Journaling increases the surface area for receiving ideas that change the world. Ever had an idea drop into your awareness so magnificent it tales your breathe away? Me too.

Attention, your online business depends upon it, BUT; not all attention is created equal. Cheap Attention • Controversy • Drama • Fear Quality Attention • Empathy • Contrasting POVs • Completing Incomplete Patterns

10x the value of your network with 1 simple hack. Most People: “To grow my network I need more followers.” Savvy Networkers: “Who in my network can add value to someone I know?” Be the CEO of Trust in your network & watch the value flow.

That's a wrap! This thread was part of the @hypefury Twitter Growth Challenge. It represents my own personal growth and the challenges that almost cost me everything. I'd appreciate you RTing the 1st tweet, it will save others the pain I endured.

10. Manage Your Money Meticulously If you're not strong in finances; • automate, • partner up, • get support • whatever you need to do to get it handled. Learn the laws of liquidity, cash flow is oxygen for your business.

9. Clarify Commitments My first 3 agency clients failed to pay me. I was so pleased to get the work, I failed to get a clear commitment and ended up working for nothing. In a service business, be clear about your responsibilities and thiers.

8. Curate Clients The quality of your clients makes an enormous difference to the quality of your life and business. Fire troublesome clients, give their money back and move on. Saying no to problem clients, will improve your magnetism and attract better ones every time.

7. Reflect/Review Regularly Plan, Do, Measure, Review. Over and Over and Over. Make it your M.O. Without review, you will struggle to collect the lessons from each experience. With programmed (regular) reviews, you can iterate and improve. This is how you develop IP.

6. Build Systems Don't reinvent the wheel on every new project. • Systems allow you to leverage the work you've done before. • Template and systemise yourself into a position of power. It will give you and your clients confidence and liberate your energy.

5. Sleep Soundly All-nighters, late-nighters and answering emails with your head on the pillow before and after sleep. No Bueno!! It will fry your nervous system. Learn about sleep hygiene, Manage yourself like the business asset that you are. Get good sleep.

4. Do Deep Work Learn about the Attention Residue, switching tasks has huge costs. • Always on, • always available, • means never being in a state of deep focus. A few focused hours every day will achieve more than 14 hours of all over the place.

3. Attenuate Alcohol A couple of drinks to alleviate stress can become a slippery slope. Over time booze blunts... you. Don't take your inspiration from drinking Don Draper. Your best work will be done with your synapses snapping and your eyes clear.

2. Manage Dopamine We all have a daily bank account of Dopamine, invest yours wisely. Leveraged, it's a fuel for growth. If you're a Dopamine trash bag, you'll squander your time and effort.

1. Cultivate Health A healthy business is sustained by a healthy founder. Brute force might be a strategy to get the flywheel spinning, but it's best used in sprints not sustainable in marathons. Manage your energy by managing your health.

At times making pretty decent $$, sometimes just scraping by. Until in 2017, • stressed, • depressed, • overweight, • my relationships disintegrating. I decided to take a break. Here are 10 lessons that can save you a world of pain. ⬇️

Over the next 10+ years I worked; • days, • nights, • and sometimes both. Building websites, • membership sites, • podcasts, newsletters, • startups, ebooks and more.

My internet journey started in the mid '90s. Moving along in fits and starts until 9th October 2006, when I posted my first blog post.

After 10 years of trying to build an online business; I Burnt Out. 🧯 10 things that could have saved my; • health, • wealth and, • my family life. Don't yourself burn out by learning these basics. THREAD 🧵 👇🏼 👇🏼

The most underpriced principle in business; Repetition. As a young man, I took repeating actions to represent boredom. Now I see it as a path to growth, becoming and ultimately mastery.

"Don’t trust a man who works 14 hours a day on his business." From a mentor who had just offered to buy my business, a moment before. Shocked, that my work ethic didn't impress. Until he said if you can't get it done in 6 hours a day you're not very effective.