What are you working on today/this week? What are you working toward? What do you need to focus on?

Years ago I watched a gardening video titled something like 'fill your garden bed for free!'. I, like most people am always eager to save a dollar so I watched it, only to be sorely disappointed. While I had hoped it would include cool gardening techniques that would help save money, in reality, the fellow in the video had basically click baited me. When he said 'fill it for free', what he meant was 'I didn't pay a cent this week, because I actually bought all the things I needed a while back and now I'm finally using what I paid for'. While the video itself annoyed me at the time, it came to mind when I was thinking about how to initiate this post without sounding like a self-help influencer. I'm not here to lie to you. Nor to push you to buy anything, post more, join an email list or any of the other things that go hand in hand with the myriad of courses that keep popping up on my social media feeds now I've had the thought to get out of my current 9 to 5 as soon as possible. However, I can genuinely claim I boosted my productivity in the last few weeks, and have been able to quadruple the stock in my online store. I can, and will, even tell you how. I found myself with extra hours in the day recently and made my goal of creating 150 new products, the priority for those hours. Much like my gardening muse though, I didn't sit down and research, design and create 150 new products completely from scratch one by one. That would have been a colossal amount of time, certainly more than the hours I found myself with. I created a finished product in 20 minutes! There it is, my wild claim. I can open one document, fiddle around a bit, type some things and have something sellable, in less than half an hour. True? Yes. Unbelievable? Maybe. I mpossible? No. You might be thinking a 20 minute idea or product sounds like a piece of rubbish, no one is buying that. And you'd be correct. If my products looked like they only took 20 minutes to put together, they wouldn't sell. Partly because they wouldn't be worth the money and partly because my buyers would ask themselves why they couldn't just create it themselves.

That is a huge catalogue! By the time I list and bundle there will be well over 200 items in my online store which I'm excited about. I know given that it is summer in the US the sales are lower but my hope is that with more inventory and more activity in the store, there will be more views which will lead to more sales.

If you're here already, thank you for taking a chance on something that's only just beginning. Momentum Hub came from a lot of pondering, planning and self doubt, followed by a simple realisation. Over the past few weeks I've been laser focused on a number of things in my personal and professional life, including rebuilding my learning resource platform to include 150 new resources. It wasn't because I suddenly became more motivated or found extra hours in the day, it came from one choice after another. I created templates, made spreadsheets and built better systems. I worked in small chunks where I could, late nights when I needed to and forced myself to stay focused when the task got monotonous. I made the most of the time I did have and kept the light at the end of the tunnel in mind at all times. Sometimes the light was just a pit stop, others it was the finish line. It made me realise that momentum isn't about doing everything at once. It's about making the next small step. Prioritising what you want and figuring out how to get there. Breaking tasks into smaller, more manageable chunks, using checklists if that works for you, keeping yourself on track and accountable. So that's what this community is for. Whether you're planning lessons, creating resources, writing student reports, building a side hustle, writing a book, studying, tackling a project or just trying to get through an overwhelming to-do list, I hope this becomes a place where we can support each other, stay accountable and keep moving forward. I'm building this community as I build my own projects, so you'll see me sharing my goals, celebrating wins, talking honestly about what's working (and what isn't), and hopefully getting a lot done alongside you. I'd love to get to know everyone who's here. Introduce yourself in the comments and tell us: - What are you working on at the moment? - What's one thing you'd love to make progress on? - What made you decide to join Momentum Hub? Here's to building momentum, one small step at a time.