Your Dreams Will Need 5x More Time Than You Think — And That’s Good

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I’ve gotten spoiled.

Back in 2016 when I started writing online, it took me a year to build a following of 10,000 people.

365 days. 12 full months.

Somewhere along the way, I lost the patience I once had.

Now I get upset after I see little progress after a few months of trying something new.

Take Substack, for example. A year ago I started my newsletter and ONLY had 600 subscribers after three months. The freaking horror, man.

How dare I only have 600 subscribers after months of work! I’m TOM KUEGLER! The guy who’s built a following of 10,000+ on 6 different platforms!

I stopped posting there for a year and recently came back to publish there again.

Instead of quitting after a few months, I pushed through and am now seeing some interesting and — dare I say it — exponential results.

I’m getting way more re-stacks, comments, likes, and new subscribers recently. It’s almost like I needed to warm up the oven before I could start cooking again, ya feel?

This brings up one stone-cold point:

You must dedicate at least a year to something before you see big results.