Today is the one year of Self Helping Yourself’s first real post, Ten Minutes a Day to Changing My Life.
The site’s gone through a lot of changes since then.
It was originally “Self-Improvement for Realists.” Then it changed to “A Skeptical Guide to Self-Help.” And finally, “Self-Improvement Made Easy.”
I’ve also redesigned the site quite a bit as I learned more about web design and SEO.
(And a huge thank you to April Marquet for her assistance with the design and functionality. Please consider her for your freelance front-end web development and design needs.)
The most interesting thing to me when I look back at that first article is that it explains the key theme of the site by the third paragraph:
For self-improvement to work, it has to be easy.
Even though I didn’t yet know that’s what the theme of the site was going to be.
A Year of Change
In the year since the site launched, there’s been a lot of changes in my life as well.
I left my high-paying career to focus on writing/creating full-time.
I wrote and published my weight-loss book.
I launched my weekly Five Boosts newsletter, suggesting five articles on easy ways to improve your life.
I wrote two eBooks:
24 Ways to Improve Your Life
24 Ways to Improve Your Life gives summaries and analysis of 24 of the top self-improvement books. You can get your free copy by signing up for Five Boosts. (Which is also free.)
How to Make Twitter Pleasant in Ten Minutes or Less
How to Make Twitter Pleasant in Ten Minutes or Less is a guide to removing arguments, politics, and hate from your Twitter feed. It’s normally $2.99, but to celebrate the anniversary of the website, it will be free through 8/25/2020 with the promo code SHYBIRTHDAY.
Also during the last year, my wife and I fostered and found forever homes for seventeen kittens.
Actually, make that twenty-four kittens. While I was writing this article, my wife told me about seven more that we’d be taking in today.
And we fled Los Angeles for the pandemic to spend seven months in rural Tennessee. (Though we’re returning to LA soon.)
So it’s certainly been an interesting year.
I look forward to many more with Self Helping Yourself.
And many new interesting projects.
How about you?
Have you enjoyed the last year of Self Helping Yourself?
What changes would you like to see in the future?
And what as the last year brought for you, and what are you looking forward to.
I’d love to hear from you.
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