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Level Grinding: The Daily Hustle #12

Monday October 30, 2017

It's Monday! This week is going to be slower than usual, without a big edit job to work on. But I'm still hustling to prepare well and to find clients. In this episode, I discuss my success in my 12 Week Year last week and why you need to know your monthly financial numbers if you're going to "make it" as an entrepreneur.

LEVEL GRINDING is about the daily hustle I do and the steps I take and the things I learned to do to make my vision for my life a reality. These daily peeks at my work and life at at the baby stages of my business, but (hopefully) can give you an idea of what it takes to make your dreams a reality.

These may or may not be a totally daily thing. I don't know yet what my daily schedule can keep up, but we'll figure it out. Let me know what you think in the comments and what you'd like to see more of/not see.

Cheers!

This video was shot by me on my OnePlus 5 phones. Edited it on my smartphone with Adobe Premiere Clip and Filmora Go. The title inserts were created in Premiere Pro and imported into my phone to edit into this (and more) videos.

Get Adobe Premiere Clip for your smartphone here: https://premiereclip.adobe.com

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----- Rachel Bastarache Bogan is an entrepreneur, video editor and author. She is the founder of Renegade Digital Post, a post-production company providing video post-production services to filmmakers, producers, content creators and marketers. She regularly works finishing videos for the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In 2017, she wrote a book called “How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch,” giving producers and video shooters the tools to create engaging content.

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Level Grinding: The Daily Hustle #15

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Today is a day about bringing better content to my audiences. It's asking friends for their input and what they see I could do, it's doing the scary work of asking people what they really think and what they'd like to see, and it's going through a blog post and editing it down so it's succinct and to the point.

The challenge for you? When did you last ask someone else for their opinion on the things you're doing?

Let me know what you think in the comments! Ask questions or talk to me about what topics or tools you want to know more about.

Connect and learn more about Andrea here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreamather

LEVEL GRINDING is about the daily hustle I do and the steps I take and the things I learned to do to make my vision for my life a reality. These daily peeks at my work and life at at the baby stages of my business, but (hopefully) can give you an idea of what it takes to make your dreams a reality.

These may or may not be a totally daily thing. I don't know yet what my daily schedule can keep up, but we'll figure it out. Let me know what you think in the comments and what you'd like to see more of/not see.

Cheers!

This video was shot by me on my OnePlus 5 phones. Edited it on my smartphone with Adobe Premiere Clip and Filmora Go. The title inserts were created in Premiere Pro and imported into my phone to edit into this (and more) videos.

Get Adobe Premiere Clip for your smartphone here: https://premiereclip.adobe.com

----- Follow my daily hustle here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx4zgXfZgeixsmy4DZdKMZhas9otq_V1B

----- Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQb1LFBcJPvGkF5R_jQ_zAw Subscribe to my company channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCaLIC5p-dvDgroobk_jBQ

----- Rachel Bastarache Bogan is an entrepreneur, video editor and author. She is the founder of Renegade Digital Post, a post-production company providing video post-production services to filmmakers, producers, content creators and marketers. She regularly works finishing videos for the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In 2017, she wrote a book called “How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch,” giving producers and video shooters the tools to create engaging content.

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Level Grinding: The Daily Hustle #14

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

I have two calls with Twitter friends who have reached out to me to chat about the post-production world, freelancing, working from home, and starting businesses. I'm also getting my freaking website UPDATED TODAY. Period.

LEVEL GRINDING is about the daily hustle I do and the steps I take and the things I learned to do to make my vision for my life a reality. These daily peeks at my work and life at at the baby stages of my business, but (hopefully) can give you an idea of what it takes to make your dreams a reality.

These may or may not be a totally daily thing. I don't know yet what my daily schedule can keep up, but we'll figure it out. Let me know what you think in the comments and what you'd like to see more of/not see.

Cheers!

This video was shot by me on my OnePlus 5 phones. Edited it on my smartphone with Adobe Premiere Clip and Filmora Go. The title inserts were created in Premiere Pro and imported into my phone to edit into this (and more) videos.

Get Adobe Premiere Clip for your smartphone here: https://premiereclip.adobe.com

----- Follow my daily hustle here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx4zgXfZgeixsmy4DZdKMZhas9otq_V1B

----- Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQb1LFBcJPvGkF5R_jQ_zAw Subscribe to my company channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCaLIC5p-dvDgroobk_jBQ

----- Rachel Bastarache Bogan is an entrepreneur, video editor and author. She is the founder of Renegade Digital Post, a post-production company providing video post-production services to filmmakers, producers, content creators and marketers. She regularly works finishing videos for the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In 2017, she wrote a book called “How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch,” giving producers and video shooters the tools to create engaging content.

Follow Me Online Here:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/rachelfinder Facebook: www.facebook.com/rachelfinder Twitter: www.twitter.com/rachelfinder Website: www.rachelfinder.com Medium: https://medium.com/@rachelfinder

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The monochrome landscape looks dull on first glance. But a deeper gaze reveals tones of red and brown, soothed by a blanket of military gray clouds. It's a landscape both bleak and full of texture.

It's not the colors of a northeastern winter that makes it beautiful. It is the unbroken hedges of cranberry brown, set a-front of a houndstooth of tree trunks.

The branches sometimes bear orange limp tufts--leaves that have forgotten the warmth of summer. Here, winter birds like chattering chickadees and boldly colored dashes of cardinals and jays play and scrounge among squirrels and field mice.

It's a wholely North American landscaping. No other gray is woolen soft. No other hedge is harboring the promise of spring's new growth.

Here is where the wild is left to itself to sigh and rest. Here is where I feel the call to come to ground.

To come home.

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I've been experimenting with illustration and free writing. It's been an interesting creative outlet. I've always been a writer and an illustrator. But I never intentionally combined them in my creative cultivation.

I'm pleased with this one, both the spontaneity in my coloring and line work on the illustration, and the emotional painting in my writing.

A lot of people don't get SPECIFIC. They want the "normal stuff" and then wonder why they never have anything special. You've got to get specific.

This doesn't just apply to stuff, like houses and cars and tech. It applies to the kind of Life you want to have, the things you want to do, and the person you want to be.

First, a secret: despite what you might think, everybody else doesn't have it figured out and you're the only one who doesn't. Start there. Everybody is on a journey of discovering and living out of their Purpose. Some are just further along that others.

Second, Purpose is deeply tied to who we are and to the things we care about. If you haven't already done this, take note of the things you like and love. And be honest. Don't note things you think you're "supposed" to like or be passionate about. If pigeons and paper clips are your jam, own it!

Third, think about why you love those things and what about them tickles your fascination?

Another way to do this is time-travel. Your childhood self knows a lot more about your passions than you remember. Go back and think, what did you love then? What did you "want to be when you grow up?"

This isn't necessarily your day job that earns you money. It's the Purpose behind what you do. Sometimes your day job is an extension of that Purpose. Sometimes your hobbies and activities more align with your Purpose.

Sometimes, we're not so lucky to have this idea of Purpose figured out. We go about our day, we have fun, we have chores, and in the middle of all that we wonder why it matters. Purpose gives it weight to matter.

So how do you figure out your Purpose, especially if you don't have one even on your radar?

My first suggestion is to take a step back throughout your day and notice what things bring you a satisfied smile. Do this for a week or so. Note the things that caused the smile. Did they involve your family? Your work? Your friends? What you read on the community bulletin board? What you did in your spare time?