Can't Pick a Theme . . . But Today Flowed With Ease

That was yesterday.  I swear I took two-thirds of the day trying to figure out which WordPress theme I should create for my authority site. Tearing my hair out frustrated. I ended up not with anything I truly wanted, but I allowed myself to be satisfied with a minimum, clear one.  I just really feel like none of the choices I had looked like me nor does it look like the atmosphere I want to create.  It looks way too amateur.  And then I was moving stuff around, adding, taking away, really just feeling like I was messing it up the more I tried. (And missing my Weebly! But SFM are WordPress peeps.) Again, I'm a patient woman; I'll figure it out.  But I just want to report accurately my process through all this.

It was also the first day of fasting with Ramadan, which was exhausting.  So I ended up just going to bed by 8:30, I was so done with the day.

I did prepare my next day's list of what I wanted to accomplish.

So that was yesterday.  Today was MUCH sweeter, easier, and I felt like I accomplished everything! (How many times does that happen! ha ha).  I wrote a blog post--THE FIRST ONE for the site--and I was very happy with it.  I shot a 10 minute webcam video for my List.  I did a lot of other this and that for the business and also with my son.  (The older is away camping.)  I also took some time with a website/business project I started last year, but I want to revise it heavily in light of my commitment to the Affiliate Marketing direction, so I sat with it for a while and in fact, did a new (Weebly) theme for that, too!  Among other things.  I am not going to do so many business activities there, but I want to continue my blog there as it is reasonably successful and I think I help people there and I love it.  So I want to bring that forward and let some of the other stuff recede, for now anyway.

I also want to note that writing is a talent of mine.  I am always looking for ways to improve.  But if you are a person that writing is just really outside your comfort zone, I probably don't have any advice for that except do it anyway and that writing is a skill that can be learned.

All the website, social media, technical stuff--that's where I'm learning new stuff for me.  Although I have been learning it, so I'm starting to feel comfortable.  Sometimes I think it's easier to help others and teach stuff I never knew before and started at zero, because I know what it's like to start at zero and can explain how I got from there to a place of proficiency.  With some of my more natural talents when people ask me how, I have to sometimes say "I don't know," because it has just always been there for me.

I chose Pinterest as my first marketing platform to implement, optimize, and master so I am starting out.  I decided a few things that would be good for me to share.  I like to make quote posters with my Paint.net (free download) program.  I have done that for other reasons in the past.  I also collect quotes whenever I come across them.  I have them in a huge file.  So I have been using some money or motivational or etc quotes.  I posted my blog post on Pinterest.  Found a Tony Robbins vid on youtube and pinned it.  So on and so forth.  There are more direct marketing things to do in the (near) future, but for several days, I need to build up the board and get in a rhythm of engaging that IS engaging yet doesn't engulf my day, my workflow.

So today was great.  I felt real.  I keep doing my healing and clearing, too, which I know is not the focus of this blog but that helps me stay grounded to enjoy all parts of my life including having the energy and mindset to create money and serve others.