If you're reading this, you're likely in one of two places:

* You know you want to build something online—but you're not sure where to start.

* Or you've already tried creating content or products, but feel stuck, scattered, or unsure if you're “doing it right.”

Either way, you’re not alone—and you’re exactly where you need to be.

Over the next 8 weeks, I’ll guide you step-by-step through a proven roadmap I’ve used myself: from identifying your unique skill to making your first digital sale—with the help of AI tools that simplify everything.

But today, we start where every real success begins:

Knowing what you bring to the table.

Before your first dollar is made… before you write a landing page, record a product, or grow an audience—you need clarity. You need to know what skill you can offer that people will pay to learn, use, or access.

This is the root of everything.

700+ Sales of One Digital Product Started With a Skill

Let me take you back for a moment.

When I began building online, I wasn’t selling some big course. I wasn’t running ads. I wasn’t even thinking about becoming a "creator." I just wrote.

I shared what I knew about building an audience on Twitter, my workflow for writing threads, and how I used Notion to scale my content process.

That skill—writing with clarity and direction—became the seed for a product, which went on to do over 700+ sales, without paid traffic. That product now brings in money every month, passively.

But it all started with one realization:I had something valuable in my brain that other people didn’t have—but wanted to learn.

That realization is what I want you to have today.

Why This Step Matters More Than Anything Else

A lot of creators jump into launching without doing this work. They skip the step of identifying their true strength. Then they wonder why their offer flops, or why they keep changing direction every few months.

Here’s what I’ve seen after helping thousands of creators grow:

Clarity of skill = Confidence in building.

When you’re clear on what you do best, you don’t second-guess. You attract the right audience. You create better content. You sell with conviction.

And best of all—you move faster, because you’re not reinventing yourself every week.

So today, we slow down to go faster. We’ll uncover the one skill you already have (yes, already) that can become a product, service, or framework.

The rest of the roadmap will build on that foundation.

How AI Will Help You Get There (Right Now)

If you feel overwhelmed or unsure about where to even begin, don’t worry—I’ve built this entire roadmap with AI in mind. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Notebook LM can help you:

* Uncover patterns in your past work

* Extract the skills hiding in your own head

* Validate your knowledge in real time

You’ll get actual prompts, examples, and workflows in today’s guide that you can plug into these tools and get immediate clarity.

So whether you’ve been creating content for years, or you’re starting completely fresh—this week is about discovery.

You might be sitting on a $10K idea and not even know it yet.

Let’s find it together.

Outline of this post:

* The Skill Myth: You’re More Skilled Than You Think

* 3 Core Questions to Uncover Your Skill

* 3 Types of Monetizable Skills

* Use AI to Mine Your Skillset

* Action List: What to Do This Week

1. The Skill Myth: You’re More Skilled Than You Think

One of the biggest reasons people never get started online is because they believe they don’t have any monetizable skills.

They might say:

* “I’m not an expert in anything.”

* “I’ve never made money online before—why would someone listen to me?”

* “Everything I know, others already know.”

I hear this every single week.

But here’s the truth:

You don’t need to be an expert. You just need to be 2–3 steps ahead of the person you want to help.

Your everyday knowledge is someone else’s breakthrough

Let me show you what I mean.

You might think your workflow for content repurposing is just "common sense"…But someone else is stuck spending 6 hours per week doing it manually.

You might think your approach to writing email copy is just "your way"...But someone else is staring at a blank screen, panicking.

That’s the mistake: you’ve normalized your own skillset.You don’t see it as valuable because it’s familiar. But the market doesn’t care how “basic” it feels to you—it only cares if it solves a problem.

In fact, your simplicity may be your biggest asset.

My Twitter Successful Mastery Was ‘Obvious’ to Me—But It Sold

Here’s a real example from my journey.

I created a course on how to grow on Twitter. At the time, I didn’t think it was anything special. I had developed a framework, a workflow, and some techniques to grow on X (Twitter) —but it just felt like my normal routine.

What happened?

I sold over 700+ copies of that course—without spending a dollar on ads.

That’s when I realized: people don’t want hours of long coursesThey want clarity and direction. And if you can give them that—based on what you already know—you can build an audience and a product around it.

You Have Skills in One of These 3 Zones

Even if you don’t think you’re “skilled,” I promise you have experience in at least one of these areas:

1. Work Skills

What you’ve done in your job, career, or business.These are things you’ve been paid to do before.

* Project management

* Writing, designing, coding

* Sales, pitching, presenting

* Operations, systems, tools

* Hiring, training, team building

2. Life Skills

Things you’ve figured out from lived experience.Often overlooked—but highly relatable and valuable.

* Productivity habits

* Time management as a parent

* Burnout recovery

* Mindset shifts

* Career transitions

3. Curiosity Skills

Topics you’ve gone deep on out of interest, not obligation.You’ve read, practiced, or created content around them.

* AI tools and workflows

* Crypto and investing

* Health and fitness routines

* Learning languages

* Building systems in Notion

There are many more. Later today we will use AI to help you identify the best skills you have that can be monetized easily.

You’ll be surprised what shows up.

The Big Myth: “If it’s not big, it doesn’t matter”

Let me be clear:You do not need to be world-class, go viral, or have a fancy website to monetize your skill.

You need:

✅ Clarity on what your skill is✅ A person who wants that skill✅ A way to explain it simply

That’s it.

You don’t need credentials. You don’t need a massive audience.You just need to show up consistently and help someone go from point A to B faster than they could alone.

If you're reading this via email, you might miss part of the content—it's a long one! I recommend checking out the web version for the full experience.

2. 3 Core Questions to Uncover Your Skill

Once you accept that you do have valuable skills, the next challenge is clarity.

What exactly should you focus on?Which of your abilities can actually be turned into a digital product or monetized?

The good news is: you don’t need 100 ideas—you need one good one to start with.

These 3 powerful questions will help you uncover it.

Question 1: What do people already ask you for help with?

The market speaks louder than your inner doubts.

If friends, colleagues, or even strangers regularly come to you for advice or help on something… that’s a signal. You’re already seen as a trusted source.

Examples:

* “How do you grow on X so fast?”

* “Can you help me write better sales pages?”

* “What’s your Notion system for managing projects?”

* “How did you automate your content posting?”

These questions are breadcrumbs.

Once you see a pattern, take it seriously. Patterns = profit.

Question 2: What problems have you solved for yourself (that others still struggle with)?

Most successful creators teach what they’ve personally figured out.

And often, it started with frustration.

* You were wasting time → you built a better workflow.

* You were bad at selling → you studied and built a script.

* You were scattered → you built a Notion dashboard that kept you focused.

Now, others want that clarity. That system. That shortcut.

These are earned skills—not because you were trained formally, but because you figured them out the hard way.

I used this exact approach when I built Twitter Successful MasteryI didn’t “learn it” from a course—I reverse engineered my own process that took me from 3K to 75K followers.

And that’s the secret:Your solution doesn’t have to be perfect—just better than starting from scratch.

Question 3: What could you talk about or teach for 30 minutes without notes?...

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