I gave up on steemit for a while and even got myself a day job
when you are blinded by uncertainty and fearful for the future you will be prone to making really stupid decisions. One such decision i made was to abandon my steemit account. I feel ashamed, and really all I have done is bitten my nose to spite my face, because if i had just carried on writing I would be much further along right now rather than starting from scratch.
But, hindsight is 20/20 and wisdom comes at the cost of being stupid. Thankfully I am a bit more of an accomplished writer, since I have been keeping myself busy with learning how to write this kind of conversational copy that works brilliantly for casual email marketing - I could be paid quite a bit of money for this, but you will have to read about that in the Business section of the post
Writing still calls me, howling at the moon
Its a demon, it calls at me when I am trying to sleep. Nobody really goes over the pros and cons of choosing a life strategy when you are a little toddler brat. I chose one of the most impulsive survival strategies when I was younger and now I am 27 and only realising what a stupid decision it was to decide that creativity is how I will make my mark on the world.
Nothing prepares you for being up at 3am because something inside you wants to come out in the form of words on the page, and not any amount of words. No, they have to be perfect and they have to be the truth. Do not try and write like this, it hurts. Rather like me choose copy writing, because now I can say whatever I want and you and I are connecting and if you were to hear how I speak the tone of this article and the tone of voice I use to have the most intimate conversations with in my life will be the same.
Writing hurts and these posts i write here on steemit will be the way in which i keep myself sane and on par with the course I am taking
[listening to now: what a wicked game ]
I am trading crypto while trying to start a business consulting company
there comes a time in your life, where you have to accept that corporate life is just not your thing. I did not, they told me so; while I may not be proud of being axed from a job i was just getting a hang of, I do think that there comes a time in your life where you have to accept the things in front of you - and work with the material that you have to work with. Even so we all gotta make that money and somehow get ourselves into a position where we are at least somewhat important.
My choice was to jump straight into the thick of it, with very little preparation. I decided to buy a food trailer with my separation package - and a couple of things I will talk about in the cannabis section, so if 420 is your thing stick around to the end.
But corona stabbed me in the back. The world betrayed me and the lockdown I am in right now has destroyed the possibility of starting that little food business , so what now ? After sulking for a week or two, and spending far too much time binging on netflix a friend told me he made a killing trading crypto. Specifically ADA, and he basically doubled his account in a week or two.
He then asked if I would like to join him in his new venture while he would teach me how to trade those coins, that reminded me of the coins I have here in steemit and new baby was born; my return to Steemit
While getting involved in the Cannabis Industry on the product side of things.
Ontop of all of this I have to get a little consulting business off the ground, which is going to be a nightmare for a couple of months because the economy has to ignite here in South Africa again , nobody is hiring and all of our expertise is in HR.
I will be starting with a cold email campaign and I will tell you how you can do the same , and even invite you to be my part of my team if you can show me what powerful hustle you can employ with something so simple as sending 100 strangers a bunch of emails
I will be writing about all these things , and how one can do the same.
lets talk about about my format;
its simple actually. I am joining some of the best email lists around medium, especially of their publications . there is a publication about accelerated learning and then there is hustle and maybe foundr. I also like luxury brands, I want to know how magazines sell us on the products that are advertised through them and a whole bunch of other things that make it look like I sat here and wrote you this letter about my plans and how much I enjoy your company. - I really do by the way
I want to produce emails like theirs that get the juices flowing, I would like them to inspire you to live your best life with or without coffee. I do this for two reasons; (1) when the people around me do better it is like the well of insight and fortune within me fills up and I just become a better person & (2) I enjoy solving problems, and you are free to ask me any question you would like to in the comments - this will change the direction of where my content is going in order that this content benefits you.
while I would also like to produce long posts just as this one that gives you as a reader some casual entertainment and emotional connection with an interesting stranger like myself
PS - I do not edit these long posts besides correcting very obvious blunders and spelling mistakes , so you get the raw and unfiltered version of me. In the short term this means that nobody important will pay attention to me, but over time as you read what i am saying you will become to find me as a source of insight and quite a compelling writer ( this is the nature of conversational copy writing )
I thought I had a heading about cannabis in here - I did not, so i just tacked this one on at the end
Let us speak about that lovely lady plant known as Mary Jane. This medicine has helped me through a whole lot of things through my life, made me a far wiser person and allowed me to deal with some horrible interpersonal issues that eventually came to a head after a villainous individual was sent to prison for life. Besides that, though, I love the state I am in when she is around - and I do not think that is going to change any time soon.
So lets start a pot farm,bob.
This is no joke, perpetual harvest takes its toll on your life, producing every month requires some planning and then the plants need to be turned into other things, like hashish and rosin - we will throw in a spagyric tincture for good measure as well - This means that I am home bound, and this is the cannabis section you were hoping to read.
Disappointing ? I know
oh, and also personal development and Entrepreneurship
now to finalise this article before I start rambling about things that do not matter. I will be taking you through some of the things that I do to keep sharp - especially all the personal development stuff that will make you a badass nearly anywhere you go and I will apply it to the Lean stack so that you can combine personal development and Lean start up together
Peace, Buddies