Building Habits = Building Income

Mark Thompson
4 min readFeb 15, 2024

Create simple habits that will grow your income

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Jerry Seinfeld attributed his success to a simple daily habit.

He created a simple strategy called “don’t break the chain”. This involved writing a joke every day, and then ticking off each successful day on a calendar.

Those red crosses became his motivator, forming a chain he didn’t want to break.

When I first read this, I decided to try it. I can tell you now it works.

Every weekday since November, I have written an article. Tick

Every weekday for the past 51 days I’ve written a newsletter. Tick

Let’s explore how daily tasks can help you build great habits for content creation and Income generation.

Why Do Habits Matter?

Imagine your brain as a web of tiny roads. Each time you travel along a road, it widens and becomes easier to navigate. This is called Neuroplasticity, google it.

This is what happens when we repeat tasks daily — they start carving out wide, smooth highways in our brains, eventually turning into habits.

For content creators, these habits can translate into a winning trifecta of

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Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit