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If I had a dollar for every time a productivity YouTuber told me to set my goals using the SMART framework, I could probably buy a bottle of whiskey to try to drown it out. If you’re new to the productivity and goal setting space, SMART stands for Specific,
I’ve worked in the digital marketing and Search Engine Optimization business for almost 3 years now. There are plenty of mistakes that I’ve made along the way, and all of them were essential in helping me grow. However, there’s one thing that I have failed to do
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Goodhart’s Law The idolization of hustle culture. You see it everywhere. If you’re interested in the self-development and productivity space, you can’t avoid the dude-bro entrepreneurs just telling you that you need to “work
I’ve always loved the idea of journaling. Over the past few years, I’ve tried various forms of journaling mixed with productivity systems. Everything from paper bullet journals to journaling in apps like Notion, Obsidian, and One Note. I was never really consistent with it. I would have spouts
All around the playground of the internet you see blog posts and videos telling you that in order to be successful you need to choose a niche. That the “riches are in the niches.” The other day, I stumbled upon the fresh take of Nat Eliason’s blog: Be Yourself,
Tracking Raw Output For my first real job post-college dropout, I was copying and pasting blogs onto websites. I’d add an internal link, an image, and then publish it. Every time I did that, I clicked a little button in our internal dashboard, and my hourly productivity number would
Yesterday, one of my roommates told me something that impacted me. If I had to choose one person to credit for pushing me to drop out of college and go to nail school, it’d be you. I wasn’t the only one pushing her to follow her dreams of
There’s this video by Gary Vee called Use Laziness to Your Advantage that stuck with me. It was one of those bits of information that clicks in your head, that you resonate with, and then completely forget about. Here’s the punchline: “Laziness has my attention because I think
The fad on twitter nowadays is to #Ship30for30. I’ve read a little bit about it, but was late to the March cohort signup, so I’m going on my own. (Besides, you have to choose a single topic for the whole 30 days, and I just want to fly