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Creating online can be lonely.

You put content out there, and a lot of it doesn't get the response you hope for.

Or even any response at all.

So what's a Feel-Good File?

I made that up.

(Well, I thought I made it up, it turns out I wasn't the first)

My Feel-Good File is a case file, with evidence.

Evidence that I've made a positive impact somewhere.

Evidence that all of my work isn't just shouting into the vacuum.

You would have thought I paid for this

This week, I got something to put in there. Totally out of the blue.

My Obsidian Starter Kit for Content Creators hit Gumroad a few weeks ago, and almost immediately I found some better ways to do things.

I wrote a Medium article to say I could have done better.

A few days later, I stumble across an article by Justin Reeise, who goes by Self Investment Project on Medium and elsewhere.

The article was a full-on response to mine.

You wanna make a grown man cry, this is one way to do it!

For all of the articles that got no response at all --

• no comments
• no highlights
• no claps
• in some cases, no views!

Getting a full story in response is incredible.

These are the touchstones in a creator's journey.

A Feel-Good File, which can be as simple as a document with links, serves as a reminder of impact at times when it can be hard to find.

It keeps you going on building your 5-to-9 when you'd like to stop.

How I approach building my 5-to-9 every day

1) I don't jeopardize my 9-to-5. No two-hour coffee breaks.

2) I prioritize learning about how to be more effective with my 5-to-9.

3) I do the work, and go back to step 2.

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Let's build together!

~ John

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