Here’s How To Build Your One-Person Business, Even When You Don’t Want To…

Michael Lim
Practice in Public
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4 min readJul 30, 2024

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Speaking on a panel somewhere in Europe!

I love building my one-person business.

BUT…

There are days when I can’t be f*cked.

Here’s what I do.

Find your maximum minimum.

I still need to work.

Your one-person business doesn’t care about your feelings.

Your clients still need their problems solved.

I’ve experienced enough days like this. I know it isn’t forever. But that doesn’t help me right now.

I ask myself:

What are the most high-leverage problems I can solve in the next hour?

Generally, it’s two things:

  • Generating traffic.
  • Making offers.

I’ll force myself to do 1 hour of each activity.

Generating traffic:

  • Posting notes on Substack.
  • Publishing a Medium article.
  • Updating my LinkedIn status.

Making offers:

  • Creating a new product or service.
  • Marketing an existing product or service.
  • Getting into people’s DMs…

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Michael Lim
Practice in Public

I help solopreneurs add $2-5k to their one-person business through my Limitless Writing System™ 🚀 Start here -> https://michaellim.ck.page/crashcourse 🚀