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Today, November 1, 2020, I have decided to be selfish with my attention. I realize now that I have been extremely prodigal with my energy, time, and attention and my default state has been to direct these finite resources to things that yield little benefit.
Hello, Fastlaners. My name is Royal Function and I am from Nairobi, Kenya. I am 28 years old -- male. This thread will serve as my progress thread over the next year and I request that you hold me to account. I will be updating my progress every Sunday afternoon until the last day of this challenge, November 1, 2021.
I have been reading the gold and notable threads and I know the title of this post may sound out of place in this forum. 'All of myself for myself' definitely sounds out of place when all the threads here encourage looking outwards to give yourself in service of others.
I have realized that I am wasting some of my best years working as a freelance writer. When you write to sell your words and those words yield no recurring income, you are literally selling your soul. You bleed onto the page every day only to sell the blood-soaked sheet of paper for pennies. Also, I have wasted inordinate amounts of time on YouTube, political Twitter, and EPL Twitter.
The time has come to give ALL OF MY ATTENTION to worthwhile endeavors that actually serve me.
I currently have only one freelance client. I had three clients but two stopped asking for content when Covid hit. The client I have offers SEO services to local businesses and he is a good man. He is based in the United States -- I found him on UpWork. In January, he sent me a T-Shirt of the local baseball league. He also got his wife to buy me a packet of candy and they shipped the candy all the way to Kenya. Clearly, they love my work.
I have been reading the @Andy Black threads on local lead generation. The ideas make a lot of sense. My client's clients can definitely benefit from those ideas. I am going to sell him on offering a PPC service to his current clients -- I will manage the ads for a fee. This will be Project A (if he agrees).
Project B will be my own Fastlane business. It is a content site that will get traffic through SEO. The niche is a luxury lifestyle service/product. I will make money by selling leads to businesses in the space. One sale should be worth $80+ in commissions. After the content site gets big, I will build an eCommerce store to sell my own products.
SEO is a beast and I understand that it will take some time before I start seeing results. I am giving myself four months to start seeing results with SEO.
Those are the two projects I will be working on. Progress updates will be every Sunday. I will check the forum intermittently throughout the week but I won't allow it to become an action-faking time suck. Follow along and be my accountability buddy.
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Hello, Fastlaners. My name is Royal Function and I am from Nairobi, Kenya. I am 28 years old -- male. This thread will serve as my progress thread over the next year and I request that you hold me to account. I will be updating my progress every Sunday afternoon until the last day of this challenge, November 1, 2021.
I have been reading the gold and notable threads and I know the title of this post may sound out of place in this forum. 'All of myself for myself' definitely sounds out of place when all the threads here encourage looking outwards to give yourself in service of others.
I have realized that I am wasting some of my best years working as a freelance writer. When you write to sell your words and those words yield no recurring income, you are literally selling your soul. You bleed onto the page every day only to sell the blood-soaked sheet of paper for pennies. Also, I have wasted inordinate amounts of time on YouTube, political Twitter, and EPL Twitter.
The time has come to give ALL OF MY ATTENTION to worthwhile endeavors that actually serve me.
I currently have only one freelance client. I had three clients but two stopped asking for content when Covid hit. The client I have offers SEO services to local businesses and he is a good man. He is based in the United States -- I found him on UpWork. In January, he sent me a T-Shirt of the local baseball league. He also got his wife to buy me a packet of candy and they shipped the candy all the way to Kenya. Clearly, they love my work.
I have been reading the @Andy Black threads on local lead generation. The ideas make a lot of sense. My client's clients can definitely benefit from those ideas. I am going to sell him on offering a PPC service to his current clients -- I will manage the ads for a fee. This will be Project A (if he agrees).
Project B will be my own Fastlane business. It is a content site that will get traffic through SEO. The niche is a luxury lifestyle service/product. I will make money by selling leads to businesses in the space. One sale should be worth $80+ in commissions. After the content site gets big, I will build an eCommerce store to sell my own products.
SEO is a beast and I understand that it will take some time before I start seeing results. I am giving myself four months to start seeing results with SEO.
Those are the two projects I will be working on. Progress updates will be every Sunday. I will check the forum intermittently throughout the week but I won't allow it to become an action-faking time suck. Follow along and be my accountability buddy.
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