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Starting My Ultimate Guide Series, 1 Podcast Per Day & Random Thoughts
March 20, 2020by Deepak Shukla

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Founder & CEO of Pearl Lemon Group. Three-time TEDx speaker and SEO consultant.
Hey guys,
Back at it again with a new blog,
And I had a brainwave this morning which kind of blows up the true intentions of the blogs I’ve been writing to date, but I’ve found a happy medium if you will.
I’m going to bounce between ‘journalling’ which is to a degree what these blogs are, alongside producing ultimate guides.
Over the last three days, I’ve written an ultimate guide to one of my passive investment strategies with Forex trading, and I’m seeing how incredibly valuable it is to have a very long-form piece of content that I can share with people.
Check this bad boy out, it’s almost 5k words!
With this in mind, I’ve already got ideas about how I can improve it -
I’m up to 246 answers.
The aim is to write 50-a-day which will = 1,000 over literally 50 days.
It’s quite incredible when you think about it in those terms.
Then I intend to task switch and find something else to focus on in sprints.
This is how I’m approaching everything ‘new’ that I’m doing by the way.
I’ve heard many entrepreneurs say that ‘they have no time’ to produce blog content daily, certainly not at the scale I’m attempting to produce content but as you can see I’m attempting to do it at scale.
Pleased with it so far as I’m only 29 days into this journey and am planning to get to 100 days.
That’s something I consider to be extremely powerful; setting a sizeable target and then absolutely going for it in terms of trying to achieve it.
I’m going to get back to ‘planting my flag’ and build a new habit; podcast 1x per day (for 5 minutes every day) using the Soundcloud app for 100 days!
You can check out some of my stuff by Googling this
Once I get the podcasts going, I’ll think about a way to integrate them into my blog so people can read the content as well.
What I might do is look at topical questions on Quora and record a podcast answer to them.
That’s an excellent idea, I’ll give that a go.
God this is what I love about these mornings and having the time to think about simply the stuff that I enjoy.
Right now the time is 537am, and I’ve already been awake an hour thinking about various things that I believe will help me drive my life forward.
Btw I’ve also just switched from Wunderlist:
Suck it’s going away
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To Any.do!
I’ve just paid for the premium subscription:
And I’ve also got it set up on my mobile phone:
What’s cool is that it has a Whatsapp integration for sending you reminders to get sh*t done.
Let’s see how I get on with it and if it helps me be more productive.
The other thing I need to get smarter at is dedicated daily ‘inbox management’ for my email -
And again I’m building it into my daily routine. Here’s what I’ve just done:
I’ve segmented some of my daily activities before 10 am and after 10 am.
Let’s see if I get better and get things done now.
I’m continually trying to build productivity habits into my schedule and to find better ways to achieve more things with my time
And again this is another part of that journey.
So, all in all, today has been a SUPER productive morning because of all the things that have happened lol whilst I’ve been writing this over the last 70 minutes.
I’ve:
Ok awesome - here are today’s final thoughts:
Back at it again with a new blog,
And I had a brainwave this morning which kind of blows up the true intentions of the blogs I’ve been writing to date, but I’ve found a happy medium if you will.
I’m going to bounce between ‘journalling’ which is to a degree what these blogs are, alongside producing ultimate guides.
Over the last three days, I’ve written an ultimate guide to one of my passive investment strategies with Forex trading, and I’m seeing how incredibly valuable it is to have a very long-form piece of content that I can share with people.
Check this bad boy out, it’s almost 5k words!
With this in mind, I’ve already got ideas about how I can improve it -
- It’s missing case studies, so I’ll ask my friends Francesco and Daren if I can mention them both in the blog (they might say no).
- I’ll also record a video going through my experiences to add further credibility to the blog
- I need to write up exactly how the passive income model works in terms of number breakdowns as well
- I can also discuss the seasonality of my investment i.e when it does/doesn’t build big returns
- Sam (my marketing executive) will produce a list of FAQs which I’ll also add to this blog post
I’m up to 246 answers.
The aim is to write 50-a-day which will = 1,000 over literally 50 days.
It’s quite incredible when you think about it in those terms.
Then I intend to task switch and find something else to focus on in sprints.
This is how I’m approaching everything ‘new’ that I’m doing by the way.
I’ve heard many entrepreneurs say that ‘they have no time’ to produce blog content daily, certainly not at the scale I’m attempting to produce content but as you can see I’m attempting to do it at scale.
Pleased with it so far as I’m only 29 days into this journey and am planning to get to 100 days.
That’s something I consider to be extremely powerful; setting a sizeable target and then absolutely going for it in terms of trying to achieve it.
I’m going to get back to ‘planting my flag’ and build a new habit; podcast 1x per day (for 5 minutes every day) using the Soundcloud app for 100 days!
You can check out some of my stuff by Googling this
Once I get the podcasts going, I’ll think about a way to integrate them into my blog so people can read the content as well.
What I might do is look at topical questions on Quora and record a podcast answer to them.
That’s an excellent idea, I’ll give that a go.
God this is what I love about these mornings and having the time to think about simply the stuff that I enjoy.
Right now the time is 537am, and I’ve already been awake an hour thinking about various things that I believe will help me drive my life forward.
Btw I’ve also just switched from Wunderlist:
Suck it’s going away
[convertful id="197358"]
To Any.do!
I’ve just paid for the premium subscription:
And I’ve also got it set up on my mobile phone:
What’s cool is that it has a Whatsapp integration for sending you reminders to get sh*t done.
Let’s see how I get on with it and if it helps me be more productive.
The other thing I need to get smarter at is dedicated daily ‘inbox management’ for my email -
And again I’m building it into my daily routine. Here’s what I’ve just done:
I’ve segmented some of my daily activities before 10 am and after 10 am.
Let’s see if I get better and get things done now.
I’m continually trying to build productivity habits into my schedule and to find better ways to achieve more things with my time
And again this is another part of that journey.
So, all in all, today has been a SUPER productive morning because of all the things that have happened lol whilst I’ve been writing this over the last 70 minutes.
I’ve:
- Decided to relaunch my 100-days of podcasts
- I’ve paid for and switched from Wunderlist to Any.do
- I integrated Any.do reminders into WhatsApp and create a whole new load of tasks
- I’m going to start writing 1 ultimate ‘guide’ per week starting tomorrow
- I’ve downloaded Clean My Mac and just cleaned my computer
- I checked in with some of my team for today’s work
Ok awesome - here are today’s final thoughts:
- Routines are so f*cking powerful - build them and keep refining them
- Seek continual ways to build in the additional 1% of excellence
- Commit to producing world-class content - it’ll have long-term benefits.
