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What If Your Focus Problem Isn't a Discipline Problem?
You’ve tried the timers. The 90-minute block everyone swears by, the perfect morning routine, the system a podcast promised would change your life.
And somewhere along the way — maybe after the third or fourth setup stopped working — a sneaky thought came: the problem must simply be me… my character… my willpower.
I know that disempowering thought all too well. Have heard it in my mind (and from authoritative figures) all my life.
I now see that it’s a lie.
“I just need more willpowe…
How to be authentic on social media, and sustain your presence there?
Over the years, many soulpreneurs have written to me with this kind of concern:
“I’m not sure I can sustain a presence on social media, even if it’s good for business… it feels exhausting to have to keep up an image of who I am. Or maybe I will run out of things to say…”
I’m with you. If I had to pretend to be someone I’m not, it would exhaust me too.
It’s the feeling of having to keep up an image — knowing you “should” be present online, but dreading the regularity of having to show up…
Even if you're not posting any content, don’t neglect to do gentle launches 🌱
For years I’ve been encouraging my readers to practice a rhythm of gentle launches. Maybe you’ve even done one or two. But then maybe you stopped doing them.
The loss in momentum is often due to:
- Content guilt (“I haven’t posted in weeks — I can’t just sell now, can I?”).
- Or the second or third gentle launch didn’t get any enrollments, so you took that as “don’t keep trying!”
- Or, you never set up an ongoing rhythm in the first place — just a one-off attempt, and then “life” happene…
Soulpreneur, You’re Being a Little “Delulu”… and that’s a Good Thing :)
Over the years, a lot of soulpreneurs have recounted to me a conversation they have with loved ones. It happens at the dinner table, or in the car, or in a text thread they keep rereading. A caring family member or close friend says some version of:
Maybe it’s time to be realistic about your “business”…
I know that conversation too well. To this day — 17 years after I’ve been making a full-time income in my business — my parents still aren’t clear what I do (it’s outside their understanding of…
IDEA: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Soul
If you’ve asked a chatbot to write a blog post, you’ve seen how ridiculously easy it is. Within minutes you have a “polished” article about any topic in the world.
Or ask for a plan, or to figure out a problem, and BOOM you have more ideas than you know what to do with.
And that’s dangerous.
Those of us who use chatbots a lot are at risk of losing our muscles of thinking, writing, authentic creating…
A writer recently confessed on Reddit that they no longer trust their instincts after months…