April 2024 Results Across 7 Areas

Fanocracy, Shogun, moving my whole workflow into Notion, getting back to the gym, and the insight that real transformation costs ten times more than useful information.

1) Best book

Fanocracy by David Meerman Scott. A useful handbook for anyone growing a blog who’d like to turn a cold audience into devoted fans.

2) Films and series

Of the series, I enjoyed Shogun. It’s about medieval Japan. It has something of The Last Samurai and Marco Polo about it.

Of the films — Land of Bad (an action film, slightly brutal, but with a point) and Perfect Days (2023), a film to think about with a very interesting aftertaste.

3) Most useful video

This month I discovered the Matt Gray YouTube channel. All his videos are super useful and worth watching if you’re interested in business, time management and productivity.

4) Skill I worked on

I started recording my entire workflow in Notion. It brings more clarity to the day, and you get distracted less when there’s a concrete checklist of tasks in front of you. Right now I’m working on managing distractions of every kind and learning to focus.

5) Hypothesis I got to test

A short meeting in person creates a connection with someone far faster and far deeper than many hours spent with them online.

This month I was invited to an offline get-together for bloggers, where I had the chance to meet in person some very interesting authors I’ve been following online for a while. With some of them we’re already planning collaborations.

6) Habit I worked on

Going to the gym regularly. After a certain pause, I’ve started getting back in shape. I want to add a couple more activities besides the gym, but I won’t announce that publicly just yet.

7) Main insight of the month

I was taking a course called “Plan A”, and there was a thought in it: “Merely useful information is a $100 ticket; a real transformation of the personality is a $1,000 ticket.”

I have programmes for family support, individual coaching and mentorship that almost nobody knows about. After “Plan A”, I decided to start telling the people who come to me for consultations that they can work with me that way too.

The result: in the very first week I took on five people for that kind of one-to-one work.

Thanks to that one simple thought, the course paid for itself dozens of times over straight away. Investments in knowledge really do pay the highest dividends.