How do you get 40,760+ LinkedIn post views in 3 days if you only have ~735 followers?

My #TuesdayTip: go with your gut, even if it goes against popular wisdom.

I've been experimenting with expanding my LinkedIn reach. Much of the research says that Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday are the best days to post. Probably the worst time to post is a Friday night at 5:30pm.

But I had just finished The Long Game by Dorie Clark on Friday at 5pm and I realized that the pandemic had completely thrown off my long-term career planning. And if it threw me for a loop, I knew that I wasn't the only one who was off of their game. So, I posted my thoughts on Friday at 5:30pm anyways.

I'm a resume writer/career coach who tries to help others figure out their long-term plans, but I had completely neglected that planning for myself for the past 19 months. Now, I'm not going to be hard on myself - I have 4 school age kids and anyone who has done Zoom school with a kindergartener while working knows that getting through each day literally takes all of your energy. So, life really was all about short-term thinking (and survival!) for a long stretch of time. My kids are back in school full-time and I can finally think, so it's time for me to plan where I want to be professionally in 5-10 years and beyond. Do you find yourself in a similar space?

I could have waited to post until a "better" time. But I really felt like this was an important question, so I posted. In my experience, this analogy holds for career planning too - sometimes you just *know* what's right (or not right) for you. There is no clear cut formula to make things work - you need to experiment and try something completely different to see results.

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