Discover Your Future

While I had tons of ideas, there needed to be a strategy, and I was aiming for multi-channel content EVERY SINGLE DAY.

That was the goal, and this was one of those posts that was going to go out. This was a "social blog" that would be part of the funnel towards my full length content (which it is now extended to be like that in this remake post).

However the idea was that regardless of if I was making a blog, podcast, or video; That I could then take the content further.

Thus the more I made, the quicker I would GET to my Future, at least that was the Idea.

I’m not exactly sure what this post in particular was aiming for, whether it was TeleInnovator (the depreciated name for the PolyInnovator YouTube) or it was a LinkedIn post even way back when.

When I was aiming for the Future

I've always been something of a futurist, even beyond my own personal visions and scope. I would think about the future of humanity, as a whole, and what is needed to be done to achieve that future.

Hence why I created the 🌐 United Living Construct for example.

Reaching your goals, or setting out your intentions, isn’t always going to go as planned. Just like this post, it was something that was a bit short, but big in scope of ideas. Now I get to expand it further, and rewrite it in a way. That way I can truly delve into the idea I was trying to convey before.

I think the lesson is really interesting here. I failed to keep up with the daily content goal when I batched out all of the thumbnails for the early content ideas, such as the early “OmniContent” (PolyInContent) series.

Such a fascinating meta tangent here, as this post isn't about content, not really. Even though the social blog had mentioned it a lot. The reason being, that to me especially back then, that content was the key to my future.

I created the OmniContent series as a way to expedite my trip towards the future, and while I've FAILED at that series. It did teach me a lot of lessons, and maybe one day I'll return to that idea. Even the fact that I am rewriting these posts, might lead me down a path of repurposing content in new ways.

Thus allowing me to finally actually do that omnicontent strategy.

I planned on creating content every single day, and now I basically do. There are a variety of series that I do weekly, and I’m adding even more to my plate as we speak. The difference is that now I have the skills, tools, and strategies to be able to keep up with it all.

"Thank you Notion" Just please note I use Obsidian now!

Preparation is Crucial, but Execution is Key

Here is where my creative mind got in the way, there was so much planning that I did. That to a degree I wasted time. I literally spent time working on making plans, rather than DOING the plans. It wasn’t until the trickle drip of content execution based on those plans over the past few years that I got to where I wanted to be.

Even now, TWO YEARS after this post, which was already saying before how behind I felt. It has taken me even longer to get this series or ideas done/out.

Even now I am at the place that I thought I was going to be 1–2 years into the original plan. However it is seven years later…

There were things I couldn’t account for, such as financial struggle (which puts a strain on my energy and emotions). The quarantine of 2020 that changed everyone’s plans, but also gave me the opportunity to do amazing interviews. That also took time away from the OG plan’s execution, but that was also on me I should have balanced them both more.

I keep telling myself that, that maybe I could have done more solo content, but I was already doing my best to just get the interviews out. Who knows, it is easy to look back. It isn't easy to just accept what was, and what is.

I prepared probably as perfect as you could for doing interviews, but there were lessons to learn that I couldn’t even imagine for hosting interviews. That I wouldn’t be able to learn UNTIL AFTER starting the execution of those said interviews.

That same principle can be applied to other areas too.

Lessons Learned are Future Mistakes prevented

You can’t always plan things out, and if you try then you will waste your time. Sometimes you have to be decisive and act in the instant. I did that with my Content Repurposing newsletter, the PolyInContent Digest (now the PolyTools Digest on a new site), which I wanted to wait for to start.

The reason being was that I had a lot of other things going on, including 1–2 other newsletters I was already working on. Although the world of content repurposing tools, and the creatives in the space is rapidly growing. I knew that if I waited too long I’d miss this early adopter wave of growth, that I’ve seen time and time again in other niches/platforms.

Ironically last year, 2024, I found myself failing to keep up with my newsletters. After being consistent with them at the original time of this writing. So this year, 2025, I'm going after them via batching.

Even though I was spreading myself too thin if you will, there was a reason to do so, and since I was so behind after all of these years; I found myself needing to manage about four niches/phases at once.

This is the year of the multidisciplinary content creator, as I also started my sub-brand the PolyInnovator Gaming (which also includes ANOTHER newsletter).

Since this I have sort of paused the gaming brand, as it was just too much to add for me.

Discovering your Future through the Lens of Today

I can’t tell you what next year will hold, let alone tomorrow, but I can say that I am making more progress than ever.

After all of these years, the fruits of my previous labors are now compounding. I wish that I had multiple deeper niche compounding factors, but I had to go more shallow for various reasons. Now I can build up a few at a time, each one getting a bit deeper.

In the follow years letting each one have a chance to shine, and really building each other up. It isn’t an opportunity cost kind of thing, but rather a situation where diversity builds up the skyscraper even faster.

I can say that even now a couple years later, that this is still true. They say we can't connect the dots looking forward, only looking back. However I think you CAN connect some of the dots yourself, or prepare to do so, if you plan your future out well enough!

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Previous Shorter Version

This was one of my "social articles", an experiment to create medium sized blog posts, akin to newsletters. Across a variety of social blogging networking platforms. Such as Medium, Vocal Media, and Linkedin. Since it didn't quite land; I decided to take these posts and remake them into more full length creations.