So many times, I try to listen to tips about personal branding, ways to create compelling stories, all that. And yet, I can never get the “strategy” to NOT go over my head.
Listen. I’ve been making stuff on the internet since…. 2009, or something. Have I been successful? Well. Depends! Leaning towards, no, though. But you know what. It’s not what matters to me personally.
And yet, it is something that really calls in some envy in me, because, I see these people out there “content creating” and getting results (even worse so, making stuff that feels similar to what I would and could do) and then I look at my own stuff and I wonder… why is that not me?
A part of it is just some number envy, yes.
But a part of it is that as soon as someone tells me to do things a certain way…
I.
Do not.
Want to do it that way.
Curse my stubbornness!
There is an exception to this and it’s only if I genuinely feel like there is something that sets an example for me, which inspires me, which feels REAL.
And I think that is why… The way people talk about “strategy”, I’m sure it is real in it’s own way and it works, but if I have to think about it that way whenever I make things… then it is just too exhausting and overwhelming.
That is not worth it, to me.
But it sucks, because a little sad voice tells me, that it wishes I would, so that I was seen.
Gotta keep on trucking on, though. Doing it the way I think it is worth doing.