Wow, time flies. I’m 40.5 years old now.
At current trajectory, I’ll be doing 6 figure months this Xmas for sure.
- Step Edge rings are arriving in about a week
- Sales started to perform better than ever, with many days > 110 units (>$2000) on Amazon US + Amazon CA ($56k/month), > $500 in sales on Etsy ($8.5k/month), and knotheory.com doing around $5k/month, about $1k/month in Amazon EU. Overall doing about $70k/month the past 30 days. $65k/month the previous month. Just a few months ago we were doing around $48K/month.
- But as of 6 days ago I switched to Elevate from Sellerlabs. Ads were turned on as of Friday, and I saw a sales drop right away. They did warn that, but I wasn’t expecting such a huge sales and profit drop (20% less sales, 30% less profit). Could be other factors too. e.g. there were many returns yesterday.
- Hired a new VA, Ariane.
I have done a lot this year. I’m critical of myself, but really, I’ve done a lot. Even my critical self is secretly applauding haha.
I love my place. I love the view, the layout, the floors, my furniture, my plants (finally got all the bamboos!), my balcony, my trampoline, and my dark carpets even (tracked lots of soil onto it haha)!
I love having everything all tidied up either in the evening or morning. The place is so beautiful I want to keep it that way.
I think eventually I’ll want to move to a less noisy place, and a place where I don’t smell my neighbour doing molding laundry or their cooking (hit or miss) or cigarettes. Oh and less sun exposure (or, have the entire floor so I can move around).
Right now, everything has shut down and BC Place is just a piece of beautiful architecture. The traffic is still noisy, but I know it’ll get worse when things go back to normal.
Still, I wish that would happen soon. Mainly because, I have investments in malls. Sigh.
Ever since John came into my life, I feel that I’ve lost so much money and I have been more stressed out. Over stocks. Over him.
Overall, he’s just been such a negative thing in my life. There’s very little about him that is special that I must be with him. He is special, but not in ways that I appreciate.
I really don’t know what to do about him.
I have faith that things will work out for the better. For him and for me.
My investments are tied up. I don’t know if I would’ve made more or less if I never met him and never touched my stocks. But, I don’t want to dig into it to find out.
Mom lost a lot of money because of him…or, because of me relaying the info…but it’s her decisions after all. I feel like blaming him…but it’s not really his fault. Never intentionally anyway.
Ok, so, we’ve covered love and wealth.
Next, I want talk about health, and the future (happiness, fulfillment, influence, fame, control, manifestation).
I have some discoveries about my health:
- Lots of sugar or carbs (e.g. lots of fries) make me feel bad physically (tired) and irritable even angry.
- Sucralose makes me feel bad too. I think lazy and physically shitty the next day. I think it effects my nerves.
- Cold showers make me happy
- I have low blood pressure. Probably the reason why I sometimes need to lie down. This is a subject to dive deep into. It relates to autoimmune conditions, thyroid, diabetes, adrenals.
- Acne is diabetes of the skin
- Salt water seems to help me feel better and not need naps
- Thyroid supplement also helps me feel and not need naps
- Being out of breath during exercise is good for me. Makes me feel alive too.
- My subconsciousness is influenced quite effectively by words I read. I can leverage this by reading positive words often!
- Foot massage makes me feel better. Gets rid of jet lag or swollen discomfort that I sometimes get.
- Fasting for 3 days feels shitty. I suspect it’s dehydration (which lowers my blood pressure).
- I’m probably bad at controlling my blood sugar. A good diet, exercise, less stress, and good sleep are important.
- Spotted prawn head soup seemed to make me feel good. Chitin? Calcium and other minerals? Cholesterol?
- Either bioflavanoids + Vit C or cold showers have made my heavy period lighter.
- I’m fat right now likely because I didn’t exercise during not-so-successful face acid peel. I’ll change that. I’ll get fit.
- After so many attempts to take singular supplements, getting side effects such as headaches or mood issues (Vit A), I’ve decided to focus on natural supplements and high quality food.
I have forgotten that I have the ability to manifest! I won’t take all the credits. I want to thank all my gods for allowing me to live in my dream place!
I want to hone and maximize my ability to manifest. I am limitless.
I’m more successful than some, and less successful than some. That will never change.
I’m happy with where I am now, and I’m hungry to achieve even more!
I’m not going to place a glass ceiling on myself. I’m going to break through, and have a great, happy, fulfilled life. I also want to impact humanity positively.
The world is my oyster!
There’s so much I want to do.
I need more energy and focus. I’m working on these things, so that’s great!
What makes me happy? Being in love. I’ve never really been with someone that I truly love. I want to experience that. I want to be loved. I want to love. I want to be in this amazing, happy, love-filled awesome relationship.
What makes me feel fulfilled? When I create something very cool, very popular. When I level up. When I am an elite. When I get rewarded for it all.
Influence. I want influence. Influence makes everything easier. Gaining influence requires losing some freedom. I’m still thinking through how to make it work in a way that I like. I like freedom and I like influence. I’m sure there’s a happy medium for me.
Fame, same.
Control. I think most people workout to gain control. I don’t. But I do like having control. That’s why I don’t want kids. You can control what type of kids you get. That’s why it feels good to decorate and clean up the house. To dream up and design my future, the path I take, the businesses I create. That’s how I show I want to gain control. It’s interesting isn’t it? Same intention, totally different execution.
Some people don’t care for control, possibly. I wonder why. I wonder if there’s something that is the opposite that they value more. Such as, let things pan out on its own in a surprising way because it’s more …??? Interesting? Surprising? Optimized? Because there’s no use in worrying about it because we don’t actually have control over those things?
If have the time and money, I’d totally be into VR right now. I should start. I have the time and money to start exploring. To know what is being done already.
I want to get things done. I want to stop being a perfectionist so much.
BUT. I also want this:
I want to do something in order to gain true value out of it.
In school, I’d be able to ace exams by memorizing a pattern to answer the questions. In applying for grants, I’d write a fake biz plan so I can submit it. Both of these actions don’t generate real value.
Acing exams are good, but a deep understanding of the subject is far more important.
Submitting a biz plan is better than not trying, but writing a fake biz plan is a waste of my time.
I need to be more real.
I need to value my time.
What am I doing now that is just “doing it to ace an exam”?
I guess I’m planning to generate crap in social media.
Don’t do that.
Generate something good. Something useful, entertaining, or is good for my goal of getting better at videos.
My competitors have these youtube videos. They are kinda clear marketing strategy. “Let’s write on this blank wall together”. So fake. I don’t want to do that.
Their videos are so polished too. Too polished. Now is a great time to have home made videos since we are all sitting at home
What are videos I can do?
- Answer questions that ppl are asking about silicone rings – why wear it, how to size it
- Talk about new collections – wear outfits to match, or intro mood board, or talk about origin (inspiration), and process (if it took many tries)
- Talk about pairing many different rings
- Talk about my story
- Check what other successful product owners are doing. e.g. Huda. She is so big but is a one woman show!
- A tour of my process and facility?
- Up and coming services such as engraving
- eco packaging (that’s not a whole video though)