“But you LOVE dodgeball!” (Me to 10)
👦🏻 “Yeah, I just like it a little bit now.”
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“But you LOVE nut butter raisin bread!” (Me to 8)
👦🏻 “Not that much anymore. What else can I eat?”
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“But we LOVE playing Hidden Pictures together!” (Me to 5)
👧🏻 “BORING. What else we can play?” (And yes, this is how she talks).
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Kids are growing out of things all the time.
Their toys.
Their hobbies.
Their food.
They love it for years and one day THEY. JUST. DON’T.
And even though I’ve been doing this so-called parenting thing for 10+ years, it still gives me whiplash the moment I realize they are SO OVER the thing they once loved so dearly.
It’s such an inconvenience!
How dare they grow up and change!
UGH!
And people think it’s the KIDS who whine lol 😅
These moments are a reminder to stop holding on so tight.
Sometimes we don’t even know how tightly we're holding on.
For example, I just got this same whiplash after reading a post in my copywriting group in which my mentor said…
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If you want to scale in the creator economy, you need to have one of the following offers:
A Paid Community
or
A Paid Newsletter
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I immediately went, oh dear gawd, do I need to QUIT this creator economy because I have no interest in doing either of those!
I LOVE the way I do things now!
I’ve worked so HARD to get to this point!
I don’t want to CHANGE, are you kidding me?!
And once I said that out loud (in my brain), I realized I’m that same whiny parent who sits there aghast and in disbelief that kids grow up and *gasp* change.
I was exhibiting the signs of a stubborn business owner who can’t/won’t pivot.
So after my brain acted a fool with this whiny little escapade, I told it to stfu and immediately switched over to my favorite type of thinking:
“How can I do what my mentor recommends in my OWN way and make it fun and doable for me?”
And now I’m totally excited lol.
I’m exploring Substack and learning about the different and interesting ways you can monetize.
I’ve already found someone I admire.
(And I swore I would never pay a Substack membership fee to read someone’s paid content, but I’m about 2 steps away from entering my credit card details 🤣)
And look, I’m not saying you should pivot, pivot, pivot every time some internet-rando makes a suggestion.
But if that suggestion comes from a place of experience…
If that person is living a life similar to what you want…
And if you trust that person enough to pay for their advice…
Then maybe it’s worth exploring, ya know??
Luckily, all the things I’m doing now (writing daily, publishing weekly, and creating a high-quality lead magnet) all still apply.
Now I need to…
1) Learn more about Substack.
2) If I proceed, I will figure out how to best utilize the content on my own website (which I want to keep building).
3) Research viable paid offers that don’t require me to keep launching new products.
So that’s what I’m thinking about as I do all the rest of my work.
Luckily this is fun.
More to come soon.
Cin🤡
