About Content: It's Harder Than I Thought

Scaling content is somewhat harder than I expected.

Documenting my Journey

I watched an Ali Abdaal video in which he details starting a business from nothing in 2021.

In the video, he emphasizes documenting your journey- narrating your entire entrepreneurial experience from the start.

And I agree with him on three accounts:

1. First, it gauges your progress from the start.

2. It reflects your transparency and authenticity, and

3. It creates a vulnerable, likable, and resonating image to which your audience relates - Someone retelling their journey inspires their audience.

That's why I'm officially documenting my journey here - the buildup of Carerra's Chronicles - and how it is along the way.

So...what's hard about scaling your content?

I'm at a point where I'm contemplating what to include as content.

I'm currently working on a piece explaining the supply chain crisis, but I occasionally stumble, asking myself,

"What do I write here?"

"What do I include there?"

"Are my facts right?"

Did I research this enough?"

Besides, it's not this article alone; I have a few prior ones that took me weeks to complete because of these doubts and commitments like school, extracurriculars, etc.

What are you learning from this?

I'm thinking:

When it comes to making content (e.g., blogging), your work should be seamless and natural-flowing...or so I think. For instance, it's taking me fifteen minutes to write this post because of the straight-up flowing ideas from my mind right now. Contrastingly, it's taking me five-plus days to author the supply chain article, which remains unfinished btw.

Additionally, (re)creating content is storytelling in your own words, from your own angle; more like paraphrasing. You teach what you learn, which afterward becomes what you know.

Summarizing a story from your perspective, I believe, is an inherent skill to learn in narration. Consequently, you understand it better, and your audience gets another nuanced perspective to comprehend.

What's your solution?

I'll focus on my niche; motivation. I'm naturally optimistic, and my optimism is one of my more noticeable traits. That said, I don't mind focusing on writing motivational content as a trademark of Carerra's Chronicles.

I'm also holistic, so I like talking about other topics such as finance and technology. Por supuesto, my shortcoming here is that I take excruciatingly long to finish a post in other categories thanks to added research and vigorous fact-checking. While I'll put them aside (for now), I'll still edit them whenever I get the chance.

Conclusion

Being world-class entails focusing exclusively on one thing and one thing only - the rest can wait. This will give me some leeway to work on my niche meantime, and the rest will arrive later.

I think I've just found a solution to my problem. Let's see how it goes.

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~Carerra, 2k21.

***EDIT***

As of 1/20/2024

I'm laughing at myself for how things didn't fall into place as I imagined...and that's okay.

• I never finished the Supply Chain Article.

• Carerra's Chronicles has vastly improved (at least in my own right) since I first published this article. I've graduated from school since and had a sumptuous amount of time to fix the website and publish more articles. This is time I would have doing homework if I was still in school

• I just realized my true niche (probably.) It's not just motivation, even though that's a huge component of it. Rather, I'm a Generalist - a man of many talents.

I came to terms with my Generalistic nature, and so far, I'm loving it; That's what I'm using to build Carerra's Chronicles.

I talk more about being a Generalist right here.

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~T.K.K