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Pruning: Eliminate A Few Activities · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit Daily RiderLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: As you continue to grow in your writing skills and your connections and your influence, you'll have more and more opportunities.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And this is both a good thing and a bad thing.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, opportunities are wonderful.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can write for more outlets or you can reach more readers with your own writing.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: And with your expanded influence and connections, also comes the need to limit your activities to the few things that produce the most results.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to run a YouTube channel, to host a podcast, write books, maintain a blog or a newsletter, speak at conferences, and do all the other things that you see influencers doing, unless that's your full-time job and you have a staff of people.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to pick and choose what to focus on.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: You probably are not going to be able to do all those things at the same time, at least not when you get started.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: The best filter is to focus on those activities that you enjoy and the things that you're going to do consistently.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: You can grow a platform and a writing career many different ways, but as you grow in your career, you'll have more options and you'll need to prune the ones that don't serve your vision and direction.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: As they say, you can be whatever you want, but you can't be everything.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Focus on just a few activities that will get you the biggest results in your writing life.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Pruning is not easy.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: At times it can be downright painful.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: But after you have prepared the soil of your mind and planted and watered the seeds, you've got to cut back on the dead weight in your schedule and in your life so the growth process can continue.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Again, it's not easy.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it really, really hurts, but it's a necessary step for you to become the author that you were meant to be.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.