@Brian O'Neill just creating. Nothing is public. Nothing shared.

@Brian O'Neill Yes sir! It sure was. It definitely took down some roadblocks for me. Thanks so much Brian.

I have 14 years experience raising and selling live mealworms commercially. Built from the ground up, alone. (It's more complicated than you could ever imagine.) I've created unique and specialized systems to raise the best quality worms available and know I can teach others who want to raise them for their animals/pets or as a business. I have cut back to part time now and in 10 to 12 hours a week I make over $300 per week, so this could be a decent side income for someone who wants to learn. My only hesitation is how to get traffic to a skool community if I start one. I don't want to be on youtube.

@Brian O'Neill Awesome. Thank you!

I can't say that fear is a big problem for me. I've started over many times in life and it was all just trying things and figuring out what works and what doesn't and adjusting from there. I honestly couldn't care less what people think. I live the life I want and make my own decisions with no one to answer to. Not sure how to answer this. If I had to call something a fear that worries me sometimes is choosing something that turns out not to be the right thing for me. The "choosing" inherently takes away (at least temporarily) all the other options I might have... and maybe one of those would have been a better choice for some reason. Still, doing something that I later decide not to continue with is not really a loss because there's always something to be learned. I use things almost every day that I learned decades ago doing something I don't do anymore in the way of work, but I still use the skills I learned doing that work. It just bothers me that I feel time was not spent on the "right" thing. So the action would be just doing something anyway... which is why I joined this group... it was my... "do something!!" step in the right direction.

I have used a journal most of my life, over 50 years (and still have 90% of them). This has had a major positive impact on my life and especially helped me during difficult times and/or to solve difficult and complex problems. I have considered creating a skool community about journaling, too, as I think there are levels and layers of it that people never get to, that could change their lives with a little guidance. I suffered some trauma early in life and have joined fb groups related to that to help others to get past it like I have (not easy, but usually doable if one is committed) and I get lots of feedback that my comments/advice are helpful, etc., etc.. and I have helped people a lot with different things and, not to sound overly self-assured or arrogant here, believing that I can/have helped is not really an issue for me as I have plenty of proof in many different areas.

I have zero audience, zero following on sm, and I don't know how I could find members/buyers without doing things I don't want to do (be on camera or post daily to sm only to have to repeat the next day, or invest time I do not currently have). That's why I haven't gone further with the journaling idea. The third possible skool I'd thought of doing has to do with BPD. I suffered with that for decades but learned tools and practices that changed that for me. Journaling was one of those things so if I chose BPD then teaching what I know about journaling would be a huge part of that (a two in one, kind of), but as any therapist will tell you people with BPD are challenging to say the least. What I have seen on fb is kind of scary. These people want someone to fix them without them doing any of the work themselves, and they want to complain about the most petty things. They are typically extremely emotionally needy. I know that's generalizing and not always true but if I created a community around this it would have to screen out people who aren't willing to take responsibility for their own healing/recovery/etc.. All that seems really complex for my first skool community, ergo I chose the "raising mealworms" path because it's really simpler and more straight forward and I know it so well. I am more comfortable with people who work with animals, who would be the audience for this. I've worked with these types of people for years. If this skool does decent and I can learn what I need to learn about the platform, building and getting people into this community then I will have way more confidence to venture into journaling or BPD where I'd be dealing with people I don't feel as comfortable with. It's hard to explain.

I've spent the last few years (sadly) narrowing this down, lol. I'm down to 3 now. But I am choosing the raising mealworms topic because I have the most confidence with that, and it would be the easiest for me to create content for. I have 14 years worth of trial and error and detailed records I have kept running my small commercial business. A secondary reason I am choosing this one over the other two to start with as this will be a "test run" kind of, a way for me to learn and understand how to build a skool community and hopefully replace my current income and beyond "easier" than the other two because I know this subject so thoroughly. It is however likely to be a much smaller audience to draw subscribers from as it's such a tiny niche hobby/or business (google trends shows fairly dismal results). Once I learn to build this community (successfully) I will then be able to make a better decision about whether to build one on one or both of the other topics... or not.