My initials are MESS, Mia Eva-Stina Salminen. Perhaps that’s why many aspects of my life are a mess. A messy home and a messy mind. Or maybe it’s only a coincidence that my initials are MESS. I take my initials with humour.
I’ve had a lot of other things on my mind, so I haven’t had the time to think about what to blog. Now I have the cold. My mind is a jumble of thoughts that I can’t put into words. Then I have many interests that make my mind a mess. Try to write a blog post about a single subject when you want to cover a lot of ground in one post.
So my name is MESS when it comes to my whole name’s initials. Luckily, no one has realised and nicknamed me mess 🙂
Nothing seems to work, no matter how I try. Perhaps I just need to withstand the lack of reaction from others. I have made up a new fanfic, but no reaction to that. Not even views, or they come slowly. I spent hours writing it, and I think it’s good. Then none. But it doesn’t matter because I like what I write, which matters. I did get a compliment from someone who said I’m a talented writer. They suggested they would make a comic of it. But I can’t afford it right now. It’s a nice gesture, though. At least some are reacting. Some fan fiction succeeds better than others. I have a lot of fiction. Maybe it’s only the subject that people don’t care about, or a lack of coitus.
I’ve started a faceless account on Instagram in Finnish. It’s IN right now in Finland. You can sell digital products made by someone else and then resell them. There are MRR (Master Resell Right) and PLR (Private Label Right). You can make them your own or resell them as they are. To start somewhere, I bought a package with Instagram Stories and Reels and resold it. But when trying to sell a digital product, you need to advertise. So it’s not get-rich-quick (I don’t even want to be rich), but it is frustrating that it takes ages. I won’t earn anything. Some have waited for months and still haven’t sold anything. I was initially excited about faceless marketing, not having to show my face. Many faceless accounts sell courses about digital marketing and how to start faceless marketing, but I’ve already studied digital marketing and visuals. I’ve used a lot of money to study those things. Even if I did buy the course, there’s no guarantee I would profit from it. As a graphic designer and photographer, I want to make my own digital product. The best thing about selling digital products is that you don’t have to contract with a client and wait for clients to contact you. What if I don’t succeed, and I’m wasting my time? I need to withstand the negativity from my mind that it won’t work. I need to be more patient.
Lastly, about this blog, I don’t feel like blogging the way I used to. The last post about the Duran Duran concert was ignored, but I guess people are too busy. Or maybe reading blogs and blogging isn’t as popular as it used to be. I just need to withstand the lack of reaction from others. I’m writing for myself anyway. How else will I learn to write in English if I don’t blog? That’s why I’m here; the same goes for writing fan fiction. I need to get my thoughts written down somehow.
Remember when you were a kid and wanted to learn quickly? You wanted things to go smoothly, and you had no patience at all. Learning is a marathon, not a sprint. Most of us want to learn andexpect to be experts at once. But life doesn’t work that way. You need to take time to learn, and that’s what’s so fascinating about life. You live and learn all the time and don’t graduate from life.
I love learning new things and even things I already know. There is no harm in repeating what you learned in the past because people have different teaching styles and opinions. You might even get excited again about something you didn’t like when you were younger. In 3rd grade, we had to learn to play the fipple flute (also called recorder). I wasn’t excited to learn the instrument then. But when I got older, I took it up again. I taught myself to play music notes, and now I can play songs by heart. I even learned to play ‘Soft Kitty‘ (the song Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory sang). I just played with the flute some tunes, and then suddenly there the song was. I can play a tune by listening to the sound, and there’s a song. The instrument is easier to play than the piano. I’ve learned the easier music notes, and on the Duolingo app, you can learn music notes on the piano. I’m also learning Norwegian there. It sounds like Swedish but is spelled differently, so it isn’t so hard to learn for me.
I’ve been learning social media marketing lately, which is why I haven’t blogged as often recently. Writing in Finnish has been challenging because I’ve been writing in English so much. I get more written in English than in Finnish. I’m better at writing fiction than about real life. I’m like that little kid who wants to learn, but the results take ages. It feels like I’m wasting my time trying to write something and not getting anything in return. It makes me doubt that I will ever make it as an entrepreneur or that I can’t do anything right. Or that I’m too dull and no one cares. Learning to be patient and not giving up despite feeling disappointed. You also need some luck to make it. But the most important thing is that you learn things you want to learn and not what others want you to. Life is much more fun when you do.
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