{"id":19187,"date":"2019-01-06T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=19187"},"modified":"2019-01-07T00:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:42:20","slug":"generating-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/generating-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating Gratitude for Business Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8ZdzqZgzp4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Gratitude is the first video in my new series about the Canadian Creative Solopreneur Life. Every Sunday, I&#8217;m going to post a video about the way things have been going in my online business development.<\/p>\n<p>This week we start at zero revenue and lots of expenses. I have hosting\u00a0services for a WordPress blog, 10 domain names, a Thrive Themes membership, a Teachable membership, a YouTube channel and monthly coaching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve created an initial set of products&#8211;four courses to help genealogists create family history stories from their research into Canadian military documents, census records and travel documents. In a future video, I&#8217;ll speak about that process. For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/notable-nonfiction-academy.teachable.com\/\">Notable Nonfiction Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In my weekly discussion about my online business this week I&#8217;m going to be talking about gratitude.<\/p>\n<h2>Stop Wallowing in Complaining Out of Action Mode<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m starting with gratitude because I&#8217;ve been generating gratitude to stop myself from wallowing in a complaining out of action mode, which I do quite a lot of, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>So do you have had a WordPress site? If so, how is Gutenberg working for you?<\/p>\n<h2>Gutenberg Misery<\/h2>\n<p>I attempted to use Gutenberg for a full two weeks of misery before happily downloading the classic editor and then being very very happy. So my WordPress site is now faster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my own personal artist&#8217;s website write web website online since 1995 and I&#8217;ve always built it myself. The first one I built out of HTML code for the first four years or so.<\/p>\n<p>I love WordPress and so when WordPress turned into the Gutenberg editor and it was very clearly not working for me, I was really wondering what I was going to do.<\/p>\n<h2>Process using Word, Evernote and Thrive<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like page builders. I have the Thrive Themes Architect and I actually love that when I need it but I don&#8217;t need it for most of the posts I do.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the posts I do are I&#8217;m just writing something in another sought piece of software like Evernote or Word or whatever and then I just copy and paste it into the classic editor and then add pictures, change things to quotes or add headings if I need to, listen to Yost SEO and do whatever I need to do to make a decent blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Gutenberg wasn&#8217;t working for me, so initially I thought that maybe it would work better on my phone but on my phone I couldn&#8217;t even see the squares let alone manipulate them, add to them or make a post.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thank you to the WordPress community.<\/p>\n<h2>Yippee for the Classic Editor<\/h2>\n<p>Already, the classic editor has been downloaded a million times and Automattic, the people who own WordPress, say that they&#8217;re going to be supporting it till at least 2022. So I just am feeling so grateful for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Now it feels like a gift actually putting me through this. After attempting to use this new piece of software that I really didn&#8217;t like and then being able to put the plugin, which I just put in yesterday and it works like a dream and it works exactly the way and everything works the way I want it to.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like oh I love this. And again I get to stay a WordPress geek. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>I did hear one podcast of a fella who actually likes Gutenberg but most of the people who have been talking about it have not found it ultimately wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a WordPress site, you can get a plugin. It&#8217;s just called Classic editor and it&#8217;s going to be supported until at least 2022. And even the comments say that it will be supported longer than that if needed. Obviously, WordPress has realized that a lot of its core users, the people like me have very simple blogs and they don&#8217;t need all that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<h2>Grateful for 49 Technology Companies<\/h2>\n<p>Under gratitude for my business, it&#8217;s not just WordPress that I&#8217;m grateful for, but I&#8217;m also grateful for the 49 different companies that I use for my online work including Thrive Themes and Smarty Pants, my blog host company. I also have 27 different plugins including Akismet, which is the spam blocker, Teachable which I&#8217;ll be talking about in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage every single non-profit that I work for to use WordPress, including Genealogy Ensemble on WordPress dot com.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a joy to use.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m feeling gratitude for all of those companies that are supporting this online endeavour.<\/p>\n<h2>Grateful to Partners Offline Too<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m also grateful for the offline people who support me. Obviously my personal family and urban agriculture people, such as the members of the <em>Coop\u00e9rative Abundance Urbain <\/em>Solidaire (which is CAUS, the nonprofit Urban abundance Solidarity Co-op here), Grand Potager, Groundit, Compost Montreal, Ouishare, Sensorica, the borough of Verdun&#8230;there&#8217;s a heck of a lot of people doing things to try and make the world a better place in my local neighborhood. And I&#8217;m so grateful for them all.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that I wanted to mention about gratitude is that I\u2019ve been able to actually use it when I can actually generate it, which I actually find very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m starting to go into my little huff about how someone else isn&#8217;t doing things exactly the way that I&#8217;m doing things, if I can generate gratitude, then it can make things a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m expecting to spend a lot more time generating gratitude in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>And I really hope that I&#8217;ll be able to work with you on that. So that&#8217;s where my business is this week.<\/p>\n<h2>Next Steps Online<\/h2>\n<p>Like I said I&#8217;m at zero revenue online. I&#8217;m working on setting up three different kinds of products that will be sold online including <a href=\"https:\/\/notable-nonfiction-academy.teachable.com\/\">web courses<\/a> and books.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, when I think about it, I already have some books online already because Amazon sells my I Volunteered book and all of my Ulysses guides. Ulysses itself sells a bunch of stuff online. You can get the digital version of my hiking guide to Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>So actually it&#8217;s only me who is bringing my work online personally. All of my partners have already started doing that so I&#8217;m really grateful for them as well. And I guess I&#8217;ll see you next week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks. Bye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude is the first video in my new series about the Canadian Creative Solopreneur Life. Every Sunday, I&#8217;m going to post a video about the way things have been going in my online business development. 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