LinkedIn Templates: Personal growth

Feeling stuck? Go for a walk. No mental block can outlast the power of a 30-minute walk. We really need to normalize boredom. Some of your most creative moments come during periods of boredom. On a walk, in the shower, or at dinner by yourself. You’re bored, your mind wanders, your thoughts mingle. Bam! Creative insight strikes. Schedule boredom into your weeks. Simple challenge for the week: Go for a 30-minute tech-free walk. • No phone • No music • No podcasts • No articles • No audiobooks Just you, your thoughts, your gratitude, and the fresh air. It’s a simple reset that will change your perspective. *** I wrote about the case for walking in newsletter. Join 650,000+ others who received it here: https://lnkd.in/esGsF85Q Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in future!

I read every one of Henry Ford's personal letters. They're packed with wisdom on leadership.  7 takeaways from a man who brought the future to life: 1. Invest in your People Ford was the first to: • Offer $5/day wage (doubling most workers' previous rates) • Implement 40-hour work weeks (giving employees the weekend off) “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” 2. Simplicity and Efficiency Henry Ford famously introduced assembly lines to streamline car production. It reduced the time to make a chassis from 12 hours to 93 minutes and the price of a Model T from $850 to $260. He was the living embodiment of “less is more.” 3. Total Conviction One of Ford's most famous quotes: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t: you are right.” In other words, your mindset is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Keep good hygiene in your self-talk. 4. Have the Courage to Lead Differently Ford led his organization unrecognizable from today's: There weren't many job titles/fixed job descriptions within the company - people just worked where they were needed. That way, people focused on the work (vs promotions and politics). 5. Customer Insight Ford lived by the 80/15/5 rule - if you ask 100 people about a product: • 80 can't describe their needs • 15 have mild detail on needs • 5 know their needs exactly/what to buy Ford didn't solve a problem for the last 5. He created a new market for the 95%. 6. Be Good at Whatever You Do And you can only do that by loving your work. With a long enough time horizon, you'll refine your craft. Because, when you pursue something as an outcome-detached passion: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again.” 7. Visionary Thinking Ford's most famous quote: “If I asked people what they wanted, they'd have said faster horses.” He understood people's wants better than they did and had an innate ability to filter noise into generational insight. Akin to Steve Jobs a century later. — Want 4 Secrets for Massive Growth in 2024? Join my live (FREE) Workshop on Dec 13th (3 days away). Attend Live & Get My "Overcoming The 4 Biggest Barriers To Your Success" Playbook FREE (worth $149) Spots are limited. Secure yours here: https://t.co/fQdgvx73uv

LinkedIn is more powerful than Twitter. In 2022, I generated $150k/month and grew to 176k followers on the platform. Here's how to hack the LinkedIn algorithm: 1. Optimize Your Profile The first and most important thing you need to do to start growing on LinkedIn is cleaning up your profile: • Headshot • Clear Tagline • Banner Image • About Section • Featured Section • Turn on Creator Mode 2. Grow Via Carousels I post 4 Carousels/Week. Here's how they perform: • ~2k+ likes  • ~525k impressions  • ~1,550 followers Here's the process: • Write a Twitter thread (bullet points, concise copy)  • Repurpose using Figma or Canva 3. Perfect Your About Section The "About Section" lets you flex your storytelling muscles. 1. You by the numbers (revenue generated, companies built etc.)  2. Your portfolio of work 3. Your social proof results 4. Leverage Creator Mode This enables you to add 3 featured links. Use them to add a: • Free masterclass (detailed step-by-step guide) • Weekly newsletter (capture high-value audience members) • Your product (10x the value of your free masterclass) 5. Post Consistently On Sunday, batch 1 post for every day of the week. Use your high-performing tweets or threads and convert them. • Show up daily  • Develop your tone • Test new experiments 6. Build a Community of Raving Fans My social strategy is simple. • Engage with comments for 30 minutes every morning  • Turn common questions into new content ideas Engaging early on posts helps: • Reinforce comment engagement  • Attracts true fans 7. Network With Other Creators Networking is huge on LinkedIn. You can leverage more established audiences to grow. Here are some of my favorite creators: • Dan Go • Justin Welsh • Codie A. Sanchez — If you leverage LinkedIn, you will x10 your audience in 2024. Get on a Founder OS strategy call to assemble your plan to scale.  Book your call: https://lnkd.in/ewisEGuu Enjoy this? Share the post with others and follow me Matt Gray for more.

When I was 22, I was crippled with depression and thought about taking my own life. Today, I experience more energy and happiness than I ever have in my entire life. My philosophy for a happy life (that anyone can apply): The only way to achieve lasting happiness is through entrepreneurship. You’ll never live a life of freedom until you build your own thing. Freedom to work where you want, when you want, on what you want. But entrepreneurship isn’t so pretty for most… Most founders are depressed. 72% of us report mental health issues like depression and anxiety. We’re 3x more likely to abuse substances. Most of us feel stressed, overwhelmed, and lonely - while building a business driving us into the ground. So what’s the solution? If entrepreneurship is the key to happiness, why are so many stressed, depressed, and unfulfilled? Because people don’t have a philosophy of life, they don’t have a system to engineer happiness on command. Here’s what I’ve come up with: 1. Whole Body Yes This concept changed my life. Only pursue what excites your head, heart, and gut - whole body yeses. This is what made me get out of brick and mortar to build a community of 14+ million cannabis lovers and help founders build $5M/year systems. 2. Prioritize Nature Nature is your greatest mentor. National Parks are your best friend. • Get outside daily • Take your shoes off and ground yourself • Never stop exploring what the planet has to offer Nature’s not a day out. It’s home. 3. Health is Wealth Taking care of your physical and mental health is the foundation for happiness and success. I learned this the hard way by burning out after my first business. Now, I prioritize sleep, nutrition, exercise, and mindfulness. Healthy founder = healthy business. 4. Community > Competition The best founders operate in tribes. They surround themselves with positive, driven people. They bounce ideas, lift each other up, and inspire each other. Entrepreneurship is not a single-player game. Build together. Stop suffering alone. 5. Time > Money The biggest misconception in business: you have to sacrifice your time for wealth. That’s bullsh*t. My businesses do $8M/year while I travel the world without working around the clock. My secret? Systems. Automation. Delegation. Less busy work, more deep work. 6. Systems > Goals Goals are cool, but they don’t mean anything without proven systems. Systematize everything - sales, marketing, operations. Use tools like Loom to record how you do stuff. Delegate to talented contractors around the world. Buy back your time. — Elevate your life habits with our free weekly newsletter. Join our community of 80,000+ subscribers today: https://lnkd.in/eMB4fWuy  Enjoy this? Share the post with others and follow me Matt Gray for more.

I read every one of Henry Ford's personal letters. They're packed with wisdom on leadership.  7 takeaways from a man who brought the future to life: 1. Invest in your People Ford was the first to: • Offer $5/day wage (doubling most workers' previous rates) • Implement 40-hour work weeks (giving employees the weekend off) “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” 2. Simplicity and Efficiency Henry Ford famously introduced assembly lines to streamline car production. It reduced the time to make a chassis from 12 hours to 93 minutes and the price of a Model T from $850 to $260. He was the living embodiment of “less is more.” 3. Total Conviction One of Ford's most famous quotes: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t: you are right.” In other words, your mindset is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Keep good hygiene in your self-talk. 4. Have the Courage to Lead Differently Ford led his organization unrecognizable from today's: There weren't many job titles/fixed job descriptions within the company - people just worked where they were needed. That way, people focused on the work (vs promotions and politics). 5. Customer Insight Ford lived by the 80/15/5 rule - if you ask 100 people about a product: • 80 can't describe their needs • 15 have mild detail on needs • 5 know their needs exactly/what to buy Ford didn't solve a problem for the last 5. He created a new market for the 95%. 6. Be Good at Whatever You Do And you can only do that by loving your work. With a long enough time horizon, you'll refine your craft. Because, when you pursue something as an outcome-detached passion: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again.” 7. Visionary Thinking Ford's most famous quote: “If I asked people what they wanted, they'd have said faster horses.” He understood people's wants better than they did and had an innate ability to filter noise into generational insight. Akin to Steve Jobs a century later. — Want 4 Secrets for Massive Growth in 2024? Join my live (FREE) Workshop on Dec 13th (3 days away). Attend Live & Get My "Overcoming The 4 Biggest Barriers To Your Success" Playbook FREE (worth $149) Spots are limited. Secure yours here: https://t.co/fQdgvx73uv

LinkedIn is more powerful than Twitter. In 2022, I generated $150k/month and grew to 176k followers on the platform. Here's how to hack the LinkedIn algorithm: 1. Optimize Your Profile The first and most important thing you need to do to start growing on LinkedIn is cleaning up your profile: • Headshot • Clear Tagline • Banner Image • About Section • Featured Section • Turn on Creator Mode 2. Grow Via Carousels I post 4 Carousels/Week. Here's how they perform: • ~2k+ likes  • ~525k impressions  • ~1,550 followers Here's the process: • Write a Twitter thread (bullet points, concise copy)  • Repurpose using Figma or Canva 3. Perfect Your About Section The "About Section" lets you flex your storytelling muscles. 1. You by the numbers (revenue generated, companies built etc.)  2. Your portfolio of work 3. Your social proof results 4. Leverage Creator Mode This enables you to add 3 featured links. Use them to add a: • Free masterclass (detailed step-by-step guide) • Weekly newsletter (capture high-value audience members) • Your product (10x the value of your free masterclass) 5. Post Consistently On Sunday, batch 1 post for every day of the week. Use your high-performing tweets or threads and convert them. • Show up daily  • Develop your tone • Test new experiments 6. Build a Community of Raving Fans My social strategy is simple. • Engage with comments for 30 minutes every morning  • Turn common questions into new content ideas Engaging early on posts helps: • Reinforce comment engagement  • Attracts true fans 7. Network With Other Creators Networking is huge on LinkedIn. You can leverage more established audiences to grow. Here are some of my favorite creators: • Dan Go • Justin Welsh • Codie A. Sanchez — If you leverage LinkedIn, you will x10 your audience in 2024. Get on a Founder OS strategy call to assemble your plan to scale.  Book your call: https://lnkd.in/ewisEGuu Enjoy this? Share the post with others and follow me Matt Gray for more.

Harsh Truth: Ideas are cheap, execution is expensive. 4 simple models to 10x your execution in 2024: 1. My 30-for-30 Approach Do the thing you're trying to improve at for 30 minutes per day for 30 straight days. 30 days of effort is a real commitment. If you are half-in, you won’t want to take it on and commit to the 30 days. 30 minutes per day is short enough that you can mentally take it on. Pre- start self-intimidation is one of the biggest drivers of stagnation. 30 days of 30 minutes per day is 900 total minutes of accumulated effort. This will yield surprisingly significant results. 2. The Two-Day Rule With whatever habit you're trying to build, never allow yourself to skip more than one day in a row. Quoting a study in the European Journal of Social Psychology: "Missing one opportunity to perform the behaviour did not materially affect the habit formation process." Skipping one day won't hurt your habit building, as long as you don't skip the next one. 3. Habit Stacking James Clear famously pointed out that we execute on Daily Systems most effectively when they are fixed to a time or action that makes them easy to structure and regiment. He calls this Habit Stacking: • "I'll journal 30 minutes before bed." • "I’ll do 25 pushups when I get out of bed." • "I'll read 30 minutes of my favorite novel while doing cardio." It's a simple, effective behavioral trick to execute against Daily Systems. 4. Minimum Viable Progress Never skip a day, but anything above zero counts. Have a goal in mind to do 30 minutes of the action every single day—but if you can’t hit that, just do any tiny amount above zero. Remember: Anything above zero compounds! *** If you leverage those four simple models, you will 10x your execution in 2024 and reach new heights. Enjoy this? Share the post with others and follow me Sahil Bloom for more. Download my free Annual Planning Guide to prepare for 2024 to be your best year yet: https://lnkd.in/eMKTiVVf

A concept everyone should understand. The Paradox of Failure: You have to fail more to succeed more. Our transformative moments of growth often stem directly from our toughest moments of failure. Don't fear failure—learn to fail smart and fast. Never fail the same way twice. Always put yourself in the arena. *** I'm going to be sharing a piece with my favorite "paradoxes of life" this week. Join 650,000+ others who will receive it: https://lnkd.in/esGsF85Q Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in future!