How I Built My $10k Per Month One-Person Business Starting With 15 Minutes Per Day.

Start small. Fail fast. Iterate quickly.

Minutes from being runover

I’ve got a short attention span.

I’m easily distracted. I like shiny things.

I want to start something new every day.

But instead of fighting my nature, I manipulated myself to work hard.

Here’s how.

I start so small I don’t notice a difference.

I write for 1–2 hours per day.

But I started with 15 minutes.

Five years ago, I would sit down to write. Timer on. Fingers tapping. Once the 15 minutes was up, I was done for the day.

The dose makes the poison.

Like adding weights at the gym, I added more minutes to my writing sessions. I would write until I felt distracted. Stop. Try again tomorrow. The next month, I would add another minute.

I’d keep adding until I stopped timing myself.

At some point, I could just sit down and write. I’d condition myself to find writing pleasurable. I enjoyed the mental stimulation. The creativity. The ability to take an experience and distill lessons from it.

Now, I’ve built an addiction. I can’t go a day without writing for a few hours.

It’s a drug habit that’s transforming my life.

That’s when I learned:

A writing habit needs to be established before it can be optimized.

If you can’t do 15 minutes? Do 10 or 5. Heck, even 2 minutes.

Start wherever you are. No judgment. Just start.

That’s been my winning strategy. I simply beat everyone else through sheer endurance. Over a few months or years, 15 minutes of daily writing will change your life.

Time negates all luck.

You can write slowly, just never stop writing.

I focus on 0-to-1 activities.

I’m not smart.

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