I have nearly 2,000 items on my Kindle. Over a thousand articles, web pages and wiki pages I've sent to myself, but there's also hundreds of Kindle books and even more samples.
I wake up and I generally read a little, but mostly right. I often write for 2 hours/day (usually 5am - 7am).
While most of my writing appears to be freeform, I tend to mostly use prompts. Often the prompts will be insights I wrote down just before I went to bed.
For example, last night I wrote:
"Living is easy, but to live to your full potential, you must make an effort. Thrive on effort because the more effort you make, the easier life gets."
This is a great addition the piece I wrote on effort previously.
What are some prompts used by ultra successful people?
“What good shall I do this day?” to: “What good have I done today?”
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do?”
Five things for which she’s thankful for (counts her blessings)
Before bed, he asks himself questions to help work on problems while he sleeps.
“My journaling system is based around studying complexity. Reducing the complexity down to what is the most important question. Sleeping on it, and then waking up in the morning first thing and pre-input brainstorming on it. So I’m feeding my unconscious material to work on, releasing it completely, and then opening my mind and riffing on it.”
When he made a decision, he wrote down what he expected to happen. Months later, he would compare the actual results with his expectations. Putting your decisions in AuthorDock, in the form of milestones will help you see the path your decisions took you.
Leonardo da Vinci, the definition of creativity wrote thousands of pages: sketches musings on his art, inventions, observations, and ideas.
Albert Einstein wrote more than 80,000 pages of notes in his lifetime. I can't imagine the impact he would have had with his words if he had been using PubWriter.
President John Adams filled the pages of over 50 journals.
Learn by doing.
How are you augmenting reality?
That's my prompt today.
Metacognitive thinking is awareness of our own thoughts.
Ever notice that after writing about your thoughts, plans, and experiences, you feel clearer and more focused? This called “writing to learn.”
Writing brings order and meaning to our experiences and becomes a potent tool for knowledge and discovery. augments our ability to think about complex topics that have dozens of interrelated parts, while our brain, by itself, can only manage three in any given moment. A review of hundreds of studies on writing to learn showed that it also helps with what’s called metacognitive thinking, which is our awareness of our own thoughts. Metacognition is a key element in performance.
5 Ways We Can Learn About Note-Taking from da Vinci
Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time”
Generate a list of blog topic ideas for
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Create an outline for a blog post about how to
topic.
Describe the advantages of a
topic.
Draft a short prospecting email
topic.
Turn the following phrase into a paragraph —
excerpt
Write a marketing email offering a promotional for
campaign
Find
industrycompanies in California with more than 1,000 employees.
Write a [adjective] [type of content] on [goal]. Explain why: [topic], [topic2, ...]
examples:
Write a friendly blog post on why people should lose weight. Explain why obesity is a problem, how people can lose weight, and why being healthy is important.
Write a humorous essay on how not to prepare for an exam.
Can you [action] my text [adjective]?
• Can you make my paragraph less formal? • Can you make my sentence easier to read? • Can you complete my sentence? [insert sentence] • Can you continue my paragraph? [insert paragraph]
Write a [type of content] for [subject] showcasing the [benefit1, benefit2, ...].
• Write a social media ad for a productivity tool showcasing its simplicity and design. • Create a sales copy for a travel agency showcasing the price, destinations and commitment.
Reply to this email: [name@name]. Be [behavior] and say [ideas].
Reply to this email. Be polite and say that I accept the offer if ...
Reply to this email. Be friendly and say that I don't have time for the meeting
Create X [type of content] for [platform] [details]
"Using the 'Features-Advantages-Benefits' framework, please write an email marketing campaign that highlights the [features] of our [product/service] and explains how these [advantages] can be helpful to [ideal customer persona]. Elaborate on the [benefits] of our product and how it can positively impact the reader.
"Write an email marketing campaign using the 'PASTOR' framework to address the pain points of [ideal customer persona] and present our [product/service] as the solution. Identify the [problem] they are facing, amplify the consequences of not solving it, tell a [story] related to the problem, include [testimonials] from happy customers, present our [offer], and ask for a response.
"Using the 'Before-After-Bridge' framework, please write an email marketing campaign that presents the current situation with a [problem] faced by [ideal customer persona]. Show them the world after using our [product/service] and how it has improved their situation. Then, provide a [bridge] to show them how they can get to that improved state by using our product.
"Write an email marketing campaign using the 'Attention-Interest-Desire-Action' framework to grab the attention of [ideal customer persona] and persuade them to take action. Start with a bold statement to get their attention, present information that piques their [interest], state the benefits of our [product/service] to create [desire], and ask for a sign-up or purchase.
"Using the 'Problem-Agitate-Solve' framework, please write an email marketing campaign that identifies the most painful [problem] faced by [ideal customer persona] and agitates the issue to show why it is a bad situation. Then, present our [product/service] as the logical solution to the problem.