If you decide, at some point in your life, that you want to create content, and you decide to do it as often as you can, then the chances are that, unless you're capable of spending 8 or more hours every day working, you'll need to make a few sacrifices when it comes to the quality of what you do.
Let me give you an example - since I started writing for Steemit I decided to publish two articles a day, every day, except on weekends. Last week I decided to stop that after having some small health issues, and now I'm just publishing once a day.
However, that's still a lot of content, especially since I have other things to do as well, like working on design packages, learning blender and trying to complete some other projects. It's hard to take care of everything and also have some free time at the end of the day, especially when I stumble upon problems I can't predict.
So, how do I manage to work so much and also have free time at my disposal to work on other things or simply play some games or spend time with friends?
I learned what to sacrifice when working and how to make sure I provide the necessary content that people want without investing too much time into things that aren't a necessity.
For example, when I'm publishing something on Steemit, you can see that every article looks almost the same - an image at the beginning, then a bunch of text. I'm not spending a lot of time trying to make everything look really good. I'm just interested in writing and sharing my opinions or advice.
Because I only focus on writing and I ignore anything else, I can simply open a text editor every single day, write something for 10 to 15 minutes, edit everything and then publish the article. I'm not wasting time on anything else.
This applies to a lot of other things as well. Whenever I'm working on something in Photoshop, I focus all my attention on creating the best thing I can, but I don't spend as much time creating an amazing presentation for that particular thing. If you take a look at my Graphic River profile here you'll notice that I published a lot of things on that website, but the presentation to most of them is... well, meh.
Same with all the packages on Creative Market. Whenever I do something, I focus on delivering something decent or good without focusing on other things like presentation, or how something looks like, or how it is viewed by other people. I just do things.
And this is the kind of sacrifice you may need to make as well in case you want to publish a lot of content in a short amount of time. Maybe you'll decide to sacrifice something completely different, but that's up to you. The thing that you need to keep in mind is that it's really hard to publish a lot of really high quality content.
There are sacrifices to be made, and you need to make sure that if you want to publish often, you do everything in your power to create good content without wasting time to useless aspects.
Totally agree with you here! It really helps to simplify things in order to maintain consistency! But then again, I'm a bit OCD and I love structured processes!
Also, I think it helps day to day with your creativity and innovation if you reduce the amount of decisions you have to make about benign things like what to wear or eat. Take Steve Jobs and President Obama for example who were known to wear the same thing literally everyday, in order to save "brain energy" for the most important things during their day (like work).
Great read!
PS - you used to write 2 articles a day?? How did you manage that! Respect!
That's pretty much the same approach I take, more or less. I try to reduce the amount of decisions I make every day and just focus on what matters for me. When it comes to Steemit, writing matters a lot more than how the article looks like. Same with a bunch of other things.
Oh, and don't worry about you being OCD or obsessive over some things. I have the same problem sometimes. Today I created a few 3D things and everything had very small white or pink pixels here and there. Instead of ignoring the problem, I spent literally 30 minutes in Photoshop correcting every damn pixel.
Was it a necessity? Nah, not really. Am I happy I did it? Hell yeah!
And two articles a day... well, it's not that hard once you get used to it. I tried writing 600 - 700 words articles, I tried writing about things I knew and I forced myself to read and consume as much content as possible.
Editing however... oh my God, I hated and still hate that.
Also, thank you for reading and leaving a comment :)