Can you change your life in 2-3 months? - an experiment

[Jani]

Now this day wasn't so bad.

I've even made a simple plan I wanted to post here, but I've worked on a model till now and now it's kinda late for posting that long, so I guess I'll leave it for tomorrow.

Almost 2 weeks passed, but I'm getting myself together, little by little every day. I also wanna work harder just so I can post more interesting stuff than "I worked today", and I hope I can also nail that from tomorrow, I may even post some pictures I've finished.

[Jani]

Here we go with a bit longer update. So I've been doing things for a few days now, but I just felt I wasn't focused enough and I wasn't necessarily working on things that are most important, so I came up with a plan which I'd like to share here, you know, public accountability and stuff, and so I can more easily track my progress and show it to you as well.

So here's what I was thinking- my main-main goal is :

- become known as a digital artist and get enough money to safely move out from home and be able to make a living from my hobby from that point on

The main three things to achieve this :

1. Build a portfolio : obviously, I'd need some great works to show off if I want to do some freelance work down the road, so this is an absolute must. This also can turn into a long-term ( I mean some time in the future ) income source.

2. Build a blog : a blog can be also a great passive (!) income source down the road, and an essential part of my marketing plan, and I'd love to have a blog anyway, so this is the second objective.

3. Money : the first two objectives are nice and essential, however I won't make much money with them for some time, so I'll also need income instantly. 2000$ would be a nice start, enough for moving out ( 1 month rent), food, and a computer.

So here's the more detailed plan:

1. Portfolio: I'm aiming for about 50 images here. That may sound a lot, but if you read further, you'll understand why I think I can handle it.
I'll make the 50 images in the following categories :
3D characters - 10 cartoon, 10 other
3D architecture - 5
3D other -10
Vector - 10
Other 2D - 5

2. Blog: 20 posts:
Tutorials - 10
Written articles - 5
Freebies - 5

3. Money : I wanna make the money mainly from paid guest-posting, I want to score about 10 tutorials. An average tutorial gets about 150$, that's 1500, and make the rest from making wordpress templates and selling them on themeforest or giving away freebies for money ( I'm going for about 10 of these, I think they can average 50$ each ).

That's a total of 90 things, for 60 days. So if I can check an average 1.5 points of those each day, I should be OK.

So starting tomorrow, I'll track here this stuff and always post how I'm doing. ( Day x, y/90 things done, z% above/below planned ).

I know I should have created this plan long ago, but can't do anything about it now. I'll just look at the past two weeks as a mental warmup ( which it was for sure, I'm all pumped up, not nervous a bit, not even fearing the consequences, I'm feeling really great now... )

And, on a sidenote, I'm now officially overweight again, I gained back all the weight I lost before I broke my leg, and although it's still kinda healing, I'll start to "run" every day and control my meal sizes, so this is gonna be a great weight-loss trial as well on the side. ( In May I lost 12kg in 6 weeks, I wonder if I can top that )

So the real deal starts tomorrow! I'm looking forward to it.