29 Tim Ferriss Quotations About Journaling, Writing, Blogging
1. "Focus on an obsession that makes you a bit weird." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
2. "Make it fun for you and you will find an audience." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
3. "It’s never too late to begin a new chapter, add a surprise twist, or change genres entirely." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
4. "Listen to other experiences, and start forming questions that you can journal." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
5. "The question, ‘what is the worst thing that can happen?’ is a very powerful question." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
6. "Bloggers are uniquely positioned to create bestsellers." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
7. "The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
8. "Don’t save your best for volume two." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
9. "My daily journaling isn’t limited to mornings. I use it as a tool to clarify my thinking and goals." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
10. "I’m just caging my monkey mind on paper so i can get on with my fucking day." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
11. "If you sit down in a negative state, you will be thinking first and foremost of problems, and not solutions." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
12. "If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then i don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
13. "The quality of my writing dropped miserably if i tried to do more than four hours per day. It’s not necessary to put in 9-5 hours." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
14. "I have built my blog traffic and book buzz using mostly offline activities, and i recommend others do the same." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
15. "Rather than fight for attention with everyone online, i’ve focused on attending and speaking at events where bloggers are the attendees." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
16. "Help them somehow, whether commenting well on their blog, offering advice, or introducing them to other cool folk. (about other bloggers)." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
17. "If you make it threaten people’s 3 bs — behavior, belief, or belongings — you get a huge virus-like dispersion." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
18. "It has never been easier to create content self-published, but it has never been harder to get the attention you want, or need, to really put something into orbit." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
19. "I’m also beginning to realize that you can monetize a blog without bastardizing your vision, sacrificing editorial purity, or otherwise “selling out.” There’s no need to sacrifice on either end." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
20. "The top stories all polarize people. Do not try to appeal to everyone. Instead, take a strong stance and polarize people: make some love you and some hate you." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
21. "When you’re writing and you start to feel really uncomfortable, that’s when you know you’re starting to get it right. I’d imagine that applies to photography. It applies to everything." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
22. "For reaching influential people, i think that in-person is the least crowded and most effective way, because they have to trust the messenger before they will endorse the message." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
23. "On how to monetize a blog: step one is understanding your readers. By this, i mean defining them psychographically and demographically. What would they buy? Then, it’s a simple matter of finding advertisers who would pay for “sponsor”-level access to this market." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 24. "On how to monetize a blog: there are certainly other avenues — affiliate programs, amazon associates, etc. — that add additional revenue with marginal additional effort. Last, and few bloggers consider this, is launching and offering your own products to your audience." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 25. "There are more than 200,000 books published each year in the us, and less than 5% ever sell more than 5,000 copies. On a given bestseller list, more than 5 spots could be occupied by unbeatable bestsellers like good to great or the tipping point, which have been on the lists for years." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 26. "You can’t out fox news fox news. Timely news-based content turns life (or business) into a keeping up with the joneses nightmare. I focus on evergreen/useful content that is as valuable 6 months from now as it is the day it’s published. It might mean less immediate traffic, but it means sticky traffic and also google traffic that will add up to monstrous traffic later." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 27. "People prefer to trust other people, not brands (e.g. steve jobs versus apple), so i have the advantage of being a single-person-based media provider. Brands can do this by singling out killer personalities to drive their brands (e.g. bobby flay for food network in the early days). People want to follow humans, not trademarks. Plan accordingly." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 28. "I write about what most excites me and assume that will hold true for 10,000+ people… if i write about it well. If i get 100 die-hard fans per post like that, i can build an army that will not only consider buying anything i sell later (assuming high quality — most critical!), but they’ll also promote my work as trustworthy to other people. This compounds quickly." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet 29. "There are two different journals that i’m currently using: the five-minute journal, which was created by a reader of mine, in fact. Really, really helpful for setting the tone and focus for the day. And then morning pages, which is really just a free-association exercise — good way to trap your monkey-mind on paper so it doesn’t distract you and sabotage you for the rest of the day." (Tim Ferriss) Click to tweet
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