Sticking Points

The idea or a plan for its implementation isn’t my problem. The inability to execute has been my problem. I’ve always had great ideas. For years they remained only that…ideas. I put forth no effort to make them a reality. Those ideas lived in my mind and at times, I’d share them with friends and family members.

As I grew, I began putting together plans to get the ideas out of my mind and make them a reality. But alas, an idea and a plan aren’t enough. I struggled there as well. There was another missing component. Execution or implementation became my challenge.

Part of the benefits of continual writing is ideation. When I first began writing these lists, I had a challenging time, almost to the point that I didn’t want to write these list, creating a title. The way I got better at creating titles was with my fantasy novel. I’d written the book, completed a couple rounds of edits, but none of the chapters had titles. I sat down over a day or two and named every chapter.

The first six or eight titles were tough. I mean really, really tough. I struggled. I would sit in front of my laptop screen, reading and rereading each chapter trying to come up with a title. After spending hours with those first half a dozen or so, I broke through. The following day, titles popped to mind after reading a few sentences of the chapter versus reading the entire chapter repeatedly. I got all the titles finished in a couple of days and the same skill transferred to my gratitude lists.

The lesson is the same for implementation. I recently launched a Youtube channel. I launched with about 10 or 15 short videos. I got approved to upload more per day and put the remaining 200 videos shorts on my channel. I’ve got another 200 or so queued up and ready to go, just been focused on a few other things. My videos are already scheduled to continue posting until the end of this month. I’ve got the weekend to get another couple hundred posted.

Over the next month or two, I’ll launched another five or six endeavors. Launch, execute, or implement, any way you choose to say it, the sticking point, in my experience, will only be overcome by frequently repeating the same process. There’s the concept of following the path blazed by others, which is definitely an accelerator. The challenge for me is this, I follow one and if I don’t follow it thoroughly or it doesn’t work, I’ve gotta start with an entirely new endeavor. Should I implement one a week over a period of six or eight weeks, or maybe until the end of the year, my odds of learning the skill dramatically increase. The enterprises success or failure is great, but the new skill is probably more valuable than any of the startup enterprises.

Today, Friday, July 27, 2023, I am grateful that:

I’m getting settled to my new place. I still need a few things, but like we would say in the car business, they’re creature features, not essential. I’ll gradually get those things and be more organized, but for today, I have what I need.

I’m working towards a good week of pay. Earlier this week, I had hopes of my best earnings week on the platform. But, after two contracts ended abruptly, I’ll have to settle for a sligh

This is the first part of the entry.