It’s time to get noticed. Again.
I’m not the biggest U2 fan. I think their best music can be found in their earlier albums. However, they never fail to strike a chord (pardon the pun) lyrically.
There’s always a single or two on every album that has lyrics that really resonate. None more so than their recent release, Get Out Of Your Own Way.
It’s been a long hiatus. I haven’t written a blog post in years. And I’m pretty ashamed and appalled by this fact.
I don’t buy into empty New Year Resolutions or cliché New Year, New Me rubbish.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
Actions speak louder than words. Just do it. Call it what you want. I haven’t been doing it. I haven’t been putting my words into action.
New Year is an arbitrary point in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. January 1st in the Gregorian Calendar is an arbitrary starting point to the New Year (fashioned so that Easter falls at the same point in the lunar cycle every year). So, in an equally arbitrary fashion, I have decided that now is as good a time as any to get noticed again. It’s not a New Me. It’s just Me. I’m back.
I’m blogging. Posting. Sharing. Updating. Creating content that interests me. If it interests you too, great!
When I first launched my website in 2013 I had a fairly regular blog where I wrote about the creative process, explored the ins and outs of social media, commented on adverts that interested me and creative work that inspired me. That content drove traffic to my website. It helped me get noticed. It gained me followers. Clients. And, most importantly, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing. Creating. Sharing. And all the conversations and interactions that resulted from it.
Then I just stopped. I didn’t stop being interested, I just stopped writing about it. I didn’t have the time.
Sorry. What?
I didn’t make the time. So I stopped getting noticed.
And it’s this that I am going to change.
This is my plan to get noticed
Taking inspiration from One Minute Briefs (@OneMinuteBriefs) and Nick Entwistle from the Bank of Creativity (@BOC_ATM)and now Trunk Agency (@TweetsByTrunk) I plan to “get sh*t done” this year.
Write it down. Post it. Share it. Whatever it is. Just do it. There is no point in doing nothing. So let’s do something.
Nick once said, “there is nothing more important than the work you do, to get the work that you do noticed.” Or words to that effect.
And that’s what I plan to do.
This year I plan to spend more time promoting my work. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. You can’t please everybody. And if you set out to try to please everybody you’ll create nothing meaningful.
If you don’t take the time to work on promoting the work that you do you’re as good as invisible.
It’s not just good enough creating. Share what you create. Be visible. Get noticed.
And that’s my plan this year. I have a new website. It’s going to be cleaner and neater. I will update it regularly with new content. New posts. My latest work and endeavours.
Now is the time to “get sh*t done.” Do work to get the work that I do seen. Share more. Post more. Create More. Get back into old habits.
No more excuses.
It’s time to get out of my own way and get noticed! Again.
Gareth
