I claim success, thanks to Anne Lamott — This is a post in the series that started here. If you have been following my journey, you’d know that last week I gave myself a seemingly low bar to surmount by today: Create my Gumroad storefront, and Complete the first draft of my book that will be listed on…

Fault me if you will — A baby step still feels enormous — In my last post, I gave myself a few things to accomplish over the last week. Let’s see how things went. We are on Day 14. Done/Doing Focused on vacation until Day 10 and deferred action on this project. Spending the lion’s share of my time on playing host to my…

Make sure to track small wins — If you have followed this series of posts (especially my previous post) on my journey to getting set up for success on Gumroad, you would know why Day 3 is missing: I was traveling. Some folks can churn out pieces well while in transit, or waiting at airports, but not…

Having many choices is wonderful, but choosing one is powerful — If you have read my post from yesterday, you’d have noticed a glaring issue in my quest to make money on Gumroad: I have nothing saleable yet! So, the first order of business is to fix that and have one item that can be offered for sale. That one item…

My path to $1,000 in Gumroad sales from scratch — You may laugh. Seriously. Yes, my target, for now, is $1K in sales on Gumroad. And I don’t have anything saleable yet! How can I be so naive or brash that this is achievable? Because many have done a variation on the theme before, and I ask myself, Why not…

Misdirection by Google Maps almost strands us — This is an account of what happened on the very first day as we embarked on our 11-day southwestern road trip in December 2021. Check this post for an overview of the full trip. The First Day: Fremont, CA to Indio, CA

Meeting of pen-pals was the highlight of the day — This is an account of what happened on Day 2 of our 11-day southwestern road trip in December 2021. Check this post for an overview of the full trip. Our Day 1 exploits are covered here. Our first target location on this road trip was Tucson, AZ, to start off…

Table of Contents of sorts for my Medium articles published — As an aid to quickly glancing at my published articles, I am kicking off a series of Monthly Digests, starting with January 2022. As I don’t have any published work in January, it gives me a convenient place to capture all previous work so that February can be the real…

Collection of my work until the end of Jan 2022 (16) — 2021 (11) What is Swing Trading? And why it can be the most profitable form of stock trading!medium.com Where’s the Sandbar? I was standing on a sandbar, in chest-high seawater. I decided to swim over the sandbar. After a few yards, decided to…medium.com Freedom Can Be a Problem This simple mindset is your solutionmedium.com I Lost Something I blamed my sleep deficit for it, but it still hurtmedium.com