<ol><li> Give them an understandable motivation</li><li>Embrace the bad:Don't be scared to make them unlikable.</li><li>Show a glimpse of goodness</li></ol>

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While the challenges of social media content creation may feel daunting, showing up consistently has big benefits for your business. By posting valuable content consistently, you can:
<ul>
<li>Grow your audience</li>
<li>Increase brand awareness</li>
<li>Build authority in your industry</li>
<li>Improve engagement</li>
</ul>
If you are looking to achieve any of the benefits listed above, it is worth figuring out a sustainable strategy for saving time planning and creating social media content. The key to achieving this is twofold—planning in advance and batch working content creation.

Posting Valuable Content Consistently

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<li>Each month, set aside time to map out your social media content for the following month.</li>
<li>By outlining the content topics you want to cover for the entire month, you can look at your content from a higher level and be more strategic about your content plan.</li>
<li>Plan on spending 1-2 hours each month mapping out your content for the following month.</li>
</ul>

Content Planning Process

<ul>
<li>Number of posts. Keep in mind that quality and consistency are more important than the number of posts. Stick to a schedule and frequency you can sustain long-term.</li>
<li>Goals. What are your overall business goals for the month? How can your content support those goals?</li>
<li>Any important dates. Do you have a new product or service launching, or an event? </li>
<li>Social media holidays you want to “celebrate”. Are there relevant social media holidays you want to celebrate on your social platforms?</li>
</ul>

Things to Include in Your Content Plan

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to social media content is knowing what to post.
When creating content for social media, it is important to share a variety of types of content. Your content should educate, entertain, or sell.

The Types of Social Media Content You Should Create

Batch working is a highly focused, topic-specific form of working. When batch working, you divide your work into different hours/days and focus on only one thing at a time. Batch working can be applied to all areas of your life and work, but here we will focus on how to utilize it for content creation.
The idea is that by focusing on one task at a time, you can get into a flow state which is when your productivity and creativity truly flourish. The end result is better quality content in less time.

Batch Working

<ul>
<li>Plan a Month of Content: map out the entire month on content.</li>
<li>Create All Visual Content. Write a list of everything you need from stock photos, custom graphics, videos, Reels, cover images, etc. Once you have the list, it’s time to start creating.</li>
<li>Write All Captions. By batching captions and following a caption formula, you can quickly write captions that convert your audience.</li>
<li>Schedule Posts. Now that you have your visuals and captions, it’s time to schedule your posts according to your content calendar.</li>
<li>Add Hashtags (if posting to Instagram).</li>
</ul>

Streamline Content Creation With Batchworking

<ul>
<li>Hook: Grab their attention right off the bat. You have to inspire your audience to click “read more”.</li>
<li>Value: Deliver on what you promised in your hook and share content that educates, entertains, or sells.</li>
<li>Call to Action: Tell your audience what you want them to do next (i.e. share, like, comment, click, buy, sign up, tag, etc.). Keep your calls to action simple and fun.</li>
</ul>

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Six years ago, this book took the enigma of management and clarified it for me. It's the antidote to micromanagement and frees a manager and an employee to do their best work. One management strategy that stuck with me is the "one-minute Praisings".

1. One Minute Manager

Robert Kiyosaki grew up with a "poor dad" and retained the poor dad mindset through college. He realized that money can be managed to grow wealth and increase opportunities.

2. Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Nassim Taleb's Antifragile put words, data, stories, and brilliance to something I've sensed at a gut level but was never aware of. It Concretized this way of thinking: always be open to change by challenging everything.

3. Antifragile

by Mason Currey  This book eloquently and efficiently describes specific examples of famous creative people from history who remind me that I’m not batshit crazy for trying to create or do something out of the ordinary.

4. Daily Rituals

by Luke Sullivan  This is about how to write advertisements. It’s a jaunty book about moving people to buy with words and images (i.e., storytelling).If you write emails, CTAs, or social copy, you could probably benefit from the lessons in this book.

5. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

Our best work comes from our basest desires. People do what they feel like doing. Strip away the fake morals, the shallow altruism of “second-handers,” and the prison of caring what people think you should do with your life and let yourself (and others) do your best, most authentic work. True impact and lasting goodness come from a central purpose in the individual.When working with people, discover their most core desires and liberate them to create. As a result, they will do their best work, they will love it, you will love it, and it will be beautiful, and everyone will love it.

6. The Fountainhead

Ron Willingham's ad is one that connects the buyer’s exact need to the seller’s exact product or service. If what you’re selling isn’t genuinely helpful to someone’s life, you are making one of three mistakes: 1) you are selling a thing to the wrong person, 2) you shouldn’t be selling the thing, or 3) the thing shouldn’t be sold at all (i.e., it’s a bad product or service)

7. Integrity Selling

by Patrick Lencioni  He tells the fictitious story of how an executive gives up his corporate job to own and manage an Italian restaurant in Lake Tahoe. It’s a simple story, but it illustrates brilliant points that helped me recognize if my job needed restructuring or if I’m fairly managing my expectations of someone over me.

8. 5 Signs of a Miserable Job

Austin Kleon paints a portrait of how secrecy kills a project and how opening up the creative journey is a powerful marketing strategy. "if you build it they will come" is out, replaced with "as you build it they will come"

9. Show Your Work

If you consider yourself ambitious, this book will help you assess the size of your ambition and how it is probably not — nor should it be — the size of someone’s like Steve jobs. If left unchecked, it can ruin the delicate balance of life satisfaction. Knowing my role in life and recognizing what it is and what it is not, helped me be at peace with tougher decisions.

10. Steve Jobs Biography

Stanley's book, Visioneering, taught him about Goal-Setting. He says you should always be shooting for something bigger and better. But don't let a process dictate the future. This creates shallow, sedentary thinking and Close-Mindedness. He says it instilled in him the value of setting a goal and taking action to achieve it.

11. Visioneering

Peterson's book 12 rules for life should be a welcomed read to someone who didn't grow up with a good relationship with their parents. "pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient."

12. 12 Rules For Life

Runaway millionaire is a novel about a family broken by greed, ambition, betrayal, and lust for power and restored by an unexpected, Transformative love. In retrospect, I think I saw myself as the son and God as the father character.

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Layer 1 blockchains, aka L1, are focused on foundational elements like consensus & validation. L2 are chains built on top focused on scaling & speed.Balaji makes the argument that L0, or the ideas in people minds, the ideology they adhere to, is the most important layer. Because the ideology enables the technology.Think of the L0 as the mental software that runs on our brains. It manifests in the laws we pass and those are influenced by philosophy of each individual.

L0- the legal layer

In the world word you had a few players, major newspapers & academia that dictate the news. Social media was an advancement but because they are centralised, the old forces put pressure on the management of companies like Facebook to align to the dogma through censorship.The solution is to evolve to decentralised social networks. Free, censorship resistant platform are important for changing the laws.

From centralised to decentralised media

<ul><li>Focus subnational & international: thinking about nations is not enough. Focus on specific states, cities, or think globally.</li><li>Gain internal alignment first. Rough consensus over the future and avoid petty Twitter fights.</li><li>Write legislation: it's time for developers to start writing the code of the laws.</li><li>Focus on distribution</li><li>Get the attention of politicians and get small steps fwd: make Bitcoin legal tender or support DAOs.</li><li>Be globally mobile: Rent instead of buy, no Lambo, live so you can move at any time if the state turns against you.</li></ul>

How to change the crypto laws

The biggest barrier to the decentralized crypto future is opposition from the government. Balaji proposes we take this seriously and think of it as Layer 0.

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What does great life mean to you? A life without worry or a life with fill with happiness. Whatever you mean it. There is one thing that is certain, that is ( nothing is permanent except change ) a great line that comes from an article called ' Liquid Modernity ' by Zygmunt Bauman a sociologist.

Perfection never exists, every relationship has a problem, every food is a problem if you eat it too much. The main, thing is how we made our self happy with the things that we have that make all the difference.

There is one beautiful proverb that comes from our Bodo Community " Hill is seen plain from Distance " which means, you may see me very beautiful from distance. Until you come and see me from close and you see all the fine lines and mole.

Great life starts when you start doing great things in life as the word Sanskrit Karma says "what do you, you get back ".If one does bad things, bad things will happen more often.

The point is where do we start, do what you love the most more often. Our best days in life, should not be spent in worry about the things that are not going right. But, to be spent on how can I overcome this or that, Great Life means different to different people. So, does the meaning of life. When you start to love the things or appreciate the things that you have.The things that you haven't lost their value.

I can't tell you what great life will be for you. I can only tell you how great life is .. there is one song called " Easy to Adore you " by Mauve .. and below is short lyrics taken from the song

It's so easy to adore youYou're like a thousand stars at nightShow me the place I've never been toOh, what a beautiful lifeWhat a beautiful lifeWhat a beautiful lifeWhat a beautiful lifeWhat a beautiful life

When the chorus starts like this " Oh! What a beautiful life " my heart fills with joy. Life is not suffering as we all think. It is full of love and happiness. It totally depends on how you think, if you think life is full of suffering, you will get more of that.if you think life is beautiful, you will get more of that.

When I was a child, I did not know what is pain. Until I grew old.. when we were children everything is beautiful as we aged our innocence feeling fade away. And we think, the world is a hostile place or to live. The main point is not, it is because of the media and news that keep pouring on our mind that makes us. Feel that way... And the reality is the illusion of our mind.

In this article, I talked about art of living great life

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On violin, guitar, saxophone, percussion, and keys, the quartet pieces together a carefully arranged mixture of jazz, ambient, folk, and classical minimalism.Seasons change in the mind and the body before they change in the world. Anyone who has felt spring bloom in their hearts on the first false day of sunshine, or been transported to autumns past by the crunch of a stray brown leaf on a late-summer afternoon, knows that climatological reality is not always in sync with our perception of how things should be.

Fuubutsushi (風物詩)


The Japanese word “fuubutsushi” refers to this gap, capturing the feeling of longing for a new season at the first signs of its emergence. After months of life looking like one thing, fuubutsushi marks the moment when you believe it may begin to look like something else.

What's in a Word?

That feeling—not the out-of-time displacement of hope, so much, or the rush of anticipation, but the embodied understanding that things are about to change—suffuses this collaboration between violinist Chris Jusell, guitarist Chaz Prymek, percussionist and keyboardist Matthew Sage, and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi. All four are prolific composers who have hooked up in various configurations in the past, often playing challenging takes on jazz and ambient music.

Things Change

For Fuubutsushi (風物詩), which was recorded remotely with each musician in a different U.S. state, they piece together soothing bits of jazz, ambient, folk, and classical minimalism with the ease and grace of a group of pals working on a jigsaw puzzle over warm cider. Listening to it can feel a little like relaxing in the home you imagine as you unpack your belongings in a new apartment: Everything is expertly placed and arranged with care.

Minimalism

On violin, guitar, saxophone, percussion, and keys, the quartet pieces together a carefully arranged mixture of jazz, ambient, folk, and classical minimalism.

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Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi: Fuubutsushi (風物詩)

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">START IN THE RIGHT SPOT: Just before the catalyst-that life-altering opportunity that changes the direction of your character's life.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">SHOW: Don't tell a backstory. Show it.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">TIGHTEN IT UP: Wordy writing drags the pace and creates more work for the reader. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">RAISE A QUESTION: Include one on the first page to engage curiosity.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">BUILD EMPATHY: For readers to fall in love with a story, they need to care about the character.</li></ol>

First Page Tips for Writers

Things to avoid:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Repeated or unnecessary words and sentence structures</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Reliance on dialogue to convey information to the reader</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Characters using each others' names repeatedly in dialogue</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Superfluous adverbs (he said angrily, she walked away quickly)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Too many adjectives (the puffy, white, cotton candy clouds)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Play-by-play-character movements that don't need to be included(picking things up, crossing rooms, standing and sitting, etc.)</li></ul>

TIGHTEN IT UP YOUR  WRITING

For readers to fall in love with a story, they need to care about the character. Lay that foundation using:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Protagonist Likability (via positive traits, talents, passions, & vulnerability)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Protagonist Relatability (via goals, emotions, wounds, or a missing need)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A Desperate Situation (via high stakes & a nasty villain or antagonist)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Intrigue (via questions & secrets)</li></ul>

BUILD EMPATHY

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It’s not possible to hold onto things forever, and no one was better off by refusing to adapt, to change. <a href="https://www.positivelypositive.com/2021/08/21/healing-through-change/">People are meant to evolve, </a>constantly. <a href="https://www.positivelypositive.com/2021/04/14/change-begins-with-an-intention/">You’re always supposed to be learning </a>, and changing, and becoming a more beautiful soul.  To adapt, to you need to allow yourself time and space, and to prioritize your own well being. To become a newer, better you, you first have to get comfortable with the idea of letting things go, actually let them go, and trust that incredible new things will come when the time is right.  Life is meant to be a cycle.

Change... Is A Changeless Law.

It's only 'change',  which enables and invites more prospects for growth and longevity.

Fall Into Change

Though creator coins (also known as social tokens) are in their nascent stage, they are quickly becoming a powerful tool that most, if not all, content entrepreneurs should want in their bag.To get started in coinage, <a href="https://www.thetilt.com/revenue/content-creators-non-fungible-tokens-coins-nfts">you can mint </a>a creator coin or social token through platforms such as <a href="http://www.rally.io/">Rally </a>and <a href="https://bitclout.com/">Bitclout </a>. Bitclout simply requires creating a profile to be eligible to create a coin. Rally has a more detailed application and vetting process.people can buy, hold, and sell your social tokens. But unlike most, coin holders also can receive benefits unique to your content business.

Getting started with Social Tokens

Brian Clark created <a href="https://rally.io/creator/MOVE/">$MOVE coin </a>. The founder of Copyblogger, Brian also publishes Further, a personal growth newsletter, and launched Unemployable, an educational community for solopreneurs. He has built a thriving Discord community talking creator coins and NFTs for coin holders with at least $15USD in $MOVE coins. This group also receives 10% of training and events. Community members who increase their investment to $120 USD of $MOVE gain VIP access to exclusive small group coaching and 50% off training and other events.

$MOVE

Nicholena Moon is in the top 0.06% of Twitch streamers, but she is growing her community through her <a href="https://rally.io/creator/MOON/">$MOON coin </a>. Though her audience can interact with her on Twitch, they can elevate their interactions by joining the $MOON Coin Discord server to “talk about gaming, crypto, Twitch, Rally … play in daily Hearthstone games … bid on NFT auctions, and listen to unreleased music.” It’s free to join the Discord server, but coin holders can take on special roles and gain additional benefits.

$MOON

The emo-rock band Emery has been around 20 years, but it’s taking on the future with its <a href="https://rally.io/creator/WALLS/">$WALLS coin </a>. It’s set up a private Discord server for holders of at least four coins. They plan to sell special pop-up merch on the server as well as “grow a cohesive, collaborative community that sustains the art at the center while enhancing relationships and value.”

$WALLS

<a href="https://www.thetilt.com/what-is-tilt-coin">The Tilt </a>has its own coin (<a href="https://rally.io/creator/TILT/">$TILT </a>). While they can be purchased, readers and contributors also can earn them for referring new subscribers, contributing guest blog posts, and more.&nbsp;As founder Joe Pulizzi explains: “At The Tilt, we believe that the audience and community we are working to build should also benefit financially."We’ve also launched a Discord server for The Tilt community, which has their own robust cryptocurrency/coin conversations. You can <a href="https://www.discord.com/invite/GZ4B3XAxMu">access it here </a>. (It’s free to join. Some levels are available only to $TILT coin holders.)

$TILT

You don’t need creator coins to build an audience. In fact, you probably should have at least some audience before you mint a coin. Then, use your coin to grow a community where people can gain an even more direct value of being involved. When you develop a community, you should be prepared to be active in it. That’s particularly true for communities built through a currency like creator coins. When members have an investment in your content brand, they have higher expectations of what you deliver.

Community building 101

Social Tokens are a method for content entrepreneurs to stimulate their existing communities to contribute more.

Creators who mint their own creator coins (aka social tokens) can use them to grow communities, not just build audiences - The Tilt

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We’re all huge narcissists and we all love the sound of our own name. Learn names and make use of them. Always use an individual’s name in a conversation. A classic from Dale Carnegie’s famous book How to Win Friends and Influence People, this tried-and-true technique is sure to increaseyour fan base.

Use a Person’s Name

As humans, we use social interaction as a tool for feedback, and we make a lot of conscious and subconscious choices based on how others engage with and respond to us.When someone offers a huge grin brimming with authenticity, happiness rubs off on its receivers. There have been many studies showing how mood, whether positive or negative, spreads between individuals. If your positive attitude brightens someone else’s day, that person will love you for it

Smile — With Feeling!

People will like you more if you listen to them. This starts with ignoring your Twitter feed while out to dinner with friends, but goes a lot further than that. You can show you’re listening to someone through body language (positioning your body to face someone and mirroring his or her stance), eye contact (giving plenty of it), and verbal confirmation(we’ll talk more about this next).

Listen (Not Just With Your Ears)

Most psychology books refer to this technique as “active listening.” Active listening revolves around demonstrating your listening skills by repeating segments of what an individual has said to you.It makes the other individual feel as though you really are paying attention. Plus, people love to hear their own words echoed back at them as it pats their egos a bit.

Use Verbal Confirmation

To really show someone you’ve been paying attention, try bringing up a topic that the person mentioned earlier. They don’t have to be big, life-changing events. In fact, sometimes it says more that you can recall and show interest in even the small happenings in another person’s life.

Conversation Recall: Prove You’re Paying Attention

As noted again by the famous self-improvement expert Dale Carnegie,individuals crave authentic appreciation. This is very different from emptyflattery, which most people are adept at detecting. No one likes a brown-nose, and most people don’t particularly love being pandered to. What people really want is sincere appreciation — to be recognized and appreciated for theirefforts.In addition to giving people sincere appreciation, it’s also important to be generous with your praise

Sincere Compliments and Plentiful Praise

People have delicate egos, and even a slight word of condemnation can wound someone’s pride. Of course correction will be necessary at times, but it should always have a purpose and be handled with care. If someone makes an error, don’t call that person out in front of a group. Be discreet, be delicate. Consider offering up a compliment sandwich — a deliciously effective strategy that involves dishing out praise before and after a criticism.

Handle Criticism With Tact

No one enjoys being bossed around. So what do you do when you need something done? The truth is that you can get the same result from asking a question as you can by giving an order. The outcome may be the same, but the individual’s feeling and attitude can vary greatly depending on your approach.

Avoid Issuing Orders — Ask Questions Instead

People like to see character and authenticity. Try to be confident but respectful. Some cooperation experts suggest stepping toward a person and bending slightly forward when you’re introduced, in a gesture of a bow. These kinds of gestures can go a long way toward making people think more highly of you.

Be a Real Person, Not a Robot

People love a good story, and great stories require sophisticated storytellers.Storytelling is an art form that requires an understanding of language and pacing. Master the fine oral tradition of storytelling and people will flock to you like you’re The Bard.

Become an Expert in Storytelling

It has been shown that very subtle physical touch makes individuals feel more connected to you. A great example is gently touching someone’s forearm (with your left hand) while shaking hands (with your right hand) — it’s a great way to finish up a conversation. Not everyone will feel comfortable with this strategy, and if it’s not for you, that’s fine.

Physical Touch

Asking someone for advice is, somewhat surprisingly, a great strategy for getting people to like you. Asking for advice shows that you value the other individual’s opinion and demonstrates respect. Everyone likes to feel needed and important. When you make someone feel better about himself or herself, that person will most certainly end up liking you for it.

Ask For Advice

One great example of situations in which it’s important to avoid clichés is in interviews. Rather than parroting the “nice to meet you”s at the conclusion of an interview, add some kind of variation to make you memorable, even in a tiny way. Try something like “I’ve really enjoyed talking with you today” or “It’s been a real pleasure learning more about [insert company].” You don’t have to reinvent the wheel — just be yourself.

Avoid the Clichés

Asking other people questions — about their lives, their interests, their passions — is a surefire way to get brownie points in their friendship books. People are egocentric — they love to talk about themselves. If you’re asking questions and getting people to talk about themselves, they’ll leave the conversation thinking you’re the coolest. Even if the conversation didn’t really give the other person a reason to like you, he or she will think better of you subconsciously just for indulging this or her ego.

Ask Questions

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