Personal Cartography - Mapping The Journey

In 2025, I'll offer several options, including:

1. Find Your Compass – a course and community to help you discover who you are, why you write, and what makes your voice unique.

2. Accelerate the Journey – a course and community for creators with over 6 months of online publishing experience. This track focuses on personal brand, audience building, and monetization strategies to help you reach the next level.

3. Coaching 1:1

If you'd like to learn more, add your name here:

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Find Your Compass - Cohort 4

You've embarked on the journey and embraced the call to create. But you may soon find yourself at a crossroads unsure which path to take next. The challenge? Deciphering your unique voice and deciding what resonates with you and your True Fans.

Personal Cartography is a compass to navigate the landscape of your creative self. It's not just about setting a course; it's about understanding the terrain. This live, cohort-based exploration promises to turn your creative output from a task into a treasure hunt, uncovering the gems of your personal monopoly along the way.

Personal Cartography transforms your journey. It equips you with the mapmaking tools to understand your authentic creative domain and choose the best paths to take. Through personal history-gathering tools, strategic AI assistance, and peer feedback, you'll learn how to collect insights to refine your voice and target your audience with greater precision.

Build maps and tools to move faster:

• Strategic Self-Discovery: Dive deep into your past experiences and current interests to identify the location and shape of your creative identity.
• Audience Alignment: Learn to understand and articulate the benefits your writing offers to potential readers.
• Opportunity Exploration: Utilize AI to expand your awareness of new paths to take.
• Peer-Powered Progress: Engage with fellow Write of Passage community members to validate your direction and amplify your growth.
• Pathway Clarity: Transition from mental clutter to clearer strategic direction, increasing presence in your writing.

How it works:

• Craft a map of your personal interests and identities.
• Distill your audience insights and tailor your writing to serve their needs.
• Prioritize writing topics and opportunities, leading to accelerated decision-making.
• Find friends and allies at similar stages on the journey.

Results you can expect

• Gain a clear understanding of your unique creative landscape.
• Attain a sense of direction that feels as natural as the flow of your thoughts.
• Navigate knowing the signs, signals, and paths to look for on the journey ahead.
• Become more legible so others can understand and help you.
• Experience a significant boost in confidence and writing enjoyment.

Structure:

• Sessions:
  (10) Live Sessions with examples, walkthroughs, templates, breakouts, and Q&A.
  Every Monday session will be repeated on Tuesday at 10am ET.
  All sessions will be recorded.
  
  Collect and Reflect Sessions (7pm - 8:30 pm ET / 90 minutes)
  Monday, Dec 2 - Gathering Facts and Stories
  Monday, Dec 9 - Clues in Plain Sight
  Monday, Dec 16 - What Others See
  
  Collect and Connect Sessions (7pm - 8 pm ET / 60 minutes)
  Monday, Jan 6 - Spotting Uniqueness
  Monday, Jan 13 - Map Making Elements
  Monday, Jan 20 - Guest
  Monday, Feb 3 - Personal Manifesto
  Monday, Feb 10 - Guest
  Monday, Feb 17 - Personal Vision Canvas
  Monday, Feb 24 - Wrap Up
• Coaching Call: includes one (1) 25-minute call with Michael. Pre-requisite: complete the December working session assignments.
• Guide: Michael Sklar.

Join Personal Cartography - Find Your Compass to transform your writing into a strategic expedition toward your personal monopoly. Write with purpose, write with direction, and write with greater ease.

Enroll Now to reserve your spot. The first session lifts off on December 2nd. Spaces are limited.

Can't join this cohort? Add your name to the waitlist here.

Learn more about Michael and the background on the course here: How to Find Your Personal Monopoly: Part 1

Praise for Michael

"If you are looking to finally answer the question what your unique voice is, look no further. Michael is an absolute master at asking questions that drill deep into your purpose for writing. He has transformed how I approach writing online and through that how I understand myself on a deeper level."
Tobi Emonts-Holley

“There is no one with more experience in, and passion for, this topic than Michael. He studies it and has done it over and over. He knows how to distill people down to who they really are and what they really want so they can make their most powerful and unique impact online.”
Matt Tillotson

"Michael helped me realize where my strengths are and how I’ll monetize them properly. Until we started doing the sessions, I was surviving by being well-known and selling things, but you helped me uncover my market fit. Michael is responsible for what will almost certainly amount to my first million dollar year."
Ed Latimore

"Michael can see through people (in a good way!). He can pinpoint what makes you shine, understand why you struggle, and proactively share concrete ways forward. Working with Michael made me realize creating a personal monopoly doesn’t happen in a vacuum. A personal monopoly isn’t a marketing ploy. It’s an online identity that interacts with ourselves and our audience. Michael balances the practical with the deeper why’s so we can play the long game and enjoy creation! If you need a deep thinker who can prompt you with all the right questions about who you want to be on the internet, and give you the tools to do it, work with Michael."
Vicky Zhao

"Michael, thank you for believing in me, helping me see the bigger picture, and always getting me to aim higher – it’s working! I enjoyed every minute of it and look forward to working together in one way or another beyond the accelerator."
Sam Knowlton

“Michael is one of the sharpest strategic thinkers I’ve met. He has a gift for unlocking an individual’s point of view, and guiding you on where your time and effort is best spent.”
Terri Lonier

"Michael has the ability to identify your key personal assets. Before I met him, I had no idea if I had anything unique to offer. I was working a standard office job and I had a regular skillset (or so I thought). Through a combination of asking the right questions and hands-on exercises, he has guided me towards unearthing not one, but several niches. He has helped me see through my blind spots and matched my skills with real-world use cases. Extra: He has a unique ability to help people productize their skillset due to his startup background. You can expect a very practical approach with experimentation and fast iterations."
John Nicholas

Working with Michael is like an excavation of self. He helps you cut straight to the heart of who you are and who you want to become. The best part is that he helps you come up with actionable ways to actually get there.
Grace Smith