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I am a big fan of daily projects, particularly this one. There's some others as well, but side hustle school has been going for 2,621 days in a row without a break, seven days a week, of course. So I loved getting today's question in because the question is about maintaining momentum for daily projects. And you can also think of this as any sort of semi-regular project, I think in daily, but it could be weekly or every other day or some other cadence. Are you running a daily project, a semi-regular project, and starting to feel the repetition weighing you down?
How can you keep the momentum up? Well, many side hustlers, online creators, whether you're a photographer, a blogger, something else, entirely, coder, a cake maker, I don't know, anything else that we've talked about in more than 2,000 episodes, you could face this challenge and how do you in fact keep that spark alive if it's the right thing to do? That's also an alternative to just stop doing it and do something else. Let's talk about it. We're gonna hear from someone who started a daily photography project.
I follow some of those on Instagram and elsewhere. It's always fun to see how the project evolves and if the person is able to maintain, if they're able to kind of see it through whatever they commit it to. So what are some tips or strategies Alex is asking for? I'll let him ask the question, then my detailed response right after the quick break. [Music]
Hey there, I'm Alex and I've recently started a daily photography project sharing a new image each day on my blog and social media.
Initially, I was like excited, but now a few months in, I'm starting to feel a bit bored and less motivated. Do you have any tips or strategies for keeping daily projects fresh and interesting? And how do other creators deal with the monotony that can come with daily content creation? Hey Alex, congrats on the project. I am a big fan of daily projects, of course, not just with the blog, but some other stuff I do.
There's just a lot of momentum to it. The flip side of course is it can get tiring, it can get draining, it can become a bit of a burden. So what you wanna do, assuming you're still committed to it, I also think there's nothing wrong with saying, I'm ready to move on to something else, that's okay. But assuming you're still committed to it, then you wanna kind of make it work for you. Like find a way to ask yourself like what can I do to continue to be motivated by this so that it's not monotonous, it's actually inspiring and engaging.
One thing you can do is having some themes, so like a weekly theme or a monthly theme or like I'm just gonna do this kind of photography for a while. Perhaps some collaboration could also be good, collaboration, inspiration, some kind of partnership or cross pollination. Audience engagement really matters a lot. Like if you're able to have people responding to comments or hosting a challenge of their own or participating, that can also drive a lot of external motivation which then helps you get going. Maybe something I should have said at the start is your daily project could be five days a week, it doesn't have to be seven.
You can build some breaks into the process or it can be a daily project for a month. Doesn't have to be a daily project for a year. You can set parameters. A lot of podcasts have seasons where they then take off for months at a time. So there's lots of different ways to do it.
I think the key point is to find a way to make it work for you and whenever you start losing the momentum, just ask yourself what can I do to rework it a little bit. Milestones and timelines along the way are always good as well. So I think it's a wonderful thing but it has to work for you. So just adjust it as you see fit. Good luck with the project, Alex.
Listeners, I wanna make sure I'm supporting you too. So let me know how things are going, what we can do to help, sidehustleschool.com. Continue to feature questions and input projects from listeners along the way every single day, seven days a week, 'cause it's a daily project. That's all for now. My name's Chris Guillebeau.
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