How Many More Posts Will You Create Before You Admit It’s Not Working?
If You’re Creating Daily But Still Stuck, This Is the System Shift You’ve Been Missing.
Three hours later, it was done. (What I thought) the perfect social media post.
I polished every word.
I made the perfect image.
I put it through the SEO ringer…
And killed it with a call-to-action.
I hit ‘publish’ and felt that familiar, quickly disappearing satisfaction hit.
It started well… for a good few hours, the likes and comments piled in, and a few subscribers too... It felt like progress.
Twelve hours later, it was buried.
Forgotten.
Another offering to the algorithm gods.
You know, I once stayed up till 2 AM editing a video that I deleted the next week.
Because it bombed.
Not because it was bad, but because the system’s rigged.
This is what we’ve been sold…
More content = more traction.
But when the system is rigged for churn, even your best work gets swallowed whole.
If you’re tired of feeding a machine that never gives you momentum… you’re gonna want to read this.
I’ll show you why the real issue isn’t your content… It’s the execution system you’re trapped in.
Here’s what that looks like.
Execution Deadlock: The Hamster Wheel That Looks Like Progress.
It's a state of Execution Deadlock.
It’s a pattern where your awesome action breaks off into a state of paralysis, often disguised as productivity…
Tick, tick, tick.
Gary and the gurus will tell you the key is more…
More content. More platforms. More hustle.
So you do it.
You chase trends that appear on your timeline.
You stare at your screen, and your days become a crazy blur of motion that doesn’t feel like the deep, essential movement that signifies real progress.
You're caught in the ‘Creator Chaos Loop’… a cycle of learning, over-planning, and tool-chasing that eats up your energy but builds little sustainable traction.
The thing is…
The online world moves at warp speed.
And your lack of success isn't a talent issue.
You’re probably working harder than ever.
It’s Not Your Content… It’s Your System That’s Failing
For years, the gurus have told you the problem is a lack of knowledge or the wrong AI tools.
That’s a super convenient, profitable lie.
From how I see it…
You’re stuck in a system designed to turn your creativity into disposable content, forcing you to start from scratch…
Every,
Single,
Day.
That’s not a path to freedom. It’s a fast track to irrelevance and burnout.
But what if the problem isn't your effort?
What if the real bottleneck, the invisible constraint that holds you back, is something else entirely?
What if the model itself is broken because it’s missing the one thing that matters?
Instead of asking “How can I post more?” the real question is: “How can I post once and get paid 10 times?”
That starts with this one brutal truth…
You’re a Scribe in a Publisher’s World.
The Scribe and the Printing Press
Let’s go back to the 15th century. Imagine for a moment you’re a scribe, a master of your craft.
Your calligraphy is flawless, your attention to detail is the stuff of legend.
Your job is to copy books, letter by painstaking letter.
It’s noble work.
It’s essential work.
It’s how knowledge has been preserved and shared for a thousand years.
But your workflow has a brutal, unchangeable constraint…
To create one book, you must perform the entire labor of writing one book.
One unit of effort produces one unit of output.
If you want ten copies, you must do the work ten times.
Your ability to scale your impact is directly and permanently tied to the hours you can physically sit in a chair and write.
You are trading your life for the page, one for one.
This is the state of most solo creators today.
Why Solo Creators Are Just Digital Scribes in Disguise
You write a brilliant tweet, letter by letter.
One unit of output.
You record an insightful podcast.
One unit of output.
You design a beautiful carousel post for Instagram.
One unit of output.
Each piece is a handcrafted masterpiece of effort, but its life is short and its reach is limited by the brute force of your next creation.
You are trapped by the very nature of the work…
(Even in the time of AI)
Then, someone down the street invents a printing press.
At first, it looks impossibly complex.
The inventor spends weeks, maybe months, meticulously arranging tiny metal letters into a single plate.
It’s a huge upfront investment of time and energy, far more than it takes you to write a single page.
You probably even laugh at the inefficiency.
While he’s messing with all those greasy blocks of metal, you’ve already finished a whole chapter.
But then, the plate is set.
The press is inked.
And in a single day, he produces 500 perfect copies of that page.
By the time you’ve finished your second hand-written copy, he’s produced 5,000.
The inventor’s work wasn’t just faster…
It was a different kind of work.
You, the scribe, were focused on completing the copy.
He was focused on building the system.
His great effort was a one-time cost.
Yours is a recurring tax on your time, forever.
Most creators still act like scribes, selling their time for one-off copies.
They are proud of their digital penmanship but wonder why they can’t scale.
The Top Creators Aren’t Posting More…
They’re Publishing Smarter
Your Personal Printing Press is a Leverage Loop
The shift that saves you from the scribe’s chair is a simple one, but it changes everything…
You see, a creator makes a thing.
But a publisher builds a system that reproduces and distributes things at scale.
I worked inside this machine… I was an editor-in-chief for multiple magazines in Asia, it’s where I honed my craft…
And earned well, but I made a pittance compared to my boss…
I was a post monkey, constantly chasing ideas…
I remember John (my boss and mentor) telling me…
“Until You Stop Thinking Like a Writer, You’ll Keep Getting Writer Results.”
John taught me that you don’t need more ideas for posts.
You need a system that transforms one core idea into a dozen reusable assets.
You need your own printing press.
In the Simple Leverage world, we call this a Leverage Loop.
The Leverage Loop
A Leverage Loop is a simple, repeatable system that takes a single input of creative effort (setting the type) and multiplies it into numerous outputs across different platforms (running the press).
It’s how you build once and profit forever.
Let’s make this easy to understand…
Here’s a modern printing press, a Leverage Loop, I use a lot.
Setting the Type (The One-Time Effort):
One 15-minute “pillar” YouTube video where I break down a core concept.
This is my single, focused effort for the week.
But here’s the catch most creators miss: if your core idea is muddy, the entire system breaks.
That’s where most people fall into what I call The Articulation Gap…
The disconnect between what you mean and what your tools (or audience) actually understand.
AI won’t fix this by default.
In fact, if your prompt is vague, your whole Leverage Loop just amplifies the confusion.
The real game is this…
Learning to articulate one clear, compelling idea so well that your prompts, your tools, and your system can multiply it.
(This is why most creators drown in content but still have nothing that compounds; they’re running a press with a blurry plate.)
In the next post, I’ll show you how I take one idea and use AI prompts to turn it into a full week of content, blog, email, threads…
But I’m not dumping the whole prompt vault.
If you’re serious about turning your system into a multiplier, you’ll want those.
Running the Press (The System):
First Edition (The Article): I use an AI tool to transcribe the video. I then feed that transcript to a custom GPT with a specific prompt to clean it up, structure it, and rewrite it in my voice as a comprehensive, 2,000-word blog post. This is now a customer attraction asset that can bring in traffic for years.
Pamphlets & Flyers (Social Posts): I feed the same transcript to another custom GPT and ask it to extract 7-10 distinct, powerful ideas. It then turns these into:
Three multi-tweet threads with strong hooks.
Four concise, punchy posts for LinkedIn.
Three visual concepts for Instagram carousels.
My social media for the week is done. From one transcript.
The Personal Letter (The Email): I take the central theme of the video and write a personal story-driven email to my list. I’m not just summarizing the video; I’m going deeper into the why behind the concept, connecting with my audience on an emotional level. This builds my relationship with my most important asset: my email list.
The Anthology (The Lead Magnet): The core framework I taught in the video gets packaged as a high-value chapter in my "AI Clarity Sprint" PDF, my lead magnet. The YouTube video and blog post now have a direct, relevant call-to-action to capture new subscribers. The system feeds itself.
The Library from One Effort:
1 long-form YouTube video (your Master Copy)
1 long-form blog post (your Hardcover Edition)
7-10 social media posts (your Flyers and Pamphlets)
3 high-value emails (your Personal Correspondence)
1 new tool/chapter for your lead magnet (in the library)
This isn’t about working more.
It’s about making your work work more for you.
Don’t Just Create… Engineer the System Behind It
It’s the difference between being a scribe and owning the press.
The scribe’s work ends when they put the pen down.
The press owner’s work multiplies long after the plate is set.
From Scribe to Publisher
For years, your identity has been "creator."
It’s an identity that romanticizes the grind, the craft, the painstaking effort of the individual piece.
That identity keeps you chained to the scribe’s desk.
I’m asking you to adopt a new one… The Publisher.
A publisher doesn't write every word of every book.
They build a system for acquiring, refining, producing, and distributing valuable ideas at scale.
They think in terms of assets, not just artifacts.
They build a back catalog.
They understand that the key to wealth and impact is not in doing the work, but in building the engine that does the work.
This is the only real path to the freedom you were likely promised when you started this journey.
A business that serves your life, not a job that consumes it.
The scribe is paid for their time.
The publisher builds an engine of freedom.
This is how you escape the terror of wasted years, because the scribe's work is lost to time, while the publisher's printing plates are assets that compound in value.
You Are Holding the Pen, But You Could Own the Press
The internet is filled with digital scribes, burning out as they trade hours for posts.
They are celebrated for their hustle but are trapped by their workflow.
Their beautiful, handcrafted (even AI-infused) work disappears into the digital ether, and the next day, they must return to a blank page.
The real move isn't creating more content,… It's building a better press.
The winners won't be the fastest writers with the most elegant prose.
They'll be the smartest publishers with the most efficient systems.
You already have the skill of a scribe.
You know how to create valuable things.
The question is whether you will continue to trade your life for one copy at a time, or whether you will take that skill and use it to build an engine.
Stop writing by hand.
Start printing.
If you're ready to lay down the pen and start designing your printing press…
Grab the Free Leverage Loop Starter Kit
You’ve already got the skill.
Now build the system.
Download the Free Leverage Loop Starter Kit…
And stop trading time for traction.