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"To me, there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container." – Lorne Michaels.
There are many case studies online where people have challenged themselves to do something in a specific time-frame or to do something every day for a fixed period.
I find these fascinating, and I always learn something about the human ability to produce or persevere.
Even our youngest son set himself the challenge to cycle 1,000 km (621 miles) in a month, that's approximately 33 km (20 miles) every day.
There was no reward at the end of it other than the satisfaction of knowing he had done it.
He completed the task early and rode further than the goal he set for himself.
On one day he rode three times the required distance to give himself a buffer for inclement weather preventing him riding.
We are proud of him for setting and achieving his goal.
I set myself the goal to write an email to you six days a week.
I started getting my act into gear on May 25th 2019 and haven't missed an email since then.
I think I've written a couple of novels worth of words in that time.
The point of this is that the fixed limit has actively contributed to the production of the content.
When you are in the habit of CHOOSING your OWN creative obstacles, you get well practised in dealing with monkey wrenches and wooden shoes tossed into your beautiful machine.
You become MacGuyver.
You can solve ANY problem.
The other benefit is that when you set the boundaries, it doesn't feel like destiny or fate unfairly crushing you.
It feels like a fun and challenging game you are playing with yourself.
- Can you do one whatever per day for 30, 60, 90 days?
- Can you write 5,000 words today?
- Can you plan a month's worth of posts and promos in the next hours?
- Can you take this one article you wrote and expand it into at least five new posts?
- Can you write 13 points on this one topic to make a whole article?
Try gamifying your goals to take away the task and make it a game.
Regards,
Brent.
P.S. Wow. I have been doing this for a while but hadn't spelled it out before.
There is another thing you can do.
You can set up a whole year worth of content for your blog with this little wrinkle.
Write down 12 potential problems your readers have.
Make them something that they would pay to solve.
Just write enough words to explain the idea, with no details.
Take one of those ideas, break it into four sub-ideas.
Only the most essential four main ideas, not everything.
Move on to another one and repeat.
Keep going until you either have all 12 done or at least 6.
Take the top three and break the four sub-topics down to 5 bite-sized bits.
OK, what do you have now?
- 1 New product every month for a year.
- 6 Broken down to weekly chunks to be easier to tackle.
- 3 Broken down to daily pieces, which you can break down further if required.
There you have a list-based plan for a year of content.
Your welcome.
Do this review training, and you'll be able to knock out those daily bite-sized pieces of content in an hour or less.
https://link.wm-tips.com/review
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