Hey friends, happy Sunday!
I hope you're having a fantastic week.
A few things I want to share with you this week:
8 INSANELY USEFUL Websites You Didn’t Know Existed: In this video I share 8 websites that I use every day to improve my life and get things done!
How to Become a Freelance Webflow Designer / Developer in 6 Months | No Degree, Self-Taught: This video seems to be resonating with a lot of people, looking back at it I may expand on this and turn it into a more comprehensive resource in the next few months!
Alrighty, let's get into the Filter!
How to curate what you consume
Everything you consume shapes who you become.
From your thoughts to your feelings, your information diet (much like your actual diet) needs to be nourishing.
I make this point because over the last 84 weeks of publishing this newsletter I've formed a pretty robust system for curating what I consume.
A system that serves up interesting, fresh nutrient rich ideas directly to my email inbox every single week.
See, I use this tool called Mailbrew to curate sources like research journals, blogs, subreddits and more into a single weekly email.
I've curated a few of these brews around topics I'm interested in like health + happiness & business + money.
Now every Thursday morning I get a few emails like this with a wealth of high value information and interesting ideas on the topics I care about.
This system makes finding interesting material for this newsletter a breeze.
What I want to know is if you'd find this useful to receive yourself? If so I can setup these weekly brews to be shared publicly.
If you'd be interested in receiving weekly digests then let me know (by replying to this email).
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There’s an opportunity cost to every decision you make.
By reading this, you are choosing not to read something else.
Whenever you explicitly choose one thing, you implicitly choose not to do everything else.
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Most limitations are self-imposed.
If you want something enough there's usually a way, the obstacle is yourself.
The rise of perfectionism: Young adults today are more perfectionist and report more pressure from their parents than previous generations. I wonder if this has something to do with the internet in that no matter how good you are at something, you can always find someone better than you online??
What’s the point of productivity?: There seems to be a productivity backlash at the minute with memes like this, videos like this and posts like this but while that focuses on the over-complication of productivity this post explores the point in being productive in the first place.
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign: How a small web design project turned into a $46,000 nightmare. This story has some great lessons for freelancers + agency owners showing exactly what not to do when you operate a service business.
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Have a fantastic week!
- Stephen
