If you're reading this, you understand why you need to start sharing ideas online.

But how does one build and sustain such a habit?

After asking some of the world's most prolific creators, these six steps emerged:

Start sharing
Share the work you're already doing
Find your sacred hours
Create an idea repository
Never start from a blank page
Commit for the long haul

It sounds simple, but the way to get started sharing is to start sharing. Commit to sharing one idea every day for 30 days.

No one will read to start. Your first 30 ideas will go into the void. And that's a good thing! You get to build a habit with no one watching.

This is uncomfortable at first. But this discomfort is why there's a mismatch between supply and demand for quality ideas online. No one wants to share their ideas into the void.

But those who do unlock the leverage of the internet.

So you've committed to sharing for 30 days. This is the hardest part of the entire process - the rest takes care of itself.

To get started, simply share the work you're already doing.

Do you read a lot of articles? Start sharing your takeaways from the best ones.

Do you listen to a lot of podcasts? Start summarizing the best ones.

Do you read a lot of books? Share screenshots of the best passages.

Chances are, you are doing 95% of the heavy lifting when it comes to sharing. But with just that 5% of marginal effort, you can refine your notes, ideas, or thoughts to make them shareable.

3. Find your sacred hours

To sustain your sharing habit, you need to schedule time for it. The best way to do this is to find your sacred hours.

Sacred hours are blocked off chunks that are - you guessed it - sacred.

• Unreachable. • No distractions. • Fully off the grid. • Defended ruthlessly.

To find your sacred hours, there are two questions to answer:

What time of day am I most productive?
What time of day can I be least responsive?

This will be different for everyone in every circumstance.

But these hours are your sweet spot. Your best creative work will happen during these sacred hours.

From this overlap of most-productive and least-responsive hours, carve out two. These are your sacred hours.

Now, you must defend them ruthlessly.

Just you and your work for at least two hours, every single day.

4. Become an idea machine

Our minds are for having ideas, not holding them.

For ideas to flow freely, you need to get them out of your head.

Idea purgatory: a mind filled with ideas but nowhere to put them.

But, a mind comfortable having ideas will generate far more than you know what to do with.

The system has three parts:

• Idea capture • Idea review • Idea abundance

Idea capture

To get ideas out of your head, you need to set up inboxes.

Everywhere.

Everywhere you may have an idea needs an inbox.

On your phone: use @draftsapp
On your computer: use @todoist quick capture
In the shower: buy a waterproof whiteboard
On the go: carry a small field notes notebook
While you sleep: leave post-its next to your bed

Get comfortable capturing ideas.

Idea review

At the end of every week, churn through these inboxes.

Most of the ideas will suck. Good.

It's only after unclogging the shitty ideas will the good ones start to flow.

One by one, process each inbox.

Save the best ideas in a giant list. Throw the rest away.

Idea abundance

Use this system for a month. Soon enough, you'll have too many ideas to know what to do with.

Then, start sharing one idea every day.

Writing from scarcity is impossible.

Writing from abundance is effortless.

5. Commit for the long haul

Every successful online creator once shared their ideas into the void.

The successful ones simply did it longer than others were willing to.

No one has 52 shitty weekly newsletter.

They either have 10 shitty ones (because they gave up too early), or they have 25 shitty ones, than figured it out.

Consistency is the great differentiator. Once you start sharing, commit to doing it longer than others are willing to.

These ideas should be everything you need to start sharing ideas online.

But if information was all we needed, we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.

Sometimes, you need some external accountability.

Enter: ship30for30.com

Ship 30 for 30 is a community of creators committing to share one piece of content every day for 30 days. It leverages social and financial accountability to drive home your writing habit.

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