Lifelog

...as a way to increase distribution and test if posting on my personal acc helps with more traffic => conversion

https://twitter.com/golifelog/status/1385147633438629893

New experiments:
- designed custom image using Unsplash photo for 1st tweet
- this thread was all about @mentioning other Twitter accounts (which are the tools) - read that I should @mention sparingly, but did the complete opposite to experiment
- added a new CTA, to ask people to follow
- tweaked the final CTA tweet to ask for RT to be relevant to what thread is about
- total of 3 CTAs at the end - is it too much?

The Start. Stop. More. Less. Keep. framework:

What do you want to start doing?
What do you want to stop doing?
What do you want more of (and you currently have)?
What do you want less of (but still want to keep)?
What do you want to keep as is?

I like the addition of “keep” - so often there’s many good things we fail to recognise we have, so that question helps with practice of gratitude.

Question to reflect on: What would I keep in my work and life right now as is?

Trying to publish more #learninpublic content on my personal Twitter account. The content is there anyway, I write daily on Lifelog, so why not publish? Gives me a chance to also share a Lifelog link and get more marketing juice out of what's personal writing. Takes some time though (~20min) to summarize and re-format, so that's some effort.

An experiment in progress...

https://twitter.com/golifelog/status/1384800181808365570

Experiments:
• Snazzy Unsplash image to anchor the 1st tweet
• Thanked the reader at end
• Applied new format: 1-liner opening, 3 bullet pts (each one longer than the previous), then CTA

What if real personal growth meant less, not more? Via negativa is... a simple and elegant rule of thumb – that less is more, addition by subtraction, on what not to do.

Things I would still love to eliminate:

• Mon-Fri work week - want to go 100% async, go out on weekdays, work on weekends.
• Sitting down to work - too sedentary, bad for health. Would be great if work can be done without necessarily sitting down in front of a computer, or even needing a computer!
• Less-than-liveable revenue on indie hacker products - $5k MRR is the goal
• Feeling like I need to work - financial freedom will ensure that I work when I want to work
• Zoom calls - let’s just do a good old fashioned phone call shall we?

It’s an interesting exercise to write down this second list of stuff I want to eliminate. Discovered new things I can experiment with, to learn and try (like #2)!

📈 Total one-off revenue: $600
📊 MRR: $60

Does this mean all the marketing is working?! 🧐

https://twitter.com/golifelog/status/1384424782146404353

Experimenting with:

- skipping the meme gif on the first tweet. Maybe too much of a good thing is not so good
- tried adding a "is this good/shit" poll at the end to get more data
- edit a headline 10x. Went with a more bolder statement "Starting a daily writing habit is EASY.." instead of "How to..." which is more meh
- got a point to make but not enough characters, so 'cheated' by tweeting out a single tweet about said point, then adding the link to the related tweet in the thread
- mentioned more famous authors like George R R Martin and Hemingway, used their quotes on snazzy custom-designed graphics

Words have a power over us, more than we realize. Use words that signal qualities that you look up to in your work.

❌ “I will achieve this goal”
✅ “I will learn my way towards this goal”
=> taps on my innate passion to learn

❌ “Will my plans work? We’ll see.”
✅ “Will my plans work? Let’s find out.”
=> taps on qualities I look up to - optimism, bias towards action

Always engage a bit before &/or after tweeting threads to bring attention to your account.

Learned about 'SEO' on Twitter search. Try searching for the common key words that people would use in Twitter for your content, and use those words in your tweet.

"What’s one high ROI habit you wished you had? What’s holding you back from not doing it today?"

The one high ROI habit I wish I had is… knowing how to rest well.

I truly wish I knew how to take it easy and take breaks regularly. I mean, I understand the principle behind why I should do it, but I’m not acting a the way that reflects that knowledge. In sports, I know that deloading is as important as loading. Rest days are as important as training days, and should be treated with the same level of seriousness and discipline as training.

So why am I not living up to that knowledge?

How to set up your own work space to keep you writing everyday
Ultimate guide to writing tools/apps

Discipline is freedom because it’s empowering one to achieve freedom from bad habits, poor choices, old, unwholesome way of doing things. It’s enabling a better future version of yourself to emerge. It’s freeing you from the shackles of past narratives of yourself, towards the dreams and aspirations you used to hold before those shackles snuffed them out.

When seen this way, oh hell yeah, discipline IS freedom indeed.

Doing this made me learn new things:

- Editing editing editing. I could really say the same thing with a lot less words, thanks to Twitter's 280 char constraint.

- Maybe I should do the opposite, a mobile-first approach - write a tweet thread first then post it on Lifelog with some edits/additions. That way I don't ramble on, nor spend so much time trying to summarize and edit when transferring from Lifelog to Twitter.

What’s my highest ROI habits?

• Keto diet
• Learning something new everyday and applying it
• Sleep biohacking
• Waking at 5am
• Daily writing

So what’s your highest ROI habits? Do tell!

A hot sleeper is some who constantly feels hot, or even sweats, as he sleeps, even if the outside temperature is cold. A cold sleeper is the opposite, she gets increasingly cold, needing more blankets as the night progresses.

I only recently discovered these sleeping profiles, and now it makes sooo much sense! ...Because now that I know my profile, I found more sleep biohacks I can do to increase my sleep quality scores to 80%:

• Choose cooling fabrics like cotton, bamboo or linen for pyjamas and bedsheets. I currently wear synthetic fabrics to sleep, which isn’t the most cooling.
• Choose pillows and mattresses that are more breathable and facilitate better airflow, like Airfoam instead of memory foam.
• Have an ice pack on standby. Dap pulse points with it before sleep.
• Install a small electric fan next to me.
• Buy a bed cooler like ChiliPad/Ooler.
• No exercise before bed (I never anyway).
• Keep room well-circulated.

Can’t wait to try these!

🔗 https://twitter.com/golifelog/status/1382835487551807492

Tried new things like:

* Added the site URL as part of the list of tips (not always possible but it was this time)
* Added a Tl;dr summary tweet at the end for easy RTs
* Added a custom image of Franz Kafka quote to 'add' more words to a tweet without adding to word count
* Twitter doesn't allow you to save thread drafts, so used Typefully to save the thread yesterday to publish today (downside: no access to gifs/img)

It’s been roughly one year since our COVID-induced lockdown in Singapore.

What a year.

How our physical worlds shrunk then. Yet, somehow, how my online world expanded!

I earned less, enjoyed less material luxuries. Yet, somehow, despite the money woes, I had never felt more satisfied career-wise.

We had a baby to care for at home, had a lot less personal time. Yet, somehow, despite the sleep and time deprivation, I had never done more in a year.

With the baby, some days can be messy. Yet, somehow, every day is a blessing. I wouldn’t trade the beautiful moments of seeing my boy grow up for anything else.

The days were long, but the year was short.

What a year.

Ideas:

Author faces for quotes
Graphics ala Visualize Value style for concepts
Infographics for data
Photos for other quotes
Image for entire post ala #ship30for30 style

Got the "Just earned my first dollar off the internet" feeling!

$10/m might not sound like much, but that's such vital feedback when you've been slaving over marketing your product for weeks and weeks with no visible impact.

😙💨 What a delight yet also relief!