You’re probably consuming way more than you’re creating. And it’s killing your potential.
Social media is a double-edged sword. It can inspire you with incredible ideas, or it can suck the creativity right out of you. You scroll for “inspiration” and three hours later you’re watching someone’s breakfast routine, feeling paralysed and unproductive. Another morning gone.
I know it’s hard to fight with algorithms that are designed to steal our attention.
So I block time and force myself to create and I’m very methodolical about it. I always have notifications off. When you dedicate time to creating, even when you don’t feel “in the zone”, eventually you’ll start enjoying the process. Make it a habit. Produce versus consume. Your brain starts shifting from passive receiver to active generator.
It doesn’t always have to be public – sometimes it’s just writing in my journal, sketching ideas on paper, or recording voice memos of random thoughts. But I know that in order to be seen and create opportunities, most of it needs to be published.
Someone said “be easy to find, hard to reach” – and that’s what I’m working towards. I share, all I know and feel that can help someone else – whether it’s on AI and technology (I usually talk about it on Linkedin or my blog) or ecommerce and building a business – here.
You don’t need to be the world’s expert to start teaching. You can start teaching what you learned yesterday to someone who’s learning it today and we often overestimate that things that we consider “obvious” or obvious to others. You just need to be one step ahead of someone else.
The healthiest ratio I’ve found is roughly 70% creating, 30% consuming. When you create more, you consume with purpose. You’re not just absorbing – you’re looking for pieces to build with.
Stop waiting until you know “enough.” And don’t feel ashamed about it. Even if you make a mistake, admit it and move on. Start creating with what you have right now and stop waiting until you know “enough”. Most of the people you admire started by coping others or
Your unique perspective, your current level of knowledge, your specific experiences – that combination doesn’t exist anywhere else. The world needs what you’re building, even if it feels incomplete. Especially if it feels like so.
