5 hacks behind every founder who posts like it's easy:
"I'm just not that creative right now" is a lie you've told yourself all year.
And no... it's not that you're not creative enough. You just haven't built the system yet.
While you're wondering what to post...
another founder/speaker in your space is actively generating revenue from their content. The difference between them vs. you is... they found the idea quicker.I used to think the same thing. That the ones making it look easy had some muse I didn't.
Turns out they just save everything (very strategically)
Here's what shifts when you build the system:
You stop dreading the blank page. You stop losing your best thinking to Tuesday afternoons.You post from real life... not what you force yourself to write at 9AM.
A mentor told me something years ago that rewired how I run my life and my business:
"Capture your life as if someone's going to make a documentary about you one day."
Because if I believed it... (like, really believed it), then
-every client call
-every walk -every line my friend said at dinner was something I could actually use.So I built a system around it. I call it LORE.
Log, Organize, Retrieve, Execute.It's based on Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain, which he describes as a way to save and systematically remind you of the ideas, inspirations, and connections you gather through lived experience. I'm not going to make you read the book.
Here are the five truths that make it work.
1. The problem isn't what you're posting. It's what you never captured.
You've got plenty of ideas. You just keep losing them.
Every week:
- A Zoom comment that would've been a killer post
- A client story that would've crushed on LinkedIn
- A DM that deserved to be a carousel
By Friday... they're gone.
Fix the catching first. The content part takes care of itself.
2. Your life is the material for every post you'll ever write.
Document, don't ideate.
The founders who post constantly aren't idea machines. They're just good at writing stuff down when it happens.
The story they posted this morning happened six weeks ago. They just had it on hand when they sat down.it's all about being able to capture those ideas when they hit...
Here's where the best ones hide:
- The idea that hit on your walk
- The insight you had pushing the cart out of the grocery store
- The thing you thought of the second you finally got back to your car after a long day (we've all been there)
Start treating your life like it's worth saving.
The "I have nothing to post" feeling just... goes away.You've already said the thing.
You just can't find where you said it.
3. Organize content by category, not by date.
Forget dates. Sort by category.
Your photos app and file finder/explorer can already search by date.
It cannot search by "that time I felt invisible on LinkedIn" or "all my best client stories" or "every post I've written about burnout."When I started sorting my camera roll, I had 21,000 photos. Not exaggerating (I wish I was).
The date-based default did not save me.Categories did.
The specific folder structure is the whole game... I'll walk you through mine in a minute.
FAQs
Key Things to Know
The LORE method is a four-step capture system I use to turn lived experience into content without burning out. It stands for Log, Organize, Retrieve, Execute. Most founders skip the first three steps and wonder why they're always stuck on the fourth.
They don't. They just save more of what's already happening. The post you saw this morning from someone you follow probably came from a conversation they had six weeks ago. The only difference between you and them is a capture system that catches ideas before they evaporate.
Always by category. The platform can search by date already. What it can't do is find "that time a client said something worth posting about" or "all my best speaking clips." Categories beat dates for retrieval every single time.
Two tools you already have. Voice Memos (or any dictation app on your phone) and your phone camera. That's it to start. You don't need Notion, Obsidian, or a fancy second brain setup. The magic is in the habit of capturing and the system for retrieving, not the app.
4. How to find any saved idea in under two minutes
Atlassian reported that companies waste 2.4 billion hours a year searching for information they already have. A quarter of the work week, gone to looking.
Founders are not exempt.
You're losing this stuff every week.
Your notes app is full of half-sentences you don't recognize anymore, and your camera roll is full of things you can't find when you need them.There's a specific naming system I use that drops retrieval to under two minutes flat.
Short codes. Every file. Every folder. Every time.
That's the part the video walks you through, step by step.
5. Stop writing content from scratch. Post what you've already lived.
This is the shift.
You stop opening a blank doc trying to "come up with content."
You open your capture system and find what you already said.After running this system for my own brand to 4.3M views in 30 days. It catches ideas the moment they happen.
-Shower -Walk -Middle of a lake in a canoe (yes, really). You voice dump. It shapes it.Because the magic thought you had Tuesday morning is not coming back Tuesday night.
Trust me.
I have tested this.
Log. Organize. Retrieve. Execute.
Four steps. That's it.
The founders who make it look easy aren't lucky. They started saving stuff a few years ago. Now they have a pile to pull from. That's the whole trick.
So here's what you do this week. Pick whichever part is the most broken and fix that one.
Not capturing anything?
Start there. Open Voice Memos. Talk into it.Saved a million things but it's all a mess?
Spend thirty minutes organizing one folder.(or ask Claude to sort it for you)Can't find anything?
You need a naming system. The video shows you mine.Saving everything, organized, can find it, still not posting?
Then stop scrolling on LinkedIn. Go post something.You already have the stuff. You're just not using it.
If you want more of this thinking, Keep It Real Newsletter is where I keep the conversation going every week.
Reading this is the easy part. Actually building it is where most people give up.
If that's not you, I have a whole video walking through exactly how I do it.
-The folders. -The naming system. -Finding any file in under two minutes. All of it: watch it here.Let’s Build Your Social Media Strategy
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