I've started listening to Rainmaker.FM interviews with entrepreneurs in the fields of content production - writing, producing, blogging, etc. In this half-hour episode with Michael Hyatt, the former Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Hyatt talks about a blog he wrote in his spare time for 10 years, and how it launched his current dream career as a speaker, online course instructor, and writer.
In 2004 he started blogging because he wanted to write more and discipline himself to do that. After four years, he built up 1,000 monthly readers. Then the next year he averaged 20,000 readers and got picked up by sites like Huffington Post. Eventually he stepped out of corporate life to pursue his dream of being a speaker, writer, and online course instructor and his site gets almost half a million visitors every month.
On discipline: "It's harder for me to discipline myself to write now when I'm less busy than it was back then when I was so busy."
It was putting in the work for 10 years on a side project that allowed Hyatt to do what he does now for a living, and I find that inspiring. Success grows when you chip away at it and it eventually blooms. And I get what it's like to perform better under pressure than when you're surrounded by the luxury of time.
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