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Lesson Learned & Shared

This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.

Get A New Platform Perspective

Rumor has it you need a great social media presence in order for the *powers that be* to even notice you or your writing. You hear things like that and all of a sudden those numbers of followers, the counted hearts, the newsletter subscribers, the crickets in your comments, all can become your new obsessions. How do I get more followers? More Likes? More attention on the Internet??

Or maybe you are looking at what you perceive to be small numbers and you start to think "Why bother?"

If you are freaking out either way, here's a lesson learned that I like to share:
Remember those numbers are people.

When you get one like, one comment, or one share, you know you have connected with someone. Before the wild wild world of Internet virility, that used to mean something.

I think it still does.

Check out your number of followers or subscribers, whatever it is, and imagine inviting that number of people into your home for a cup of tea and a chat. Stop thinking you need thousands or millions of people following you in order to be motivated to *show up.* Connect authentically with the crowd you have.

THAT is what a platform is. Connecting with the crowd in your midst, whether is on a huge stage in front of a stadium crowd, or a small soap box in your living room, your platform is meaningful only when you remember the people surrounding it.

What are your current feelings about your platform?

My #100DayProject for 2024

Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:

To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.

For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!