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My Top Performing Medium Articles in 2018
In October 2017, on a clear starry night around a campfire at Goblin Valley State Park, I learned about Medium from my friend Cole Chamberlain. He was talking about online courses, email lists, and other terms that were lost on me at the time.
While I was terribly excited at the prospect of being able to write online, I kept waiting to begin writing. I spent an hour jotting down ideas for articles that night. The ideas continued to build up during this time.
Fast forward to January this year and that same friend and I again found ourselves around a campfire, talking again about online courses, lead magnets, and the like. I expressed a strong desire to help people with relationships, finances, physical & mental health, and so much more.
I will never forget his response.
What’s holding you back from just starting?
I was pained at the realization that this wasn’t the first time that I had been given the advice to just start. Months earlier I had emailed Niklas Göke, asking him for advice for beginner writers. He responded:
“Just begin. I started in September 2014. I just wrote something I wanted to share and published it on my own blog. Get out…
