I Took Mark Manson’s Advice: Write 2 Articles a Week for a Year
I got some pretty stellar results. Here is how I did it, the challenges I faced, and the results I got.
When you type “How to Figure Out What I’m Doing with My Life” into Google, an article called 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose is one of the first results.
I click it and read the article.
Then, I download an ebook called Life Purpose: How to Find Direction and Create Your Calling from the same site. Before I know it, I’m subscribed to an email list. I’m a paying member of a website for some dude I’ve never heard of.
Oh, wait. I have heard of him, at least his book.
It’s Mark Manson, one of the most popular bloggers on the planet, certified potty mouth, and author of the mega best-seller, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. His tagline is Life Advice That Doesn’t Suck and that’s mostly true.
But I’m not here for life advice. I’m here for career advice.
I’m here because I wanna be him. Okay, that’s creepy. I want to do what he did. I want my job to be working on my own shit, talking about it, and getting paid for it. I mean, is there any better job on the planet? To get paid for working on yourself?
That’s what is interesting about Mark Manson. He has found a revenue model for his own self-development.
The question is how do I do that, too?
Write 2 Articles a Week for a Year
When you’re a member of Mark’s website, you get access to all his courses. One of them is about blogging. It seems not to exist anymore. But in that course, he recommended that new bloggers simply write two articles a week for a year to build up a base of content that will give readers enough stuff to look at and to keep them coming back. And it means appearing as someone who’s worth reading, not a rookie with one post. Because getting traffic to your website is hard. Once you get ’em, you gotta keep ‘em.
Made perfect sense to me.
So, I set a goal:
