Ego Month is dead, long live Ego BLAST
With a new month being a thing, I´m gonna sum up how Ego Month went for me.
On one hand poorly. I had to start relying on my gimmick of having Tweets count as released content to keep up the pace very early into the experiment and y couple of times I couldn´t be bothered to do even that.
On the other hand, I did manage to create and release more creative work last month than ever before. I have done 12 posts for my website, bunch of other creative work and have a sizable amount of writing in progress.
I also continue to promote myself and I am getting more comfortable with the act of doing so. Maybe, when that becomes relevant, I might even start measuring the impact of my marketing. But, since I only pay in time so far, I don´t need to calculate any ROIs just yet.
I will aim to continue with this momentum and try to build a writing/creative habit, where I will try to have at least a little work done every day. Hopefully I can train myself to be able to be at least somewhat consistent and able to get a work ethic of some sort going.
This is the spot where I would make excuses saying that it is hard for me having a second job on top of having a fulltime day job already, but I have not been more creative in my burnout periods when I was languishing jobless, so there.
I have also not been able to do any creative work done during breaks at work. It is just a different brainspace. Despite having creative ideas at work frequently, all of my energy is getting sucked into the job itself, rendering the act of writing stuff down next to impossible.
I have found out that I crave external validation for my motivational fuel. I liked doing stuff when I knew it would be seen by other people and loved that my work so far lead to a couple interactions already.
If you´d like to get involved in helping me build up my willpower, you can comment on this spreadsheet that I plan on keeping updated every day:
I could really use buddies who would keep kicking me in my posterior to DO SOMETHING.
You can also needle me at any of the other contact links that you can find here.
I still plan on sharing lots of personal stuff, I have lots of ideas built up, and thus the rein of EGO continues in Ego BLAST!
I hope you will keep enjoying what I do and I am once again begging for money, links at the top.