Making A Path for Another Year
Bradley Oberg
Animation "Connoisseur". Finding, Writing About, and Sharing Animations from across the Internet.
With about a week left of the First Month of the year, have you accomplished your perfect start to a new year? Or perhaps you've finally wrapped up last year's work and are ready for new upcoming projects?
Either way, Now is the time to be making your plan of Action for the new year, if not enacting it already!
But instead of Me telling You how your year should go, I'm going to share what my plans are, and maybe you'll glean your own ideas from them!
My 2024 Plan of Action
To quick clarify, my plan for this year is based on information from other years. The reason it's worth pointing out, is that including tasks you've already done in your future plans can give you an idea that "You've already started the Project!". Some people have issues finding the "Perfect" time to start, so in that case, look at the next project as an 'ongoing' one, instead of a new one!
With that said, what I had previously done is:
2022 -> I went back to my old LinkedIn account, and properly learned how to use it as a media platform. Make connections with people, make posts to share on the platform, and overall become more comfortable with the idea of sharing "my" writing.
2023 -> I started several Newsletters to get familiar with the Email(ish) format, this issue you're reading right now is my "Monthly" Newsletter that I started last January. I have also tried our Weekly & Biweekly formats too, and have found a comfortable workload balance that I want to use in the future. I also want my newsletter's platform/service to be done by Substack, which I also tested and used in 2023.
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With that work and experience gained, I can now work on my next goals:
2024 -> Create my own Website as an Information "Hub" for a niche. Also create an Instagram account, then use Instagram, Substack, and LinkedIn to Market that Website moving forward.
However, this website is NOT a portfolio site or a point of personal contact. This website it to serve as an "Information" hub for the Animation Niche. (There's more info about the niche here, but as most of you reading are 'Writers' and not Animators, I will go more in depth on Niches at a later date)
Because I'm aiming for this site to be a place to Find information about Animation, I need to have a certain amount of web pages available at the website's launch for it to be "functional". While I believe around 20-25 pages will fill that initial problem I'm aiming to solve, this is meant to be an ongoing project I can continually add to. (With plans for over 100 pages!)
And since this is going to be a long process (While hoping for ups I'm expected downs too), I figure this may be a good subject to cover in this year's run of "Bradley's Deeper Thoughts". Not the Sole subject of course, but I'll check in on progress for each month and share some insight over the course of the project.
I've been looking at this 'road' for a good while now. Some days the road looks unstable, other days it looks pretty sturdy. But you'll never know how a road goes until your travel it!