Building a Business Chapter 3/30/25-4/5/25

This Week in Business 3/30-4/5

I have felt good about the direction I am going. I haven’t had huge overwhelming feelings of trying to go towards the new bright shiny object so that has also made me feel pretty good as well. Usually when I give too much space in my day to day it lets fear and doubt creep in and make my success in any project, I am working on seem like an impossibility. I have continued to push on though and now I am in a pretty good place. I know that I am still miles away from success, but I feel like I am in the game. Like any moment could be the moment where everything lines up and I make it.

 I am on about two months straight of CONSISTENT blog posts and CONSISTENT tiktoks so I am happy with that progress. I started this venture close to a year ago and it is the first time I have had consistency show up. Now, I just need to keep this up for a few years. Five years, maybe ten years, who knows when I will hit.

Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of other areas. My schoolwork has been pushed to the side as I work mostly on this venture during work breaks. It also made a hit on my 9-5. I have been more aware than ever before that I do NOT want to be sitting on a computer haggling the cost of pretzels and beer for all my life. It has really been hard on me to really put my A-game in my job. I punch a clock, do my work, and go home. No creative energy used. No challenging myself. Just get in, work, leave. It has started to become more of a drag. I’m heading into year two at the job and I do feel like I am wanting to leave it within the next year.

Marketing has been a weak point for me. I need to push to try and improve at this, but one person’s point was “show what only you can show” this type of marketing I see over and over again. Like the senator that gave a marathon speech, he broke a record and now people are calling for him to run with Kamala Harris for the presidency. That kind of floored me how just this small moment in a lifetime could make him immensely popular. Even now when you type in “senator” Cory Booker is the first one that pops up. On Tiktok he created his account a day before he began his speech. Within three days he’s up to 700,000 followers. He is the only one that could show that, and it was tremendous marketing. Even another guy is going viral due to the absurd wake up time, wiping a banana on his face, putting his face in ice water several times, and after all the memes came in, he leaned into it and now public perception is changing that he isn’t entirely a goofball, but he is making money doing it. Show what others don’t show. Which can be brought back to me. What can I show that is only me? It is a question that is hard for me to answer.  I am a middle of the road type of guy. Nothing I show is much different than other people’s lives. But I have also seen people get immensely popular due to showing the everyday life. Nothing fancy, no gimmicks, just showing life and that there is some beauty in regular life.  I don’t know what I am doing. I feel like I am just running around in circles chasing my tail, hoping I can make a difference.

Another curveball is I really want to try and open another service business and really give it a try. What if it works? My life changes and I am able to be more in charge of my time. What if it doesn’t work? I am out a little over $1,000 I scratched an itch and can take it off my want to do tab in my brain. It will be some work, but I really want to at least give it a chance. I am looking to make some extra money and the only way to do that is to take a chance.

I have felt strong this week, I haven’t felt as tired and have been pushing myself each day and feeling good. Exercising every day, eating pretty healthy, and sleeping the proper amounts. Funny how that works. It has been a strong week. I feel good about the way it is going, and I feel okay with doing this over and over again until things finally work out. I am in the habit; I am going to continue this for years.

Still the weekend left to see what I can do with it. I am not expecting huge numbers for the week, but my confidence has gone up with how consistent I am pushing myself. I was running out of things to post on Tiktok so I took a breath. Dove in for forty minutes and now I have 13 new posts ready to go. Almost two weeks of posts buffer done in forty minutes. I am still trying new things. Seeing how I can stick. I still don’t know what I’m doing but at least I am showing consistency and just being in the game. That has to be the biggest takeaway of the week. I am in the game, and I don’t plan on coming out for years to come. A new mindset from where I was. Try something out for two weeks, not like it and never touch it again. This has been a different experience. I have kept trying. Even with minimal success. I have also enjoyed the process of writing and creating things that I care about.

I am happy to announce that I have 21 tiktoks ready to post, three weeks ahead in blog posts. I have really put in the work to get back ahead of the ticking deadline of posting every day.

For final totals I hit about six hours worked. This was more than enough to do a little travel agent work, made tiktoks, wrote and wrote and wrote. It isn’t the ten hours of weekly work I want to do but I put in enough time to get ahead in work. It feels good to post consistently after having such a hard time with it. Batching it out is amazing.