2023

This year I am keeping things simple and doing four small goals for my New Year’s resolution. I’ve failed in years past with lofty goals and even tried breaking the, into monthly resolutions, which would work normally, but but the last eighteen months has been rather unusual with a lot of things coming my way unexpectedly. I’ve basically been on autopilot. I’m focusing just on my digital presence for my resolutions this year. Don’t get me wrong. I do have other goals as well, but I need to achieve them or work towards them at my own pace without the stress of a 365 day timeframe hanging over my head. 

 

Books. 

So far I have written and self-published one book. It was a goal of mine and I did the finalization last Christmas Eve. It was a goal of mine so I did it finally. It was a short book, but it got me to continue writing. I am working on ten more. What? Yes! Ten! There is a plan there. Most of them are short and I work on it when the mood strikes me. The goal is cross marketing. Mine of the books will be business related, while the tenth book is about my travels around the country and was supposed to come out three years ago and I got lazy. Writing is actually hard because after a while, you get sick of your own words. The goal is to release the other nine books and have them in my catalog of work and when I release the travel book, market that one hard. When people look on Amazon for “about the author,” it will show my other works and spur sales. So why ten? Because the US Copyright Office allows you to copyright ten books at once in a bulk copyright and save money. I might just do nine total and create a second edition of my first book, Your New Business Mind: The Tools to Transition from Employee to Entrepreneur, to round out to ten. As I alluded, it was kind of rushed. 

 

Each book, when ready for release, will have a blog post daily of the text from a previous draft so you’ll be able to read for free but not the finished version and without pictures or graphics and they will be used as a sales promotion piece with links to buy or preorder the book as they are ready for release. My goal will be to have each one ready and done completely prior to the scheduled release. I fell into that trap with my first attempt at releasing my travel book and it blew up in my face and has since been deleted. 

 

Instagram Growth. 

I’m writing this on December 29, 2022. A year ago I just hit 500 followers on Instagram and was excited. You couldn’t tell me shit! It was all organic growth the “proper” way to ensure good followers instead of paid growth. It’s a boring process but works. Today I have 691 followers. I won’t gran nine more in two days probably but my growth goal is to reach 1,000 followers by the end of 2023. I would also consider promotional growth suck as having an influencer post “follow this guy” because they still pop open your account and make the decision to do it after seeing some of your posts. 

 

Twitter Growth. 

My Twitter account currently has 173 followers and I want to hit the lofty goal of 500. It is doable but will take a lot of work. I am considering getting an online scheduling service so I can preplan my posts among several social media outlets and just deal with a single interface and program everything for a specific time and day so it will auto post as desired. 

 

Blog Pieces. 

April of 2021 was my last blog piece I published. I need to do better so this year it’s my goal to write six of them. Six is a good number and I already have a few done making it easily manageable. I don’t want to blow my wad early, but I have at least four scheduled for Mondays every two weeks starting the day after this post drops. 

 

All of my goals listed here are reasonable and easy to accomplish which will give me a few wins in this forthcoming year. 

 

This should make for a fun and interesting year!

 

Happy New Year!

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