07-11-2015, 01:48 PM
(07-10-2015, 01:03 PM)Ivaylo Wrote: Not that chasing the shiny is bad, in my opinion. Chasing it while pretending to be a dreamer and a visionary - now that sucks. It seems to hurt both your chances of becoming a visionary, as well as the chances of catching the shiny. That's my takeaway from the whole situation, which I realized just now and this journal has once again served its purpose. Thanks to anyone reading!
From what you say it appears you just haven't found your market to concentrate on. If that sounds a little vague, I mean that you haven't found a market to create a product/service within thereby solving a need.
For about a year and half that was me back between 2009 and 2010/11ish. I knew i wanted to create and sustain a business but i had no idea what to get into. That's when i just decided to make SEO and ranking sites work for me.
Then in 2013 i got into email marketing (customer retention) and just this year into kindle publishing.
I would write down every profitable idea you have (literally - grab a pen and paper and write it down) so that you can go through the list over time to see what appeals.
That's more or less what i did. It wasn't logic that led me to any of my businesses. I just felt good about working within them. The items on my list that endured my curiosity were the things i focused on (they didn't feel stupid or unrealistic after i mulled them over; again not by thinking about them, but by checking how my body responded to them. That's more of an intuitive hit than logic or rationale).
I also dived in and made friends and learned my way through sort of "drown-swimming" until i had a good stroke going and things clicked for me. That may sound stupid, but from Shannon has shared with us, that's sort of how he started his business. I'm just saying that diving in when you barely have a clue seemed to work itself out though it might feel incredibly weird, uncomfortable, or even outright stupid. Especially if you don't think you have anything going for you. Somehow in some odd way it just tends to work out.