I simplify psychology, success and money by sharing advice from mentors, expert authors and my life. CFO | Creator | Investor| Entrepreneur

Clint Murphy is obsessed with Growth: Personal, professional and financial. 

After a 25-year career, including 8+ years at KPMG and 8+ years at a leading Vancouver Real Estate Development Firm, Clint started his own Real Estate Development Company with three great partners - Frame Properties. 

Daily, he creates content that reaches over a million people worldwide across Twitter (@IamClintMurphy), LinkedIn, Instagram and his Podcast and Newsletter - The Growth Guide. 
 
He is the host of the Growth Guide Podcast, where he talks to authors, subject matter experts and millionaire mentors to understand how successful people approach personal growth, Get Sh!t Done and become financially free.   
 
Each week, he shares the Growth Guide Newsletter which provides actionable ideas to help you: 

• Live Better 
• Achieve More  
• Be Financially Free 

Clint is a lifelong learner and growth fanatic who wants to help 1 billion people live better, achieve more and become financially free.

Clint Murphy

Clifton Sellers

Founder @ Legacy Builder — Building brands on X + LI for Founders, CEOs, and Businesses for 2.5 years and counting.

Clifton is the Founder of Legacy Builder, a brand building agency dedicated to providing quality services to founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs who want to build a winning brand online. He specializes in content creation, funnel strategy, sales, and scaling agencies.

Founder & CEO

Most people will try to win LinkedIn in 2026 using 2019 playbooks.

It won’t work.

Based on platform data, creator performance, and what’s actually driving inbound today, here are 7 rules to win LinkedIn in 2026:

1. Old way: Post every day
New way: Build a recognizable point of view

Daily posting won’t save you if everything sounds the same.

People don’t follow accounts.
They follow thinking.

If someone can’t summarize what you believe in one sentence, you don’t have a brand.

2. Old way: Teach everything you know
New way: Teach what you’ve paid to learn

Free advice is everywhere.
Earned insight stands out.

Your mistakes are the asset.

3. Old way: Chase reach
New way: Build repeat readers

Virality is random.
Familiarity compounds.

If people don’t recognize your name, the post doesn’t matter.

4. Old way: Sound professional
New way: Sound human

Polished kills trust.
Specific creates it.

Write like you talk when you’re explaining something you actually care about.

5. Old way: Talk about features
New way: Talk about consequences

Nobody buys tools.
They buy outcomes.

Show what changes if someone does nothing.

6. Old way: Separate personal and business
New way: Use life to explain business

Stories anchor ideas.
Ideas without stories don’t stick.

Your life is the distribution layer.

7. Old way: Hope content converts
New way: Design content to pre-sell

If your posts don’t filter, educate, and disqualify, you’re just entertaining.

The best posts make the right people feel seen and the wrong people scroll.

LinkedIn in 2026 won’t reward hustle.

It will reward point of view, consistency of thought, and earned authority.

Most people won’t adjust.

That’s the opportunity.

Girl Dad x3 | 2x Founder | Content + distribution for B2B founders who know they’re the brand but don’t have time to post (300+ clients served)

You aren’t where you want to be.
That part is obvious.

What most people miss is this:

you’re also not where you were yesterday.

Progress rarely feels like progress.

It feels like repetition. Like showing up again with nothing to show for it. Like effort without feedback.

That’s where most people quit.

They confuse lack of visible results with lack of momentum.
But momentum is invisible until it compounds.

One more workout doesn’t change your body.
One more post doesn’t change your brand.
One more hard conversation doesn’t change your life.
Until it does.

The people who win aren’t the ones who magically figure it out.
They’re the ones who keep moving on days where the gap still feels massive.

If you’re frustrated right now, that’s a good sign.

It means you care.
It means you’re paying attention.

Just don’t let impatience erase perspective.

You’re closer than you were yesterday.

And if you keep stacking days like that, the distance disappears faster than you think.

Most LinkedIn profiles don’t fail because of content.

They fail before the first post is even read.

The profile itself does the damage.

Here’s the anatomy of a LinkedIn profile that actually works.

1. Profile photo

People decide in a split second.
Clear face. Good light. Calm expression.
You want to look like someone worth paying attention to.

2. Banner

This is prime real estate.
Say who you help and what changes for them.
One clear sentence is enough.

3. Headline

Job titles don’t convert.
Clarity does.

Someone should understand your value without clicking anything else.

4. About section

Think introduction, not résumé.
What you do.
Why you care.
Who it’s for.
What to do next.

Short lines. Easy to read.

5. Experience

Explain outcomes, not responsibilities.
Results create confidence.
Details create trust.

5. Featured section
One strong proof point goes a long way.
A post. A case study. A simple offer.

6. Activity

Your content reinforces the profile.
Consistency compounds.

Get these right and your posts work harder without posting more.

That’s how LinkedIn starts working for you instead of the other way around.

Nobody is coming to save your business.

Not a viral post. Not a new funnel. Not the right connection.

The founders who win are the ones who stop waiting for leverage and start building it. One piece of content at a time. One relationship at a time. One system at a time.

It’s slow until it isn’t.

But it only works if you stop looking for shortcuts and start stacking assets.

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Most people are using AI to chase attention.
The ones winning are using it to sharpen thinking, not replace it.

AI isn’t the shortcut people think it is. When you ask it to “write a post,” you get something thatR that sounds fine but builds nothing. No voice. No trust. No authority.

The leverage comes when you flip how you use it.
Use AI to:

– extract your voice
– organize real experiences
– generate options, not opinions
– stress-test ideas before you publish

That’s how content stops feeling random and starts compounding.

Virality is optional. Clarity is not.

Save the infographic if you want a repeatable system instead of another post that disappears tomorrow.

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