Platform-Building Pt. 4: Ten Principles

I recently spent some time reflecting on my platform-building routine. I looked at what was going well and not so well.

I found 10 helpful principles:

1. What gets written down gets done.

2. What gets scheduled on my calendar gets done.

3. I am managing not only my time, but my mental focus and motivation.

4. If I find ways to make a task feel rewarding, I will get it done.

5. I should not work on low priority items if higher priority ones are not done.

6. I should spend more time creating than evaluating.

7. I should ask help from others all the time, and I should go all out to invest in them too.

8. I should cultivate a system for saving old conversations and notes and knowing how to find them.

9. I can be more efficient by batching my processes.

Check email less frequently, and use folders to collect “things to read later,” “receipts,” etc.
Write blog posts in groups.

10. Whenever possible, re-purpose my work.

(This blog post is an instance of that.)

For blog topics chose something I already have written about or had a good conversation about.
Tweet whenever I learn something awesome.
Re-post only articles I’m personally interested in and have actually read.
Recycle material that gets a lot of reaction in social media.