The Importance of Adjusting Your Habits To Achieve Your Goals
Recently, I came across a YouTube video by Alex Hormozi where he discusses how everyone is obsessed with millionaire habits. However, in this video, he suggests that we should be focusing on what to eliminate from our lives in order to practice laser-like focus, which is what billionaires do. Watching this video made me realize that performing lifestyle audits in my own life will help me to focus on my goals and determine if I am wasting my time, energy, or resources on things that do not matter or are distracting me from my goals.
As I analyzed my typical day, I realized that a significant portion of it is dedicated to my day job in education, which is not related to my goals of creating an online business empire. This creates a dissonance, and lately, I find that my day job is draining me of the valuable time and energy I need to accomplish my life goals of becoming more fit and working on writing to become an accomplished author who can make millions annually. I have also begun to focus on my writing goals, specifically what kind of stories I want to write about. My writing professors have always advised me to write about things that I already know about, experiences that I can share with others that are unique. Perhaps I can use my perspectives from my day job to help me write something unique that will draw audiences to the story. I am beginning to form a general outline of what my potential first novel would be.
Last week, I was creating a picture book for children about decolonization, but I realized that the project was heavily focused on Indigenous creation stories, which made me feel inauthentic and like I was committing cultural appropriation. My writing professors were right that I need to focus on things that I am already familiar with from my own life experiences. It does not necessarily need to be an autobiography; I think details of setting and characters can be altered to allow for anonymity and creative liberty. But I would definitely base the stories on my true life experiences. I could release chapters at a time using a newsletter until I have a complete book. This newsletter will be free, of course, to help me build a following first.
I also came across another Alex Hormozi video where he talks about how he focuses on products and services that become essential and recurring for customers. For lasting business success, I need to create a content product that gets my audience hooked forever. It should not matter if I am not making any money because I am focusing on building a loyal audience that will be part of my community. Then, if I decide to monetize based on something, be it a book or a paid newsletter subscription, I can make that happen later on with my loyal base of followers, who will gladly support me financially to continue receiving my writings. But I cannot monetize too early because that will turn away some audience members, and I need to focus on keeping as many people attracted to my writing as possible. This could take two to five years to establish and build. Once I have more free time, I will be able to implement a system of pumping out regular pieces of writing that will be reliable and of good quality. So stay tuned!