I woke up this morning and knew that today was the day to kick off preparation for our first 30-Day cycle of the Substack Success Habit Challenge.
You know the Atomic Habits ‘stacking’ concept, right? Where you build the habits you want to form by adding them on top of another habit you already do each day?
Well, this experience is inspired by that concept, with a plot twist: I’ve built this for the gifted, Feral Ferrari brains you and me were given, as Fractal Goddesses.
So, we’re not just going to plop a bunch of rote, boring chores on top of your morning coffee, because you’ll just never sustain that. (I wouldn’t, either.)
And I”m not going to tell you to 'batch a bunch of cONteNt' 🫠 or leap to posting an article a week, because this ain’t my first ride at the rodeo and I’m not going to participate in flipping your learned avoidance switch on.
This is not going to be a pile of AI prompts, because I want you to feel into how your Subtack can be the proverbial room of your own — a conduit for the life force energy you lock into when you’re in your Zone of Obsession — and I don’t want you to give that energy, or your own agency, to the Hydra of the Capitalarchy.
And this unfolds over a series of 30-day cycles, so it can be JOYFUL. I want your nervous system to downregulate and your identity to upregulate in a way that makes your Substack Mothership a delightful ass gift to yourself — not just when it’s done, all along the way!
We ARE going to make this beautiful, meaningful and sacred — more ritual than habit, when you come down to it.
So here’s how it will go down:
The Substack Success Habit Stack Challenge will take place in 4, 30-day cycles that are cumulative and sequential, meaning they will build on each other and snowball into your thriving Substack body of work, all in Divine Order.
Substack Success Habit Stack Challenge Cycle Preview
Cycle One: Writer Identity & Substack Immersion
Cycle Two: Notes & Articles
Cycle Three: Monetizing The Mothership
Cycle Four: Cross-Platform Amplification
The first cycle is very, very eeeeeeasy.
For 30 days, we’ll take a delicious, deep-dive identity upgrade and immersion into the culture and realm of Substack, mostly focused on reading and engagement.
I ask that you set aside 60 minutes each day for this ritual, and I ask that you make it gorgeous.
I will give you a one-sentence Creatress Identity Activation each day, and each day you will write it 20 times in the morning, and 20 times in the evening, before bed.
These activations will shift the very atmosphere around you will shift, helpers will drop in, wrong doors will close and you will see opportunities rall around you that you’ve never before detected.
I will give you a free-writing prompt to get you into the daily habit of writing fire without editing, first thing in the morning (you might even accidentally create an article somewhere along the way).
After your Identity activations and free-wrioting practice, you’ll go to Substack and read 2 Articles, then restack 2 Notes.
Then I’ll ask you to write 2 Notes of your own each day, and post them.
And that’s it for Cycle One!
We begin on Monday, July 27th.
For this weekend, your preparation onramp is as follows:
- Do at least 7 minutes of Intentional Vacuuming (aka de-cluttering). If you don’t know the drill, here’s a little Quick Start Guide.
- Listen to this Big Self Activation Audio when you have some time. Here’s the link.
- Create a Sacred Space in your home where you can go and be utterly uninterrupted for one hour each day. Set it all up with beautiful affirmations on the wall, your favorite blanket, a fresh journal and a candle you love.
- Create a game plan for when you will do this practice each day.
- Make any and all pre-decisions and pre-commitments you need to be able to give yourself this self-valuing gift.