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Monetize Your Garbage Time by Writing On Medium
Reclaim--and profit from--idle moments in your day
Too many people romanticize the process of writing content. You have to be in the correct flow state, drink chamomile tea, complete your yoga practice, and wear your good-luck pants in order to produce compelling content, right?
Certainly, ritual can be important. But if you feel that you have to perform a certain ritual or be in a certain state to write great content, I invite you to challenge that assumption.
In particular, I encourage you to try writing on Medium as a way to monetize your garbage time.
Garbage Time
No one is productive 24 hours per day. It’s important to take time for productive work, and time for rest and relaxation.
But what about the time in the middle, where you’re not doing something productive, but you’re also not doing something fun, fulfilling, or relaxing?
I call this in-between time “garbage time.”
Normally, this time goes to waste. It’s the time you probably spend refreshing Instagram for the umpteenth time, or doomscrolling political news on Twitter.
If you produce content on Medium, though, try this instead:
