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How do you choose what to work on?

How do you choose what to work on?

Hint: it's not what makes you happy.

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Jerine Nicole
Feb 16, 2021
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Hi friends!

How it's going? I've been consistent on sending my weekly newsletter on Tuesdays, so from now on, you can expect it then! (No promises though, I’m only human).

Over the past week, I've been making many plans on building an online audience. I've been experimenting with Medium, Twitter, and Instagram. Here's what I've been working on:

  • Contacting many content creators to interview them - I asked 4, and they all said yes, yay! (Although, I still don’t know how to go about this)

  • Trying to get into harder publications on Medium - and today, I finally got into the publication where I got rejected 3 times, yay!

  • Participating in a 30-day writing challenge on Twitter - here's my first atomic essay from yesterday :)

While learning how to write well, keep the momentum of showing up online and reduce the self-doubt voices.

I've noticed that I'm starting to get overwhelmed with so much going on. So I came up with a way to choose what projects to work on, keep my focus, and not lose track.

If yo…

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