Making Use of Time . . .

 

One day I am going to write a practical guide to becoming a successful work from home artist in todays internet economy. In fact, I'm going to start right now.
Why not. I'm just sitting on my couch staring out the window thinking about where I want my life to go ... now instead of just thinking, I'm working on my blog, which is something I want to do daily ...
Moral of my story, I need to stop thinking so much and start doing what I keep thinking about wanting to do.
Focus on getting something done, even though there are a million other things that still need to be done.

So here I am ... making use of my time.
On the agenda for today is uploading more shirt designs with a focus on promoting more than just the shirts. I hope to add some more graphics to the blog for self promo reasons and then we'll see what else I can think of because right now my mind is shorting out.

i'll save here and come back to things ...

I used the time to start taking half decent pictures of my artcards. I have about 200 of them, so this is going to take a while, but at least I started doing it instead of thinking about it.
I even went and posted this one in an ART CARD facebook group. Small steps again but it was a good one.
I also uploaded a high res image to my color galleries at www.ko-fi.com/byron
It's of my 9 zombie cats v2

And  then I got distracted by real life and completely forgot to hit the publish button, finish my thought ... whatever. The whole daily thing still isn't daily and that's okay.

Sold a shirt I uploaded the other day, which adds fuel to the fire of desire to add more shirts to the store.
Here's the shirt that sold:

go get yours by clicking here.

I'll be back later ...

Little Victories

I always have a lot of things I want to get done. Social media blitzing for the self promotion and the feel good of seeing something of mine liked. It's a small buzz ... especially when people actually take the time to make a comment. That is ego boosting GOLD. Like crack ... I want more. Not that I do crack ... maybe I should have used the word catnip and segue in to SELLING MY SHIRT!

Another of the things I want to get done is making at least one new shirt a day
Today I managed to get 1 done ... I didn't think I would then I just told myself I want to ... somehow I found the time and BANG!
Go get one: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8169005-zombie-cat-named-boots

And that's pretty much it for my blog post today ... trying to get back to daily even if it is just a self promotional pimp post :)

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actually, don't quit quitting . . .

I thought I was clever before, but now I'm clever enough to know I'm not so clever after all.
I thought that by trying to stop the stopping I would get further ahead, instead I filled my head with dread and nearly wound up dead ... inside at least.
The message of Stop Stopping is meant to be an encouragement to keep on keeping on. Don't stop! Don't give up!
and so forth ... then I made an image that said Quit Quitting

I really like this drawing of a skull, but the message seems off to me now. So much so that I took it down from my teespring store. I think quitting is okay and you should quit what needs to be quit when you know it's time to quit. Don't keep second guessing yourself. It's almost the same as stop stopping ... yet not quite.

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kinda like this blog
I keep stopping but I don't quite quit
I had more to say but I lost my train of thought ... got distracted by real life cats
More and more changes are coming to this blog so stay tuned :)

the start of something special usually isn't so special . . .

just like over night success usually takes years ... whatever
I don't even know what to type here. I'm still flopping around on the internet trying to figure out how to make a buck without having to hustle commissions because I still haven't finished a few.
I tell myself that once I'm finished those, I can start taking new work ... even though the truth is I really don't want to take any more work.

I'm trying to build a following on my ko-fi page ... it might be futile but im still trying
As of this post, I am at 43 followers ...once I hit 50 I'm giving away a painting ... it's hard to convince people to follow what you're doing, even when they really like what you do on social media ... and even if it's free to follow.
When it feels to hard it feels like that's the time to quit. Know what I mean?

Anyways ... go follow me at www.ko-fi.com/byron
there are a lot of free high res images to download for personal use

If you're in to shirts, my other current adventure is building up a tshirt line at teespring
My store is https://teespring.com/stores/byron
I don't have much to say about it, but I plan on concentrating some time there ... for a little bit

And then I rethought about this blog and it's history and what blogs can do and now I'm on my second post in less than a week. Am I wasting my time ... probably but whatever. I'm figuring out life, my life, and doing it my way, as best I can.

Who turned out the lights . . .

I have been very busy lately, trying to reduce my time spent all over the place online, and concentrate on just building up a presence in one or two places. It's tedious work but it's getting easier and while the results are glacial slow, they're still mostly positive.
I might have to start using this blog more ... the ideas are percolating :)

Hey ... check out the ko-fi link on the side ... #justsaying (winkwink)
More coming soon ...