I'm back with a plan (for you & me)

My Stoic friend,

Not sure if you noticed, but I was out for two weeks!

I felt like I lost my creative energy — however hard I tried, I couldn't write decent content.

I tried to force myself and went through the timelines of my favorite creators hoping to find inspiration.

Noting helped…

The problem

I think it all started back on January 18 when I got shadowbanned on Twitter.

At that time, I was competing (in my head) with 2 other creators for the most growth.

We were all at the same amount of followers & growing at the same rate.

On January 18, I noticed that my threads aren’t getting the usual engagement. I got worried and started looking for reasons why.

Someone suggested I may shadowbanned and sent me a link to check. I clicked it… and boom… there were right!

I asked my friends on Twitter what I could do to get out of shadowban — they told me I should stop posting content for 1-2 days & wait it out.

And that was the mistake that lead to everything else…

I killed my momentum… I saw how the guys I’m competing against outgrew me by 100 followers. It went to 1000 followers in 2 weeks, and now they have twice as many followers as I do.

This killed my motivation to compete. It seemed unfair that I was the only one shadowbanned.

That feeling didn’t leave for more than a month.

My plan

Fast forward to earlier this week, I realized it was March already!

I couldn’t waste any more time. 25% of the year will be over soon and I’m nowhere near my goals for 2023.

I decided to do something about it…

I reached out to my mentor and explained the situation (I was ashamed to tell him that before).

What he proposed:

• I put together a recovery plan (a 30-day challenge)

• I make it public, so my friends on Twitter and this newsletter will keep me accountable

• I ask others to join me to help them while helping myself

I decided to name my challenge “Intentional 30” — let me know what you think about the name!

I have a question for you:

Will you join me?

Before you answer, hear out what we’re gonna do together. We’ll focus on:

Health:

• Cold showers daily

• 15-minute walk/day

• 30 mins of gym/day

• Journal for 10mins/day

Twitter & Business:

• 3 tweets/day

• 2 threads/week

• 1 giveaway/week

• 1 newsletter/week

• 1 DM to a new contact/day

If you’re interested in doing all of it together with me — hit me up in DMs on Twitter.

I created a Telegram group where I’ll post daily accountability updates on my progress.

I’ll ask you to do the same if you join. We’ll talk about the issues & learnings from the whole process as we do it for 30 days.

Oh, and by the way, Alex (Copywriting Dad) decided to join me already. So we’ll talk about growing & making money on Twitter too (but that’s a bonus)!

I’ll be back next week with the updates on the launch!

Until then, see ya next time!

Your fellow Stoic,

Abdu Khol