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Living on your own terms visualized 🧑💻
The Solopreneur funnel
At which stage are you?
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Living on your own terms visualized 🧑💻
The Solopreneur funnel
At which stage are you?
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Solopreneurs should use the Pareto Principle daily.
"80% of outcomes will come from 20% of inputs"
20% work:
- Writing
- Engaging
- Recording
- Publishing
- Targeted reading
- Customer discovery
- Launching digital products
Take consistent action on 20% activities.
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Creators and Consumers treat content differently.
A consumer consumes 👀
A creator analyzes 🕵️
Try it, analyze the:
- headline/thumbnail
- intro/hook
- storytelling
- formatting
- pacing
What did you like? Why?
Use it. Systematize it.
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Ever heard of Productive Procrastination?
It's a (rookie) Solopreneur trap.
Instead of posting/engaging/growing:
- Organizing your Notion workspace
- Obsessing about your niche
- Designing your logo
- Creating your website
I've fallen for each of these 🫢
Recognize yourself?
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PMs obsess about customer discovery.
Solopreneurs should too.
- Hop on calls
- Run a survey
- Run experiments
Dig for problems. Craft solutions that solve them.
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Inspiring quotes for Creators from Stephen King
Write (the first draft) quickly.
Your job isn’t to find ideas, but recognize them.
Read so that you can create.
Hey you.
Stop looking for the perfect tools.
Just do the work.
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It doesn't have to take a lot of time.
30 min of writing every day for a year can change your life.
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30 minutes of writing every day is the gap between the creator you want to be and who you are.
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person_type = creator
daily_action = [tweet,thread,dm,research]
Execute the program. Go day by day.
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Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
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I love finding ego problems.
Once I realize, I can easily change it.
Ego is subconscious.
Make it conscious and change it.
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If you're afraid to publish things online, you have an ego problem.
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Once you know this then understand:
People spend an average of 1.8 seconds on a piece of content 👀
Then they move on with their day worrying about their own problems.
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You don’t fear failure. You fear judgement.
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Every creator needs to hear this at the start.
You are not the only one fighting perfectionism.
Just post it.
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Yes, it sucks.
Post it anyway.
You're welcome.
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My first internet dollar was a Dropshipping experiment selling silicone stretchy lids 😄
The first sale amount was $17.68
It caused so much excitement
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The very first time I made $50 on the internet in 2019, I knew working for someone else was a choice, not a requirement.
The Single Most Important Lesson I’ve Learned Working In Product
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Love this quote from Ray Bradbury:
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
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Startups need:
- a market
- a problem
- a product
For creators, it’s the same.
Ask yourself:
- who am I targeting?
- what problem do they have?
- what product would solve it?
Solve painful problems and success will follow.
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1 Big Mistake I Made When I Was First Getting Started Creating
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Ever grabbed your phone without knowing why?
Has this ever happened 20x times a day?
It happens to me all the time.
Use the 10-minute rule to avoid this. When you feel the urge, tell yourself you can give in, but not now. After 10 minutes.
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Six tools to keep you focused 🧑💻
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Start your day w/ your most important task
Avoid distractions
Make it a rule for yourself
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9+ years as a PM gave me a crucial skill.
The ability to do deep work 
Consistently, for 90+ mins at a time.
Here's how you can too:
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🔸 Zone out and work
- Zero multi-tasking
- Single focus on 1 goal
- App in full-screen mode
- Execute
I like to use focus sounds. Check out brain . fm
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Mine is simple.
- Prepare coffee
- Listen to 40hz binaural beats 5 min
- Sit down and execute
I learned about it on the Hubermanlab podcast. Works like a charm for me.
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🔸 Create a pre-deep work ritual
Athletes have a pre-game ritual.
You need a pre-flow ritual.
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Some examples for me as a creator:
- Write a Twitter thread
- Write a youtube script
- Create 20 thumbnails in Canva
- Edit A-Roll of my YT video
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🔸 Define the task
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi from the book 'Flow' explains the following:
You need clear goals of what you want to achieve.
The task should be challenging, but not beyond the skill level.
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Plus the obvious one:
Remove your phone from the room.
Mute notifications on your smartwatch if you have one.
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How I do it:
Close all apps end of the day.
Use Freedom app to block all distracting apps and websites from 7 am - 12 pm.
It removes willpower from the equation.
Check out 'freedom . to' - Gamechanger.
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🔸 Prepare your devices
You do deep work on your laptop.
You also use your laptop for:
- Messaging
- Email
- Social media
etc.
Clear all distractions.
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A simple hack for this:
Create a habit of cleaning your workspace every day after you finish work.
Next day you sit down → clutter-free 🪴
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🔸 Prepare your space
Research shows that messy desks mess with productivity.
You need a clean desk policy.
Deep work thrives in clutter-free spaces.
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Ask yourself:
- When am I most energized?
- When do I think most clearly?
- When am I at peak focus?
- When do I have a moment of peace?
For me, it's clearly early morning.
But for my GF, it's at night.
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🔸 Find your sacred hours
This part is so important and often skipped.
You need to find your peak brain moment in the day.
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Research claims you have ~4 hrs a day of deep work in you.
Let's get into how ↓
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Deep work is a state of peak concentration.
It enables you to learn hard things.
And generate quality output.
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