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Gaining Motivation Through Success
Lately I’ve struggled to find motivation to keep moving forward.
I’ve taken small steps, and I remind myself that every small step forward is a step in the right direction; it’s progress. But, I also know that I could be getting so much more accomplished.
It’s hard to stay motivated when you don’t feel as though you getting anything in return. I know the journey I’m on is more of a marathon rather than a sprint, yet it still slows me down. Here on Medium, I was spending a lot of time writing, reading, and engaging. What was I getting for it? About $.20 a day. On Kindle Vella I was posting two episodes a week which meant two full days of editing. In return … crickets.
Two things over the last couple of months have helped me keep going. One article here on Medium took off and I was actually getting more than 10 reads a day. It reminded me that you never know what will resonate with people and to keep writing here. Then yesterday …
The Kindle Vella bonus came out and I can’t tell you how thrilled I was. I dropped my episodes on Vella as an experiment. I didn’t plan on making any money with it, and didn’t expect any. Yet, every day when I saw that most days I wasn’t even getting any reads, I would get disappointed. I dropped it down to one episode a week. With the amount I received from the bonus, it excites me…