Mindfullish - A New Beginning
The Week Ending March 8th, 2024
Welcome to the Mindfullish Newsletter
I’m glad to be posting this inaugural newsletter and expand my voice a little bit further. Thanks for signing up, thanks for opting for the email and thanks for taking the time to read about what’s going on in my world.
All the Things that Happened this Week
This week was the first week for me participating in a “30 Day Accountability Group” where my goal was to start writing and maintain an aggressive pace that I could maintain moving forward while growing my audience and my skills. On day one, my thoughts were all about ADHD and writing posts to help people struggling with being more productive while saddled with this condition. I quickly realized a few things:
nobody wants to be presented with this every day
I don’t have an endless supply of advice
there is so much more to talk about
This week I managed to produce quite a bit, here are some relevant numbers:
10 new articles,
3 sitting in a pre-publish state,
2 in a pending acceptance to a publication and
5 public articles.
I also managed to impress 12 different publications enough that they added me as a writer.
2 Tweets or Threads - micro posts
Gained 5 email subscribers for my Medium channel
Gained 30 followers on my Medium channel
Earned $4.67
I’m still working on a graceful way to share my things with the public, so mostly this has all happened inside the walls of Medium.
I’ve also started to try my hand at some “micro blogging”, though I just started that yesterday and only posted a couple of times. I’ll include all the different socials at the bottom in case you’re interested.
What Life Taught Me
I mentioned some lessons learned up above, I don’t need to bury myself in a specific niche and I can’t expect to be a machine that only talks about one topic. More importantly, this is week one and there are so many lessons to learn in front of me.
Social Media - For as simple as this seems, I want to be the most wise and quotable person, so I mull things over way too much. Trying to say one sentence to inspire people is tricky.
Deep Work - 2 hours a day, 5 days in a row. My ADHD brain gets tired and my afternoons became a bit listless. I have to pace myself and recognize that afternoons might be for lightweight brain activities.
Vast Possibility - When I’m not concerned that I’m unqualified to talk about ADHD or life in general, I realize that I DO have a lot to say and that a continued life similar to these 5 days wouldn’t be so bad.
Marketing - Selling myself has always been low on my priority, but now that I want people to know about me, I see there are a LOT of ways to do it and that starting sooner than later is going to be very important.
I’m More Grateful Than I Can Express
I mentioned in one of my posts that I have some morning tasks that I do consistently, one of those is write down 3 things I’m grateful for. I’ll just do that for the world to see right now.
I’m grateful for a voice, that there are so many ways for me to share my voice with the world and that there are ways to actually get paid to do it without asking people to give me money directly.
I’m grateful to have enough space in my life to work on this, to prioritize writing and building my voice and finding my audience.
I’m grateful also have the time and space to disconnect. I have a loving family who is here, supporting me, even encouraging me to chase this opportunity.
What Do I Want to Do Next?
Oh so many things! I’m trying to allow myself to sit and become a bit of a “micro master” in the things I’m starting. I want to find my voice and comfort in sharing my wisdom on Medium. I want to find a similar voice thats a bit longer form for my newsletter. I want to take this whole thing to it’s own site eventually where I can have more flexibility to create a community. I love working with technology and hope to bring my Notion tools to different people and make their lives easier as well. That’s just off the top of my head. For now though, I’ll probably talk about newsletters and blogs, maybe solopreneurship as well.
Thanks for Reading
I mean that, you wouldn’t believe how excited I was when I got 20 claps on a single post on Medium. So much excitement, I later learned that you get them for highlights, which diminished a bit until I realized someone could pinpoint exact words I said that inspired them.
Wow, Jody, seven months! Just found your first post here and realized I have a marathon of your articles to catch up on. Can't wait to dive in — better late than never!