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It’s Not About Launching a Newsletter
When the power of our identity constrains our actions and growth.
Launching a newsletter supports my personal and professional goal of showing up, being seen, and sharing my knowledge, skills, and work with the world. And it is a fairly simple process to do.
Three Simple Steps to Launch a Newsletter:
- First, set up a way to gather people’s emails.
- Second, write content.
- Third, send that content to those people’s inbox. That’s it!
Step One — Done. Mailchimp for the gold! Step Two — Solid. An Evernote full of unshared writing and ideas to use as source material Step Three — *crickets*.
This is a simple thing to do, right? Apparently not, as I have not sent a newsletter yet.
What can I do to make step three happen?
I could find a supportive community online of entrepreneurs and freelancers, set up deadlines for myself, and teeter on the edge of trying to trick, guilt, or plan myself into doing something that I truly want to do anyway. I could go down the rabbit hole of researching how everyone else formats and structures their newsletters. I could get caught up in the supposed to’s and best practices. I could read articles about writing prompts and productivity techniques. I could…
