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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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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I've kind of discovered that goal setting is a little bit like saving... you know it’s pretty boring it's not as interesting as winning the lottery. Everyone wants to win the lottery and we only tend to hear the stories about people who win the lottery. We don't hear the stories about the people who saved five dollars a day for 15 years and attained a good level of comfort from doing so. You don't hear those kinds of stories. But I think that is the sustainable way I think it's the only way over time every little bit every day you've got a build body of work, you've got to not feel guilty about inserting levels of monetisation in to that so you can start to get something back so you can start doing more and start building towards that successful career.
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#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

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#ForkInTheRoad vlog 140
The biggest thing for my new years resolutions week is to have consistency, to build in consistency and to have a backup plan for when everything goes wrong. Because without backup you can't have consistency and I think to have consistency I need to be doing something called batching which is getting a whole bunch of jobs done at once, similar jobs, get them all done at once and then you can start to get ahead in the process so when the system does go down you've actually got a contingency and you can still be putting your content out and everything that I've been looking at is telling me that I need to be doing stuff consistently at regular times otherwise you're gonna lose your following so what I want to try and achieve is a regular daily upload, because up until now I've been the almost daily vlogger, certainly not the daily vlogger and the Almost weekly podcast. I wanna put a change to that, I wanna make it a regular thing that the vlog goes out no matter what, I wanna upload at a particular time of the day for the vlog and if you're watching on YouTube I'd love to hear where you're watching from, what town, where you are in the world and what time you watch because I'm having real issues posting different times of the day, sometimes I post and I'll get no response, sometimes I post and I get a good response. So I’d love to know when you're watching videos and also when you're listening to your podcast. Where you are in the world and what time of day because it’d be really helpful if you could let me know that in the comments and then I can build in some consistency, get it up every day so you know at a certain time of day that's when I'm gonna be posting, that's my aim, that's my goal, that's my new years resolution. #DailyVlogger #NoSmallCreator

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YouTube, I thought it was just basically a platform for cats doing cute things and funny accidents between people and heavy machinery. I got started on YouTube about three months ago and it wasn't initially what I was setting out to do. I was gonna have my video content on Instagram and then I’d be doing my podcasting and my blogging as well. I thought I had the video for Instagram for one minute posts and I thought why not just put them up on YouTube anyway. And it turns out that it's my number one social media channel, which is really exciting there’s so much engagement, so much community involvement, so much support, that it's really exciting and so I want to be going into what I've been doing and how far of come.

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#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 197
So I didn’t meet my New Years resolutions. Maybe I can keep to my financial New Years resolutions, with a little self awareness. An update on the goals for my self published kids book project. #NoSmallCreator

So more earthworks, more paving, more stuff which isn't the stuff which I'm trying to get done stuff happening. but I did get some stuff done in the downtime, I managed to record one of these adverts for my anchor podcast and I did it all on my phone, read from their script, I added a few little extra bits of my own. The only problem is that from my phone into an existing podcast it just dumped it straight at the start which is really not where I thought it was gonna end up because I thought I'd selected somewhere else, anyway. So in another down time i managed to get over, because I panicked, I'm trying to get it in the right spot from my desktop. But it wasn't even showing me where It was. so I re-brought it in again in the spot where I wanted it which actually fixed it. it works in iTunes, so if you haven’t listened to the Brian Vlasich interview please go over there now, because it's really great i love this Interview and you know what you'll also be giving to a creator ‘me’ one cent.
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How do you document your creative process or journey in a way that is still engaging without going into your personal life. I talk about figuring this out as well as working out what your boundaries should be when it comes to your privacy. #Documentyourjourney #NoSmallCreator

You gotta make sure that all the manual labor and the hard work you are putting in is pointing you in the right direction. I don't have time to sit down and edit for a couple of hours I manage to get probably about half an hour 45 minutes of editing in before bed normally lying down trying to get my daughter to sleep so I’m editing on iMovie on my phone so it's all pretty basic stuff, but it's gotta work for the time you've got available and if the time you’ve got is pretty small then you gotta work out ways of stretching that time. #DocumentYourJourney #DocumentDontCreate #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator

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#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 173
I guess what my ‘Why’ is, is I wanna help creators like me, and I wanna help me too, in the true definition of self-help I gotta get myself ‘Unstuck’, to get out there and start creating and telling stories and getting paid for it, yes paid for it, earn a living that’s my dream. Because ‘The gatekeepers’ the publishers, producers and studios no longer have the power. We can create whatever we want right now just with our phones. Which is really scary because the excuses don’t exist anymore. And that means only thing stopping me, is me. #StartWithWhy #NoSmallCreator

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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.
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