I have a small problem to solve as far as sharing stuff I find for posting in here - pasting from FB has stopped working via tha Locals app!
Just realized I oughta ask support about that ‘cause it’s hindered two posts already. Boo. :)
In other news, have been needing a lot of rest since starting down the Your HD & Your Business offer track…
I found myself at my laptop (first time on over a week I’d guess) … “I’m not dead” is what came out as I went to post in the pop-up group for those buyers yesterday lol. I think it was yesterday 🤔
Then I felt new energy for the project.
Slid around the pieces that had me stuck for the moment (with new possibilities for those still stewing- but back burnered for now) …
I can see now that I’d set a linear outline/ flow that might make sense for consuming, but that’s not how it comes out of me.
So yesterday, I fleshed out the basics (good enough for now) of the Story Selling Unit - and wove in Dave and Matt as my support system via an affiliate link.
That’s so much more “me” … as soon as I saw that clearly, it was easy for it to come together.
And then I noticed, after about 2 hours …I was at ‘good enough’ … ie. someone else could come to it and have stuff to consume that can stir their own new energy and possibilities.
From that sort of foundation is where more interesting conversations can be born from.
Once people are asking questions - everything literally flows.
Which reminds me of something else I finally found myself doing a few days - maybe a week ago.
I made an “ask me things” YouTube video. And it was so perfectly successful feeing to post it and almost right away have someone ask a question- which I video answered the next day.
Almost immediately, another person messaged “I found you on YouTube” and my Mind was like ooh, maybe this is something that’ll be a thing.
But since then, nothing 😅.
But it’s infrastructure. And that’s never been a bad thing for me to have on hand.
Case in point - for the Story Selling Unit - the page I worked on yesterday I was able to utilize 3 short videos of my own that were created across 4 years for that. Who knew that they’d all live together on this particular one page - no one - till it made sense for them to. Yesterday.
Now if I can get in a habit (takes remembering it’s there) of pointing the people with a question who just wander into my inbox - minus a specific invitation and recognition for me … it really only works when they come ready to bare their soul … till then, pointing to that video could be a thing. :)
I can find the link and drop it into a comment below. Or you can hunt for it - it’s on my Doing Business as Yourself YT channel.
Other things I’ve been up to…
Lots of video watching - both Netflix series and YouTube following. Weird assortment of topics.
Lots of current events through the lens of my ever-skeptical 3rd line and also the lens of those even more skeptical than I 😂 … systems are falling apart at a rapid pace … it’s wild to watch and at the same time feel zero panic. But that’s how it is for me. Popcorn is available.
Feel more concern about things like moving a hose out of the way as John heads towards it with the mower (last time I mowed, I sliced into a long one lol)
The other core themes that seem to be holding my attention are relationships and survival - also foundation-type topics eh?
We find ourselves without any large loans outstanding … well except for a stupid student loan I incurred late as I was “looking for direction” - what a mistake that was … except also maybe not.
Because then as my kids have come up against those decisions, I was able to guide them away from that track that our culture would have them on.
“Just say no to school loans” was the wisdom I was able to offer with clarity and zero hesitation. So far one is past that temptation and the other will either heed me or find out for herself - so far she’s found a paid-for 100% by grants track - or so she tells me. 🤷🏻♀️
Anyway, I digress…
So we find ourselves without any large overhead costs (no mortgage, building finally paid for, no car notes) … but again - infractructure is the word that comes to mind.
Home improvements and maintenance have definitely been deferred in the course of getting here (for example) and I can see a season of that for the next few years.
Now is the time for that because John is still young enough (he turned 58 this year) to have the interest and the energy. And anything that we refresh/replace/upgrade now oughta last for 15-20 years. Could be the last time it’s necessary. 🤔
Those sorts of projects also stir my production pot.
Real life project goals that my own efforts can support - with funding.
In the words of Zig Ziglar -
“You can have everything you want in life if you just help other people get what they want”
That’s what gets me moving.
That’s how I get direction.
That’s where I receive #projectorsuccess level recognition.
But the spark is always - resources for my tribe here at home.
That’s how my Design is wired.
Nothing else moves me quite the way resources for the tribe does :)
Planet Andrea and it’s many parts is the other 1/2 of this tribal synergy. Being within that circle puts you on radar. My interest in you getting what you want is elevated. Me helping you get what you want is the key … the secret.
As is it with anything on the material plane.
Oh one other thing to add to this brain dump - I’ve also been in consulting relationship with a couple of private clients this year - and one of them recently drew me back into funnel building.
Which has me revisiting my own flows - and caused me to stumble across an email about a launch for a software that makes building quiz funnels easy.
Have always wanted to create a sort of “choose your own adventure” type funnel - have attempted in the past with a “door” system for people to step through, but the technology wasn’t ready to do that in a way that was visually easy (I just had this memory of me designing my first website years back - I couldn’t figure it out until I broke out a legal pad and used a page for each page in the website flow 😍) - this new software appears to be the solution I’ve been waiting for.
So I wanna play.
Play and brainstorm about refining systems. Mine, yours, whoever’s shows up.
It’s a launch email for that software that caught my eye - a couple days late, but still, it was interesting to watch myself write an email to my own (oldest) list to invite along. This is maybe the 2nd email I’ve sent this year 🤷🏻♀️
Like riding a flippin bicycle I tell ‘ya.
So yeah that’s part of next steps for me. Some sort of choose your own adventure system that can weave together my different infrastructures (seems to be the word of the day - and not because it’s in the news … but maybe 🤔)
And let people self-filter through to Planet Andrea and even ON Planet Andrea.
Could use your help with that for sure.
Of course, in-person tours are necessarily the most expensive - for all concerned. Or they should be … sometimes my open head gets caught up in the concerns of people who haven’t bought their ticket - I continue to notice that - and the related bitterness 🤓
Automation is the solution - it can serve many more via self-filtering (value adding) systems, with some high touch portals like this community in the mix.
Well - that got to rambling 😊
What’ve your been up to?
What is it that you want next?
Maybe I can lend you my thoughts :)
Of course you’re welcome to step into any of the projects / explorations I currently have rolling - should your Authority be a yes for that 👍🏼