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Hello creators, creator nerds, entrepreneurs, and mom and dad!

I love you… I mean, thanks for coming to another week of my ramblings. I appreciate all of you.

As we dive into another issue, I wanted to take a moment to pause and check the pulse of the community. We’ve gone through some transitions in the content over the last few months, and I wanted to see how you readers are enjoying the new approach.

Do we hate these deeper dives that can relate to entrepreneurs and creators alike?

Do we like to explore these thought pieces as creators and entrepreneurs?

If you feel strongly one way or the other, please do me a favor and let me know. Hearing your feedback only allows me to dive even deeper into our community and ensures that I’m exploring the right topics in this newsletter.

So if you feel passionate one way or the other, please reply to this email with your thoughts!

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Now let’s get into it!

-Luke

Just Show Up

Ohhhhhh momentum.

Whether you’re running a start-up, or you’re creating content, the journey is nothing short of a roller coaster.

Some weeks, you are on the up and up; Ideas flowing, momentum building, everything just clicking.

And then there are the other weeks. Weeks where you’re tired, when you’re feeling uninspired, and wondering if any of it even matters.

I don’t have a grand insight today, just a reminder for all of you grinding to reach your goals: keep showing up.

More often than not, the people who succeed aren’t the ones with the perfect plan or the biggest spark of genius. They’re just the ones who didn’t stop.

That big creator that you look up to? That startup founder whose path you’re trying to follow? They didn’t get to where they are in a day, a month, a year. It likely took years of creating, continuous tweaking, and constant effort, even when it felt like no one was paying attention.

As I get deeper into both my startup and content creation journey, there have been so many moments where I wanted to pull back.

Moments when growth felt slow, when progress was invisible, when I questioned whether I was wasting my time and risking my future.

Looking back, the biggest wins didn’t come from sudden breakthroughs. They hardly ever do. These big moments all coalesced from the days I kept going when it would have been easier to stop.

So reader, if you’re feeling stuck right now, if you’re just having one of those weeks… just keep showing up.

Remember, you don’t have to break records or hit new milestones every day.

You just have to be here.

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