Alright, video number two. Here we go. Okay, so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to start a YouTube channel. And I did so by abandoning everything that I had planned of starting off well, with a nice laid out plan, high production value, just wanting to put in the...
Hello. My name is Jenelle and I'm not ready to start a YouTube channel. Starting a YouTube channel is something that I've wanted to do for many many years—to do it properly, to do it well—but today I’m throwing all of that out the window, and I'm just starting. It...
It's been four weeks since I last sat down to write. Given the circumstances, I thought it best not to force myself to send out a newsletter the past three Tuesdays and felt good about that decision, further reiterating that it's all part of my journey. Thankfully,...
I care a lot about what people think of me. I know this shouldn't be the case, and I know that others' opinions of me certainly shouldn't influence my view of myself but I've always been quite insecure. Making things and sharing them with others, especially online for...
Writing is hard. This is something that I was aware of before beginning this newsletter practice, but I'm finding that things aren't exactly going as I had envisioned. One of the main reasons I started writing a newsletter was so that I could have a medium of...
This is my fourth attempt at writing a newsletter today. After spending twenty or thirty minutes on three separate topics, I got annoyed and switched gears. I wasn't annoyed at any of the topics; they're all topics I want to write about, but I just wasn't "feeling"...
When I was in the early stages of considering an email newsletter I was overwhelmed by the process. I spent hours researching different newsletter providers. I knew what the go-to ones were, but I wanted to make sure I found one that would give me the best bang for my...
Jon Acuff, in his book Quitter: Closing the gap between your dream job & your day job, reflects on his first blog that almost no one read and that didn't grow despite him showing up and writing for an entire year. "Looking back on it, I needed that year. I needed...
I did it! I started an email newsletter. This is something that's been on my to-do list for quite some time but I've finally found a way to do it that I think will work for me. What is that way? To write an email newsletter for me. That might sound counterintuitive...