Adapt my experiment to increase your completion rate
You've heard it not one, but two million times: Show up consistently and do the thing.
If you've had trouble showing up consistently to do the thing, but want to, it saps your desire to succeed and keeps you up at night.
Allow me to show you an experiment I've begun to train my consistency muscle. It won't take but a couple of minutes.
1. Start a weekly update publication.
You have stuff going on online. Start a weekly-update publication that shows it off.
Why weekly? Weekly is manageable. Daily is a lot, and monthly doesn't have enough urgency.
2. Report on what you did in the past week.
Talk about successes, lessons learned, and progress.
Provide insights and observations.
Show how-to's, how-not-to's.
Deliver value to your audience.
3. Lay out what you'll do in the coming week.
OK, commitment time!
Lay it out: What will you do the coming week before the next issue of the publication?
Tasks will flow out of what you did last week.
Or tasks for new efforts will show up.
Make them specific, like “I'll post every weekday on Threads” or “I'll comment on 8 Medium articles.”
4. Account each week for how you did.
You published what you'd do.
In the next issue, go down the list and tally up the score.
Talk about what helped you to get things done.
Discuss what happened if you didn't, and how you'll improve going forward.
5. Schedule the work for the week and work it!
Pen and paper, text document, calendar, whatever you like.
I use Todoist. It helps me to schedule things and saves me time by implementing recurring tasks.
Work the list through the week to set up a successful report in the newsletter.
Check out how I'm following my own advice:
https://sidehustlersprogress.substack.com/p/shp-2-putting-in-the-reps
Thanks for reading!
Hi, I'm John and I encourage people to work for themselves, and on themselves, every day to sleep better at night.
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