Thread by @JohnCantrell97

Today is day 30 of my journey to develop a writing habit. It was successful then I ever imagined it could be.

Threads I wrote were viewed over 2.5 million times and over 7K new people decided to follow along.

Let me break down my process and what I learned on this journey 👇

You must make the habit a priority.

Schedule time on your calendar for it and don’t let it be interrupted.

For me I chose to write early in the morning. I would set my alarm for 6am, grab a cup of coffee, and go write uninterrupted for an hour.

Do not feel the need to over edit or stress out about what people will think.

Just write for an hour about the topic, read it over a couple times, hit publish and walk away.

This process is about building a new habit while breaking down old barriers to content production.

Spend time each week brainstorming topic ideas. You do not want to start writing with a blank sheet of paper and no ideas.

This is how habits die.

Help yourself succeed by always being able to seed every session with ideas. Even better, try to write a ‘headline’ for each idea.

If you’re struggling to come up with topic ideas try asking your audience, look at current events, or see what people are talking about to get some ideas to branch off from.

You can also reuse topics but explore it from a different angle or try explaining it in a different way.

It’s important to publish to a social media platform like Twitter.

A lot of people make the mistake of starting with a personal website or blog.

They spend hours writing and perfecting the post.

The problem is once it’s published no one knows about your website.

It’s hard to get people to your personal website and the social media platforms are incentivized to keep their users contained inside their platform.

A tweet that shares an external link will be fighting “the algorithm” compared to a thread that keeps users on the platform.

Another benefit of social media is that if “the algorithm” figures out people are enjoying your content it will help spread it for you to people outside of your audience.

This is extremely helpful when you are starting out and don’t have an initial audience to share with.

Most importantly I learned that consistency is key to getting better at anything in life no matter what it is you are doing.

As the days went on it got easier for me to write out a thread. The time continually dropped and I didn’t feel as stressed when it was time to publish.

So what’s next for me?

I really enjoyed helping people understand Bitcoin concepts and it’s something I plan to continue to do.

I received so many messages from people saying how much they enjoyed my content.

I plan to explore some other formats than just Twitter threads.

With that said, I hope I helped you understand my process, the journey, and some of the lessons I learned along the way.

I hope you enjoyed all my threads so far and I hope I can continue educating the world about Bitcoin.