What Ariana Grande's Six-Year Break Taught Me About the Pressure to Keep Creating

If you don't post today, you start wondering whether people have forgotten you.

Miss a week and the algorithm has apparently moved on without you. 

Then I saw Ariana Grande was back on tour.

After six years away from touring, she's performing again with her Eternal Sunshine Tour.

Six years.

And somehow, people were still waiting.

That made me wonder: why do the rest of us feel like we have to constantly prove that we're still creating?

You don't always have to be visible to be making progress.

Ariana wasn't spending those six years doing absolutely nothing.

She was making music, acting and continuing to build her career in other ways.

The audience simply wasn't seeing every step.

And maybe that's the part we've got wrong.

We have started treating posting as proof of productivity.

Post a Reel.

Post a thread.

Post a story.

Post again.

Then wonder why we're exhausted.

But what if some of that time went into actually building?

Imagine a freelancer spending a month improving their portfolio instead of posting motivational quotes every morning.

A blogger updating old articles instead of chasing every new trend.

A creator developing a digital product instead of worrying about tomorrow's Instagram post.

A small business owner improving their website, customer experience or email list.

Those things may not get likes.

They can still move the business forward.

I wrote about a similar idea in Your First Online Business Does Not Need to Be Fancy, you can check it out here

You don't need to have everything looking perfect before you start. Sometimes, the smartest thing you can do is build quietly and improve as you go.

And I think the same applies to content.

Not everything you create needs to be for today's feed.

Some of it can become something people discover weeks, months or even years later.

An article.

A useful guide.

A digital product.

A website.

A collection of resources.

Something that keeps doing its job even when you're not posting at 9 a.m. with a “Good morning, guys!” caption.

That is also why I like the idea behind Auxi Sherpa's Digital Asset System. Instead of making your entire online presence depend on what you post today, you can start thinking about the useful things you're building that can continue working in the background.

That's a very different mindset.

You're not just asking:

“What should I post?”

You're asking:

“What am I building?”

Of course, I'm not suggesting everyone should disappear for six years.

Please don't use Ariana Grande as an excuse to abandon your business. 😂

Consistency still matters.

Your audience still needs to hear from you.

But there is a difference between being consistent and being constantly online.

Sometimes you need to step away from the feed long enough to create something worth bringing back.

Because when you return, it helps to have something more interesting than another post.

Have something to show for the time you were away.

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