It’s been almost 4 years since this site has seen any life at all… and what a crazy 4 years it’s been… besides the weight up’s and down’s, I now have an almost 3 year old named Sophia… she was born 3 months before the Pandemic lock down started…. to say she keeps me busy is an understatement. My sister was diagnosed with Leukemia and has since had a bone marrow transplant and my 91 year old mom moved in with us almost a year ago. It’s been a few crazy years.
The site is now back and I’m having a hard time figuring out exactly what it will be this time… I have tried to build this site and have promised frequent updates many, many times in the past… none of which went very far. I want this to keep me accountable for my health and weight… I want to share things that I have found useful (products, websites, insights, recipes, etc.) I want to promote myself and maybe expand into cooking videos and books… but mainly I want to create content that will keep visitors involved, focused and possibly help them and to build that fan base. Monetizing (past the occasional affiliate link) maybe in the future.
But how to do all (or any) of this is the question. Here are my priorities:
- I think some or most probably don’t care much about my personal weight loss.. maybe just a current weight if anything… but there may be a few that would want that as inspiration and o don’t want to not offer that… so 80/20 rule… I will focus most of my time and efforts on what most will want: diet tips, recipes, product suggestions and reviews, motivational inspiring memes and links… and much less time on food logs, the history of my weight loss, etc… I have started this by removing food logs fun the site and automating the current weight and weight loss chart found in the progress and milestones page. Recipes and daily cooking tips will be a huge focus initially.
- I need to more specifically categorize my pay and future blog posts… categories like goal setting, focus, diets, products, recipes, mental health, personal journey.
- Make time to research and read… finding interesting content to share and comment on is very important.
- Adapt. As I get into this it will be of utmost importance that I do things here that keep ME interested. Part of that will be revamping the site design to something more modern and less cartoonish.
- Not expect others involvement… this site has to be for me first… sure I would love feedback and interaction from friends, family and complete strangers all over the world, but I can’t rely on that… and not use that as a measure of success or failure.
- Daily interactions. I need to take what time I do have and build content, store some nontime sensitive content to use on days I am overwhelmed with life.
- Connect. I have never had a problem opening up and laying every thing about my life or there… but that is no longer a focus here. Other than in the personal journey category I will limit my details to only brief mentions in coordination with us subject I’m writing about.
- Videos. I have to step outside my own comfort zone and do videos. Tiktok, youtube… right now I see cooking/recipe videos as the easiest for me.
- Social media and branding. Create logos for onepoundatatime and associated social media accounts and create a plan to promote them.
- Bowling. As I get healthier I will resurrect my bowling hobby and my progress will be tracked here also.
So I will start now. Please comment and say Hi!
Steve