The Grind- The Last Few Months of Apocalyptic Prepping

Social Media entrepreneurs talk about "the hustle" and "the grind" like they're a beautiful, wonderful, magical thing. Like they're the entrepreneurial magic fairy dust that they love, and that makes their life worth living. 

The truth is- the grind sucks. It's doing all the little, routine, boring things every day. Consistently. 

And "the hustle?" That's trying to do multiple days worth of boring, routine, little things all in one day. 

The grind isn't fun, but we stick with it because it makes all the difference. Eventually we can outsource the tasks we dislike the most. Then with more success, we can outsource even more. We hustle, we try to move as quick as possible, so we can make that happen even faster. 

Right now there are 3 tasks that I force myself to grind out on my website every day. 1 of the 3 I really enjoy, writing new material. One I don't like at all- going back and updating one of my older posts, making sure the amazon links are still good, and that I didn't write anything stupid in it. Lastly, I produce 2 title images for 2 of my drafts (I have about 250 draft articles in the works). I don't mind making the title images, but its not as fun as writing. 

The other night, I put together 2 days worth of work in one night. I did 4 title images, revised 2 articles, and published my articles: Tinder vs Kindling, and How Much Paracord for a Bug Out Bag. I was pretty proud of myself.

My website has been growing at a steady and consistent rate. The month of August I had 1,001 organic page views, and I'm on track to do even better than that this month. My website also consistently generates money, even if I do absolutely nothing else with it, it'll continue to make money for years. I made a little over $10 last month, and I'm also on track to beat that figure again this month as well. With my current writing style, I average about $1 per 100 page views. I'm working on ways to increase that number, but the more I write, the growth has been coming exponential. It's been exciting. 

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