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3 Things I Keep Falling For As a Content Creator 2024

3 Things I Keep Falling For As a Content Creator 2024

Although I Should Know Better By Now

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Mar 05, 2024
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Being a content creator in 2024 can either be the greatest decision of your life… or your worst nightmare.

To achieve the former, here are 3 things I try my best to avoid.

They keep getting me, though.

Don't be everywhere online because you can't

To me, this is the most difficult yet straightforward of these tips.

Headlines constantly suggest you need to be on every platform - Instagram for visuals, Pinterest for bloggers, Twitter for writers, LinkedIn for professionals, and new sites like Meta's Threads.

It's all hype.

It rarely lasts.

Also, these shiny new things heavily fuel FOMO, making you feel that to succeed you must have a presence everywhere.

You don't.

In reality, juggling so many platforms just dilutes efforts. I've found it's best to commit to just one or two that work for your goals and audience.

Bruce Lee said:

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man …

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