Fund Feb wrap-up

February was all about money and money habits. At the start of the month, I wanted to push on my $5k MRR goal, and experiment on these habits:

• Review my product portfolio and plan opportunities for monetization.
• Setting aside at least 1h everyday to work on money.
• At least 1 task per day to monetize something.
• Write 4 posts (1 per week) about my money beliefs and attitudes, and what I can change about it.
• Daily morning verbal affirmation exercise.
• Reactivate my daily $2 note jar.

I think I managed to check them all off!

• Relooked at my #pluginsforcarrd project, revived Fiverr account, revived Sweet Jam Sites, sent out web design 3 proposals.

• Managed at least 1 task and 1h of marketing/money work 90% of the time. Did organic sharing/marketing everyday, on Twitter or Indie Hackers, discovered new hashtags for marketing. Onboarded a marketing volunteer for Lifelog’s IG account.

• Did more than 4 posts about money – about starting small, the power of rituals, reframing my vision statement, required marketing readings, rediscovering Twitter marketing, and back to marketing basics.

• And of course, stabilized the early morning rituals of affirmation and the $2 jar.

Other wins:

• Started a potential pipeline of social impact projects and volunteering consultancy for a social enterprise group
• Keto List revenue = $120
• Launched another free Carrd clone for #pluginsforcarrd, and transferred 23 free clone templates out
• Lots of sleep biohacking. Best hack this month - coffee naps. Feeling much much better on the sleep front due to this.
• Restarted FB ads for Grant Hunt bot.
• Hit 800🔥 day streak on Makerlog
• Lifelog updates - rolled out notifications feature, a massive goals-oriented update like badges, goals, leaderboards, profile + account pages, public goals pages, featured goals. Also added a blog, a comments posted snackbar and other performance optimizations. Most proud of the animated bell icon for notifications.

Overall, it felt like a really long month, even though it was the shortest for the year. Not sure why, perhaps it could be because I’m taking a really long time to code out the @mention autocomplete and notification feature for Lifelog. Time seems to come to a standstill when you’re troubleshooting day in, day out.

But I’m glad to have done this review – I’d actually done a lot it seems, even though it didn’t feel so. I think that’s why it’s important—for me at least—to do this faithfully every month, because I’m my own worst critic. The kind of perpetually grumpy, unreasonably demanding critic that never has anything nice to say, even if warranted. Such reviews help me silence that critic for a while, and gives a more accurate assessment of the reality.

It was a great Fund Feb for sure! But I don’t think I’m done with money yet.

Onward.