HOW I DITCHED SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A 6-FIGURE BOOK DEAL
Social media is the devil. If I had my druthers, I’d never get on it again. But it’s a necessary evil for my career so I participate because I have to. Now, I’d be lying if occasionally I didn’t enjoy it. I love getting a good laugh making fun of myself. And of course sharing good news always feels great. But as a whole, I hate it. Social media, or rather ditching it, I believe was a HUGE contributor to why I sold a book for six figures. Why? Because once I cut out all the noise and distraction of social media, I was able to seriously focus on the writing.
When I started writing ITHOC in 2020, I had not published a book in four years. Around that time the pandemic started and politics was in full effect, and I found social media to be filled with negativity. Most of my time spent on there was depressive, mind-numbing scrolling. At that time, there was no benefit to me personally nor professionally. In fact, I was say it was hurting me. Eventually I decided to ditch it. And in those 3 years it took me to write ITHOC, I might have posted on social media 15 times, if that. Where do you start?
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