Hello!
My name is Manidoo Wilkie. I am an Anishinaabee (Native American – Ojibwe) from Minnesota.
Bare with me on this About Page and this website as a whole. This is the first website I’m actually using for actually personal blogging.
What Is This Blog?
In August of 2022, I had an onslaught of anxiety hit me while on vacation. I couldn’t enjoy my limited time to relax because I just felt overwhelmed by my life. My finances have taken a dive, I keep adding too much to my plate, and I’m constantly burdened by the thought of my life wasting away each day.
My spouse has recommended I need a place to journal. I’ve tried journaling over a dozen times now, but it just never sticks. I recognize I am way too goal-oriented. I cannot commit to a single thing if it’s not a project with clear, meaningful, objectives to it. It’s a bad habit, but it’s one that I cannot easily break.
So that’s part of why I created this blog. I want to make this my motive to stick to journaling. However, it’s going to be a little… Different than a free-range thought journal.
What To Expect
Off-site I have a personal journal I am committing to logging into every single day. This journal is actually going to be a collection of 10 Projects. Ranging from Physical health, Mental health, Career goals, etc;
Each project has its own journal that will be completely raw, free-range writing. I am making it a personal goal to commit to writing an entry in these journals a minimum of once per day. Whenever something noteworthy pops up I’ll be making a blog entry here. This might sound confusing, but this will be cleared up more as this blog is more fleshed out.
For now, just keep in mind that I have 10 Project Goals that I am giving myself a hard deadline to complete within the next 5 years. Ideally, this blog will be “Finished” before August 18th, 2027(August 18th, 2022 being when I made my first journal entry). I chose this specific deadline because I should be likely finishing graduate school at that time.
For a detailed list of my Project Focuses and their objectives, you can view them here.
My Major Projects
I have several projects for now, but I am only going to share 3 of them on this site, for now. A very soft goal is to have all projects linkable here in the future, but I am going to wait until they are fleshed out in the next 5 years.
Note: Unlike my other projects I am not giving this personal blog any sort of objectives. There is going to be no focus on SEO, market-driven content, or anything like that. This blog is for my own sanity. Think of this as a central hub for all my projects, featuring content that gives behind the scene looks at how these will be built.
I am aiming to keep this content as transparent as possible, featuring all the bumps and bruises along the way. The overarching goal is to get these projects to a personally satisfying level of success whereas–of first writing this page–they are sitting at or near Level 1 of 50 of personal success satisfaction.