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Do it Free

It’s often cheaper than you think

Once you decided on that idea after two minutes and figured out what’s next, the next thing to do is to experiment. I can think of no better place to do that than the internet.

Whatever you want to try, there is a platform to test the idea out and “kick the tires.” Most of them don’t need much “social credit” (meaning you can do stuff anonymously). You can run as many experiments as you can handle, and learn while doing instead of pondering or thinking.

Once you think about something and put some words around it, you can get the “task” done, usually at cost.* There are a ton of services out there that are a Google search away from solving whatever hurdle you face.

At cost pricing means, experimentation is cheap, often free.

Some places you can use to carry out experiments:

Try one today.

*Internet companies aren’t good at pricing, so the SKU’s skew to the cheap side.

 

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What Happens If I Lock In?

My mind loves going in different directions.

I had several ideas on what to write today.

  • How to show up
  • Dealing with NYC racism
  • Surprises
  • Dealing with urges
  • Running away
  • The feeling after resting
  • Mentally being scrambled
  • Making your bed
  • The joy of oversleep
  • Idea #10

But nothing is sticking enough to put down. It isn’t that I have writers block, it’s that the ideas aren’t formulated enough to get put down. If I sat here any longer, I am sure I could come up with another 15 or 20 ideas to put down that interest me in the moment.

I want to try an experiment. I can’t run away from these ideas. I want to force myself to write to these ten ideas over the next ten days. I don’t want my mind to change in midstream.

How do I react when there are expectations, and I can’t maneuver as a writer to write what I want? The experiment begins now.

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Life As Usual Video Blog #5 – Preparation

Every week I do a video blog (of VLOG). This week I talked about preparation.

When I started this,  I was very scared of putting myself on video, so I got the courage and put myself in the arena, killing a lot of bad self talk.This gives me the chance to work on my communication skills, start a new medium, and experiment!

Once a week, after I have thought about them, I will give them a day here on the blog.

These aren’t just promotion posts (although they are, please watch and share :-) ) I want to take the time to break them down and try to clarify what I want to communicate and the tactical things I learned through doing.

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What I Wanted To Communicate About Preparation

Preparation has a ton of benefits. It isn’t something I do well in my life, and I am looking to improve what I can do.

I hit on three bullet points

  • Preparing helps cut fear of doing work. You feel better and stay present after preparation.
  • Preparing is a force multiplier, you get better when you take time to prepare, in some ways one minute spent preparing gives you 10 extra minutes of action.
  • Don’t get locked in the act of preparation. The map is not the territory, use it as an aid. The objective is the task, not the plan.

What I Learned Doing This Video

  • No auto focus is better.
  • 15 minutes of tape ended up being under 5 minutes.
  • I learned how to use my tripod (sounds silly, but before I just stabilized it on a pile of boxes.)

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