Guides, past experiments, and other writing. Archives - Creating Stuff with Mike Kilcoyne

How to plan your f**king life in Notion.

How can you take just a few hours a quarter, and start to take serious, measurable steps towards accomplishing your dreams? I'd estimate that, total, this should take roughly a full workday every quarter.

How to actually build meaningful relationships without social media: a guide.

In this guide, I am going to show you how to make real, genuine investments in a smaller number of meaningful relationships, and how to grow them in a way that feel authentic to you and helps you get away from frivolous and often meaningless social networking way of building relationships.

Radical experimentalism — A more fun approach towards living your best life.

Everything I pursue is, for better or worse, an experiment, because all of those things have a chance to fail.

How to Money — A Guide to Feeling Better About Creating Wealth.

Over the last few months, my perspective on money has shifted rather dramatically — instead of viewing it as something taboo or evil, I've spent a lot of time talking about it with friends, collegues, acquaintances, and so on.

How to grow your revenue and do better work with Notion.

In this article, I'm going to walk you through a step-by-step process for turning Notion into the ultimate tool for spending more time on productive sales conversations, and less time wasteful bleh.

3 simple fixes for reclaiming your life from your smartphone.

3 simple strategies that will reduce the amount of time you spend on your smartphone by 50% (at least).

How to make friends wherever the hell you are

In this article, I explore three simple tools and tactics for building and maintaining great relationships whether you move to a country, city, or work in a new job.

How to create a reading database so you can read more, you nerd 🤓

In this article, I discuss how to create an epic reading database in any notes app that will massively increase your reading.

How to Identify a Business Need (and Start a Profitable Business From That)

A step-by-step guide to identifying a business need, selling your first products, and delivering that service to your clients.

Busyness is Bullshit: How to Break the Habit of Busyness Fast

Sometimes, we bow to the noise around us, deceiving ourselves with an enormous amount of work that can be avoided.

Here’s everything I’ve learned in my first 90 days in Japan.

Everything I've learned from my first 90 days while living in Japan, including my top 5 lessons, and how you can apply that to your life.

What happens when you focus on doing good for other people?

Focus on doing good - Why spending money on myself never made me happy, and what I'm experimenting with in May to boost my happiness, and help others.

Guides, past experiments, and other writing.