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This is GC⚡ #67 — your weekly dose of digestible newsletter bites

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Writing a newsletter could be the thing that sticks for you — ADHD or not.

I quit everything I start.

And not just good things to quit, like bad habits. I quit things with upside and potential: blogs, journals, websites, jobs, businesses…

So when the desire to create content (once again) started tickling my creative ambitions 18 months ago, I knew I had to try something different.

Everything I tried in the past failed.

I'd get bored.
I'd lose focus.
​I'd give up and move on.

When I was diagnosed with ADHD 11 months ago, all the “quitting” started making sense. Turns out many of my tendencies were thanks to my newly-diagnosed but long-held neurodiversity.

People with ADHD have a high tendency to exhibit Shiny Object Syndrome, according to Amen Clinics: “[those with ADHD] rush into new ideas without properly thinking them through or in order to avoid the less exciting work of tending to the business at hand.” So when the going gets tough, the tough get goin’ — unless you’re one of us. We ADHDers just move on to something more exciting and novel.

The ADHD Diagnosis

I had no idea about any of this before my diagnosis.

One morning, I was browsing YouTube procrastinating from the work I was supposed to be doing, and I stumbled upon on YouTube about what it’s like to live with ADHD.

​I watched the video.

​And then another one. I went down the rabbit hole.

I was nearly in tears. These videos described me to a tee. I phoned my doctor’s office and made an appointment.

After the appointment and assessment, I was “officially” diagnosed. All the quitting made so much more sense now.

What didn’t make sense was the streak I had been building:

→ I had published over 25 straight weeks of my Growth Currency newsletter. And I wasn’t quitting.

I kept showing up.

Here’s why I believe it worked.

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YOUR GROWTH CURRENCY ⚡ THIS WEEK

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."

Check out these links to help you...

▶️Start + 🪴Grow + 📈Improve + 💰Monetize your newsletter — Let’s get into it!

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▶️ START

⚡Newsletter Strategy Positioning Brief by Dan Oshinsky
​This brief (Google Doc) will set your newsletter journey off on the right foot. I wasn't strategic with this newsletter at the start, and I mildly regret it. So take it from Dan—he grew the Buzzfeed & New Yorker newsletters. So he knows what's up.

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🪴GROW

⚡ A step-by-step guide to growing your email list, from a creator with 25,000 subscribers by Kayla Voigt
​Femke had plateaued at 2,000 subscribers before she started using this lead generation strategy. Her email list is now over 25,000.

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📈 IMPROVE

⚡ I bet you're making 1 of these 11 newsletter mistakes by Paul Metcalfe [🧵]
​Oh Paul... I'm making more than one! But thanks to this thread—I spent 30 minutes improving my Welcome email. It is your most read email, after all 😉 Which mistakes are you making?

Paul Metcalfe @pauldm I bet you’re making 1 of these 11 Newsletter mistakes… April 28th 2022 4 Retweets 12 Likes

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💰MONETIZE

⚡Building A Newsletter Business by Dylan Redekop (via Refind)
​I partnered with the team at Refind to create a Deep Dive on newsletter monetization. Subscribe to the Deep Dive and get an article a day for 11 days, all focused on earning income from your newsletter 🙌

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Last week's launch for my free 1KS Roadmap email course went really well! (Except one small snafu.)

I'm so grateful for all who signed up, and for those of you who gave me priceless feedback.

I plan to take all the feedback I receive and make the course even better! In the meantime, I'd love feedback on this edition of the newsletter…

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Hit reply and let me know why — I answer every one :) Or DM me on Twitter!

And in case you missed it, here are last week's TWO most popular links:

#1: 5 things Justin did to rapidly grow his "rebooted" newsletter—to 21k subscribers in 90 days by Justin Welsh
#2: How to Use LinkedIn Newsletters: A Guide for Marketers by Michael Stelzner​
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Other Growth Currency⚡ Resources:

→ The Ultimate Creator Database of Awesomeness​
→ How To Start, Grow, and Optimize a Thriving Newsletter Community​
→ Advertise in this newsletter​

Again, thinking of Ukraine as the war wages on 😥. Please consider the links below.

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​Come Back Alive​ || Ukrainian Red Cross || Voices of Children​ || Ukraine-Russia Twitter List (h/t Noah Smith)

Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

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