snake lover24tiptip

i decided to make my own dollar store adventure after watching a video here on youtube.

A busy day, just back from the zoo today. I just wanted to talk about a bit of a sideline to my positive mindset stuff. I don't think there's anything quite more positive than being productive and creating and doing your own work and getting ahead and moving towards your goals. last week I got a bit distracted with a black-and-white photography challenge and you know that’s great it’s fun, but the problem is I don’t really have any time to do that kinda stuff, but there's another challenge which has come to my attention is Michael Warth’s has done a #7MinDrawingChallenge which aligns perfectly with what I'm trying to do, get a page of a kids book out each day. So if I can illustrate that within seven minutes and then colour it out over the following day then, you know, I'm getting stuff done every day I'm feeling good about it because I’m actually producing some work and so if you can add any of those challenges or even make up your own challenge and see if anyone else wants to join in it's a great way of getting some accountability on getting meeting your goals. #NoSmallCreator #ForkInTheRoad

Link to Michael Warth’s 7 Minute Drawing Challenge : Michael Warth https://youtu.be/4VNEdK43AFM

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
#Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
#Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

Amazon affiliates, merchandise, Patreon are all really good ways of monetising your journey. I think it's really important that you put this in place early on in your journey, because then you can start to see a little bit of income. Then you might be able to gauge what might be working and what isn't working. Because if nobody is buying your little bits and pieces that you're putting out which is going towards your larger piece of content maybe your larger piece of content is actually not going to work. So I think it's not only a monetising your journey thing, it's a testing ground for that thing, where you can put the feelers out and see if it's there’s actually a market for what you're trying to do, which might save you some time in the Long run.

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 59
This morning I wish I was vlogging on more than my phone, because I got some lovely kangaroos that we just running past in the distance and you can't really zoom in with a phone well you can, but it looks like hell. Yesterday no vlog went up, but I did shoot the Vlog. But I was sticking to my number one value in my ‘How’ part of the Golden circle which was putting being a stay at home dad first and that pretty much meant shooting my vlog at the very end of the day in the dwindling daylight and not getting enough time to edit which means a double edit tonight but you know that's okay I think a lot of people get caught up in 24 hours of the day and that's it. I'm kinda putting that out further to more like you know seven days in the week and if some days it means I don't get much done and other days I can get more done that's good my goals are more about getting seven vlogs out a week and one podcast, As well as my other work which I'm gonna start trying to fit in soon.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments, find me on Instagram (andycmarshall) or send me a voice message on Anchor.fm and let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 44
So today as you might of seen on my Twitter feed that I'm going to the dentist. and you know, you might think that's not related at all. Why you doing that? Well I'm kind of thinking about fear and fear of acting. Like I haven't been to the dentist in over 30 years and not until today when I've actually got such a bad toothache that I'm in agonising pain do I actually do something about it and I think that comes back to my subject last week when I was talking about doing things which make you uncomfortable doing things which make you nervous. Because they're only going to make you better in the Long run. I've been putting off going to the dentist all this time and like I'm not gonna die, I hope I'm not gonna die, anyway we’ll find out…
So here I am at the other end of the dentist trip and my main takeaway from this whole exercise apart from my tooth is that don't put things off, because if you do you might lose the tooth. And you know you might miss opportunities, you might miss out on lots of things, and you know this fear of the unknown you've got to overcome, and it's funny that putting up with this tooth pain this agonising pain was way more painful than getting it removed, in fact having it removed didn't hurt at all. So I suppose the take away is to take that giant leap to make that step and it might not be as scary as you think.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments, find me on Instagram (andycmarshall) or send me a voice message on Anchor.fm and let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio

#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 133
Rather than getting depressed or getting bogged down or getting fixed on the struggles and living your struggles. I think it's good to be able to try and embrace them and see what good can come out of them, see what those struggles can teach you and make you a better person in the long run and turn those struggles into superpowers. If I can focus on those strengths then I might be able to get a head a bit. I might be able to have a chance at my career pivot experiment,building a successful career doing something that I love, I certainly hope that I can. If you're struggling with anything please hop over onto the all humans struggle Facebook group and share with everyone there, it’s a very supportive community. And of course if you're struggling with any mental health issues - I'm not quite sure which services are available in your country - but really take people up on their services. I did and I find it really helps to talk these things out with people. #AllHumansStruggle #NoSmallCreator

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

This stream is created with #PRISMLiveStudio

#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 180
I’m addressing my anxiety now and hopefully I can find my way through. But when so many self helpers say success is a mind game I believe they are 100% right, you’ve obviously also gotta put in the work. But if your head is not right you are not going to succeed. Because every time you get to a place where you think your getting ahead and you start to succeed you’ll always find a way to smash it down. Because somewhere in my subconscious my instincts are telling me I need to be struggling. Because that’s what I’ve set myself up for, that’s what I’m familiar with and as a creature of habit. I’d weirdly like to stay with what I’m comfortable with, even if that does mean struggling. But you know things have improved. I just got my first pay-cheque six months since my career pivot, and I’m getting paid as a video editor. #PositiveMindset #NoSmallCreator

I’d love to hear from you in the comments

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Follow me on Instagram for vlogs, live chats and stories: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 82
Now I’ve set these daily goals I've gotta work out how exactly I'm gonna go about achieving them. I’ve already done a week on time management and I’m gonna go back and look at time management with more detail to see how I can actually achieve these goals in a day without getting too stressed, without compromising my values which I've set up as well. I'll be getting down into the nitty-gritty finding hours where I never knew that existed before optimising my time so whenever I have a couple of minutes I'll be able to put them to good use and work out how I'm gonna get a page of a kids book plus this vlog out each day, when some days I might on average get a couple of hours, but some days I get no hours and some days I might get three hours. So how my gonna make that work?
#TimeManagement #DailyGoals #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
#Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
#Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

I’m gonna tell you why as a creator you need to be using Instagram live to build your community. And How to actually go live for the greatest reach. Build your knowledge, build your relationships and we’re gonna figure all this out with some help from a couple of my creator friends.

Youtuber, video editor, photographer and content creator.
Jay Lippman: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarj...

As well as musician, illustration artist, photographer, Youtuber
Frank Garcia: https://www.youtube.com/user/artemorbid

Merchandise
Latest T-Shirt Art Featured (Order on Redbubble)
Dog Pong - https://tinyurl.com/yybzmo6v

Authors & Books Mentioned
Jeff Goins
Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age: https://amzn.to/2JeVagt
The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do https://amzn.to/2JfHJNi

Gary Vee
Crushing It https://amzn.to/2J28juf
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
https://amzn.to/2IZwQ2T

DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, we’ll receive a small commission.

***Join, Watch or listen to Fork In The Road***

Join in on the Live creator chat's on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Listen to the creator chats in full on my podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Read the Blog of the Vlog on YouTube : https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com

Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndyCMarshall

Do you go live? What are your thoughts on using Instagram live to build your community. I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

#Instagram #InstagramLive #NoSmallCreator

I’m on my lunch break from some serious earthmoving. So I think what I’ve learnt this week is if you want to implement something don't tell anyone that you're implementing anything because you, no doubt, will not be able to implement it because sometimes accountability isn't helpful and sometimes the pressure can choke you up. Another day of earthmoving today, another day that I can't get to my stuff. It’s probably gonna be like that for the next few days. It feels a bit frustrating but you know, I think I just need to get over that and push through because it's just a short space in time. And it’s all a matter of working with my values in mind, with my number one value being my family.
#Accountability #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator

I’d love to hear from you in the comments section about your thoughts and ideas on this subject, or connect with me on any of my other platform on the link below

Check out my podcast, blog or have a chat on Twitter: https://linktr.ee/andycmarshall

How exactly do I go about planning illustrations for someone else’s kids book? It’s time to step back and look at the big picture and try to figure out a logical way of mapping out how the book will look, so that the author and illustrator are on the same page #KidsBook #illustrator #selfpublishing

After being inspired by Gary Vee to document my journey or as he says document don’t create. I decided to vlog my midlife career pivot that started a year ago. Since then I decided to follow my creative storytelling passions into writing kids books. But what I didn’t expect was the hidden benefits of documenting my creative journey #DocumentDontCreate #KidsBooks #illustrator

I’ve been thinking about an idea that relates pretty closely to YouTube, which is this concept of ‘A Thousand True Fans’ I’ll link to it in the description. But the whole idea is that you don't need millions of subscribers. You just need 1000 true fans and the idea of a true fan is someone who will buy everything that you do. If your selling CD’s, paintings, things like that, you only need to sell $100 worth to each of those thousand people each year and you’ll be making $100,000. This is a concept which I really like, and it all kinda sounds a bit achievable, that's not to say it wouldn't be hard work. But YouTube provides a platform where you can have that interactivity and personal contact with people.

One Thousand True Fans Link:
https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-...

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

I was on this hamster wheel of a daily vlog, which I didn't even intend to start on a daily vlog. I was going to compile all of my one minute segments together into a seven minute segment, video for YouTube and for the podcast and I was just gonna have it so it was broken down into daily one minute episodes for Instagram, but that’s so much extra fussing around. So I’ve had to stop the hamster wheel, jump off while it was running, just to have this break for a couple of days to focus on the main things and get back to that reverse engineering. I find I can easily get caught up in the operations and hard work. #DocumentYourJourney #DocumentDontCreate #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andycmarshall/

Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall