What if asking strategic questions is the key to being “so good they can’t ignore you or your content”?

These questions help you understand how your efforts connect to your goals.

For example, while writing a post about journaling, I paused to ask, “Why am I writing this?” and “How does this interest my audience or align with my business goals?” Although journaling interested me, the topic didn’t provide value to my subscribers, making it a poor investment of my time since my aim was business growth. However, if my goal was personal enjoyment, writing just for fun was fine.

It’s essential to understand why you create content.

I often create things for joy or to pass the time rather than focusing on subscribers’ needs. However, my main goal is to build a revenue-generating community, so I must prioritize content that supports this aim.

Content creators face the challenge of providing unique solutions to people’s problems. This can be tricky for those who prefer creating for enjoyment rather than profit. But, if you’re trying to make a living, your content needs to meet your people’s needs, unlike hobbies just for fun, like my sailboat refurbishing, which never made me any money.

Over the years, I’ve prioritized creating for fun over business, which cost me potential income and progress. If I had asked the right strategic questions, I might have focused better on my business goals. But I have no regrets—I’ve learned and will keep moving forward.

Your business success depends on creativity. You need to engage viewers and inspire them to take action.

Helping YOU unlock your creativity is key to me.

As the saying goes, “Teaching someone to fish feeds them for life.” Hence, my focus is not to give you the best answers but to guide you in exploring strategic questions relative to your objectives so you can find your best solutions.

Asking the right questions can spark ideas and help focus on essential tasks. Good questions provide a broader understanding beyond daily tasks, like asking, “Is what I’m doing today helping someone and advancing my business?”

Strategic questions enhance your thinking. The value lies in their quality. Clear and insightful questions will open up new learning and discovery opportunities vital to your content creation.

Approaching creativity with strategic questions helps you grow and adapt. You find the wisdom and creativity to overcome challenges.

By questioning your content creation tasks, you discover novel activities and projects.

Be guided by your curiosity by using strategic questioning of your situation. Imagine all the possibilities that asking “What if?” gives you. Visualize these new ideas and opportunities, but ensure they are grounded in reality. 

When creating strategic questions, consider the following:

– Does it inspire fresh thinking?
– Does it open up new creative possibilities or focus on past problems?
– Is it relevant to my current goals?
– Is it a unique question I don’t currently have an answer to?
– What assumptions shape this question?
– Does it lead to more questions?

For the related reference to the opening comment above;  “so good they can’t ignore you or your content”?
Read: What If No One Cared About Your Life and Ignored Your Creative Writing? Would You Die?