Your First 100 Are Supposed to Suck (And That’s a Good Thing)!

Content Creation Tips!

“Start before you’re ready. Don’t prepare, begin.” — Mel Robbins

Let’s get something straight:

Creating content isn’t hard because you don’t have ideas.

It’s hard because you’re scared your ideas won’t be good enough.

Sound familiar?

You’re staring at the blank screen.

You’ve got a rough draft somewhere.

Maybe even a full piece ready to go.

But you just can’t bring yourself to hit “publish.”

You tell yourself it’s not ready. It needs more polish. A stronger hook. Better visuals.

It could be a little more… perfect.

And right there, without realizing it you’re stuck.

Welcome to the invisible wall that holds back most new creators: Perfectionism.

If you’re waiting for your content to be great before you release it,

You’re not practicing content creation.

You’re practicing self-censorship.

This newsletter is your permission slip to let that go.

I launched a podcast that no one listened to.

I still remember the day I launched my podcast.

The excitement. The nerves. The pressure.

It took me weeks literally weeks to finish the first episode.

I edited it obsessively.

Wrote and rewrote the intro script.

Kept tweaking the sound levels.

And when I finally published it?

Crickets.

Not a single listener outside of maybe two friends and my overly supportive wife.

In fact, this was my second attempt at podcasting.. And so, I was trying to be even more cautious at making the perfect episode.

But I still published it.

It was rough.

The delivery was stiff. The topic wandered. My tone was… robotic.

And yet,

It was the most important thing I did in my creator journey.

Because it got me over the hardest hump of all:

Getting started and hitting publish.

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” — Anne Lamott

When you obsess over every detail, you don’t protect your reputation, you paralyze your momentum.

That first podcast episode wasn’t perfect.

Neither were episodes 2, 3, or 5.

But by episode 10, I’d found a rhythm.

By episode 20, my voice had confidence.

By episode 30, I started getting feedback from real listeners.. actual humans who were finding value in what I was saying.

Not because I nailed it from the start.

But because I kept publishing.

Here’s what I had to internalize:

“Your early content isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s supposed to be practice.”

If you’re holding yourself back waiting for perfection, you’re not building a content business.

You’re building a hobby that lives inside your head.

How many pieces of content have you actually published?

There’s a huge difference between thinking like a creator and becoming one.

How many times have you actually hit “publish”?

Not how many drafts are sitting in your Notes app.

Not how many outlines are on your whiteboard.

How many times have you followed through?

Because publishing habits > planning habits.

Inconsistent publishing creates inconsistent growth.

And it often comes from a common lie we tell ourselves:

“It’s just not ready yet.”

But guess what?

It will never feel ready.

Not in the beginning.

The first 100 are practice. Get through them fast.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was this:

“You’ve got to get your reps in. Don’t try to make the first 100 good. Just make them done.”

That single mindset shift changed how I approached everything:

Writing blog posts.

Creating affiliate content.

Recording podcast episodes.

Showing up on social.

When you stop trying to make your early work perfect, you free yourself to build momentum.

You’re no longer obsessed with performance.

You’re focused on progress.

And trust me.

Progress compounds faster than perfection ever will.

The 3 publishing habits that helped me overcome creator block

If perfectionism is keeping you from showing up consistently,

These three habits changed the game for me:

Output goals over outcome goals.

Don’t aim for likes or followers.

Aim to publish something every week (or every day).

Focus on quantity.

Why?

Because quantity leads to quality with time.

Create a weekly publishing window.

Pick a day. Pick a time. That’s your new non-negotiable.

Whatever you’ve got by that deadline, publish it.

It builds trust with yourself.

It builds resilience.

It builds the muscle of showing up.

Embrace the beginner mindset.

Beginner doesn’t mean amateur.

It means being curious, iterative, and open to learning. People who are looking to learn and grow in life.

In fact, the people who grow the fastest aren’t the ones who know the most.

They’re the ones willing to ship the fastest.

From corporate decks to content chaos

Let me share something that still makes me cringe:

Back in my corporate days, I once spent 5 hours perfecting a PowerPoint chart before presenting it to senior leadership.

It had to look “just right.”

Every font matched. Every bullet aligned.

I rehearsed that presentation like I was going on stage at TED.

And that same obsession followed me into my content creation.

At first, I thought it was a strength.

But in the content world, it was a weakness.

Because this world rewards consistency, authenticity, and iteration.

Not polished delay.

The creators who win don’t wait until everything is ready.

They show up, learn in public, and keep going.

How do you let go of perfection?

You don’t.

You replace it.

With publishing.

With volume.

With action.

You know this one weakness that perfection has?

It can’t survive movement.

Once you start pressing “publish,” perfection starts to lose its grip.

And eventually, it stops feeling like a monster and more like background noise.

Book Recommendations to Reinforce This Mindset:

1. The Practice by Seth Godin

A must-read for creators who need a reminder that creativity is a habit, not a magical moment. You’ll underline every other sentence.

2. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

A short, powerful book that encourages you to create in public, even when it’s messy. Especially when it’s messy.

3. Atomic Habits by James Clear

Want to build a weekly publishing routine? This book gives you the systems to make it stick. Your content success depends on it.

Your action step this week:

Find a piece of content you’ve been tweaking to death.

Give yourself 30 minutes to do one final edit.

Then, publish it.

Doesn’t matter if it’s 70%.

Doesn’t matter if it’s not your “best.”

It’s better done than perfect.

And that’s how real creators grow..

Recommended Newsletters

Here are few newsletters that I would recommend that you sign up to if you are interested in learning the art of running a side-hustle:

• Write, Build, Scale
• Why we buy
• The Book Bub
• The Stacked Marketer
• The Growth Bulletin
• Unconventional Productivity for Online Business Owners
• Side Hustle Weekly
• The Affiliate Guy
• I will teach you to be rich
• How Brands win
• For the Interested
• Send and Grow

Sign up to these and follow them. You will get a lot of information and content for your blog posts, podcasts and even social media posts.

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