Measuring Growth as a Creator

The Future Belongs to Creators

Many companies have regular performance reviews for their employees. If done well, reflecting on your work is a great way to improve and refresh your professional momentum. Even though it’s not mandated by a higher-up, we should still take similar time as creators to reflect on our work and performance.

When there’s no boss behind your shoulder or fear of firing, we as creators and solopreneurs need systems in place to hold us accountable and keep our aspirations on track.

In this episode, Haley and Miguel break down the beats of purposeful and intentional reflection. It’s a system embraced at ConvertKit, and a system we encourage everyone to implement as their creator journeys evolve.

“Honesty is a really big part of measuring your growth as a creator, or professional, or anything else. Because you’re not going to grow from something that you’re not even acknowledging is a problem.” ~ Miguel Pou

Main takeaways

• [07:28] Purposeful and regimented reflection holds you accountable. Because as creators, no one else is there to do it for you. Start by breaking up lofty goals into small pieces.
• [11:17] If you approach tasks with the mindset that you’re a learner rather than the expert, then nothing you do is wrong and everything you do is teaching you something valuable.
• [17:27] Learning from your mistakes is great, but don’t forget to celebrate the wins too.
• [18:00] To improve your areas of weakness, you have to be honest about them and aware of what they are.
• [28:21] You can’t succeed as a creator if you’re not growing personally. Don’t just track professional milestones and metrics like subscribers, clicks, and revenue. If you’re learning a lot, that’s just as much of an accomplishment as gaining 1,000 subscribers or earning $1,000.

Connect with our hosts

• Miguel Pou
• Haley Janicek

Links

• Watch The Future Belongs to Creators on YouTube
• 15Five
• Creator Sessions
• My Brothers And I
• James Clear
• Craft & Commerce Conference
• 1% Better Every Day - James Clear at ConvertKit Craft + Commerce 2017
• 4 Personal Growth Skills Content Creators Should Master
• The Future Belongs To Creators 114: 1,000 True Fans
• Matt Ragland
• The Future Belongs To Creators 104: Making the Leap to Full-Time Creator
• Alexis Teichmiller
• The Future Belongs To Creators 123: Launching Your First Newsletter with Daniel Beasley
• Judah & The Lion
• Judah Akers
• Sam Williams
• Alt Bloom
  
  

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