The Line in the Sand: When Self-Doubt Dies and You Back Youself.

Nov 21, 2025

Here’s that positive, albeit very late, update, Projekt Rattloch week 20.

Thank you for sticking around.

Since last Monday (10th Nov) a few really positive things have happened, I finally feel like I’m getting momentum.

I earned $475 from a new client who needed a landing page for their business. I leaned on AI to speed the whole thing up and, honestly, to do a better job than I could have managed a year ago.
I won an affiliate contest for an AI community on Skool. That brought in $500 plus three referrals that now add up to $60 a month in recurring income.
I built a thousand page AI news website. More of an experiment than anything else. I wanted to see what was possible and whether it is worth pursuing properly.
I set up Claude and Gemini in my command line. In plain English, they now run on my machine. They can build a site locally then upload it without me wrestling with a clunky web interface.
I picked up three $20 prizes in the Skool community for points. Lovely, but I am stopping those now. The time cost was too high and it scattered my attention.
I am currently sitting 35th out of 154 in a machine learning competition. I know next to nothing about machine learning. Curiosity is doing the heavy lifting and I am nudging the score up most days.
I reached level seven in a password cracking challenge. Level eight is mocking me but I will get there.

And yes, I almost forgot, I cleaned up my SLART website. It is simpler and faster. I will keep polishing it in the coming weeks.

So yes.

I have been hungry to learn. My self belief is growing, slowly.

But here is the quiet realisation creeping in. When I am actually aligned, I can do cool things, achive and learnq. You can too.

But here is the truth. I have not painted. I am frazzled. I miss it. I will make something this week because I need that part of myself back.

Two weeks of scattered yet powerful focus have left me tired. My fitness has slipped and my eating has been a bit of a mess.

Blessings to you and your loved ones.

Cheers,

SLART

P.S. if you want to learn what I’ve been learning, check out the SKOOL platform.