Creators who master showing up daily are winning against 95% of everyone else
Except showing up daily is hard
Here are 5 secrets I use to show up even on the shitty days 👇🧵
💪 Showing up is like building a muscle...
The more you show up 🙃
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the more you build the muscle
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& the more you build the muscle
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the easier it becomes to show up 🙂
Here's some of my best creative muscle building techniques 👇
Work A Little Overtime On Your Good Days
It's always easy to put in a little extra effort when the creative juices are flowing. On those days:
👉 Do an extra brain dump
👉 Write 10 extra ideas
👉 Research a topic you want to write about
Your future self will thank you later
Create A Minimum Viable Ship
Make a decision on what a minimum viable ship will be for you.
When conditions aren't perfect and energy & attention is low what can you still ship and feel proud of?
Set Constraints
Constraints rarely make sense when we are highly motivated. But they are a lifeline on the rough days.
👉 Set a timer
👉 Write to a word count
👉 Commit to one task
Use Prompts
Days I've felt like crap I pull out my trusty #ship30for30 prompts and just put myself on auto-pilot. More often than not it's a top 5 things post and I'm done within 20 minutes.
Start collecting a list of writing prompts you can use on challenging days.
Remix Your Old Content
You might already have a library of great content. So, become a master of the remix
👉 Pull out old content and add something new
👉 Mash a few ideas from old content into something new
👉 Add a new spin on something you've written previously
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Check out this other thread I wrote on the anti-hacker way to grow as a creator 👇
After 10 years of being a wannabe creator I've 200x'd my creative output in 6 months with one simple hack 👇
I hit publish 200 times 😬
Here's 10 of my best anti-hacks for showing up daily as a creator👇🧵
Focus On Today 📆
Don't worry about tomorrow, next week or 30 days from now. Focus on hitting publish today, then do the same tomorrow and the day after that.
All that matters today is that you hit publish. The numbers will take care of themself.
Trust The Process 🧐
Your day 1 is probably going to suck. You're probably going to be disappointed with how many people engage. You're probably going to think there is something wrong.
There's nothing wrong. You're just early in the process.
You'll never find creative flow if you keep 10,000 tabs open in your brain 🧠
Here are 3 easy steps to build a trusted tab closing system for your brain so you can find presence and flow every day
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Just like tabs on a computer, open tabs in our brain take up space in our working memory and affect performance.
They slow us down, break our flow and lead to overwhelm
The only way to close these tabs is to build a system our brain will trust. Here's how 👇
Do A Brain Dump 🧠
All those open tabs are taking up the limited space you have in your working memory. You want this space to find flow, not keep tabs open.
Step 1: Get them out of your head and down on paper (or screen)
Unless Twitter is your full-time job you don't need to spend hours every week writing tweets to fill up a schedule.
Here are 10 frameworks I use to write a full week of tweets in less than one hour👇
Always be collecting ideas 🧠
👉 Start a list in your favourite note tool called Tweet Ideas
👉 Throw random ideas in throughout the week
👉 Batch write your content once a week from that list.
Now, onto the frameworks 👇
Mine Your Previous Content 💎
For each essay I write I go back and extract content to use for tweets:
👉 Quotable Thoughts
👉 Listicles
👉 Questions
There's more to your Twitter profile than what you can fit into that 160 character limit bio.
Here's how to optimise your profile for the best first impression 👇
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Every time someone visits your profile is a chance to introduce yourself.
It's not enough just to SAY what you do, you need to SHOW who you are.
👉 Show your personality
👉 Use every inch of real estate
👉 Create attention & tell a story
Read on to find out how 👇
ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴛᴡɪᴛᴛᴇʀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ. Did you know you can have up to 50 characters in your Twitter Name?
Go beyond your name & add some context
👉 Add Credibility with a number count
👉 Tell Em What You're Doing. (Eg. Ev is... )
👉 Name & Claim by adding your title
⚡️NEWS FLASH: You don't have to use Notion as your daily productivity driver to build products with it and make money online as a creator.
Here are 17 @NotionHQ product ideas that are not templates that you could build & launch in the next week.
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⚡️ Build A Notion Magazine
Ever considered yourself something of a magazine mogul? Or maybe you have a group of friends who like to write? You could create a cool magazine just like the @thenotionette did.
Guide people through a specific process that you do every day or have success in. Like this one and many others from @adrianjbroodryk on How to Post Better Instagram Stories.