[DAY 5] Where are you stuck? challenge post
Post your challenge responses here.
Author business challenges usually show up in four buckets, which we call the HAPI Compass.
(H)eart challenges come from the ideas, projects, and creative work that light you up and resonate deeply with who you are.
(A)udience challenges come from the people ready to champion, amplify, and ultimately buy your work.
(P)rioritization challenges form around choosing (or failing to choose) one high-leverage move at a time, letting wins compound, and buying yourself runway for the next right thing.
(I)ncome challenges revolve around the revenue that funds your life and fuels your creative work.
Your biggest challenge will almost certainly form around one of those buckets, but we’re horrible at recognizing which one is really blocking us. We constantly misdiagnose them in ourselves.
Misdiagnosis leads to solutions that make things worse. You double down on marketing when you need to clarify your message. They’re at odds with each other, as we talked about yesterday.
You can only solve challenges by using solutions designed to fix them. (A)udience solutions won’t fix (H)eart challenges, (I)ncome solutions won’t fix (P)rioritization challenges, etc.
If you want to solve your biggest challenges, you need to use the right solutions, which means you need to know what your biggest challenge is right now, and almost nobody does, especially about themselves.
Today’s task:
Pick the quadrant where your friction is the highest.
Write one sentence about why.
Brainstorm one thing you could try to ease it.
Now, post it in the group. Then, post it on your social media #fgchallenge
