Sometimes you need to get ANGRY to get moving.

BUT channel that rage into something positive.

A thread on 'writing':

It was 6.33 PM.

Just a few more minutes before prayer time.

Workout or skip it?

The decision was a noose slowly tightening around my neck.

And I choked.

Chose the easy way out.

And like acid, regret burned through me.

"Promises mean nothing to you, do they? Worthless..."

The voice in my head, my voice, clawed at my sanity. I was drowning in self-loathing.

But like a bolt from the blue,
the old quote flashed:

“No one escapes death as death is the only eternal.”

Something snapped.

Was this it?

This pathetic whimper is how my story ends?

A jolt of rage surged, hot and blinding.

Veins pulsed, screaming a primal "NO!"

“We ball.”

The words tore out of me, a declaration of war.

I ran upstairs.

Picked up the jump ropes, and began skipping like an absolute maniac.

Twenty minutes of brutal workout.

And when I finally collapsed, drenched and gasping, something else filled me - pure, savage triumph.

A smirk lightened up my facial expression.

All I could think of was the pump my muscles were holding.

They looked EPIC.

I nailed that workout.

And I felt like a champion.

I freshened up. Prayed.

Fueled by that fire, fueled by the fight, I wrote this piece of content.

The lesson?

Energy transference in writing is real.

You are the furnace.
Your mood is the fuel.

It's why your best writing happens after:

• A heavy workout.
• An outing with your tribe.
• A long walk through the park.

This post is a prime example of that.

Energy transference is real

My first gig paid me just $30/mo.

To write sports articles.

Those days looked like this:

— Wake up.
— Check Twitter.
— Curate the latest news.
— Write articles.
— Repeat.

I grinded hard.
I loved the hustle.

And that wifi money was life-changing.

Cz it taught me:

Yes, it's frickin possible to make wifi money while sitting on your couch.

But looking back, here's the ONE key takeaway that I'm grateful for from that gig:

Mentorship is the FASTEST way to grow your skill portfolio.

— I got my first mentor from that gig.
— Taught me everything about sports writing.
— Clickbait, storytelling, pacing — everything.
— He urged me to ship my ideas online.
— Build a tribe for yourself, he said.
— And I started writing online.

That mentorship was alone worth thousands of dollars despite the monetary benefit.

I hustled for a year on Twitter.
Met one of the finest writers on LinkedIn.
He took me under his radar.
He told me to write on LinkedIn.
Started ghostwriting.

And here I am talking to you.

Lotta folks get a tiny fan club in their niche and call it a win...

But I've watched underdogs morph into niche titans within months.

No kidding, it's a wicked way to turbocharge your content growth.

(only if you dare to play the game right)

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6/6
(only if you dare to play the game right)👇

Turbocharge Your Content Growth

Want to dominate Twitter?


Then you need to master idea expansion.


Unfortunately, most people don't know what to post.



Here are 9 types of (value-packed) content that make the biggest impact:

Every Creator's Nightmare:

You've tonnes of ideas in your note.
But don't know how to expand them.

Not anymore.

Let's dive in:

1. Tips:

Becoming a thought leader in your niche is determined by the actionability of your content.

Help your audience to solve their problems:
Faster and with less headache.

Just like the thread you are reading now.

2. Tools:

You've achieved a perfect summer body.
And you are a fitness influencer.

Then, why don't you show your audience:

• Diet you used
• Apps you used
• Equipment you used
• Fitness trackers you used

They all are tools that make your audience's journey much easier.

3. Steps:

Humans love to be spoonfed.

Especially when we are living in an age where patience is going extinct.

Become a niche leader with 3 simple steps:

• Take a niche achievement you've got
• Deconstruct how you achieved it
• Share the step-by-step blueprint

Go VIRAL!

4. Curation:

Your audience is running low on time.

Help them dive deep into your niche (in less time) by curating the best:

• Books
• Podcasts
• Youtube videos
• Content creators
• Tonnes of other resources

Save them time. Grow rapidly. Make money.

5. Mistakes:

You can get ahead 99% of the competition with this simple shortcut:

Avoiding what went wrong for others (and you).

• What did you achieve?
• What mistakes you made in the process?
• What solutions have you found?

Compile and tweetify the mistakes.

6. Case studies:

"that guy is turning his LinkedIn into a lead-gen machine"

Well, that guy is also sharing case studies.

Content that proves he knows his stuff to the tee. And he is not to be messed with.

Want to make more LinkedIn money?

Start sharing more case studies.

7. Reasons:

Take something you believe in.

And jot down:

• Reasons why it does work
• Reasons why you believe this way
• Reasons why it doesn't work that way
• Reasons why the reader should believe you

Remember: Be absolute in your belief.

8. Personal stories:

This ain't your license to tell whatever story you have in your pockets.

• Tell stories of transformation.
• Tell stories of true impact.
• Tell stories of raw authenticity.

Without a problem, there's no story.
It's a gateway to show your real self.

9. Frameworks:

My 2-step framework to write content:

• Consume and jot down ideas.
• Expand these ideas and share.

Whatever you do, build frameworks out of it and share them as content.

Frameworks eliminate guesswork.
Frameworks boost performance.

9 Types of Impactful Content for Twitter Mastery

I got SCAMMED!

I wasted:

• Countless hours
• Countless minutes
• Countless seconds

Listening to GURUS preaching the perfect daily routine.

Then I saw this bulky dude reveal his kickass daily routine.

(that made him $100M by his 30th birthday)

Here's the routine: 

I'm a productivity geek.

But my hunt for the perfect daily routine of GURUS has made my days much more cluttered.

Until I met Alex Hormozi.

His daily routine is a game-changer.

Here's how it will change your life in 4 simple steps:

1) Set an arm for your BED:

Instead of setting an alarm for the mornings, do the opposite.

Set an alarm for the bed.

Be ruthless in following the alarm.

Here's my bedtime routine:

• No phone 15 min before bed
• Do a light stretch
• Pray
• And sleep

2) Keep it minimal:

Mr. Hormozi eats the same food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

He reduces the number of decisions he has to make throughout the day.

Matt D'Avella is also a fan of this idea.

Wears the same colored dress.
Eats the same food.
A die-hard fan of minimalism.

3) Plan the day before you sleep:

Avoid the 'What should I do today?' question syndrome in the morning.

Before bed:

• Write down tasks
• Sort out needle-moving tasks
• Pick them for the morning

Carpe diem.

Heck, this thread is a byproduct of yesterday's night planning.

4) The mornings:

Leverage the uninterrupted morning hours to build LEVERAGE.

Mr. Hormozi's philosophy:

Wake up.
Get shit done.

That's it.

No shouting out affirmations.
No meditation.
No sauna.

Just WORK.

These four are actually GREAT productivity hacks.

They really help to get the shit done and tackle the day.

But hear me out:

You don't have to religiously follow Mr. Hormozi's daily routine.

Instead, do this:

Experiment and iterate.

I don't eat the same food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I don't wear the same colored clothes every single day.

I do start my day with a 30-minute warmup routine.

In those 30 minutes:

• I pray
• I meditate
• I stretch my body

It helps to get my creative juices flowing.

And it's exactly after that 30-minute warmup session that I crafted this thread in the morning.

I'm also a huge fan of minimalism. Just not the extreme type.

Experiment.
Find what works for you.
Double down on what works.

FYI,

The reason why I wrote this thread:

I'm fed up with my timeline being filled with tweets that preach productivity hacks and FORGET this:

Telling the readers to experiment with those hacks.

EXPERIMENT 🔽

About chanting AFFIRMATIONS: 

I wrote this thread using AudioPen by @louispereira.

- Spoke my thoughts into AudioPen
- It gave me a wonderful summary
- Edited the summary &amp; scheduled

Transform your ramblings into beautiful text summaries (aff):

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Beware of The Advice You Consume

Youtube is FAKE.

That's what I thought after getting 0 views for my very first youtube shorts.

But then I saw this dude making over $200k/mo from youtube.

Without showing his face.

Here's the story: 

The dude is Chems.

And he is the creator of a sneaky (and very lucrative) youtube growth model:

YTA. Aka, Youtube Automation.

I'll give you a small peek — this model makes him over $2M/year from youtube.

Here's his story and how he built his youtube empire:

Like most children, Chems was also obsessed with video games.

And he was pretty good at the endeavor.

One day, he decided to record his obsession and upload it on youtube.

He started a channel about 'Clash Of Clans' gaming videos.

What happened next is pretty mind-boggling:

At the age of 12, @chemsyoutube grew his first channel to 100k subs.

Heck, he even became one of the top 5 gamers in France.

For a 12 yo, the side hustle was pretty lucrative, he earned $1-2kmo.

@ChemsYouTube But things didn't last long.

Youtube terminated his channel.

@ChemsYouTube The reason?

Youtube's terms of service violation.

The real reason?

Big YouTubers complained he was using cheap blackhat methods and clickbait to skyrocket his growth.

But this sudden setback changed his life (for good).

It launched his career as a creatorprenuer on youtube. 

@ChemsYouTube He took a year off.

Wandered the streets, spent time in the parks, and went to school as normal, but his brain was craving to get back into building his empire up.

Eventually, he did.

He was fed up with what came along with youtube success.

Fame. Recognition. He hated it.

@ChemsYouTube And that resentment led him to make this decision:

"No more face-on channels."

He kickstarted his YT journey with a faceless channel about 'Fortnite'.

He was 16 at this time.

But this time he adopted a different strategy to grow his channel.

@ChemsYouTube He didn't want to show his face in his channels and wanted to scale rapidly.

Enter — YTA.

For starters, Youtube automation is the complete or half automation of your youtube video production.

Here's what Chems did in six simple steps:

@ChemsYouTube 1. Chose an evergreen niche
2. Created a content strategy
3. Modeled high-performing videos
4. Outsourced video production
5. Leveraged end screen paid promo
6. Doubled down on what worked

There's a lot more nuance to it.

But Chems covers them to the tee on his Twitter handle. 

@ChemsYouTube The result?

He made his first $100,000 at the end of that year. He was just 16 yo.

The 'outsourcing' part of the YTA model helped him to scale rapidly.

Started new channels. Scaled them.
Started new channels. Scaled them.
Started new channels. Scaled them.

He repeated this...

@ChemsYouTube English is not even his first language.

But he managed to build a youtube empire from his parent's basement.

Today he is 21.

• He owns 30 YTA channels.
• Does $2M/year in revenue.
• Has a combined 10M subscribers.

Legendary. 

@ChemsYouTube If you are interested to build a youtube empire with YTA.

Check Chems's community out:
https://gumroad.com/a/631386323/btntk

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I Met A Dude Making $200k/mo From Youtube

Two of the best digital writers of our generation:

Nicolas Cole - @nicolascole77
Dickie Bush - @dickiebush

I spent the last 2 days bingeing on their ideas on writing.

Here are 6 key takeaways synthesized into visuals:🧵

1. The hook manifesto: 

@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush 2. Synthesize content:

Dickie Bush kickstarted his writing by:

• Bingeing on podcasts
• Taking notes
• Organizing those notes
• Sharing them on Twitter
• Repeating for straight 30 days

You can grow a lot by just synthesizing content for people. 

@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush 3. Most writers find it hard to ideate rapidly.

Not anymore.

Leverage the 2-year test.

The answers you get are the ideas for your writing.

Create content at scale: 

@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush 4. Get obsessed with studying copywriting.

• Curate viral writing formats
• Be ruthless in building swipe files
• Study them religiously
• Turn them into templates
• Use templates and create rapidly 

@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush 5. Build a funnel.

A funnel helps you to:

• Nurture your audience
• Boost your revenue
• Build digital leverage at scale

Here's your go-to creator funnel: 

@Nicolascole77 @dickiebush 6. Get 90% of your thinking done before you write.

List your:

• Big ideas
• Main points
• Subpoints

Before you start to write.

Remember:

Writing is connecting different dots (ideas) and forging new ideas. 

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The Digital Writing Masterclass

Writing flow state.

Getting 'in the zone.'

Here are 7 of my favorite ways to get 'into the zone' faster ↓

(that will have you typing in a trance): 

1. Pre-writing Ritual

Develop a pre-writing ritual to signal your mind that it's time to write.

• Make coffee
• Free write like a champ
• Do hot yoga

You want to create a ritual that tells your brain: “It’s time to write.”

2. Environment

Create an environment that sets the tone for your writing.

• Clean desk
• Clutter-free room
• Comfortable chair
• Good lighting

Less chaos = more focus.

(PS. I love my setup 3000 ❤️). 

3. Music

Use a focus playlist.

Choose songs without lyrics.

Music helps get into the flow faster.

My go-to playlist:

- Man of Steel - Hans Zimmer
- Black Panther - Ludwig Göransson
- Every Spider-Man soundtrack

Yep, I'm a superhero junkie 😂.

4. Write from abundance:

Getting into a flow state is much easier when you have a pile of notes,

To spark inspiration.

To connect ideas.

To write magic.

Take notes like a madman to write like a master of your craft.

5. Write (the Gaiman way):

There's a reason why Neil Gaiman is a phenomenal writer.

His writing routine:

Just write or do nothing.

No walks, no checking emails, no passive content consumption, or playing with his child.

Restraints are productivity machines (for writers). 

6. Outline.

Stuck in the middle of writing?

You should have outlined it earlier.

Each time before you get you ass off to writing, make sure:

You have an outline.

It cures your blank-page-starting syndrome.

7. Practice 

You will probably hate me for telling you this:

"Consistency is key"

Unfortunately, it's the truth.

If you are a writer,

focused writing for straight 30 minutes every frickin day,

will change your life (I'm not kidding).

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Reach Flow States (In Seconds)

2 hours of focused writing a day for 6 months will change your life.

9 spicy ideas that'll actually get you better at writing (I'm not joking):

- THREAD - 

1) Keep a story log:

Jot down every tiny nugget of story-worthy moments from your life and the minds you meet in the contentverse.

Overtime, this happens if you are religious in keeping story logs:

You'll have a library of story-worthy moments that you can expand, tell and retell (again).

Prediction:

Storytellers will have the most engaging tribe in Twitterverse at the end of 2023.

2) Be in a perpetual state of ideation — Prime your mind to ideate rapidly.

- Leverage AI
- Create prompts
- Forge templates
- Free write (for idea-flows)
- Build note-taking frameworks

Creativity is a muscle; the more you train this gift, the more you can use it (for good).

3) Take notes like a madman — Million-dollar ideas are worth nothing if you don't jot them down when it sparks a tsunami of thoughts in your mind.

Analog or digital, it doesn't matter.

Capture your ideas and BUILD upon the ideas, don't let them get buried under a pile of ideas.

4) Internalize great writing — be a sponge of great writing.

When you read 100s of pages of great writing, your mind will absorb the word wizardry of great writers.

Their unique twisting of grammar, wordplays, and storytelling structures...

Just internalize great writing.

5) AI is only a tool!

Real creativity is in using them to augment your inner creativity not to replace it.

Use it to tidy up and refine your writing, organize your ideas, get feedback, and automate base-level writing — email replies, writing memos, etc.

6) Simple systemization of writing.

For digital writing, batch write, and for stories keep a notepad to jot down story-worthy moments from your life and the content you consume.

Remember: Systems are in place to make the writing endeavor flow smoothly.

A simple system for batch writing (content):

Monday:
Brainstorm ideas

Tuesday:
Research &amp; curate related content

Wednesday - Friday:
Batch create content

Saturday:
Polish the content and schedule

Sunday:
Rest &amp; watch a movie/go for a hike

7) Write on the go — sometimes the best ideas spur...

When you are sitting on your couch and contemplating your life decisions or bingeing on The Last of Us.

In those moments, don't be afraid to go down the rabbit hole of chasing and expanding those ideas in one sitting.

8) Study the different genres of writing — copywriting, fiction writing, and tweet writing.

Well, the list goes on.

Do it long enough that you'll be able to blend different genres and cast charming spells with your words like Doctor Strange plays with magic spells.

9) Transform your content diet into your own ideas:

If you can read, you can write.

If you can consume content, you can create content.

Every bit of long-form content in existence can be repolished into a tweet.

Just watched a podcast?
Extract stories, threadify, &amp; TWEET.

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