365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Two - 1/2/2021
/One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…
Day Two…
Though I still feel a little rusty from taking two years off… yesterday showed me how important this blog is when it comes to my mental health… especially now that I’ve found the non-screenwriting writer’s voice that I’ve been hunting for since I bought The Wicker Breaker domain…
With this new voice as a tool to hone… I can now focus on the actual content without constantly chiming in about future plans for when I feel confident enough to commit to a final draft… that’s not to say that I now see my published work as final… but… moving forward… I aim to stop feeling the need to justify the fact that… whether or not I’m any good… I’m at least prolific enough to bring in a part-time job’s worth of an income…
Moving forward… I want to focus more on the task at hand… with less harping on the past and far less attempting to reassure readers that I will get better in the future… yes… these topics may still pop up from time to time… but… I want to be more reflective of the past than critical… and more enthusiastic towards the future… minus the whole Gen X angsty edge that I still hold onto out of habit…
At least that’s the plan…
As far as this project goes… I think I figured out all of the DNS and SSL Certificate issues that blocked me from using HTTPS… which made the site load as an insecure HTTP address… but… I’m still having search engine indexing issues to where the site loads just fine… but many of the pages throw 403 error codes due to redirection errors… now that the site is secure… I’m able to see where these redirection errors are coming from which should take a couple of days to fix…
Hopefully… by then… I’ll be back in my blogging groove… and minus the technical glitches… will be able to give 365 Days Of Marketing And Me the full attention that it deserves…
With all that said… let’s move on to today’s assignment!!!
According to the book… today is Remember You Die Day… though it sounds like this may lead to a morbid task at hand… the assignment is more to remind me that life is short and to live in the moment because… someday you’ll be dead…
I’ve been thinking a lot about this “live like there’s no tomorrow” advice that everyone loves to give… but… if taken literally… a world with no tomorrow ends up creating a Ground Hog’s Day existence where there is no yesterday either… I learned this in my early twenties when I took “go with the flow” literally and kept stumbling into success like Forrest Gump…
I even landed a job at Amazon in 1997 after randomly moving to Seattle to drink myself to death… after finding a lump on my testicle… and this was my way of facing my fear of death by confronting it every day as a blackout drunk… part of me feels like I’m on the spectrum because of the way I take old adages and quotes literally for guidance… since I never had rules as a kid…
Two of my biggest rules are…
It Takes Ten Year To Make An Overnight Success…
Success Is Being Able To Go From Failure To Failure Without Losing Enthusiasm…
Rule One reminds me to be patient… and Rule Two keeps me from giving up… since giving up would just be another failure worth getting enthusiastic about… I just need to adjust Rule Two… because at some point… I started to become more enthusiastic about the failures for the f@%ked up stories to tell… that got more attention than any stories of success…
Feeling too obliged to live up to the loveable loser persona that I developed while living in the Pacific North West is why I had to move away… and why I burnt all of my bridges on the way out… to give myself more freedom to reinvent myself… looking back… I also now feel that my burnout mental breakdown two years ago was actually a metaphorical suicide of this old self…
Two years ago… is when I finally let go of my past… and though I still have it to reference… I no longer relive every mistake I ever made at the end of everyday… that’s not to say that I feel cured of my mental health issues… but taking the time off from writing… allowed me to truly reflect on my issues with the hopes to resolve them over mining through the minutiae with the hopes to find an interesting story to tell…
Sorry if this assignment doesn’t have all that much to do with marketing… but I’m starting to see that this marketing book is more for services and store… because most of the tasks suggest trying things like creating a gift pack to give out to customers… or promotional fun for you to plan with your staff… but as I said yesterday… I still want to follow each assignment the best that I can… which I feel I did for this task by sharing how I eventually managed to overcome my fear of death in order to stop letting the concept of the end get in the way of my plans…
Finally… The Numbers For The Past Seven Days!!!
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