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Keeping the momentum
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Welcome to another edition of my weekly email on Start, Build and Grow your idea. This week I want to talk about momentum and how to keep on going.
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Maybe you started a new idea on January the 1st, or maybe you waited until Jan 3rd (since hey, weekend). You're now firmly 3 weeks in to the new year and you've been putting effort into your new idea consistently. You've got into a habit - but how do you keep up the momentum?
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Did you know - it takes less fuel if you keep your speed constant, manageable and avoid stops? It's called rolling road.
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Truckers will do this if they're approaching traffic or traffic lights - they'll slow down much much earlier and aim to "roll" up to the traffic - that way if the lights change, or the traffic clears they're already slowly rolling and it's much easier to get back up to speed if they don't come to a complete stop.
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DON'T STOP
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It might be hard going, you might not be seeing the same crazy success that "that guy got" who advertised his course to you. But whatever you do, don't stop.
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But, how do you keep momentum? How do you keep the right mindset to keep going? Here's 7 things I've found that work great for me
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- The first and most important is find something you enjoy doing. If instagram winds you up, don't start an instagram account.
- Mix it up a bit - you know what you're an expert at and love blogging daily or weekly about it - but you "do this at work everyday" and now you're also using your personal time to write about the same thing. Try mixing it up a bit. This can be quite fun (such as this one mistake I made with my YouTube videos).
- Carve out the time in your Calendar. Schedule time where you're going to work on your idea. For me, this is weekends before my little boy gets up where I can be distraction free.
- Try new channels. Are you just writing on your site? Maybe give YouTube a go and put some video content out there.
- Take it easy. Don't punish yourself if you miss a target (say publishing every day). You can always back-date a post and put double out the next day.
- Start sharing your work. Show your work and start building connections. People reading your content are people too.
- That person that liked your tweet - reach out, have a chat and start making friends with your audience - ask them what they'd like to see next. When writing or recording something on the back of a request it certainly helps me keep my motivation.
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That's all for this week but before you go.... I wanted to touch a little on what's coming up in the next 7 days on this site and on my YouTube channel.
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Coming on Friday, I've recorded a video about how to write engaging content. Be sure to subscribe (and hit that notification bell) to be alerted when it's out.
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- How soon to start outreach.
- I wrote an eBook! (and NOT the Call of Duty one).
- I won’t teach you to get rich.
- It’s just sell, sell, sell, right?
- Diving into Reddit.
- What stretches I do each day, to keep my body from locking up.
- Should you say “yes” to the acquisition dress?
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