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Over 4,000 newsletter subscribers</li></ul><p id="39de">It’s been a blast over the last few months growing so quickly but here’s the thing.</p><p id="c639">I’ve been building this ship for the last 24 months. The engine has been tested, the deckhands hired, and I’ve been captaining for 24 months learning the ropes.</p><h1 id="897a">Finding your voice</h1><p id="1a37">I can’t even read my previous articles. They are so bad I want to screw them up and throw them in the bin. They are a cringefest.</p><p id="79e3">But it’s a necessary evil if you want to get to the other side. To this place, I’m in right now. This paradise.</p><p id="20c3">Alex Hormozi aka the business god, calls this ignorance debt. The price you pay when you enter any field that you don’t understand. You’re starting at a negative. You don’t understand the rules, the game, or the competitors. You have to pay with time.</p><p id="f57d">You don’t get paid until you start to understand the rules. If you want to find your voice, you pay with articles that nobody reads.</p><h1 id="3750">The slow burn</h1><p id="9dba">There is beauty in slow growth.</p><p id="b642">I’ll tell you why.</p><p id="abc6">Everybody is chasing fast success. They want to get rich by next week so they can buy a fat whip, a chunky watch and a house that their friends blush over.</p><p id="16ed">Here’s the thing, the people that are important won’t like you more because you have a hunk of metal on your wrist. They won’t care how many bedrooms you have. They care that you’re happy.</p><p id="fafd">The slow growth is about exploration, it’s about the journey. It’s about learning and implementing the things you learn to be better.</p><p id="6a00">If you had everything you ever wanted tomorrow, the chase is off and the chase is half the fun.</p><h1 id="b141">Slow success gives you space</h1><p id="242a">Here’s the deal.</p><p id="59de">It could take you 5 years to get traction, it could take 10. It could never happen. If you spend all your time chasing that moment that might never ha

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ppen or that exists in the distant future you miss the point entirely.</p><p id="95c7">It’s going to be a long ride, you may as well find the joy in the slow burn.</p><p id="b160">The way I see it, you can either envy others, wish you were earning more and throw a pity party for yourself or you can enjoy where you are and try your best.</p><p id="e854">It won’t make success come any quicker if you sit sulking.</p><p id="7147">You may as well tell yourself it’s going to take forever and have fun along the way.</p><h1 id="0652">Build in public</h1><p id="f324">If someone said to me today, Eve you can go back to the start and x10 your growth, so today I’d be sitting at 100k followers and some crazy monthly figure, I’d say no.</p><p id="3893">I’d say no because every failure, stagnation, fatigue and upset has made this journey enjoyable. This is the pain I pick. I don’t want it to be easy. If it was easy I’d enjoy it less and have more competition.</p><p id="c001">I’d say no because no matter how tragic those articles were 2 years ago, they were the foundation of what I’m doing today.</p><h1 id="d3dd">So what’s the message?</h1><p id="764e">The message is this: expect it to be difficult and enjoy it more because it is.</p><p id="06f8">Easy is boring. It’s like a game you can complete in ten minutes, you know how many people would play that game? Zero.</p><p id="49ee">Because as much as you think you want easy, you don’t. I thought I wanted easy until I played the game long enough and realised the difficult days are the days that make it worth it.</p><p id="0faf">So embrace the suck. Expect it to be difficult. And have a blast along the way.</p><p id="1ed1">If you do that, in many ways, you’ve already won.</p><p id="3ed5">Every Monday I break down timeless insights to build and grow in the creator economy. Actionable ideas, systems and frameworks that will save you hundreds of hours so you can build, <a href="https://part-timecreatorclub.ck.page/dac04e8a9e">part-time. Read by 5.8k+ creators</a>.</p></article></body>

It Took 3 Years For Anyone to Notice My Writing. And I’m So Glad It Did.

Why slow success is often the best

Cheap success ends up in the landfill.

It’s like buying a cheap jumper, it costs less but it’s not the one you want. You get it and after the initial hit of dopamine, you look at it, hanging in your wardrobe and it just reminds you of the one you wanted instead.

It becomes a symbol of a bad purchase choice.

Success is the same.

Desire slow success

In 2 months, it’ll be 3 years since I started writing on the internet.

It’s like a relationship that was cemented in COVID and now we’re in it for life. No expectations. No real idea what I was doing but I started tapping away on this laptop and never looked back.

Sometimes that’s how love stories go.

It was slow in the beginning, I mean SLOW.

It took me 12 months to hit 1,000 followers.
It took 11 months to hit 1,000 newsletter subscribers.

By the end of year 2 on Medium I had 2,925 followers. It took me 2 years to hit 3,000 followers. Growth has been slow until it got fast.

I had quite an honest conversation with myself back in October and decided to take Twitter seriously, at the time I had 425 followers.

In the last 4 months, things have gone crazy.

Added over 6,800 Twitter followers
Added over 4,100 Medium followers
Over 4,000 newsletter subscribers

It’s been a blast over the last few months growing so quickly but here’s the thing.

I’ve been building this ship for the last 24 months. The engine has been tested, the deckhands hired, and I’ve been captaining for 24 months learning the ropes.

Finding your voice

I can’t even read my previous articles. They are so bad I want to screw them up and throw them in the bin. They are a cringefest.

But it’s a necessary evil if you want to get to the other side. To this place, I’m in right now. This paradise.

Alex Hormozi aka the business god, calls this ignorance debt. The price you pay when you enter any field that you don’t understand. You’re starting at a negative. You don’t understand the rules, the game, or the competitors. You have to pay with time.

You don’t get paid until you start to understand the rules. If you want to find your voice, you pay with articles that nobody reads.

The slow burn

There is beauty in slow growth.

I’ll tell you why.

Everybody is chasing fast success. They want to get rich by next week so they can buy a fat whip, a chunky watch and a house that their friends blush over.

Here’s the thing, the people that are important won’t like you more because you have a hunk of metal on your wrist. They won’t care how many bedrooms you have. They care that you’re happy.

The slow growth is about exploration, it’s about the journey. It’s about learning and implementing the things you learn to be better.

If you had everything you ever wanted tomorrow, the chase is off and the chase is half the fun.

Slow success gives you space

Here’s the deal.

It could take you 5 years to get traction, it could take 10. It could never happen. If you spend all your time chasing that moment that might never happen or that exists in the distant future you miss the point entirely.

It’s going to be a long ride, you may as well find the joy in the slow burn.

The way I see it, you can either envy others, wish you were earning more and throw a pity party for yourself or you can enjoy where you are and try your best.

It won’t make success come any quicker if you sit sulking.

You may as well tell yourself it’s going to take forever and have fun along the way.

Build in public

If someone said to me today, Eve you can go back to the start and x10 your growth, so today I’d be sitting at 100k followers and some crazy monthly figure, I’d say no.

I’d say no because every failure, stagnation, fatigue and upset has made this journey enjoyable. This is the pain I pick. I don’t want it to be easy. If it was easy I’d enjoy it less and have more competition.

I’d say no because no matter how tragic those articles were 2 years ago, they were the foundation of what I’m doing today.

So what’s the message?

The message is this: expect it to be difficult and enjoy it more because it is.

Easy is boring. It’s like a game you can complete in ten minutes, you know how many people would play that game? Zero.

Because as much as you think you want easy, you don’t. I thought I wanted easy until I played the game long enough and realised the difficult days are the days that make it worth it.

So embrace the suck. Expect it to be difficult. And have a blast along the way.

If you do that, in many ways, you’ve already won.

Every Monday I break down timeless insights to build and grow in the creator economy. Actionable ideas, systems and frameworks that will save you hundreds of hours so you can build, part-time. Read by 5.8k+ creators.