On dreams and goals

I don’t know about you but I spent most of my life not knowing what I wanted to do. I never had dreams or big goals. Never had a dream job, never aimed for something specific. I spent most of my life drifting through it, without trying to stir the ship all that much. I don’t know why I did it, it’s probably because of the kind of person I am. I never knew what I wanted to do, but I think I do now. It only took me 34 years, 7 months, and 12 days.

Over the past couple of years, my mind has slowly pieced things together. I stumbled on this profession of website maker almost at random and in the same random way I found myself starting a blog. I had no idea what I was doing back then, and I still don’t, to be totally honest with you. This blog is a bizarre mix of rants and half-baked thoughts on whatever topic is floating in my mind at any given moment.

But through this mix of random events, I stumbled on something great. I stumbled on you. Yes, you, the person reading this. You represent everything that’s great about the web and personal websites. You are a gateway through which I can access new places, and new realities. You are an opportunity to learn new things, and to expand my horizons.

Being able to interact with people is by far the best outcome of this website. And I think more people should be able to experience that. Because it’s important. And that’s my goal. That’s what I decided I want to try to do more of. I want to try, as much as I can, to help people go online with a personal website they own. That’s why I made that list of blog platforms the other day, that’s also why I’m going to make available a few blog designs I coded a while back. But it’s also why I’m going to keep encouraging people to ditch social media, and why I’m going to spend time replying to every single person that gets in touch with me. And it’s also why I’m going to start designing and coding bespoke websites, for free. I’m not going to be able to make a ton of those unfortunately because, as you can imagine, I have to earn money somehow, and that somehow is doing client work that will consume most of my days.

The title of this post mentions dreams though, not just goals. The goal is to spend as much time as possible helping people ditching social media and going online with personal websites. The dream is for that to be my actual full-time job. A job that’s entirely supported by the kindness and the generosity of the people who decide to join my One a Month membership thingy.

Can that dream become a reality? Hard for me to say. As of right now, some very generous people are providing around 5% of what I need to earn every month to live my normal life and I’m incredibly grateful for that.

That’s my goal, that’s my dream. I’m genuinely happy to have finally figured it out and I’m grateful to the people who have helped me come to this realization. You can expect more weird experiments in the upcoming months and if you need help going online with your website, please, get in touch. I’m happy to help. And if you can and want to support this bizarre life mission, consider joining the One a Month club.