You must have faith in your ability to handle things when their destined time comes. Do not doubt your capacity to deal with future occurring matters. You can do it. You need to not waste your time or energy at present worrying about it. And this is where planning comes to the rescue.

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it does not mean you stop planning altogether.

Please understand that you plan for the future or for stuff that can only take place in the future only to make your life at present better. More mindfulness. More focus. More energy. Dealing with issues. Taking care of stuff and important matters. Managing systems. Not that you are helpless in the future and you can’t do anything unless it was premeditated and thought about thoroughly and perfectly planned ahead before you take any action concerning it. You don’t plan to make your future better. You plan everything there is ahead only to make your present better.

You can handle it perfectly when its time comes. The only problem is that its time didn’t arrive yet.

So you can’t leave it hanging there like this. You’ll forget how can you deal with it in the future when its time comes. And thus you have to put your mind at ease and to rest and make peace with it by planning something about it somewhere, so that you no longer have to think about it or assume it is an issue that can’t be resolved and deserves that you keep panicking and stay stressed all the time about it or because of it.

End the open loop. Plan everything ahead. But you must know that this planning isn’t to make your future better or easier. It’s to make your present moment better and easier, totally stress free, so that you can remain focused on what needs to be done right now, not what you can’t do anything about it yet, because it lies sometime in the future.

You plan to make your present better, not your future. You can handle anything when its time comes.

Remember, it’s about helping people and making the world a better place, not about milking people out of their money without giving a damn.

You should always have the option of negotiating prices with your customers or clients. Don’t say no to money. Don’t let people go away because they don’t have enough money. Don’t drive away customers because they are too poor. Have something for customers or clients of each financial level. Give them something rather than nothing. Provide them with a product or service that matches the amount of money they can afford to pay. Don’t shut enthusiastic customers or clients because they are too poor to pay your prices or they can’t afford to pay you a certain amount of money below which you refuse to work. Have something to sell to every person. Period. And don’t always refuse to work for free. It just has to not be for long hours every day. Address their issues or problems quickly but thoroughly. They’ll appreciate it. They’d appreciate anything, because you still accepted to help them, even though they paid you nothing.

There’s a good thing about having standard prices, but the option of negotiating a discount with a customer in the DMs for example, without lowering your official price for your services, should always be available. You have to keep the wheels turning and keep the momentum going. Even if that means sometimes getting paid less than you wish.

A high enough follower or subscriber count would make sure the algorithm works hard enough to find and show your content to your target or ideal audience.

Wait, what did you just say? Follower count doesn’t matter? It’s like saying money doesn’t matter. Of course it does. Just don’t exclusively chase it even at the expense of everything else. By the way, new followers mean increased engagement, which then will make the algorithm push your content to the people who really fall under the category of your 1000 true fans. You do not celebrate the new followers despite this being useless. You do so because this is all there is. Let that sink in.

The same could be said about all vanity metrics and your analytics. They mean more engagement which would then lead to the algorithm or system pushing your posts to a greater number of people, so that the people who would really care about you would start following or subscribing to you.

Be careful of whom you’re attracting to your tribe.

Testimonials attract clients.

No problem with that. The idea is that the proof of your competence being the words of some random happy customers who are excitable and easily impressed is not the kind of evidence that means anything. You will attract the same type of audience who are easily convinced by such stuff. Be careful of who you attract to your tribe. You will be walking on eggshells all your life if you failed to attract the right open minded critical thinking capable audience just because you considered your business model to be successful because the money coming was good. You only get what you tolerate.

The majority of people are going to determine whether or not they’re going to follow you based upon the current number of your followers.

I’m not in favor of people caring about the number of followers more than anything else. It’s just how it works. They look at your number of followers and if it’s below 300, they don’t even try to inspect the rest of the material essential to determine whether or not you’re worth following or dealing with. If you’re above 300 thousand, they think you’re a legend, even if you suck. On further inspection they might not end up following you. I hate it, but it’s just the nature of the market. I’m sorry, but the market is not always right. That’s why you have to do everything in your power to attract the right audience, and that’s why your content is the best marketing strategy. It stands between you and ending up with the wrong audience for good.

For those who still believe writing is the reason they suffer from mental health issues, I’m afraid you are getting it in reverse. You are depressed because you’re not writing enough, because you are still too far away from financial freedom. Writing isn’t the problem. It’s the cure.

Every step takes you to the other. You live one step at a time. Anything else means you are not growing.

Write one word at a time. One step at a time. One day at a time. It’s not just a strategy for success. It’s a strategy for continuous growth, productivity, learning, creativity, expansion, and improvement as well.

It’s not just for stressful periods of your life. It’s for all time.

Deploy compassion toward yourself. Like empathy. Understand yourself more. And appreciate your effort instead of beating yourself up. You know, when we get reward after doing something great, parts of our mind that have been asleep for years start waking up and attacking us vigorously, because they hate us, and our frontal lobe is still too busy to fight back, because it’s still processing what has transpired (in order to come up with new ideas and not repeat itself next time you attempt to write). Just hang in there until this period is over. Euphoria kicks in eventually after it passes.

You get reward from what happened. How can you get reward if you have no idea what took place today?

That’s why you have to process everything in order to feel like you haven’t wasted your time or energy for having spent all this time and energy writing something huge.

That processing might take time. Expect to be miserable during which because you still have nothing to celebrate, with your artwork or masterpiece that you’ve just written still pending investigation, trial, judgement, analysis, memory consolidation, scanning, digestion, and processing.

After that, euphoria kicks in.

You cannot outrun the inevitable.