What if my Waning Enjoyment of Most Things Exists to Force Me to do More Important Things?

I’m not sure how much I’ve documented this here, but I feel like, in general, my enjoyment of most of the things I used to love has decreased considerably. In particular, simple entertainment type activities like watching TV or movies or even listening to music is not nearly as enjoyable as it once was.

It could be that there’s something wrong, it could be it’s just part of getting older, or it could be something else entirely.

It’s possible that I have no ability to control it. And if that’s the case, then it doesn’t make much sense to dwell on it.

But there are some things that give me a sort of quiet satisfaction that I enjoy and keeps me coming back.

As it just so happens, most of those things are also good for me.

Things like studying or learning new skill or activities continue to be enjoyable to me and, over time, seem to be what I crave more than anything else.

Reading in general, but more specifically reading in Spanish is something I really like doing and appreciate more and more over time.

I still love all kinds of physical activity like disc golf, working out, and even just walking around my neighborhood. These leave me feeling good and productive.

And it’s satisfying in work when I accomplish things that progress my long-term goals. I maybe don’t enjoy all the day-to-day at every moment (and nobody does), but when I’m working on things that could lead to exponential growth and outsized results, I feel pretty good about that.

In general, it’s really just passive consumption of entertainment that I don’t enjoy as much.

And now that I’m taking a step back and thinking about it… I think that might be a good thing.

Why am I lamenting so much the loss of enjoyment of things that don’t bring a particularly high degree of value?

Maybe I’m not enjoying them as much because I know I have better things to be doing. Maybe I should lean into it and just only do these better things.

After all, they are better for me anyway.

So rather than fight it, I should probably just double-down on the productive and healthy things that make me feel good.

I Need to Add More Pages About our WordPress Services

The thought occurred to me today that I really need to ramp up the content on my website and add a service page for basically every single possible WordPress-related service we provide.

I saw the following in the footer of a competitor’s website:

Screenshot of a competitor's website with a list of their WordPress services

Some of these are, from a human perspective, sort of ridiculous to list by themselves.

But as much as Google tries to get you to just “write content for people” and not to do anything to “game the system”, this is absolutely the way to get search results.

And of course these would all be linked together and linking to my main services pages which should further bolster them.

The goal should be to write these over time and slowly build them up. This will also show Google that we are very active

In addition to helping to attract individual clients to my site (which should still be a goal, and also it’s worth noting that I had two new clients reach out to me randomly this week), it will also improve my rankings and presence to hopefully attract more potential business owners looking to sell their clients or companies.

So I kind of just wanted to brainstorm some articles/pages that I could write:

  • WordPress Backups
  • WordPress Membership Websites
  • WordPress Maintenance (Do I have this already?)
  • WordPress Migration
  • WordPress retained Services
  • WordPress Security
  • Hacked WordPress Site Fix
  • WordPress Speed Optimization
  • WordPress Plugin Audit
  • WordPress Support
  • WordPress Elementor Developers
  • WordPress Diagnosis
  • WordPress Problem Fix
  • WordPress Restoration (like if their site broke or was deleted)
  • WordPress Best Practices
  • WordPress Helpdesk

That’s probably good for now. It will take me a while to actually write all of those, but it should be a good starting point.

Hopefully I can knock out about one per week and go from there. In time, it should lead to some nice improvements in my search results.