Does the perfect personal website exist?

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

I was 11 when my brother and I stopped sharing a bedroom.

When we got our rooms, our parents embraced our creativity and let us paint our rooms however we wanted.

I painted alternating white and baby blue stripes on two of my walls.

I took a paintbrush fully dipped in baby blue for the other two walls and whipped it at the wall like an anxious pitcher making his first start in the big leagues.

I personalized everything. Maybe you're the same, Reader?

Now, as an adult, I still love to personalize everything. That’s why this newsletter is called Make It Yours.

My restored ‘83 Schwinn. My travel bag. My website.

Now, the creativity I had painting my bedroom as an 11-year-old is now my personal website.

It's what drives my personal and professional curiosities.

It's the constant in my life, always changing.

I landed my very first job because I had my own site.

It's the primary source I can point to that has driven well over $1 million in revenue and friendships from freelancing, side projects, writing, products, and services.

Sure, it's changed over the years, but it's mine.

And I want to show you how to create an essential site that won’t stay silent.

It doesn't have to be perfect.

The perfect personal website doesn't exist.

And that can be frustrating.

But that’s the great thing about it. It can be deployed to your advantage based on your own goals.

Whether you want to build personal serendipity because you feel intellectually isolated, change your career because you're stuck, or run a solo business by selling products and services.

I've done all of these, and each has different approaches.

But you don't want a website because you want to stay the same.

Our sites reflect an attitude that we want something to change in our lives.

2025 is the year you can create your new site and change the direction you're headed.

I'll announce a new blueprint for your personal website next year.

More details coming soon.

p.s. What's blocking you from getting your personal website up and running?

Hit reply and let me know.

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