Neurospicy Art: Week 26

Even though NSA is officially only a couple of months old, I actually started working on it on the 9th of June – the day after my 40th birthday.

Which means that we are actually at the 6 month mark and we are 26 weeks deep already.

This week was relatively productive and successful.

·      I filmed and edited a vlog

·      Made some social tiles

·      Wrote some copy

·      Scheduled some posts

·      Did some research

·      Emails

·      Created some new pieces of art for another project

·      Completely revamped the homepage, added testimonials, new images for the art works, looked into some analytics etc

·      Engaged with people on Instagram each day

·      Created a new product page template

I’m sure there were countless other small tasks as well, but these were the main ones.

Outcomes/Lessons

·      I’ve decided that I can’t do weekly vlogs, and it may actually be easier for me to do it daily (watch this space)

·      Realised that at this stage of a business/project there are going to be some tasks that are stupid and time consuming, but I just have to do them. There’s no one to pass them on to, and the reality is that it does take me away from more important income-generating work, but unfortunately this backend stuff still needs to get done. The specific example this week was having to re-name 988 files, which took me well over an hour to do. When I only have 1-2 hours a day to work on this project, that is a significant drain on my time.

·      The importance of self-care and rest.

MVPs for this week:

·      Perplexity AI -  for writing custom CSS for me one minute and then researching papers in Neuron for me the next. Thanks bruh.

·      Buffer – the only way I can mentally cope with the agony of posting on Instagram everyday.

·      Basecamp – for helping me organise everything I need to for this project. I still haven’t maxxed out the functionality, but even the little I have used it for has freed up some much needed mental space for me.

Next week looks much the same for me as this week:

·      Write copy

·      Schedule new social media posts

·      Edit some more photos

·      Vlog

·      Build new product pages

Stay Classy ✌🏻

P.S If you’d like to support the Neurospicy Art project you can buy your very own limited edition fine art print here. 100% of the profits from this project will be donated to brain cancer research! 🖤