Nice one, Ryan! A lot of interesting and useful tips here. This one caught my eye: "What is the ONE fight you want to pick? Be consistent." Can you elaborate more on this, since you're already working on it?! :)
An example of this idea is Justin Welsh posting about nothing other than escaping the rat race.
Every time you see his face or name, you know that he'll be talking about that topic in some form.
Not EVERY successful creator follows this advice.
Dan Koe teaches that it's best to allow yourself the freedom to keep exploring any new topic (and share it with your audience as you do). You can't have any competition at all if the reason that people read your content is because they like the lens through which you see the world (rather than just because they're obsessed with one particular topic).
I see merit to both sides.
In one sense, I believe that what would be best would be for me to focus narrowly on one topic and aim to expand it later. (I think being too broad and meandering and self-serving at the beginning could make it hard to attract an audience.)
But in another sense, I recognize that to do so might require more conviction / ability to focus narrowly on a single obsession than is appropriate for me. So I might burn out with that approach.
And I'm more committed to not burning out than I am to growing quickly.
I'm also open to discovering that I actually AM passionate enough about a single topic that I could focus on it narrowly for years.
I think many of us repress some of our passions for various reasons.
And now I'm in a phase of questioning everything and allowing some of those internal discoveries.
Ah, got it. It's s difficult one indeed. For me it'd be impossible. I'm a multi-passionate individual, so focusing on just one thing is literally impossible for me 😅 That doesn't mean that I can't have a sort of umbrella under which I touch certain themes I'm passionate about. Also, sometimes there comes a point where your personal brand turns bigger than your topics, so people follow you for being you, and they will be ok if you touch on many different topics.
Nice one, Ryan! A lot of interesting and useful tips here. This one caught my eye: "What is the ONE fight you want to pick? Be consistent." Can you elaborate more on this, since you're already working on it?! :)
An example of this idea is Justin Welsh posting about nothing other than escaping the rat race.
Every time you see his face or name, you know that he'll be talking about that topic in some form.
Not EVERY successful creator follows this advice.
Dan Koe teaches that it's best to allow yourself the freedom to keep exploring any new topic (and share it with your audience as you do). You can't have any competition at all if the reason that people read your content is because they like the lens through which you see the world (rather than just because they're obsessed with one particular topic).
I see merit to both sides.
In one sense, I believe that what would be best would be for me to focus narrowly on one topic and aim to expand it later. (I think being too broad and meandering and self-serving at the beginning could make it hard to attract an audience.)
But in another sense, I recognize that to do so might require more conviction / ability to focus narrowly on a single obsession than is appropriate for me. So I might burn out with that approach.
And I'm more committed to not burning out than I am to growing quickly.
I'm also open to discovering that I actually AM passionate enough about a single topic that I could focus on it narrowly for years.
I think many of us repress some of our passions for various reasons.
And now I'm in a phase of questioning everything and allowing some of those internal discoveries.
We'll see.
Ah, got it. It's s difficult one indeed. For me it'd be impossible. I'm a multi-passionate individual, so focusing on just one thing is literally impossible for me 😅 That doesn't mean that I can't have a sort of umbrella under which I touch certain themes I'm passionate about. Also, sometimes there comes a point where your personal brand turns bigger than your topics, so people follow you for being you, and they will be ok if you touch on many different topics.
Love it!