
You’ll upgrade your content creation in 2020 by mastering this skill
And it’s all about creating genuine content from self-synchronization
If you are like me, you’ve been struggling with understanding the mechanics of content creation all this time. Many people say “just do it” but you know it’s not as easy as they say.
It’s not because it isn’t about just creating a bunch of pieces of content a week as Gary Vee repeats all the time.
No matter how many to-dos lists you’ve made, something is bugging the execution of them, and more importantly, you’ve found yourself completing some of your tasks with a different feeling of your energy, as opposed to others of them that have born from a sparkly momentum.
Focusing only on the output has nothing to do with the real fact about creating content: you need to do it from a genuinely flow state.
In this era of the Internet, the most important skill to master is not related to the output of your actions. But to the inner state from where your actions are executed from.
This flow state has to do so much with the level of emotions you’re feeling in a given moment.
There are lots of articles that should be on Medium about how to reach that flow state so I’ll focus on the skill you need for 2020 by syncing and mixing three important skills: journaling, learning and real-time creating.
So let’s breakdown these concepts first.
Get journaling going now
If you haven’t jumped into, this is the perfect time to start.
In the beginning, it’s not important what you’ll be writing down, but what is important, is the act of getting your voice filtered out of the stream of your mind.
In his latest book “Stillness is the key”, best-seller author Ryan Holiday puts it simply:
How you journal is much less important than why you are doing it: To get something off your chest. To have quiet time with your thoughts. To clarify those thoughts. To separate the harmful from the insightful.
He also mentions that is very difficult to achieve flow states if your mind is going as fast as your body goes.
There’s no flow state without inner stillness
That’s why you need to reach stillness as an ideal inner state to get you doing things not only faster but with greater impact.
Inner stillness is the perfect balance to faster and impactful actions.
Do you want a nice metaphor?
Look at what a baseball batter does and apply it to whatever situation in life.
A baseball batter is simply “listening all the time” until he hits the ball.
He’s quiet, still, syncing his senses and mind, listening to the air pressure that would eventually change when the ball approaches him. Listening with his eyes while decoding the pitch and listening to his body every second to wait for the perfect moment to act and, therefore, hit it.
You can conclude that a great hit or home-run has the same dignity as a maximum level of stillness or inertia reached before the batting.
That said, it’s time to get it in sync with real-time creation.
Journal your creative journey and create content in real-time
Putting all together, this is the most powerful question I’ve asked myself recently:
If journaling can helps in achieving stillness, why not use it for generating content from our flow state while learning further about something you’re passionate about?
Let me explain.
When you’re learning something, there’s real-time wonderings and conclusions about what you’re supposed to learn.
Way deeper, there are strong opinions that are arising from this process at that moment.
And here’s where journaling plays a big part.
You’ll want to journal these strong opinions about the subject you’re learning from, as well as all your wonderings and temporal conclusions about it.
I’d say you would complete 50% of the process by doing this because the toughest part of creating content is achieving specificness.
Now you have something to talk about, questions to get answered and, at the same time, you are thriving in a given subject because you’re generating value from your learning experience and turning it into content that can educate, entertain or inspire others.
All you need is to open up your heart, be willing to be vulnerable while opening your creative journey and turning it into magnetic content.
For me, it’s been hard to create content after my momentum of learning/applying something because I’m no longer in the flow.
I’ve found myself considering this as a waste of time because it’s hard to recover that feeling later on.
It’s hard to recover your first impressions about something genuinely.
This is because your emotions are not the same and know how to deploy a high level of emotional state can make the difference as Tim Denning says in this article where he recognizes that he has cried before writing his more shared articles.
Once you got your passion on fire, your focus, your thirst for knowledge and applied knowledge in the same basket, you’ve designed momentum.
I want to see you learning/creating in real-time. That’s why Reaction Videos are so popular.
On one hand, they have an important attribute of unpredictability.
On the other, they have become in a place where people can speak their minds without controlled filters.
And this is only the start. I’m sure the new wave of content creation will follow with this approach I’m talking about.
Start journaling now your creative journey from a start by focussing your energy.
You need to go economical by executing your actions in sync from stillness.
I’d say it can save you energy and time but, for me, time is an illusion.
I only can divide life between two moments: those in which I’m in a flow state executing from stillness and those that aren’t… yet.
