Should I Make a Digital Course?

Or is it an exhausting, overplayed medium?

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Pay Attention to Ideas

When you have ideas, you need to pay attention to them. If you don’t take the time to examine them, spend time with them, they remain dormant. Sometimes your ideas will wait for you; often times they’ll just find someone else to make them a reality. Like any dream, you are responsible for fueling it. Take the time to investigate it, spend time on it, build some legs for it.

In today’s article, I’d like to examine a half-alive dream that I’ve had for a while: to create a digital course. I say half-alive because there’s a part of me that’s like, ew, that’s such a bad idea. It feels like everyone and their mother has an online course, or some kind of online community that feels overwrought. Whenever I’ve considered taking a course, they feel so expensive and I’m always worried if the content sucks, and if I’ll even finish it. And yet, when I’m planning how to scale my business, it remains a line item — maybe there’s a part …