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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 31
Well I naïvely thought writing a kids book would be easy. It's fewer words that's gotta be easy. But I think the words have to be a little bit more precise and thought about, because it’s gonna be read to little kids. consistency in writing is very important. I think you’ve got to show up every day, you gotta be getting words down on the page, even if your heart’s not in it. Even if you don't have any ideas, you’ve just gotta be putting stuff down on the page. And back from my script writing days a lot of people would refer to that as a vomit pass, which is pretty much a first draft. Get the words out there on the page, you get the idea out there. Because if you stop, you’ve stopped. Whereas if you’re being consistent in writing every day, you’re at least getting something, you've got something to work with. But if you're not getting anything down on the page you've got nothing to work with.

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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 77
Last night something extremely cool happened, apart from the fact that I'm getting up near 100 subscribers on YouTube. Someone subscribed to my channel who's basically been a major inspiration for me to step outside of my comfort zone and document my midlife career pivot experiment. I was listening a lot to Garry Vaynerchuk, and getting positivity into my ears. And I was watching a fair bit of YouTube, watching Cody Wanner’s videos and getting lots of positivity into my eyes. And basically I was getting so much positivity in my head if I didn't actually execute on any of this positivity my brain may have exploded so that's what got me going into all this whole journey and last night Cody Wanner actually subscribed to my YouTube channel and he tweeted it out.
#NoSmallCreator #DocumentDontCreate #CodyWanner #GaryVaynerchuk

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I’ve well and truly embarked on my monetising my journey project for this week. I've signed up for an Amazon associates account, which then allows me to place product links within my YouTube description and from there people can click on that to go buy something, and I get a percentage of the sale which is awesome. But another great thing is that if they click on the link say for a book and then they go on to buy a car, or a plane or something. Then I still get a percentage of that which is really cool. I don’t know if they have cars or planes on Amazon. Anyway, so the only problem is, I’ve got 100 vlogs, I don't really have, I don’t really mention many products. I mention a few books, Simon Sinek’s 4 Hour Work Week and... no, no, Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Work Week and Simon Sineks’ Start With Why. And hopefully, I've got 180 days to prove myself to sell something otherwise they are gonna take away my account. So this is going to be interesting to see if I can make it work.

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I explore 3 different ways to get money as a starving artist and hopefully, maybe, become a thriving artist. #realartistsdontstarve #forkintheroad #nosmallcreator

Massively excited and equally disappointed today. Some great news for people who are podcasting on the Anchor platform. I think it's a fantastic platform, it’s easy, simple to use, love it. And they've just included a thing where you can click a button and then you'll get proposals from people wanting to sponsor on your show no matter the size and you’ll start earning money from that. You recorded it yourself, you choose were goes on the show, everything like that, it's really exciting. I got really excited about this and until they said Australia is not included, it's just in the US. So that's a big bummer. Then I got thinking about the patron angle when I was talking about monetising my journey and I think okay so, adverts versus no adverts, maybe the entry-level patrons can be supporting the fact that you're not advertising anywhere, your not advertising on your podcast your vlog or your blog. So that might also be another good way to earn some money.
#AnchorPodcasts #ForkInTheRoad #NoSmallCreator


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Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 29
Do you remember that scene in ‘The Shining’? The one where Jack Nicholson is trying to get some writing done. Well I wouldn't exactly class that as a good example of parenting. I’m trying to find that quite time that clear space in my head, where I can let the story flow. Its already been established that I can draw anywhere on my phone and I recon I could illustrate in an earthquake quite happily without getting too distracted. But writing I need the clear space in my head, I need some peace and quiet and I think the only way I'm gonna be able to do this is to get up super early, before anyone else, and that means getting to bed probably before anyone else too. Or getting to bed at the same time as my daughter. But lots of creative people I have found, find this early morning, first thing in the morning kind of thing is the perfect opportunity to get the creative writing done.
#ForkInTheRoad #CareerPivot #CreativeWriting

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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 36
Jumping back into productivity with a positive mindset. The biggest thing to start with is to know how much time you've got to work with, and from there work out what your goals are, and then try and realistically work out what you can get done in the time available. Being a stay at home dad initially feels like time is of a minimum, but when I looked at it there’s little snippets of time all over the place, half an hour here, an hour there. So what I'm looking at doing for these little snippets of time is applying the Pomodoro method which is pretty much a cool name for a tomato timer, you know it could be called the egg method, that doesn't really sound as cool and that's only a couple minutes anyway. So Pomodoro method is about short burst of 25 minutes or so where you focus a hundred percent on that job, try and get that specific task done within that amount of time and when the timer goes that's it, you're done, you're finished.

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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 43
Now the whole idea behind the fork in the road career pivot experiment was that I was gonna become a human guinea pig, subjecting myself to daily tips, tactic, strategies and hacks in an attempt to discover what works and what can move the needle in having a successful career pivot to having a successful career. The only problem was that I was only spending one day, one minute, one vlog, one chapter of a podcast on each of these methods which is basically highlighting that they existed, but wasn't delving any deeper. So now the new format is that I'll be giving each one of these tactics and entire week to breath, to see what It can do, to see how hard it is to implement in my daily routine and get an idea if it's gonna work or not.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments, find me on Instagram (andycmarshall) or send me a voice message on Anchor.fm and let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 34
So this weeks experiment all about starting really should've been about procrastinating. But there is some good to come out of procrastinating because I've talked about getting through writers block. Getting through that fear of starting, why do you? What's stopping you from jumping out the plane? It’s not even jumping out a plane, it’s just starting a project, it’s not even that scary, what could you do fail? You could succeed? what's the problem that? you could look like an idiot? That's pretty easy to do, but who cares? Next week the procrastination ends, it's gotta stop, because next week I'm going to be highlighting productivity. So if I can't get anything done next week then I may as well throw in the towel.
#ForkInTheRoad #ProductiveProcrastination

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Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 39
I would spend so much time organising and arranging my to-do lists, and obsessing over them that I’d spend all this time doing that rather than doing the things on the to-do list. I'd like to break it down into a list of three items that you come up with at the start of every day and the three items will be, the first item is that one big thing which is gonna move you towards your end goal. the second one is doing something uncomfortable that you don't want to do that you know you have to do if you want to progress further towards your goals. And the third thing on that list is the things that you have to do, those urgent things that need your attention straight away, otherwise you might be put in jail or fined a large amount of money. So they are my three items on my daily checklist

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Looking at my YouTube channel I’ve reached my first milestone which I was talking about, which is 3000 views. Now I don't know whether that's amazing, good, average, indifferent, but to me it's pretty amazing. I'm coming from a background of being projectionist, I know what 3000 people watching a movie looks like. Even if it’s for only one minute black-and-white square films. One thing which I think makes YouTube so good, and you know I hadn’t really thought about it in this respect before but it's different to like posting videos on Facebook or Instagram or anything like that because the thing is with YouTube, is, to start off with you post it and it's up there forever until you take it down, or until YouTube goes bust - I don’t know if that’s ever gonna happen - and the other thing is the search engine it’s just like Google people are always typing in things like how do I do this? how do I do that? and that way they can just find stuff, you can't do that with Instagram or Facebook.

Read or listen to Fork In The Road
Blog https://andycmarshall.wordpress.com/
Podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

I’d love to hear from you in the comments
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Send me a voice message on Anchor.fm; https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall

Let’s talk career pivots and strategies to get back on track.

Midlife career pivoter Andy Marshall subjects himself to weekly, strategies, tips and hacks from self-help podcasters in a real time experiment to discover his ‘what the hell do I do next?

Vlog 53
I think the vlog has come along way, and also the fact that I'm spending an entire week on the subject allows me to go deeper on it and I’m personally getting something out of it, and hopefully you might get be getting more out of it too. to be able to say what my why is, it’s just a simple few words, it's not that detailed, it’s not that special whatever but by having those words in my head and having that as my why for some reason I feel a lot more focused and determined and just together with my whole concept of where I want to go a lot more than I ever did because otherwise you're striving for what I think you need to be striving for something you gotta know where you're going or where you want to go, otherwise you're just drifting. Next week, the next logical progression is to go to How on the Golden Circle.
#StartWithWhy #FindMyWhy #NoSmallCreator #ForkInTheRoad

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