You are not alone (8 human struggles):

8 ideas that blew up and reached millions:

1. Love has more patience. 2. Honest project plan.

After 4 years with zero results last 2 years have brought results beyond my expectations:

• 108K on Instagram
• 10K on Linkedin
• 51K on Twitter
• 4,9K newsletter subs
• 150K+ of $ revenue

Three ideas that helped me and could help you gain progress: 1. A serious commitment.

2016-2019 I wanted to make it as a creative solopreneur

2020-2022 I was sick of dabbling and half-assing this dream and made a serious commitment to making it work

To do this you need two things: desire + belief.

Here's how to think about it...

23 tips for creators:

1. make what you want to consume
2. find peers on a similar journey
3. believe in your abilities to figure things out h/t @BrendonBurchard
4. imitate than innovate h/t @david_perell
5. respect your audience's attention 6. see inspiration, not jealousy
7. quantity is needed to figure things out, quality is needed to make it work
8. tune up your awareness to get more ideas
9. note down ideas immediately when they come
10. deadline is meaningless without external accountability

Don’t overthink authentic content creation: Help others learn from your mistakes, success, and your approach to tackling the future.

Even if you don’t care about helping others, there are three powerful benefits for your own good.

To be a successful creator:
- fail fast
- fail slow
- fear failure (and get nowhere). I elaborate on this idea in my newsletter that just got sent out to 3253 people.

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Productivity masterclass under 2-minutes:

Put your project on paper. Love has more patience, so pursue projects that excite you.

5 perfectionist struggles:

1. Finishing nothing. 2. Polishing stuff that nobody cares about.

Don't give up on being a content creator before trying to communicate ideas with visuals (no design background required): First, busting the myth:

You don't need to be a designer.

We're not trying to re-create Mona Lisa.

We're communicating ideas with simple lines, shapes, and words.

Plus, tools and tutorials are so advanced with easy-to-understand UX that the "I CAN'T DRAW" excuse has no place.

7 reminders for a kick-ass week:

1. Don't wait for motivation. Schedule it. 2. Adopt growth mindset.

Visualizing ideas changed my life (quicker than I expected):

- millions of people have seen my visuals
- led me to work with @julian, @ShaanVP, @naval, @mattdavella, and others
- managed to quit my 9-5

I’m creating a course+community to share everything I know and here's why: I was an aspiring creator for years. Tried youtube, blogs, and even sharing my ideas via podcast.

But to me, it felt like an uphill battle and I gave up…

3 years had passed and I was still struggling to find "my thing"

Random weekly recap in a thread. Did a bike ride. Had fun. Saw cows.

https://twitter.com/njcostelloe/status/1398050135947444224

How I approach visual content creation. I get questions about how I get the ideas and what tools I use for my visual content.

Here’s one thread with all the answers.

I quit 9-5. Story on clarity and commitment. It was early 2017. I remembered standing in my bedroom and listening to The 4-Hour Workweek by @tferriss. Around 2 hours in the book, I said to myself: “Holy shit, I’ve been such an idiot.”

Janis Binging Newsletters EP1 ↓ I love good newsletters. Once a month, I binge through them and take some notes. Here are my takeaways from some of the ones I'm subscribed to.

I asked @torbs_training what suggestions he has so I don't sit like a shrimp. He came back with excellent tips. ↓ Here is a 3-step formula for improving your posture and avoid becoming an office shrimp:

Step 1. Strengthen the muscles on the back of your body (ex. upper back & shoulders), to naturally pull you out of a shrimp posture.