Making Money Online is Nice, But Do Not Sell Yourself Short!
Not appealing to the masses can be a benefit.
Introduction
Too many people try to appeal to the masses to make money.
They do not have their own voice.
“It’s harsh to say … but many of you don’t have a writer’s voice. You all sound the same, which isn’t an opportunity, not an insult”. — Tim Denning (src)
And that’s a problem.
Losing Yourself…
It’s okay to go crazy, to write something different, to not try to be popular for once. That is the right way. The wrong way is to try to make money and then write what might be popular.
By doing that, you lose a very large part of your own creativity.
And thus also a large part of yourself. I see this very often — everyone writes the same thing. About the same topics. About the same books. It’s monotonous and boring.
Stop the Popularity Contest!
How many more posts do we need about how to be more productive or efficient? Why are you focusing so much on what is already popular? Isn’t it that what you might want to write about could eventually be popular You might answer:
Maybe, but I need the money now!
However, this impatience doesn’t help.
It was the time when I thought the least about the money, worked the least, cared the least about getting the money, where I made the most money. If you are constantly worried about money, you don’t attract the money, but only the worries about money.
Embrace Your Creativity
Many people think they are not particularly creative. I think that’s a misconception. Trying to be creative is difficult. But writing about what excites you is not. That would be the right way. Write about what excites you and you will succeed.
The thing is this: Success means different things for different people. It might not be just the money. You might attract different people and new opportunities this way. And at the end, you might make money differently — in a different way. Not with writing, but with the new opportunity that was offered to you because of your writing.
But these opportunities can only arise when you really write in your own voice. If you keep copying other people because you’re trying to be popular, you’ll just be a copy that no one remembers. But how do you find your own voice?
That’s the focus of one of the next posts…
