Archive for the month October 2020

Many of my readers are big on video. I know because we talk. Most of them make videos for their YouTube channel. And, often struggle with what most creators in the early stage of their journey do. Low engagement. Here…

The most important thing you can do for this is to meet your customers where there are, instead of waving at them from afar. For bigger deals it may mean keeping in touch with them over months and years. Use…

Raise your hand if you hated homework when you were in school. Who didn’t? And now we procatsiante because we have homework.

How can we still have homework? All grown up and when we were supposed to work 9-5, 5…

Start with a bad idea. Make something bad based on this idea. Get inspired by something that is not bad. Now make something that is not as bad as what you made the first time. Decide whether you want to…

It is not good to compare ourselves to others most of the time. But when it inspires you, then go for it. I have done a lot of things in my life that I saw others and then took a…

Creating content, where they are words, audio or videos is one of the best ways to network with like minded people. Because when you go past the initial period of ‘nobody cares but I still create” your people find you,…

Here are five ways to do it. Let’s take a look at each one by one. #1 Write a good book This step can sound boring. But it is the most important. Write a short dense book, around 150 pages…

Oftentimes creators want to publish but they don’t do it because of imposter syndrome or due to fear of being judged. The best way to do this is to not get into the trap of perfection. Because early in your…

Help someone with something you love doing. That’s how my book coaching business started. I loved writing and wanted to write a book. I continued exploring and learning more about it.

I used what I learned to write two books,…

In celebrating our success, we often lose some of our advantages. Like how, to celebrate a period of eating clean, we do a cheat day and hog. To celebrate a period of waking up early, we sleep in late. And…

Being busy is good, until it isn’t. Being busy is good because it keeps your mind off from evil things. And being busy helps when you are starting out, because we learn by doing. But once you have learned the…

It is common to see people pursuing what they think they’ll like. What if you eliminated what you dislike and built your life around that? It is like cleaning your house and creating space before you bring anything new in.…

It comes from doing. Whatever you want to be inspired about, just do that if you want to find inspiration. An artist, paint some. A writer, write 100, 200 or 500 words. A photographer, go out and take some shots.…

Just change your relationship with what you do.

Stop looking at what you do, as something stressful. Something that you have to do. Instead start looking at it from the perspective of what it does for you. Think clearly and…

Because almost everyone who is an entrepreneur is either stressed or overworked. They are in this state because they are out to build a ‘business’ or ‘startup’. And, their focus is on maximizing profits. For them it is business first.…