Share Your Story: The Bright Green Penguin Story so far
Share Your Story: The Bright Green Penguin Story so far
As you may know, I started Share Your Story's Live A Good Story back in Jan, and have been working on it ever since (missed Feb meet up due to family emergency) & March meet is coming up soon
In preparation for that, want to think what I want to achieve, my three goals were
1. Finding a job in Brighton
2. Setting up a project for Bright Green Penguin (will be known as BGP from now on)
3. Looking into setting up BGP so I could earn an living from it
and here is how they are going
1. Not going well at the moment. Partially feel I'm either too experienced or not enough experience.
2. Deciding between using the Lego show I am doing already, or more of a BGP idea
Weirdly I think picking the Lego show as a cheat, as something I'm already doing. Also I feel I need to do something as BGP, something to make people aware of what I do. The Lego show is happening in May at Dice Saloon. Have a few non Lego related ideas
My two original non Lego ideas are a BGP map, a foldable map which features on certain area, championing the creatives, charities, community groups, supporting local shops. Sort of make it a map/magazine
The other idea is a Doing Good board game / card game / iSpy book. Wanting something to encourage people to do good, recognising Good behaviour
3. This is the big problem, as I can't seem to decide on what I could do. Part of this problem is not being able to focus on what BGP is all about.
Or should I be focusing on Brighton Bricks. Lego is something I love, but just doing BB feels like I missing out on all the great stuff BGP does.
Even though I have been doing BGP a few years now, I'm still not sure what it is, and I think that is why I feel take up has been so slow on this. I have a quite a few followers on Twitter but don't feel I have had any real impact on my the world
Also think I go from one idea to another, like a magpie & cant focus on one thing. Maybe you this is something I need to change, or embrace
So need to focused on what BGP should be about, what I want it to achieve. I know the main thing is I want to expend it from being just me to a bigger thing, to working with others
*BGP career ideas*
Consultancy
Running people's social media accounts
Selling other people's creative work
Running / Hosting events
Creating my own products
*Brighton Brick ideas*
Selling Lego sets / Lego related items
Organising Lego events for kids
Organising Lego events for businesses, team building, problem solving etc
Custom Lego printing
Setting up a BB shop / cafe
So I hope to have for the next Live A Good Story ideas of what I could do
If anyone has any ideas / suggestions would be great to hear