can, and protect deep work time for high-leverage activities. - Marketing businesses?
Art coaching: Build an online presence (portfolio site, social media, content marketing). Network locally. Get featured on relevant platforms/communities.
AI consulting: Content marketing, networking, prospect outreach, referral partnerships. - What are you missing?
A formalized business plan and growth strategy for each venture. Dedicate time to properly scope, plan, and set measurable goals. - Art coaching success without burnout?
Set boundaries from the start. Limit number of active clients. Build passive income streams like courses/workshops. Focus on your unique methodology. - Maintain AI expertise?
The contract work helps. Also, publish content, study the latest research/trends, and collaborate on code projects with others. - Make it fun while achieving goals?
Celebrate small wins. Inject creativity into your work. Spend time with supportive people. And be sure to safeguard work-life balance. - Something to start succeeding at today?
Update your portfolio site and start promoting it. Reach out to warm connections about art coaching services. Attend/participate in art events. - Are your goals properly scoped?
Your goals seem reasonable, though having finite milestones will help measure progress. Adjust as needed based on traction. - Speed up progress today?
Conduct a time audit. Identify low-leverage activities to reduce/eliminate. Also, batch similar tasks for efficiency. - Make a lot of money in a month?
With your skillset, freelance AI projects could generate sizable income quickly, though likely requiring intense effort that month. - Small shift for massive impact?
Consistently publishing valuable content and leveraging your existing network can be high-impact, low-effort activities. - What to hire out?
Once cash flows allow, hire for time-consuming tasks that don’t directly generate value (administrative, marketing execution, etc). - Make you happier/more successful today?
Spend an hour reviewing your goals/vision. Realign your daily priorities accordingly. Then tackle one high-impact step for each business.
The key will be patience, persistent effort, and continuous optimization based on what data tells you. Let me know if any other questions come up!
Workpost 29: Health
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling really tired. I felt undermotivated to do the things that I want to do: take walks, write in my journal. I think I’ve also been finding it hard to retain purpose for some reason, or motivation or energy to power that purpose.
I realized this morning that a big reason as to why is simply health. I felt too much discomfort in my stomach in my head, too tired.
Today’s goals are simple:
- Clean up my apartment to a level that I could invite people over and feel good about it
- Focus on my health and wellness, drink lots of water and take naps, eat good food
- Move around a lot, I have a lot of todo list items, and I can take them different places
I’m really excited for the last one, to get outside my apartment a little more. I have more money now to do these sorts of things, so I would like to explore austin a little more, go to the library, parks, coffee shops and just have a good time while I’m working through all the different to-do list items. I have some truly excellent protocols for figuring out how to work on the move and I want to use them.
Like A Dried Pizza
Byjack
Like A Dried Pizza
There is a dried pizza on my table
The last piece that I didn’t eat yesterday
It’s dry and cold
I feel I know what the pizza feels like
Last night
I didn’t sleep
All night
Tossing turning
Hoping the audiobook was loud enough
To tune out my thoughts
I felt so sure
In my stomach
That this was the end of the road for us
She isn’t the right one for me
I don’t know how I knew
But I knew it was over
I asked her to reassure me
And I felt her warmth
Like a blanket for a shivering man
I love her so much
I think about how vulnerable she is with me
I know she’s ready to stay with me forever
You don’t meet someone like that every day
The sadness in me
For once isn’t about comparison
It isn’t about comparing her with someone else
It’s just telling me
I can’t be with her any longer
I can’t keep up this act
I feel tired
So tired of explaining myself
Of feeling misunderstood
Yet
I don’t know
Her devotion feels like the cure for all pain
What is a drop of discomfort
For a lifetime of love?
Workplace 20: Basics
Byjack
I’ve been feeling quite down and unhappy recently.
I’ve decided after some meditation, journaling, and deep breathing that I want to focus back on the basics.
Here are the basics I already covered:
- Morning blog post and walk
- Nighttime journaling (most nights)
- 11-12 PM bedtime
Basics I want to further incorporate:
- Music and dance in the morning
- Deep breathing when I feel drawn to distract myself (indicates pain)
- Focus on creating delicious meals, taking time to enjoy eating and cooking
I’ve been processing the rejections in my previous post and I wanted to write a poem:
She Stared at Me
I remember the times when they just stared at me
As if they were surprised that I would even dare to ask
The girl in art history class
In the library
On the bus
That stare
Then that feeling I was reaching
For empty air
Something that didn’t exist
The feeling of people watching
Seeing me fail
Yet now I think about it
I was quite brave
I am a brave person
Willing to take the risk
I often didn’t believe in what I was doing
When I was trying to pick up girls
But now
With my career dreams
I do
Isn’t that worth a few stares?
Don’t I get the opportunity to shock
People out of their square lives
Square thoughts
Into my world?
Workpost 18: Addicted
Byjack
I’ve been playing pokemon go so much recently. I’ve made a lot of progress in the game, but I really worry that I’m getting addicted because of how stressed out I am right now.
I stressed out about my relationship and about my career path moving forward. I want to make sure that work does not take over my life and that it stays aligned to what I want to do moving forward.
Every time I feel stressed, I reach for the pokemon go. Holy shit, I am addicted.
I feel very tired, but no longer sick. That is a good thing at least.
I’m going to walk around the airport. And this time, instead of catching pokemon, I am going to meditate and think.
On the plane I meditated on some of my issues and I came to a big realization. The first step to feeling or processing any pain is to notice and name the pain that exists. I spend so much time avoiding thinking about painful emotions or experiences, avoiding thinking about how things hurt me it makes it hard to face the pain at all since I’m not taking the first step,
I want to focus on doing that more now as the first step to processing more emotions.
How to Become a Millionaire
Byjack
Questions Raised:
- Should I drop something to focus on my art coaching or AI consulting?
- What is the hungry crowd for my coaching, for my consulting?
- How do I build my businesses for the long game?
- Do I not pay myself the whole salary?
AI Answers My Questions
Byjack
AI
Before I can provide informed answers to your list of questions, it would be helpful for me to understand more about your background, current situation, goals, and resources. Please allow me to ask you some questions to gather this context:
- What is your current profession or line of work? Do you have experience running businesses before?
- What specific skills, expertise, or qualifications do you possess that are relevant to the potential AI consulting or art coaching businesses?
- Do you have any existing client base, network, or portfolio to build upon for these businesses?
- What are your primary motivations or goals in starting these businesses? Is it mainly for income, personal fulfillment, or a combination of factors?
- What is your current financial situation? Do you have savings, investments, or other sources of income to support yourself as you build these businesses?
- How much time and effort are you able to dedicate to these business endeavors on a weekly or monthly basis?
- Do you have any partners, team members, or support system in place to assist with these business ventures?
- What is your level of expertise or familiarity with AI technologies, and what specific areas of AI are you most knowledgeable about?
- For the art coaching business, what is your artistic background, medium, or areas of expertise?
- Have you conducted any market research or identified potential target audiences for your services?
Please provide as much relevant detail as possible in response to these questions. The more context I have about your specific situation and goals, the better I can tailor my advice and recommendations.
Me
- I currently work as an AI consultant where I do advisory and coding services for large companies. I also do a little coaching of artists on the side.
- I studied art for many years, went to a magnet art program in high school, and got a full ride to college for art. I have also started a non-profit children’s magazine when I was in middle school with my sister that used comics and cartoons to talk about social issues. The magazine is no longer running but when it was, we won over 26k in grants. I studied art and mechanical engineering in college, and worked in the software industry for over 6 years and have focused the last year on generative AI and large language models.
- I do have an art portfolio, I don’t really have a strong client base, maybe a 2 or 3 who may not be ready to by. I am working on my network, I do have some connections on linkedin that I have not fully tapped into. I estimate maybe 20 or 30 solid connections on linkedin (even though I have over 1000 total connections).
- It was personal fulfillment, I feel art coaching makes me really happy, I want to see more artistic masterpieces in the world and I feel I’m really good at coaching. AI is also really interesting for me and I think I’m really skilled at designing clever AI solutions.
- Yes, I have a 40k emergency fund, 120k in stocks, and about 35k in cash. I also still do some AI contract work that nets me about 4k per month (which about covers my living expenses)
- I have to work 24 hours per week on the AI contract, I’m willing to dedicate another 24 hours on these ventures
- I don’t really have anyone. I do have a girlfriend who is supportive but she doesn’t really understand the space. I have a life coach, and also a good friend who also wants to start businesses.
- I have a pretty advanced level of knowledge when it comes to generative AI and more basic knowledge on AI in general for other types of machine learning
- My background is in painting, but I also sing, play the piano, dance and write
- I did a bit of market research for my Art coaching business. It told me that people struggle with a couple of things: balancing art with a different fulltime job, they miss a community, and sometimes need inspiration
AI
Thank you for providing such detailed context about your situation. Based on the information you’ve shared, here are my thoughts and recommendations:
- What should you focus on first?
With your background in both AI and art, I would recommend focusing initial efforts on building up your art coaching business first. This aligns with your passion, leverages your artistic expertise directly, and can be a lower-risk entry point compared to starting an AI consulting firm from scratch. - How to divide what you want to do into steps?
For the art coaching business: 1) Build out service offerings and pricing 2) Create marketing materials and online presence 3) Tap your existing network for first clients 4) Continuously improve/expand offerings based on client feedback
For AI consulting: 1) Define your niche and unique value prop 2) Build case studies from past work 3) Network and prospect for clients 4) Decide pricing/engagement models
- AI or Art Coaching?
Focus primarily on art coaching initially, using your passion as a competitive advantage. Maintain AI skills through contract work while validating the coaching business. - Should you do AI consulting?
Yes, AI consulting can be very lucrative, but wait to fully commit until the art coaching business has traction. Use contract work to learn the consulting landscape. - Finding a partner?
Having a partner can be helpful for AI consulting eventually, but for art coaching, it’s better to lead solo initially to control vision and branding. Hire contractors/staff later if needed. - Legal business setup?
For simplicity, operate the art coaching under a sole proprietorship to start. Incorporate (LLC or Corp) for AI consulting when you’re ready to go full-time. - Make life easier?
Prioritize optimizing your energy and focus. Batch routine tasks, automate what you can, and protect deep work time for high-leverage activities. - Marketing businesses?
Art coaching: Build an online presence (portfolio site, social media, content marketing). Network locally. Get featured on relevant platforms/communities.
AI consulting: Content marketing, networking, prospect outreach, referral partnerships. - What are you missing?
A formalized business plan and growth strategy for each venture. Dedicate time to properly scope, plan, and set measurable goals. - Art coaching success without burnout?
Set boundaries from the start. Limit number of active clients. Build passive income streams like courses/workshops. Focus on your unique methodology. - Maintain AI expertise?
The contract work helps. Also, publish content, study the latest research/trends, and collaborate on code projects with others. - Make it fun while achieving goals?
Celebrate small wins. Inject creativity into your work. Spend time with supportive people. And be sure to safeguard work-life balance. - Something to start succeeding at today?
Update your portfolio site and start promoting it. Reach out to warm connections about art coaching services. Attend/participate in art events. - Are your goals properly scoped?
Your goals seem reasonable, though having finite milestones will help measure progress. Adjust as needed based on traction. - Speed up progress today?
Conduct a time audit. Identify low-leverage activities to reduce/eliminate. Also, batch similar tasks for efficiency. - Make a lot of money in a month?
With your skillset, freelance AI projects could generate sizable income quickly, though likely requiring intense effort that month. - Small shift for massive impact?
Consistently publishing valuable content and leveraging your existing network can be high-impact, low-effort activities. - What to hire out?
Once cash flows allow, hire for time-consuming tasks that don’t directly generate value (administrative, marketing execution, etc). - Make you happier/more successful today?
Spend an hour reviewing your goals/vision. Realign your daily priorities accordingly. Then tackle one high-impact step for each business.
The key will be patience, persistent effort, and continuous optimization based on what data tells you. Let me know if any other questions come up!
Workpost 29: Health
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling really tired. I felt undermotivated to do the things that I want to do: take walks, write in my journal. I think I’ve also been finding it hard to retain purpose for some reason, or motivation or energy to power that purpose.
I realized this morning that a big reason as to why is simply health. I felt too much discomfort in my stomach in my head, too tired.
Today’s goals are simple:
- Clean up my apartment to a level that I could invite people over and feel good about it
- Focus on my health and wellness, drink lots of water and take naps, eat good food
- Move around a lot, I have a lot of todo list items, and I can take them different places
I’m really excited for the last one, to get outside my apartment a little more. I have more money now to do these sorts of things, so I would like to explore austin a little more, go to the library, parks, coffee shops and just have a good time while I’m working through all the different to-do list items. I have some truly excellent protocols for figuring out how to work on the move and I want to use them.
Like A Dried Pizza
Byjack
Like A Dried Pizza
There is a dried pizza on my table
The last piece that I didn’t eat yesterday
It’s dry and cold
I feel I know what the pizza feels like
Last night
I didn’t sleep
All night
Tossing turning
Hoping the audiobook was loud enough
To tune out my thoughts
I felt so sure
In my stomach
That this was the end of the road for us
She isn’t the right one for me
I don’t know how I knew
But I knew it was over
I asked her to reassure me
And I felt her warmth
Like a blanket for a shivering man
I love her so much
I think about how vulnerable she is with me
I know she’s ready to stay with me forever
You don’t meet someone like that every day
The sadness in me
For once isn’t about comparison
It isn’t about comparing her with someone else
It’s just telling me
I can’t be with her any longer
I can’t keep up this act
I feel tired
So tired of explaining myself
Of feeling misunderstood
Yet
I don’t know
Her devotion feels like the cure for all pain
What is a drop of discomfort
For a lifetime of love?
Workplace 20: Basics
Byjack
I’ve been feeling quite down and unhappy recently.
I’ve decided after some meditation, journaling, and deep breathing that I want to focus back on the basics.
Here are the basics I already covered:
- Morning blog post and walk
- Nighttime journaling (most nights)
- 11-12 PM bedtime
Basics I want to further incorporate:
- Music and dance in the morning
- Deep breathing when I feel drawn to distract myself (indicates pain)
- Focus on creating delicious meals, taking time to enjoy eating and cooking
I’ve been processing the rejections in my previous post and I wanted to write a poem:
She Stared at Me
I remember the times when they just stared at me
As if they were surprised that I would even dare to ask
The girl in art history class
In the library
On the bus
That stare
Then that feeling I was reaching
For empty air
Something that didn’t exist
The feeling of people watching
Seeing me fail
Yet now I think about it
I was quite brave
I am a brave person
Willing to take the risk
I often didn’t believe in what I was doing
When I was trying to pick up girls
But now
With my career dreams
I do
Isn’t that worth a few stares?
Don’t I get the opportunity to shock
People out of their square lives
Square thoughts
Into my world?
Workpost 18: Addicted
Byjack
I’ve been playing pokemon go so much recently. I’ve made a lot of progress in the game, but I really worry that I’m getting addicted because of how stressed out I am right now.
I stressed out about my relationship and about my career path moving forward. I want to make sure that work does not take over my life and that it stays aligned to what I want to do moving forward.
Every time I feel stressed, I reach for the pokemon go. Holy shit, I am addicted.
I feel very tired, but no longer sick. That is a good thing at least.
I’m going to walk around the airport. And this time, instead of catching pokemon, I am going to meditate and think.
On the plane I meditated on some of my issues and I came to a big realization. The first step to feeling or processing any pain is to notice and name the pain that exists. I spend so much time avoiding thinking about painful emotions or experiences, avoiding thinking about how things hurt me it makes it hard to face the pain at all since I’m not taking the first step,
I want to focus on doing that more now as the first step to processing more emotions.