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7 personal growth challenges that will transform your life:

6 actionable tips to 10x your writing—in the next 5 minutes:

@LewisHowes Planning and reviewing.

What's the one habit you've adopted that has had the most positive impact on your life?

Plan, review, achieve, repeat.

@JonathanSegui18 Yes, I am, thanks :)

@07daysoftheweek Hope you feel better 🐧❤️

Sick for a bit, and totally thrown off my momentum. Now just busy, so not writing much. Keep growing your mind, wherever you are. 🌱

10 best prioritization mental models h/t @_alexbrogan

Meet the country portal. Where people on the street in two countries can meet each other and talk with a real time translator. It is a spectacular idea.

You can get pretty damn far in life by just being someone that shows up on time and is easy to work with.

BREAKING: Apple has cancelled plans to make a car after realizing it would require windows

Launch Day! 🚀 For years readers asked me to build a habits app. I finally listened. It's called Atoms and it helps you build small habits that lead to big results. Habit tracking + daily lessons from me. Atoms. Get better, bit by bit. Download now: apps.apple.com/app/apple-stor…

In January 2020, I started writing online. I would spend *hours* editing—swapping out adjectives and agonizing over adverbs. Turns out, this was a complete waste of time. Now, I use 3 dead-simple steps to edit my writing in 10 minutes or less (that you can start using today) Chances are, your editing process is 1 of these 2: 1. Spending zero time editing at all 2. Spending way too much time fussing over every word Neither of these are good. The key? Finding a quick process you'll actually stick to. And here are 3 steps to get you there: 1. Wait 24 hours between writing and editing The legendary David Ogilvy taught me this trick. Your writing will *always* look good shortly after writing it — because you just wrote it! So you need to give it time to breathe. That way, you have fresh eyes for the next 2 steps. Coming back the next day, we have 2 goals: 1. Edit the copy for clarity & flow 2. Edit the formatting for readability & skimmability But instead of skipping these 2 steps entirely (or spending dozens of hours on them), we're going to do it in 10 minutes or less. Here's how: 2. Read everything your write aloud Another legend — Gary Halbert — taught me this one. It's hard to *see* the clunky bits in your writing — sometimes you have to *hear* them. And this is the secret to great writing — it doesn't *sound* like writing. Here's what I mean: When you read something aloud, 99% of the time you will find it hard to speak. And writing that is hard to speak is hard to read. Which is why the single best piece of writing advice I've ever heard is to write like you talk. So when reading aloud, look for 2 things: 1. Find where you are out of breath This means you have run-on sentences — combine them. 2. Find where you stumble over words This means you're using jargon or trying to sound smart — simplify it. Spend 5 minutes to fix these & your writing quality will 10x. Alrighty — so far you've: • Written • Waited 24 hours • Read your writing aloud • Cut the run-on sentences, clunky bits, and jargony words With your copy edits done, we need to edit our formatting for skimmability & readability. Which takes us to the last step: 3. Read your writing on a different screen than the one you wrote on This is *the* ultimate editing hack — and something almost everyone overlooks. For most people, they both write & edit on desktop — never even considering mobile. But editing from your phone does 2 things: First, reading on mobile gives you fresh eyes. Just like waiting 24 hours between writing & editing, this new perspective makes it painfully obvious which parts to cut/rewrite. Second, reading from mobile puts formatting/skimmability top of mind. This is important because on the internet (and on phones especially) people don't "read." They SKIM! Then, they read. And if you don't give them a reason to keep reading while they skim, they won't even consider reading. Back to TikTok and Netflix they go. So here are 4 little formatting hacks: 1. Avoid big "walls of text" to make it less intimidating 2. Use big bold subheads to make it skimmable 3. Use bulleted/numbered lists to optimize for SPEED 4. Open with 1 single sentence to make it easy for your reader to get started Boom — now your piece is super readable. Alrighty, all of that should take 10 minutes. From there — you're ready to publish — even if it doesn't feel ready. To recap, 3 dead-simple steps to edit your writing in 10 minutes or less (that you'll actually use): 1. Wait 24 hours between writing and editing 2. Read everything you write aloud to identify the clunky bits 3. Do your final edits on a different screen than the one you first wrote on Hope this framework was helpful in helping you up your writing game. If it was, here are 2 things you can do: 1. Follow me @dickiebush for more posts on digital writing 2. Like, comment, and repost this so you share it with your network and help other writers cut down their editing time.

i studied with a monk for 5 years. here are 27 inner circle secrets few people will understand:

@itsdangoldfield Very enlightening. Thank you for sharing! It was easy to read and appreciate. ❤

I’m obsessed with learning how to learn. So, I spent 100+ hours studying how Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Naval Ravikant absorb information. Here’s what I found on becoming a learning machine:

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Gm, guppy. People are in our lives to remind us how much we have grown or need to grow. Observe our reactions to them.

That's smart. 😄

@MarTipsArt My reality keeps the cake as stubborn fats... 😑

@07daysoftheweek You cannot HAVE your cake AND eat it.. but you can def enjoy the coffee!! (Personally I’d eat the cake cos realistically.. it will not keep 😋)

Gm, guppy. If you want to have your cake and eat it, enjoy the coffee that comes with it, no matter how sweet or bitter it tastes.