2020 Goals and Update

[jpanarra]

<div class="bbWrapper">Its been some time since I&#039;ve posted on here. A bit of my history.<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve been on here since 2017. I&#039;ve tried a number of things and a good amount of them failed. Failed in the sense of I&#039;ve move onto something else and let whatever I was working on fade into nothingness.<br /> <br /> Regardless, each time I&#039;ve dove into a new project It has gotten bigger and better than it&#039;s predecessor.<br /> <br /> My most successful business was with web design which I started in 2017, 2018 did better than 17, and even if I did a few months 19 was better than 18. I still have my clients and will continue to generate some passive income from that, but I will stop selling websites for the time being.<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve already posted that I&#039;ve started a new job in the summer and am responsible for a electroplating department in manufacturing. I currently make 72k a year in that position, its not six figures or anything but that was 30% boost in revenue compared to my web design. And it’s a industry that will open up business opportunities down the road because electroplating is a small industry but has massive demand from automotive and military.<br /> <br /> Regardless of the success and evaluating the risk I will stick with the security that comes with the job so I can focus on my family&#039;s needs. I still have the &#039;splinter&#039; in my mind, something is still wrong.<br /> <br /> So I will continue to do a number of side hustles. I do have a 3d printer and have a pretty simple idea that I&#039;ll try and sell a product on esty for the time being.<br /> <br /> Now for my goals of 2020….<br /> <br /> -Wake up at 4 am.. Everyday ( some days I&#039;ll head to work to meet with night shift but other days I&#039;ll be doing other things on this list)<br /> <br /> -Update my blog daily ( I&#039;ve had a blog that I just let sit for years… It needs a new theme and I need to add more posts onto it)<br /> <br /> -Post on FLF more often (I&#039;ve not really participated here much lately. I need to start being active on here again)<br /> <br /> -I&#039;m going to try again with Youtube… just post a video a week without too much editing<br /> <br /> -I&#039;m also going to share more content on Social media and develop my personal brand along with some simple branded products coming off the 3d printer.</div>

 

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[EricFromCanada]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 20899" data-quote="jpanarra" data-source="post: 841885" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=841885" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-841885">jpanarra said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> -Update my blog daily ( I&#039;ve had a blog that I just let sit for years… It needs a new theme and I need to add more posts onto it) </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 20899" data-quote="jpanarra" data-source="post: 841885" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=841885" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-841885">jpanarra said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> -I&#039;m going to try again with Youtube… just post a video a week without too much editing<br /> <br /> -I&#039;m also going to share more content on Social media and develop my personal brand along with some simple branded products coming off the 3d printer. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Hey, nice to see you have a plan in place. <br /> Why not focus on just one of these areas and put all your effort towards it instead of splitting your attention among 3 different projects? If you&#039;re trying to make money, focusing all in on one tends to yield better results.</div>

 

[James Orman]

<div class="bbWrapper">My experience is I hated Etsy. I listed over a hundred custom knit baby clothes for my mom and only 1 ever sold. If I could do it again I&#039;d try selling the same items in multiple online platforms to really increase the probability of selling.</div>

 

[jpanarra]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 48904" data-quote="EricFromCanada" data-source="post: 841887" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=841887" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-841887">EricFromCanada said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Hey, nice to see you have a plan in place.<br /> Why not focus on just one of these areas and put all your effort towards it instead of splitting your attention among 3 different projects? If you&#039;re trying to make money, focusing all in on one tends to yield better results. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/48904/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="48904" data-username="@EricFromCanada">@EricFromCanada</a> They are all small things that can take less than 30 minutes each. I&#039;ve noticed consistency is key to success. If i can stay committed to each one especially in the morning everything that needs to be done will be done because I&#039;ve already started off on a productive mindset</div>

 

[jpanarra]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 75203" data-quote="James Orman" data-source="post: 841891" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=841891" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-841891">James Orman said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> My experience is I hated Etsy. I listed over a hundred custom knit baby clothes for my mom and only 1 ever sold. If I could do it again I&#039;d try selling the same items in multiple online platforms to really increase the probability of selling. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Of course, but you can&#039;t expect stuff to sell once you put them on esty. you have to market it and have them linked to the esty store. I plan on building a e-com store once the proof of concept is there.</div>

 

[James Orman]

<div class="bbWrapper">In the past I&#039;ve sold items a lot more easily on Ebay. I don&#039;t see much of a point of etsy if they don&#039;t provide you much help with exposure and take a pay cut on top of that.</div>

 

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[jpanarra]

<div class="bbWrapper">Ok, <br /> <br /> Going through the goals I&#039;ve set for myself in January. Sometimes you have to adapt those goals to match your current state and to ensure you&#039;re staying motivated. <br /> <br /> I&#039;ve observed that my productivity dropped dramatically on those days when I got up super early at 4 am. I logged 8 successful days and the rest were failures but those days were my least productive. So I&#039;m changing that goal to 7 hours sleep every night.<br /> <br /> I&#039;m still keeping my FLF posting goal up, I&#039;ve posted an average of 3 posts a week. Not too shabby. Similar ratio to my blog because when I write on here, I get in the motions of writing and I just keep going and write more stuff for my blog and post on there as well. Sometimes i even cross post so I actually count them towards 2 goals. <br /> <br /> I&#039;ve gotten better at reading but not as much as I wanted. I finished 2 books last month, I was hoping at least 1 a week. I&#039;m shooting for that again this Month. <br /> <br /> I&#039;m adding a thing on social media where I will post and reply to comments at a minimum of 1 per day. All I have to do is take 15 minutes of my day to ensure i do it.<br /> <br /> Adding 2 new ones. I&#039;ve also noticed that on the days where I&#039;m sleep deprived, I lose a good amount of willpower. <br /> <br /> One of my favorite escapes honestly is gaming on the pc with myself . <br /> <br /> When I&#039;m tired I noticed I keep myself awake by playing. I&#039;ll be open with you I usually i get sucked in for over an hour and I&#039;m not exactly happy with that so I want to start tracking that behavior. A small experiment to see if i can keep it under an hour.<br /> <br /> Another new thing is to just go to the gym.. All I have to do is show up and I can mark it complete, most of the time when I arrive at the gym. The hard work is done. I just naturally go through my motions and start lifting/running.</div>