Enjoying the journey
It’s 2am as I am writing this, today was Monday so we played our DiggingWinning homegame again and some MTT’s. It was quite fun to play some poker again, the past week I have been playing some 50NL FastForward in fact. Just liking the challenge of that, as it feels quite reg heavy. But I don’t see myself going back to grinding every day again. The stream today was interesting, caught myself slipping into some people's negativity again. But now that I am in a way better headspace, because I am enjoying what I am doing, constantly learning and helping people, it’s way easier to snap out of that and not be busy with it and focus on the good side of things.
So you may think things have slowed down now I don’t stream as much anymore. But in reality it’s more the opposite. I have been running 12hr work days for the past month without taking a day off, but with a smile on my face all the time. With a Raise Your Edge sale going on, SCOOP sale currently, things are always rather busy. Creating and posting graphics for the sale, the usual posts, a lot of engagement in stories and dm’s.. so takes a lot of work to get through all that. Then of course also running two of my own socials, the dwstevie & dwsteviepoker socials. Posting every single day on both, doing stories, youtube videos and because it’s a new direction also a lot of time goes into creating a good framework to work in. As well as trying new things and learning new things to improve the new content.
Things are going OKAY
It’s a bit audacious to think things are gonna pop off right off the bat. Views are decent, engagement a bit on the low side.. Youtube is a bit underperforming.. but it doesn’t necessarily mean the content is bad. It can also mean my current audience, which is still mainly poker, doesn’t enjoy it as much, but other’s may! From some directions I did expect a little bit more support or rather hoped for it, but I am not feeling bad about it, it's out of my control. Also that is what it is and now I know where I am at. Basically got things confirmed for myself. It’s all not easy, I am not going to lie about that. But being more okay with myself, trusting and believing more in myself, definitely helps a lot.Another thing that made me really happy was getting back in touch with people I really respect. People I can have a good conversation with and that I can learn from. Which really shows how important it is who you spend your time with. So I really want to remind myself by writing this, to continue to spend time with those people and surround myself with the right people.
What I want to be doing the coming month(s) is actually actively expanding business. The past month I have been mainly focusing on creating content and walked basically into the issue of not really knowing what to create or rather the feeling of being ineffective. So I want to push myself to get proactive and go after it, instead of passively hoping things will come.. even though it probably will, if I am being patient. So I envision it by reaching out to businesses, offering plans to step up their game and document doing so. Which if you watch the first Youtube video of this new chapter, was the idea in the first place. But I kinda defaulted back into creating content because that’s my comfort zone but also because there is no real need to do differently at this time. To achieve the best results, you need to have that burning desire though. And I think it starts with reframing that desire. It is not the desire of money, it is the desire of getting in touch with more people I like and helping other people and businesses. And I am just more capable of fulfilling that desire by going out there and proactively approaching businesses & people, instead of hoping they come to me.