Welcome to Episode 23 of the Sam Arkoh Podcast. In this episode, I explore the importance of publishing your "lousy work." In an era where individual creatives have to compete with companies, networks, and massive corporations, it can be daunting to share imperfect work—especially in the online space. This is something I personally struggle with as well. However, over the past four years of creating online, I’ve come to realize the power and value of publishing work that isn't perfect. I want to share some of the benefits I’ve experienced since I started publishing my work.

First, I’d like to give credit to Benjamin Hardy, author of Be Your Future Self Now, for the inspiration, and to Seth Godin for his powerful quote that inspired this episode.

I find it fascinating that Seth Godin's decision to publish his book led Benjamin Hardy to reference his quote, which ultimately inspired me to create this podcast episode. No matter how imperfect Seth Godin’s book may have seemed at the time, he couldn’t have known that his words would lead me here, creating this episode. His advice—"Ship often. Ship lousy stuff, but ship. Ship constantly.”—reminds us that even if we feel our work isn’t great, publishing is key. There’s always room for improvement, and our future selves will be smarter for the experience.

I can’t wait for you all to listen to this episode. I had a great time creating it, and I hope you find a lot of value in it. But most importantly, I hope it encourages you to publish your first video, post, book, or whatever project you’ve been holding back.

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Do you feel like you have tried every single productivity hack or personal development trick out there but still don't see any progress? Then this episode will help you identify how you can focus on the important things and achieve all your goals. Over the last few years, there has been a massive surge of self-improvement content online. Due to this, we're all tempted to implement every single habit out there. Especially if you care about your own evolution.

Even though most of these habits are useful, they usually don't align with our own contextual purpose. Besides, they also tend to take up so much of our time. What I have come to realize is this: in order to achieve the things that will make the most difference in your life, you will need to focus on a few priorities at a time. In this episode, I take a deep dive into how you can do exactly that.

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In this episode of the podcast, I take a deeper look into a subject you all can relate to. We will be talking about social media and how intrusive it has become in our daily lives. Things as simple as having a conversation with a friend and actually listening have become an issue. Taking showers now incurs an additional 15 minutes or more. I can list several areas in our lives where social media has made productivity, as well as other human experiences, challenging. But let me be clear: there are incredible benefits to using social media. But due to the constant bombardment of information, it has made it extremely difficult to build quality habits, maintain disciplines, and achieve our future aspirations. So today I will be discussing four quality habits that I believe you all must consider cultivating so you can achieve your goals in such an era of extensive distractions.

I want to let you know that I am sharing these habits because I struggle with social media as well. But these habits have been proven to help so many get to their future visions, even with the pervasiveness of social media.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I know you will learn a thing or two. I can't wait to dive into this topic with you all.

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