Rory Tanner 🦎🧩🟢💻🤖

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! Besides being called Twitter, I didn't use it much until 2020. I then used it heavily until mid-2023. I have been away from it recently, but... Thanks for the love and connections 😃 #MyXAnniversary

Quantifying your goals (that is, making sure they’re measurable) makes it easier to track progress and know when you’ve reached the finish line.

"Success isn't about being the best. It's about always getting better." —@Behance via @momentumdash

@CSMikeCardona @zapier @make_hq @airtable Some call it boring, I call it genius 🙃😉

People are always surprised with how boring my (automation/AI) tech stack is: - @zapier , - @make_hq , - @airtable , - ChatGPT - Notion (documentation) → Boring (simple) wins.

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@CSMikeCardona 😍 Love this @CSMikeCardona! Well done 💪🏼🎉

Embarrassed to share this but if it helps one person, then I’m ok. 13 years: 2010: Had a rough breakup. → Boozing increased (early 20s are a blur). → Fired from well-paying after punching someone for racist comment at X-mas company party (Intoxicated, 100% my fault) 2011 - 2012: More partying and drinking 2013: Stopped partying. Enrolled in CS for college. 2014: Still miserable working dead-end job → Found @PatFlynn SPI Podcast. → Mindblown from all the possibilities → Thought I was Zuck → Launched an iOS app → Failed (bye $7K) → Skills I learned? Priceless 2015: Dropped out of CS to focus on biz building. → Started 3 businesses, all failed but with new skills. 2016: Back to 9-5 job, sales job, paid decent. → Started Amazon FBA biz → Biz hit $20k/month. → Discovered automation but saw it as an expense. 2017: Won sales person of the year award ($2 mil sales) → Burned out from working 90+ hours, FBA biz failed. → Quit drinking and cigarettes → Quit 9-5. 2018: Tried FB Ads biz, failed → Pivoted back to focus on marketing automation → Almost burned out → Documented and systematized → Hit 10K profit (clients generated via networking events 😣) → Delegated more → Built team (VAs, contractors). 2020: Biz doing well, working ~20 to -25 hours a week, but unfulfilled. Pre-pandemic: Sold my agency, pandemic ate up exit $ big time, but had enough to sustain my creative pursuits. 2020 - 2021: Thought I wanted to build a SaaS, applied to SaaS roles to build network, (I really wanted to create content but too scared). → Rejected 200+ times → But still built network and mentors. Summer 2021: Discovered build in public community. → Slowly began creating content (about everything) struggled to figure out what my “niche” was (didn’t think anyone cared about automation content). December 2021: Built an automated Airtable database for a newsletter biz I was volunteering for, someone else wanted the same for their biz. → Sold it for 7K → “Aha” moment and demand was validated (automation content) January 2022: Went all in on talking about automation → Twitter and LinkedIn growth spiked → Inbound requests for automation consulting → Hit almost 200K in revenue in 2022 May 2023: Decided to leave consulting to focus on the newsletter biz. August 2023: Released two digital products, collaborating with a major brand and found my dev to help me create software products. September 2023: Feeling grateful. You are not your past. I wish someone shook me to wake the fu** up but I still wouldn’t trade those lessons for anything. H/T @thepatwalls for the inspo post

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@matt_gray_ 😍 Love this @matt_gray_ Great work and congratulations! Inspirational and time for me to do the same. 😃

At 24, I sold my first company (a coding school) for 8 figures. I hated it. I drank too much, worked insane hours, and was always anxious. Now I run a 7-fig and 8-fig business - and work whenever I want. How I turned my biggest struggle into success:

@usamaejaz @socialbuapp 😍👏🚀

Switching between multiple social accounts is overwhelming Here’s how @SocialBuapp helps: - Manage up to 9+ platforms - Schedule multiple posts - Review and publish - Social calendar - Analyze All in one place.

20 months ago, I quit my full time, permanent position. I started working 0.5 on a part time, permanent basis. Last week, I resigned and finished up. Now - I am trying the work for me thing 😂

@RobertHacala 🤩🤩💥 I love this @RobertHacala! What is life without our health and our family, hey. Comfortable living. What does this look like for you? What’s your goal for Robert, his health and his family? 😉 🙂

@RoryTanner Family, health, and comfortable living.

What motivates you to work hard?

@kkaldous 😍 I guess the real question is how do you rise, maintain and surge your motivation to focus on the process? How do you measure this, etc to keep that hope reinforced? How interesting is what motivates us and I find hope in particular, very interesting!

@RoryTanner Hope. Hope that results will come as long as I focus on the process.

@ckertonjohnson I know what you mean!! I was forced to use chrome for study in coding. With developer mode and doing things with code, I sort of need it but a lot about it frustrates me! I love a lot about safari, like you mentioned. Except for keychain. Have you tried @1Password? 😃

@RoryTanner Honestly I’ve tried several times to change back to Chrome. But the safari UX is so clean, also I love the Keychain auto fill for details and passwords across devices. Ad-blocking apps for safari are excellent. So I always come back.

If you had to delete all but three apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?

Discipline is doing what you have to do, even if you don't feel like doing it.

5 Things To Remember: 1. Everything takes time. 2. Other people are not the answer to your happiness. 3. Grow and always work on yourself. 4. Your mistakes do not define you. 5. You are a beautiful, powerful, and capable of achieving anything!

Journaling is the most powerful and priceless form of therapy. Do it!

@ckertonjohnson 😍 Love this!! Why? You introduced me to Twobird. It puzzles me why people love safari? Please explain? 😊 I also love fantastical!! 😜

@RoryTanner 1. Safari 2. Twobird 3. Fantastical

@CSMikeCardona 😍😍👏 Great work @CSMikeCardona! Awesome work and very inspiring! 😃

@heyzoish Nope 😞 It’s 💩 it’s not in Australia 🇦🇺

Anyone been playing with Bard? Thoughts 💬