New process is dropping

I have officially transferred my domain from the shackles of GoDaddy prison and am so excited to get a website built!

Here’s what I’m thinking:

I just read The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin and it was great. He talks about the importance of regularly showing up, committing to the process, being generous with your work, etc. The book has so many notable quotes, but these are the ones hitting for me right now:

• “Our failure to trust ourselves can consume us. The scarcity cycle turns us selfish and makes us fail to trust others as well. Art lives in culture and culture exists because we’re actively engaging with each other.”

• “Our passion is simply the work we’ve trusted ourselves to do.”

• “Any idea withheld is an idea taken away. It’s selfish to hold back when there’s a chance you have something to offer.”

• “Don’t worry about changing the world. First, focus on making something worth sharing. How small can you make it and still do something you’re proud of?”

• “How much does it help you to know that you have something special in reserve, something unseen, something yet to be discovered? You won’t run out. This isn’t your one and only shot. There’s no perfect idea, just the next thing you haven’t shipped yet. No one is keeping you from posting your video. No one is keeping you from blogging every day. No one is keeping you from hanging your artwork. The only way to get through the steps is to do the steps.”

• “The best version of you is the one who has committed to a way forward.”

(if these quotes don’t hit for you, trust me, you had to be there)

(it’s all very complementary to Earl Nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret,” which I also recommend. It’s about how a person becomes what they think, if we control our thoughts we control our lives, the pursuit of a worthwhile goal is success in and of itself, and if we contribute to prosperity, we prosper ourselves)

Sooo with that new information under my belt, I’ve been contemplating the processes I can commit to.

I want to uplift people, gather and connect people, and provide spaces for them to explore their interests. (I envision this happening with mostly women.) The work that I currently do and would like to build upon revolves around being a “productivity coach” / “personal project manager” - aka helping clients organize and dedicate intentional time to their passion projects. I hold them accountable and help them wherever they need help. I am like a paid body double. It gives me an opportunity to do different types of work, and it gives them an opportunity to make progress on their goals.

But how do I create a daily practice around that? How do I attract more people willing to enroll in the journey?

I considered a “Does Anyone Wanna Talk?” stand in my driveway, where people could stop by to chat. I could learn nuances about what the people are looking for, what they are lacking, what motivates them. Sounds like fun but I think I’d benefit from something more targeted/niched.

I’ve been thinking about using this newsletter (or my future blog with my newly freed domain) to share learned knowledge, document my goals, and report my progress towards said goals. Like using y’all as my own accountability buddies. And then use Instagram to show the process in action, show the skills developing, show myself being a guinea pig of a regular practice. And then host events to uplift and inspire others in the meantime. And the dream is that with a consistent practice, more people will join for the ride, either as spectators or as participants or both.

(I discovered that my “success pattern” (learned from Mami Onami) is building something on my own through showing up consistently and having external people to regularly report to. In this case, y’all would be the ones I regularly report to while building upon my vision, plus you would be part of the vision itself.) (If you want to discover your own success pattern, identify the last time you felt success, the first time you felt success, think about what you were doing, where you felt it, who was involved, what was the context. whatever all of these experiences have in common is your pattern)

So that’s just where my head is at right now. TBD what happens! And thanks again for being here.

A friend told me I need to include media in my newsletters so here’s a video of me being timid in my weekly voice lessons bc it is a humbling and challenging experience! But hey, it’s all about the process 🙏

Until next time, Xoxo and Love, Hannah