I am not sure where to begin. I have written time and time again about a new direction that I am heading with this blog and have felt a complete lack of focus the last few months.
Here’s a quick recap.
In January I decided to go back to school. I enrolled at BYU-I in their Web Design and Development program. I had 3 classes (7 credits) and one of the classes was an Introduction to Graphic Design. Throughout the class I spoke often (weekly) with my instructor about a career path in the field. He made it very clear that there were two basic career paths with Graphic Design.
The first option is to get hired as a graphic artist and start at the “bottom of the totem pole”, working your way up. Being able to support a family is obviously very important to me so this option was dead.
The other option is to just freelance. I am not going to spend the next 4 years finishing my degree to then be a freelancer working job to job with little security or guarantee. It became clear to me that Graphic Design, for me is not something I am going to pursue as a career. It can be a neat hobby or interest but is not going to be a main source of focus right now.
The other two classes were random General Ed classes. While they were interesting and I am glad I learned what I did I felt like I was wasting valuable time and energy with projects and assignments that were of little value to me. All this time up until 2:00 – 3:00 am most nights of the week took away from time I could have been building a business – hence no post or change to this blog since December.
It is time for that to change. I would rather spend my time building some additional income sources than in school.
So my plan now is to spend my time following a system and making it work. There are thousands of other people that make money each month online.
Why can’t I be one of them? I can and I will be.
Goals for 2013
As of right now I have some general goals in place for the rest of this year. I need to refine them a bit but generally speaking, here they are.
- Get access to one program that I am comfortable with and follow the process exactly
- Unsubscribe from all other email marketing lists. Focus on the one
- Detail progress on this blog 2-4 times per week
- Earn $1000 – $1500 online each month
These will be modified as needed over the course of the year and as needed.
