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Stopping, pausing, sitting back and assessing where you might be able to make things work a little bit better. This whole process of the vlog and podcast is to document my career pivot experiment. Now my goal is not necessarily to be a vlogger or a blogger or anything like that this is just a tool to help me focus on what I need to do and what I need to get done and also share what I learn along the way to help others that might be wanting to do the same kind of thing but the problem with documenting your journey is that you can let that part of it consume you, getting it out to social, getting it out everywhere, letting that take control of your time. #DocumentYourJourney #DocumentDontCreate #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator

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#ForkInTheRoad vlog 132
A big struggle of mine at the moment is creativity, and I'm not talking about your normal creative block struggle, I'm talking about I need cash for creativity. Because sure it's nice - wouldn't it be nice to get paid for doing what you love well I kind of think I have to at this stage. Because I've been working entry-level jobs all my life and doing my creative work on the side at the same time. Now if I took my creative stuff seriously and maybe started a YouTube channel Wayback when YouTube began that would've been great. I would've been taking my creative life seriously, but instead I just kind of wandered along dabbling a little bit here and there and never actually getting forward in it, I was just kind of entertaining myself like it was a hobby which would be ok if I was an accountant, a doctor or a dentist, anything like that and doing it as a sideline but I don't really have many skills to do much else I’ve kind of trained up over the years to be completely unemployable, like next week is my birthday I’m 45, I think, and the thing is, I don't have any savings, I don't have a house paid off, I don't have a retirement funds or anything like that, I have no future financial security at all. All because I've been half ass following my creative urges and not diving in fully on that or not diving in fully in what is considered to be a real career, a career with a title, one that you can improve and make more money over the years I haven't really committed to either of those. So what I wanna do now is turn that around, turn all the creative stuff that I want to do, not that I actually know what I wanna do, except that it all kind of relates back to storytelling and turn that into an income which will keep me out of the checkouts and the courier vans and all those kinds of jobs and actually direct me positively in the future, building for my future and keeping me happy. Because I'm miserable working for someone else, and that's kind of why I want to focus on earning money doing what I love, being creative. and I wanna document it all here on the vlogcast so I can follow my journey, you can follow my journey. If you're frustrated and in the same boat as me, because I think in this day and age with social media technology that everything is so accessible. You don't need the publishes any more, you don't need the producers any more, you can go out there and make the money yourself. I just need to work out how to do that, and I'm gonna share it with you. Because I'll hopefully make it work, but that's gonna be a massive struggle for me. #AllHumansStruggle #NoSmallCreator

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#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 170
I want to document my journey, I want to create a story, a brand story. The only problem is that what I'm doing is not very interesting. The fact of the matter is, I'm not really doing any of my work at all. I’m not doing illustrating work at the moment because I'm putting a skylight in my daughters bedroom, and how does that relate? how does it? how can you incorporate that into documenting your journey? Well I’ve been listening to some podcasts and I've been thinking about that concept of Tim Ferriss’ where he talks about the four hour work week and he focuses on only doing what your great at, only doing what you love and giving the annoying jobs to somebody else. The thing is that if you're doing what you love you’ll be better at it. If I gave this job to someone that was good at it, they might love it and we’d both get more done quickly. Even if we are working dollar for dollar - me working on what I like, them working on what they like, we're both winning. It's just a matter of finding that fine balance where I actually earn some money and can ask the question, am I better off earning some money so I can pay someone to do the stuff that I don't want to do and outsource it? Do what you want, do what you love. So that's an idea of how you can incorporate the story into a seemingly boring day doing menial tasks. #Documentyourjourney #NoSmallCreator

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#ForkInTheRoad Vlog 148
So where’s my pivot? As SimpLee Beth on YouTube asks. The pivot has mainly been a mindset shift for me. I had created 143 vlogs and 20 podcasts while I was just finding my feet. I knew the kind of thing I wanted to be doing and just started doing that. Then the days turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into months and in my most recent vlogs - I felt that I was just coasting down the desert highway after my tank ran out petrol a few hundred meters back. I was doing all this stuff, creating without direction or purpose. Then I thought about my ‘why’ that I discovered at vlog 50 which was ‘Empowering storytellers to think creatively about getting their story to world’. Then I thought if I can create a successful career doing something that I love, and document how I did it in a book, then maybe you’ll be able to do it to. Either that or I’ll be documenting my slow descent into madness, both of which will be publishable.
#CareerPivot #NoSmallCreator

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