The Anniversary of My First Significant Failure
As I typed “January 13th” into my journaling software, I was trying to recall why this date was significant. Twenty-six years ago today I failed for the first time at something I cared about. The endless hours of practice, the feedback from the best teacher I ever had, and missing all-state band by one chair…
How to Build an Audience of 1000 True Fans in a Noisy World
Close to a decade ago, Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired Magazine, wrote about the concept of 1000 true fans. The idea was that if 1000 people supported your work and paid $100 a year, you might not make millions of dollars but could earn a reasonable living as a content creator from a small group…
3 Questions to Determine Your Essential Priorities
Ryder Caroll, the creator of the Bullet Journal Method, uses a simple framework to determine how he should spend his time each day. First, start by identifying everything that you’re currently working on. You might be working on a creative project, taking an online course, planning a wedding or renovating a home. Then, consider the…
How to Write More in 2019
There’s nothing that has had changed my life more than writing 1000 words a day. Writing for an hour a day can improve the quality of your life, make you a happier person and enable you to accomplish things you once thought were impossible. This keystone habit has helped me write multiple books, hundreds of…
The Opportunity Costs of Social Media
As consumers get better and better at at ignoring mass media, mass media stops working. – Seth Godin The quote above is from Seth’s book, Purple Cow, which was published in 2003. Fifteen years later, if you replaced mass with social, this quote still rings true. The tools that have supposedly connected us have have…
On The Time We Have Left With The People Who Matter Most to Us
When you look at that reality, you realize that despite not being at the end of your life, you may very well be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life. – Tim Urban Click to Tweet Above all things, we take the time we have left…
How to guarantee a terrible 2019
This article started off as an email that Kingshuk Mukherjee wrote for my Unmistakable Creative newsletter. Multiple people asked for it in an article, so here it is in expanded form. – Srini What follows are my 5 immutable rules for a terrible, no good, deeply unfulfilling 2019. Follow these rules and I guarantee you misery.…
The Most Valuable Thing Aspiring Authors can do For their Careers
In 2013, I’d been blogging for almost 4 years. I’d also been running a podcast called BlogcastFM, the precursor to Unmistakable Creative, where I’d learned every blogging strategy out there. But I still couldn’t get a book deal. That was when I finally stopped waiting to be picked.First, I emailed Mark Schaefer who was kind…
Writing Can Teach You Everything you Need to Learn About Life
– Dani ShapiroEverything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write. Nothing has been as beneficial to every area of my life as writing.It’s made me a happier person.It’s given me something to look forward to every single day.It’s connected me to new peopleIt’s changed my…
