Mine? …Ryan Holiday.
Started out as a college dropout at 19.
Turned into a modern day content producing machine—sharing not trends, junk, or click-bait, but uplifting, insightful, timely, grounded, evergreen messages very much needed in our modern world.
He sends out not one, but two daily emails. He publishes longer form articles weekly—many of which have appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and more. He is the author of 12 best selling books. He does speaking gigs for professional sports teams and fortune 500 companies. He hosts a widely listened to podcast where he regularly interviews greats. He teaches online seminars and courses and creates challenges for people where they can join communities and get live Q&As with him to level up their life. He regularly publishes fresh content to his several social media channels. Not to mention… get this… he has his own brick and mortar bookstore and is happily married with two kids.
…And he’s only 37 years old.
Publicly, I admire this so much. And want to create something like this in my world.
Secretly, I know (think?) this kind of production isn’t possible unless it’s your sole focus. And I love my brick and mortar career too much to make the creation of something like this my sole focus.
…But, seeing this plainly typed out in front of me for the first time (I hadn’t answered this question ever in my life until just now), I can see more clearly in which direction(s) I’d like to head.
Your turn. Answer the above inner work prompt. Send over your any interesting insights or takeaways :)