14 months ago, I struggled to make my 1st dollar writing online.

4 months ago, I hit my first $7k month.

Now, I pay all my bills from it.

What made the biggest difference?

I stopped over-thinking and under-acting.

Was it simple?

Hell yeah.

Was it easy?

Absolutely not.

You see my whole goal when I started writing online was to run a successful creator business.

But in my early days I kept overthinking every step.

This led to me over indexing on information from books, digital courses, LinkedIn...

And never taking action.

I felt like I needed the perfect:

•Plan

•Strategy

•Follower number

The scariest part about this?

Its why most creators don't see results.

Then they quit, wondering why they failed.

I told myself I couldn't be one of them.

So, I decided to take action.

Here's what I did:

The 3 Most Important Steps I Took

First:

I made 8 hours of sleep a non-negotiable.

Straight forward, common-sense stuff I know.

But this has actually had the biggest impact on my success.

And it only makes sense.

The higher quality rest you get the higher quality outputs you can give.

I rarely work over 5-6 hours a day now.

But get well over 8 hours "worth" of work done.

The best benefit of this though?

Mental clarity.

Once I got enough rest my brain fog went away.

With the newfound clarity, I stopped overthinking.

All I had to do was act.

So that's the first thing I did, optimize sleep.

Second:

I started to plan & review every day.

Before bed I would answer:

•What worked well today?

•What didn't work well today?

•How can I improve tomorrow?

Then finished with a brain dump.

Next, I would plan out my 3 main goals for the next day.

These goals were non-negotiable.

I'd write 1 for:

•Business

•Health/fitness

•Personal Life

Examples:

•Write my newsletter (Business)

•Hit legs at the gym (Fitness)

•Call my mom (Personal)

I doubled down on what worked from my daily reviews, ditched what didn’t, & refined what I could improve on day by day…

Then executed ruthlessly on my daily goals Every. Single. Day.

Third:

I re-invented myself.

I went into a Google doc and wrote out:

•My yearly goals

•Past achievements

•My personal creed

Then I defined in detail who I wanted to become now.

Down to my:

•Beliefs

•Values

•Daily habits

•Personality traits

•Daily habits to avoid

*The key here is to write all these out as if you already are that person, not becoming this person

I printed it all off and put them into a folder I read every morning.

Notice how simple this was?

None of it involved watching hours of the world's best Ted Talks.

Or reading a new book someone on LinkedIn told me to read (not hating on books but action always wins)

Or designing a perfect strategy.

It's the simple stuff that always has the biggest impact.

Reaching your goals and becoming fulfilled is on the other side of stopping your overthinking & underacting.

The stakes are high.

If you don’t, you’ll wake up at the same place in your life 5 years from now.

You’ll think back to reading this newsletter and think:

“Damn, he was right.”

Alright that’s it for this week.

I appreciate you being here my friend.

If you need help with step 3 on re-inventing yourself shoot me a message.

I respond to every email so don’t be shy!

Until next Thursday,

Darion

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First

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Second

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