HeyJaredEscape The Ordinary
Raw honest writing on discipline, habits, and human potential.
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How to get your first 1,000 Substack subscribers (opens the original)
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I am sitting at 1,997 subscribers as I write this.Almost 2,000 people have chosen to let my writing into their inbox. And I want to be honest with you about how long that took and what actually changed when the growth finally kicked in because most people writing about Substack growth either figured it out fast and forgot what slow felt like, or they are selling you a system they have never actually tested.I am neither of those people.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://su
The fear of embarrassment is the most expensive thing you will never pay for. (opens the original)
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Think about the last time you stopped yourself from doing something.It’s not because you couldn’t do it or because you didn’t want to. Because you were afraid of what someone might think if you tried and it didn’t go perfectly.Maybe it was posting that first piece of writing.Recording yourself on camera. Going live. Starting the newsletter you have been planning for six months. Saying the thing you actually believe instead of the safe version.You talked yourself out of it.And the reason, if you
I'm 21. Here's my honest guide to not wasting this decade. (opens the original)
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Slow down.That’s the first thing I want to say before anything else. Not because your 20s aren’t important they are, more than most people realise.But because the biggest mistake I see people my age making, myself included, is moving so fast through everything that they miss what’s actually happening.You look to your left and someone your age just launched a business. You look to your right, and someone is already buying property. You scroll for ten minutes, and it feels like everyone has figure
I Gain 10-20 subscribers every day once I understand This On Substack (opens the original)
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Alright, let me be honest with you about something.For almost two years, I was stuck in the 767 subscriber range. Not growing nor declining. Just sitting there at that same number while I kept posting, kept writing, kept telling myself it would eventually click.I would post a note and refresh the stats ten minutes later.Write an article and spend the next two days checking if anyone had liked it. Watch my subscriber count go up three, down two, net zero, and feel it affect my mood in a way that’
How to escape the common route that millions of people follow (opens the original)
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It’s 6:47 am.The alarm goes off. Your first instinct is to snooze it. But you can’t because you have somewhere to be. A corporate job. A café shift. Your own shop. Whatever it is, the clock doesn’t care about how you feel.So you wake up. Make breakfast. Commute. Work. Come home. Sleep. Repeat.And you do this for years.I know people in my community who have worked the same job for twenty years. Same routine. Same commute. Same four walls. Not because they chose it deeply and intentionally, but be
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