Create systems
Hi guys, what's up?
I have to admit...I feel a bit tired. I'm doing so many things, and I'm sleeping soooo little. Someone of you is in the same situation?
Apart from the sleep thing (just a detail 🤣), everything is f*ckin' good.
Let's get started it!
Create systems
I have no time. I’m a full-time employee, with a wife and little child. Once a week I love to play soccer with friends. And I love to work on personal projects in the remaining little time.
Just a problem: how do I manage all these things for my job, personal life, and my side hustles?
That’s a mess.
My solution is to create systems.
And this
’s tweet triggered the issue of today:This is my way to break up my year goals, doing backward planning:
I would like to borrow some terms I had known when I was in the gym, and they refer to the division of an annual training plan:
Macrocycle
Mesocycle
microcycle
More details later.
I have a personal way to plan my year.
I mentioned it in this tweet
Let’s see how I’m managing my small bets!
My year goals are the following
Find one winning bet
Grow my audience
Let’s spread it into months:
And you’ll see my next 3 months' goal are the following two:
From October to December I’ll focus on Youtube to try to find a winning bet. And in the same time frame, I’ll use Twitter as my traffic channel.
This could be defined as a macrocycle.
Zooming to the monthly level, I’m currently working on two piano channels:
Mystery Pianist and Piano Rebel
About audience building, I’m studying some Twitter courses to learn better this platform.
Each of these monthly projects could be named mesocycles.
Zooming more, a weekly basis, I’ll split each of these projects (mesocycles) into 4 subprojects (microcycles):
So I approximately have a microcycle per week.
For example, these are the weekly actions required to complete a microcycle about Mystery Pianist.
As you see, a microcycle is a set of actions or tasks.
I split PianoRebel and Twitter in microcycles too.
If I look at the calendar, these are the microcycles:
you may notice that microcycles are slightly longer than 7 days, and straddle 2 weeks.
It's not a problem. The important thing is to break up a monthly goal into more digestible sub-projects, and in turn into smaller tasks.
This is instead a view where I see the planned actions of all my microcycles, mixed and spread over the week:
This is my view on Notion where I can see mesocycles, microcycles, and Today’s and Tomorrow’s tasks.
https://www.loom.com/share/cd10b30b68014aea9546892ccd7b20b4
I'm perfecting this system. I'd like to know what you think.
My Week in Tweets
My 2 piano covers YouTube channels are growing. I talk about that in this thread 👇
If you want to start a newsletter, I recommend this beautiful episode by Hassan Osman and
https://www.writerontheside.com/how-to-start-a-successful-newsletter-with-louie-bacaj/
The first milestone is having credibility. How do you get it?
When your Twitter idol likes your tweet...
Worth mentioning
My friend
launched Kind Camp some days ago.What is Kind Camp?
✍️ Build a rejuvenating writing system based on kindness and self-reflection
❤️🔥 Discover your truths using Buddhist meditation + neuroscience frameworks
🏕️ Gain clarity on your personal mission with a compassionate community
Learn more here:
https://christinchong.gumroad.com/l/kindcamp
Jordan's tweet is as brief as it is concentrated in wisdom.
It reminds me my “Thing big, run small” thread
This is a gentle reminder by Danny Postma to all of us to be patient and never give up.
$50K in 2 weeks! After 1.5 years of attempts.
And this post is paired with that by Pietr Levels
Who could pack the ultimate "build in public" thread, if not the legendary KP, The "Build In Public" Guy?
Thank you for dedicating some of your time to me again today.
Ago
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Ago (@agogiglio)