In the P.P.S. to yesterday’s blog, I said I would reference my blog publishing system in today’s blog.
Now I know you’ve probably not been able to sleep with excitement since, so I will get on with this.
At one point I did all the publishing of the blogs myself.
After the words have been written, it needs to be copied and pasted to the website, the mailing list software and various social media outlets.
The formatting needs to be changed for these different platforms.
The content tweaked for the different mailing lists.
Images added and adjusted for some of those.
Everything scheduled in the relevant way.
Then, for a number of years, I had somewhere else do that for me.
A paid job.
Took about half an hour per blog.
At £10 an hour, that equates to nearly two grand a year.
A couple of years ago I spent half a day or so setting up an automation on Zapier.
It has 43 steps.
But, once I get a blog completed, I can copy it to Google Docs and that Zap does everything else.
I pay per month for my Zapier subscription as I have lots of things that it does.
But, this particular Zap will effectively cost about 30p per day.
I still need to write the blog, insert the relevant link, the image and format it in exactly the right way.
But there is a substantial saving of time and money there.
And you get exactly the same thing at the other end.
A saving of time, effort and money.
Exact same result at the end.
Which, I’m sure you’ll agree, is the ideal combo.
People often come to us talking about changes to their eating that take lots of time and effort.
And probably more money.
Cooking everything from scratch.
Completely cutting out anything processed and only having the freshest of foods.
Disproportionately expensive superfoods.
Supplements.
And, sure, all these things would definitely help.
But I’m pretty confident that there are some changes that we can make that require no additional time, effort or money that will take us in the right direction.
Small portion sizes.
Not going hungry, just the appropriate portion size of that particular thing for someone of our size and activity levels (aka “not over-eating”).
Some tactical swaps to what we eat.
Maybe not stuff that’ll get us in the Olympics…….
But some other choices that we like just as much, cost the same and take as much effort…….
But that contribute lower calories and / or increases in protein, vitamins, minerals or some move in a positive direction.
Just like it would make no sense for me to go back to manually adding the blogs for no additional benefit……….
Sometimes it’s powerful to realise that there is a way that we can do this that’s easier than the method we’ve been using (our programme is designed to get your sustained results that you’ve never gotten before with less effort than you’ve previously put in. For the cost of a take out coffee a day. With a full Money Back Guarantee. It’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply if you like the sound of that!).
Much love,
Jon ‘Switching off to automation is a modern day justification for not doing something that I’ll cover tomorrow’ Hall
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