Discover Your Future
What does our future hold? Well we can’t always prepare for what is coming, and honestly I am thinking about this post even. I found myself batching, and pre-creating a ton of content about five years ago. Around the time that I got started making PolyInnovator content.
While I had tons of ideas, there needed to be a strategy, and I was aiming for multi-channel content EVERY SINGLE DAY.
That was the goal, and this was one of those posts that was going to go out.
I’m not exactly sure what this post in particular was aiming for, whether it was TeleInnovator or it was a LinkedIn post even way back in.
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When I was aiming for the Future
Reaching your goals, or setting out your intentions, isn’t always going to go as planned. Just like this post, it was something more substantial, and then became that of a simple micro-blog. Hear me out there is a point to this post!
I think the lesson is really interesting here. I failed to keep up with the daily content goal when I batched out all of the thumbnails for the early content ideas, such as the early “OmniContent” (Now PolyInContent) series.
That’s okay though because I knew that eventually I’d get to creating something, and now I can reuse that idea in a different way.
I planned on creating content every single day, and now I basically do. There are a variety of series that I do weekly, and I’m adding even more to my plate as we speak. The difference is that now I have the skills, tools, and strategies to be able to keep up with it all. Thank you Notion.so
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Preparation is Crucial, but Execution is Key
Here is where my creative mind got in the way, there was so much planning that I did. That to a degree I wasted time. I literally spent time working on making plans, rather than DOING the plans. It wasn’t until the trickle drip of content execution based on those plans over the past few years that I got to where I wanted to be.
Even now I am at the place that I thought I was going to be 1–2 years into the original plan. However it is five years later…
There were things I couldn’t account for, such as financial struggle (which puts a strain on my energy and emotions). The quarantine of 2020 that changed everyone’s plans, but also gave me the opportunity to do amazing interviews. That also took time away from the OG plan’s execution, but that was also on me I should have balanced them both more.
I prepared probably as perfect as you could for doing interviews, but there were lessons to learn that I couldn’t even imagine for hosting interviews. That I wouldn’t be able to learn UNTIL AFTER starting the execution of those said interviews.
That same principle can be applied to other areas too.
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Lessons Learned are Future Mistakes prevented
You can’t always plan things out, and if you try then you will waste your time. Sometimes you have to be decisive and act in the instant. I did that with my Content Repurposing newsletter, the PolyInContent Digest, which I wanted to wait for to start.
The reason being was that I had a lot of other things going on, including 1–2 other newsletters I was already working on. Although the world of content repurposing tools, and the creatives in the space is rapidly growing. I knew that if I waited too long I’d miss this early adopter wave of growth, that I’ve seen time and time again in other niches/platforms.
Even though I was spreading myself too thin if you will, there was a reason to do so, and since I was so behind after all of these years; I found myself needing to manage about four niches/phases at once.
This is the year of the multidisciplinary content creator, as I also started my sub-brand the PolyInnovator Gaming (which also includes ANOTHER newsletter).
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Discovering your Future through the Lens of Today
I can’t tell you what next year will hold, let alone tomorrow, but I can say that I am making more progress than ever.
After all of these years, the fruits of my previous labors are now compounding. I wish that I had multiple deeper niche compounding factors, but I had to go more shallow for various reasons. Now I can build up a few at a time, each one getting a bit deeper.
In the follow years letting each one have a chance to shine, and really building each other up.
