You know when you’re really hungry, and you walk into a buffet, how you fill up your plate with an ungodly amount of food? Then, halfway into your first plate, you regret everything.
Some of you may know that at the beginning of this year I began a video blog. This would include my YouTube channel AND, BOTH, DAILY Instagram Stories AND Snapchat Stories. On top of that, I committed to writing on this blog and on the True Voice Media blog. On top of that I set goals of growing my web traffic across my three most important web properties: truevoicemedia.com, jgibbard.com and jeffgibbard.com. I committed to keeping my food blog going, I committed to writing about the secrets of online dating and relationships on hitchphilly.com. I thought I should write one or two posts on Social Media Philanthropy every month. I set new goals for my email lists, for subscribers on YouTube, for content production and so on…
Did I mention I’m writing a book?
And oh yeah, I almost forgot, besides that I’m building an agency that I plan to double in size this year.
Do you feel anxious reading that? Imagine how I feel living it.
I took on WAY too much at the beginning of the year.
At the end of last year, I looked back and saw the struggle. I saw the success. And I got hungry. And going into the new year hungry is what most people do. They set bold resolutions. They set ambitious plans. Then, sometime in early February, the hunger dies down. They settle in instead of pushing.
I am trying desperately to keep pushing on all of these goals.
I’m enjoying the hell out of my daily vlogging, but it is a lot of work. It’s not just the time it takes to shoot and edit the video, but more importantly, it’s the mental energy that it requires to think about it all day while simultaneously doing other things.
So here I am, on a Saturday, sitting here virtually paralyzed trying to decide on what action to take next to move forward, and wondering if anything should be cut from the list.
If you haven’t watched my video blog yet, I’ll leave this here for you now.