#345 — 🪞 Week in review

What's up, everybody?

This is Lola Ojabouale, founder of LunchPale Labs.

Welcome back to LunchPale Daily.

My personal audio diary about building

and growing LunchPale Labs,

which is a digital product studio

and no code agency based out of Atlanta, Georgia.

It's Friday, so it's time for our week in review.

Always starting with the goal and vision here.

LunchPale Labs, what am I doing?

Really, I see it as a my LunchPad business.

It's a sustainable, calm, economic engine

from both products and services.

And for me, it's really just the conduit

for autonomy, freedom.

Getting really good at building software,

getting really good at content and distribution

and those sort of skill sets.

Now onto the reflection, what went well,

what went poorly, what I learned,

what went well, very cool shout out slash,

I guess a tweet to Monet for integration directory.

So it was able to get that featured on a landing page,

but glad to see that it's actually useful for some folks.

Published also the V1 of like a no code guide

for using APIs and integrations

like in like the no code space.

So that was cool in regards to integration directory.

Fixed a bug on the site, added some direct links

to subscribing and did some more programming stuff.

Also scheduled talks, put on this on the calendar

with a university to talk about no code and entrepreneurship.

I think it's actually with their graduate program.

So I am so excited for that opportunity.

And another kind of big, I'd say win for this past week

is really did some stepping back in some rejuring

as far as the daily habits go.

Moving some things to like weekly goals

and just making stuff more flexible.

I think I kind of oversubscribed

to like atomic habits and hyper consistency

almost to a fault and was really starting to get

the feeling that, I mean, my for context,

my daily habit list was like 25 little daily habits

I've been running for quite a while,

probably like the past few months.

And I just, it was just starting to feel really unsustainable

and also not very helpful in just trading.

So I have rejiggered some of those.

And I think I've got doing the high impact things

every day and just making progress on things per week

and being flexible when I have more energy in time

to make progress on certain areas.

And others and not forcing myself to always take a shot

on 50 different things every single day.

So there's that.

And in terms of like, what went poorly slash areas of improvement?

I think this is a lot really related.

This week I really tried the maker days

and marker days and I thought that was fine.

Sometimes there's just weeks where other things

kind of take priority.

So some of my like marker days, I really couldn't

devote all of the time.

So now I have this kind of weekly goals.

I always know I have at least like a day or two

of like run off where I'm usually a last scheduled

that I could make progress on those sort of things.

So I think maybe that shift in mindset

will see how the week goes might be just better.

And I can track progress that way.

Like maybe if I can't talk to 15 people,

maybe it's 10 or maybe it's you know, whatever it is.

And last week in particular,

especially the beginning of the week,

I definitely was feeling a lot of overwhelmed.

I go through these cycles of not saying no enough.

And I need to get better at that.

So that's absolutely almost an ongoing.

It's like a wheel of improvement.

Like really get better at setting boundaries,

saying no more often, especially to just chatting

for chatting, say, sometimes.

And letting folks know the ways in which I can help

and can't help and not overexciting myself.

In terms of what I learned really interesting things

around promotion.

So last week I mentioned going to the draft dev webinar

about creating technical content.

And one of the resources that they share

that I actually got a chance to dive more deeply into

was their promotion checklist.

Maybe like 30 plus items on the promotion checklist.

They're so funny because I felt very cold out and seen

in the article that they wrote along with it of like,

oh, many like writers, they'll post something on Twitter

once and then never sort of resurface it again.

But so I'll probably spending this upcoming week

doing more promotion activities and not just creating

new assets, creating new assets time and time again.

Really trying to capitalize on some of the stuff

that I've already done instead of having that massive list

of 1,000 things to do from scratch.

Also, it's a really interesting April Lynne.

She runs tender foot.

She posted a thread about when to know

when to give up first, keep pushing through

whether you're on the right track or in decisions,

making the right decisions or you're just kind of being a web.

And a lot of folks mentioned the dip by Seth Goading

as a book to help gain clarity on that.

And so I dug more deeply into it

found a pretty good summary.

I thought that was very helpful in kind of my framing

of the activities, especially when I kind of went

through the exercise of like, hey, I know I'm kind of

committing to myself for doing these things

at certain activities every single day.

Am I just being a weapon lazy or is it actually something

that I should just keep on doing?

And some of the sort of guidance that Seth Goading gives

is one, things are really only worth doing

if you think you can be very good at it.

He actually says the best in the world,

but it's kind of like your world in the context.

So if it's being a doctor, you want to be like,

the best doctor in Massachusetts for people

who need your kind of doctor specialty.

But kind of putting that framing that, you know,

we only have so much energy.

So if you can't be the best in the world in your niche,

then it's maybe not worth trying to get through the dip.

And then when you're sort of in this dip

or really thinking about what's worth it,

what's not worth it, there's kind of three different areas.

You have the cold assac, which is really just dead end,

stagnant, even just hearing the framing of the cold assac.

I was like, yes, makes sense, some things I just need

to cut off.

I feel like in some ways, honestly,

the daily version of this podcast feeling like one of those,

why don't really have any like growth goals

in particular, it's just,

was starting to get to the point

where it wasn't super helpful or necessary

to, I think, do it every day.

So I'm excited to try this weekly version

at least for a while instead,

and maybe things might involve to like an interview style,

but cold assac.

If things are not progressing or doing anything,

you might wanna just leave them be.

The other one, which I think is a little bit harder

to really define as a cliff,

which he kind of defines as like major growth

and then a crash, which I don't know if I'd in my life

be able to kind of step aside

and recognize whether I'm in a cliff or not.

And then the other is the depth.

And just this framing of the depth,

basically what it is is there's beginners luck,

things might become like kind of making movement

and momentum to start.

And in a lot of worthwhile pursuits,

there's this sort of like little dip of despair

or where things may be slowing down.

And it's not as much progress,

but there's still progress.

And yes, that like beginners luck

has sort of run out.

The thing to know about the dip

is that usually in all wealth,

while that being the main differentiator

between the cold assac, which you're doing stuff

and you're not really making progress.

And the dip, then you kind of still keep going

to get through the dip

because the dip is where most folks quits.

So that was just like a really a link

some of these resources in the show notes,

but it was a very helpful framing of, okay.

Some of how I'm feeling with some of the endeavors,

I mean, it's just to be expected, like,

you know, it's just part of the journey,

but it doesn't mean anything is going wrong

or anything, anything in particular,

it's just part of the story.

And then, guess the other of what I learned,

I was able to attend a fire fire side chat

virtually via square one with Ben Chestnut.

He was the founder of MailChimp,

sold a two into it, boot shop startup.

I think it sold for $12 billion, which is a wild.

And yeah, he just has a very humble nature.

And I think the thing I loved most about the talk

and this like fire side chat was one learning that,

hey, like not every decision that ultimately worked out

for him was super calculated,

even when he was talking about kind of moving

from the agency to product stuff,

it's just that like, agents, it was a grind.

And so they were looking at this software.

So, and another thing that he also mentioned

that, you know, the big company CEO,

the founder who's raised millions,

like, everyone is still figuring it out.

And I think I hear that from time to time,

but here and again, just made me feel like, yes, like,

this is a journey, I am certainly still figuring out

all parts of, like, where I stand in this solo

for nearer shift, like, entrepreneurship,

kind of journey I'm on.

Yeah, hearing that it's all, I feel like,

how I'm feeling is like normal, it's really, really helpful.

Now, for in terms of what's up for next week,

next week, focus a lot of the same,

really trying to help as many people as possible

through content and other things.

Still have quite a slate of tutorials and stuff

that I'm working through promoting existing work

to kind of juice the efforts that have been there.

And then, yeah, bunch of client work to do

and quite a bit of work, making progress

on the course that I'm working on.

So, it'll be a week of, of, of,

dobin stuff in terms of kind of the analytic side of things,

which I don't, it's, I guess I'm not really focused as much

on, like, LPL as a whole, but integrations directory,

we're almost at 500 visits this month,

which is freaking cool.

So, 500 visits since I started tracking it.

And, yeah, I don't think I've ever had

any sort of homegrown product ever get that many visits

organically in a month.

So, really, really cool.

Our failed complete failure search rate

is also still hovering at 15%.

This week got, like, a hundred plus searches this week.

I think, most of it came from being featured

in the trends.vc news letter earlier this week.

Some progress there.

So, even though sometimes it feels like the dip,

even though I'd really just started,

absolutely, some progress, but that is it for me

on this Friday.

I hope you all have the most wonderful weekend

and I'll catch you all later.