Pressure is no way to create, at least not long-term for me.

A few things that have helped my planning:

• Keeping a "creator journal" with daily objectives and ideas, things I learned, etc.

• Using a physical 12-month calendar to jot down blog post topics published and specific metrics per day, like subscriber growth on Substack and follower growth on Threads and Instagram

• Looking back on my journal and calendar to see when my most growth happened quarterly and where I may have stalled; I can then make inferences based on what was going on personally and professionally as to how my creative energy flowed and plan accordingly for future cycles. Like for me, Fall can get hectic and I will just need to get ahead of that by planning posts and automation systems to stay engaged when I have other stuff going in!