Still struggling with what to do next

 Seriously. I have so many courses and so many things I want to do before January that I am not sure exactly where to start. I really need to put the things I need to do in order of priorities. Either that, or I need to schedule when I will do certain things and just do it. Become indistractable. Tangent time. 

I listen to Mark Manson of The Subtle Art of not giving a f*uck fame. I like his ideas and the way he approaches things and I feel like his way of doing things is much more aligned with my way of doing things. Just f*cking do it or don't. Of course lately I've been doing a lot of flip-floping on what to do so maybe that's not me lately. Anyway, I digress... I was listening to him the last two days - his shows are long - and he had this guy on who wrote a book called how to become indistractable and get sh*t done. He had some really good ideas on the show which he goes into in far greater detail in the book. So I ordered the book. It will be here soon. I plan on reading it today and putting some of his ideas into practice. Now he has some ideas I'm not sure of. Like time blocking. Time blocking means you set aside X amount of time to work on something. Once that time is over you can stop or continue working. It does not matter if the thing you are doing is done, it matters that you said you work on it for X amount of time and you did. He also talks about not getting distracted by other things. The easy things. The fun things. But to work on things that will take you towards your goals. So I have a bit of a head cold, little stuffy nose and voice is gone, so it would be a good day to lay around and read. Maybe do a little planning so that I'm ready to hit the ground running once I feel better. 

Back to the topic at hand. I think the first thing I need to do is to figure out the most important things that way I know what to give priority to. This is my unordered list from the other day: 

• Shopify
• Social Media
• Photography
• Illustrator
• File designing/selling
• Selling on Etsy
• Pinterest
• Procreate

Now, which one of these is the most important at this time. 

Shopify kind of is because that store is not open and I am tired of getting hit with Etsy fees (well, that escalated quickly), so that is high on my list. 

Social Media is important because engagement, engagement, engagement. 

Photography is important because that is the first thing they see, your pictures. 

File designing/selling/Illustrator/Procreate all fall into the purview of creating my own designs. I definitely want to start doing that as it will not require me to make stuff and then hold on to it until someone buys it. Getting this going would make my life a lot simpler but there is a steep learning curve I still need to conquer with those. So maybe my time would best be spent conquering those and working on the other things as they fit in. I know I can make great traction with my Etsy shop in a few hours. I can probably do something similar with my Shopify site and get that up and running in a reasonable amount of time. 

This has really given me something to think about. I had been looking at it the other way, get the easy things done and then work on the harder things. But perhaps that is the wrong approach. Much like with a to-do list where you look at what you can get done quickly. I think I might be on to something here. 

I walked away from this post about 2 hours ago because my Amazon delivery came. I jumped right in and started reading Distractable. So far, so good. It has already given me a number of ideas, none of which are super new to me but which I had forgotten. So I'm going to start putting into practice some of these things now.