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The Hidden Costs of Social Media (for Creators)

Written by Dave Morrow
Join the Conversation: 60 CommentsFiled Under: Articles, Business Building, The Creative Process

One day, fads will change and today’s popular social media platforms won’t exist at scale.

New ones will.

This is a guarantee, but the timeframe and specifics are unknown.

How much time and money will it cost you to switch platforms and build a new audience?

Now, 15X that.

How to Be a Prolific Creator & Double Your Work Output

Written by Dave Morrow
Join the Conversation: 50 CommentsFiled Under: Articles, Habits, The Creative Process

Deep Work Sprints are a technique that I created to produce the optimal environment and mindset for improving and getting things done on a daily basis.

This simple method doubled the amount of creative and business work I get done each year.

You can apply this technique to any type of work; creative, business, or personal.

It will help you to be more productive & improve quickly at anything you’re working on.
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Power Multipliers – How to Get Ahead of the Pack & Stay There

Written by Dave Morrow
Join the Conversation: 62 CommentsFiled Under: Articles, Habits, Problem Solving

Each day, there are 1,000 different tasks seeking to grab your attention.

You have to choose something or stay in bed.

Every single decision puts you one step closer, or farther away, from where you want to be.

Power multipliers allow you to complete 1 task which automatically takes care of 1 or more others, without any added work from you.

Doing so allows you to spend your life working on things that interest you, instead of constantly struggling to stay above water.
The hard part is determining what is a power multiplier and what is a bad choice, disguised as a good one.

Those who become successful in life, in their own terms, are experts at seeing and executing on power multipliers.