✍️ 1 lesson from 1095 days of writing online
11 months ago • 3 min readHey there Reader! Remember last week I told you there's gonna be a change to the newsletter? Well, I want to give you some behind-the-scenes each week until I launch. I'm pivoting my whole LinkedIn strategy around the pending rebrand of the newsletter. I've been working on the backend of things this week, coming up with the name, logo, which platform to host the website etc... Next week will be the same. The one teaser I am going to give you is that it's going to be a deep-dive style...
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11 months ago • 4 min readHey there Reader! How's your Sunday going? Weekends are the best time for me to get deep work done. I find there is less distraction, less chaos, and more peace. It makes me shift into a flow state way easier, and become a writing machine. I produce all my clients and my content on Sundays. Quick announcements: I'm working on some new digital products and lead magnets specific to this newsletter. I don't want to rush them, as I want to produce something that people would genuinely want. I'm...
READ POST✍️ 3 Short Meditations on Creative Work
12 months ago • 4 min readQuick announcement: ✍️ I'm working on a new product called the StoryWriter's HQ ✍️ It'll be free to you exclusively on this newsletter. It's a creative hub with a bunch of free resources on how to come up with unique ideas, write great stories, and gain inspiration. Video tutorials, prompts, swipe files, and more! (I'm even including some AI writing tools/prompts 👀) You'll be able to access it by referring this newsletter to other creators. Stay tuned! Happy Sunday Reader! I've been thinking...
READ POST✍️ How to *actually* think creatively in biz
12 months ago • 5 min readHey Reader! It's 24 Celsius out right now. Nice sunny day, and I'm clacking away at my keyboard, eating some fruit. Just wrote this whole newsletter, now the intro section is staring back at me, so here it is. I go deep into some creative thinking mindsets and frameworks today, I hope you enjoy it. And the recommendations are bangers also, I did a lot of mindful content consumption this week. Ideas are flowing nicely! Bout to go batch-create my content for next week now, enjoy. Today at a...
READ POST💔I nearly screwed up my whole creator business...
about 1 year ago • 5 min readHey Reader! Welcome back. Last week was a crazy one for me. I got overloaded with client work. (Mainly because I was on holiday the week before, so everything was left till the last minute) I was up until 2 am writing client posts, and now I'm drowned in another (way bigger) project due next week. So this had me thinking in my head: 'This is not what a successful creator business looks like.' As a result, I'm switching up a lot in my systems and schedules, so I want to share some thoughts on...
READ POSTbig boy storytelling advice 🎯
about 1 year ago • 2 min readReader, 80% of the time, I want to click ‘delete’. A few days ago I shared a post about finding purpose in life. It was a pure storytelling post about how I was unhappy travelling South America. All because I quit my passion (writing) The point of the post was to show people that purpose is more important than experience. Here’s the last line of the post that I was low-key proud of. “TL;DR - Purpose is more important than experience. Align yourself with a goal, and you can be happy anywhere.”...
READ POSTThe 'Creative Dip' framework for achieving success
about 1 year ago • 3 min readReader, The biggest barrier most of us face in trying to compete with the big dawgs online is self-belief. "How did they do it!?" "They make it seem so easy, why isn't it working for me!?" Well today, I want to talk about that exactly. It's all about The Creative Dip. PS - Keep reading for a banger life principle from Naval, networking lifehacks for introverts, and a cool copywriting tip at the end. I once stepped away from writing for 497 days because self-doubt and anxiety had consumed me....
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