Increasing your mental endurance as you grow your online presence
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Increasing your mental endurance as you grow your online presence
Showing up consistently for your audience can be difficult, here's how to do it
Hey friends,
Hope you’re enjoying an amazing weekend. For those just joining us, you might want to check out our previous posts highlighted the success stories of some amazing people who’ve benefitted tremendously from building their online presence. Most recently, we highlighted the stories of Greg Isenberg and Dickie Bush. Be sure to check them out! There are lots of hidden nuggets and tips to help you take your online presence to the next level. Today, let’s talk more about a topic that keeps coming up within our community. How do you maintain momentum while building your online presence? Let’s dive into that now.
You’ll need to create the space to show up consistently for your audience.
We all have a lot going on in our lives. Whether that’s related to work, family, hobbies or other commitments, creating the space to share your journey with your audience can be deprioritized as a result. When this happens over a long period of time, you lose all momentum with building your online presence. Getting back on track after this can be extremely difficult. However, this situation can be prevented when you actively create the space needed to show up consistently. Chris Hladczuk, who has a large following on linkedIn and twitter shared a few ideas with us during our fireside chat with him.
His thoughts:
Spend some time during the weekend writing and creating various posts for your upcoming week
Keep notes about your day and share relevant parts of it with your audience
Showing up online as your authentic self makes it easier to keep going
Your momentum will slow down if you don’t take care of your mental health
The state of your mental health affects your ability to build your online presence over time. At times, there are days when you don’t even feel like looking at a screen or have nothing interesting to share with your audience. During such times, it’s important to remember that taking a break for a day or two might actually be more helpful than trying to push yourself to post online.
If you’ve already built your muscle memory before then, you’ll automatically have the edge to put something out there for your audience. If not, it’s okay to take some time off to gather some inspiration. Make sure to set a date when you’d be returning to your regularly scheduled cadence.
Cheers,
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Increasing your mental endurance as you grow your online presence
I really liked the suggestion that it is OK to take time off to refresh oneself if one's mental health has gotten out of their control and they are struggling with maintaining online presence. I would like to suggest that it is a good time to consider if one's cadence is not unrealistic given their lives overall demands upon them and especially that during that period of break, it is probably a good idea to do some physical activity of some sort that is exhausting as it is awakening the next day from such that I find myself the most refreshed from lingering mental fatigue. What that physical activity looks like for people is going to differ wildly, but I have worked a light amount of such into my life and eliminated my insomnia by walking to the grocery store with a laundry cart and walking my groceries back to where I am living (enabled by the mild climate I live in and the particular city being relatively flat without sudden elevation changes). Even if one values one's productivity more than mental health, a silly thought but to each their own, the careful cultivation of a healthy mind and learning to listen to and address the concerns of the subconscious especially will contribute to significantly better overall output and productivity so attending to it is vital still and you should structure your habits around maintaining it. To put it more simply and using a kitsch analogy, one's mental health will either be a dear friend or our worst enemy if left to scheme in a neglected state (as many default to doing with it). So let it be your friend, I loved this newsletter's message and information. Thanks a lot.