Tag: Ultimate Guide
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Why Every Creator Needs a Heavy Project
This week, I came across an absolutely brilliant Substack post titled: Make Something Heavy by Anu Atluru. I’ll do my best to sort-of summarise the post and share my personal takeaway from…
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We failed 78% of our goals
This week, my team flew into Hong Kong for our quarterly offsite 🥳 We pulled up the Notion doc from January where we’d excitedly mapped out 18 quests for Q1,…
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My March 2025 Favourites
I’ve decided to resurrect a tradition that goes back to the early days of my YouTube channel – Monthly Favourites. I used to make these videos each month, back in…
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The uncomfortable truth about learning new skills
This week I wanted to share a profound insight about learning skills that I’ve had while playing World of Warcraft (AliAbdaal#2149 on BattleNet if anyone wants to add me). For context, one of…
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The Laziness Experiment
Hey friends, In one of these emails a few weeks ago, I included an excerpt from Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals, which referenced another book Choosing Easy World by Julia Rogers Hamrick. This…
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The Mental Bandwidth Theory
As part of my new focus on work-life balance and all that stuff, I’ve (a) had pretty close to 100% sleep scores in the past few weeks, and (b) been…
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My Encounters with “Resistance”
This week I had a great call with one of my coaches, Barrett, that I wanted to share with you. For a bit of context: We were discussing our business priorities,…
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A simple phrase that’s changing how I think about life
This week I wanted to share a concept from Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals that I read a few weeks ago which really resonated. Here’s the quote from chapter 15: The New…
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My wife’s guinea pig taught me a life-changing lesson
This week I wanted to tell you about something my wife, Izzy, shared with me. When Izzy was young, her family had a pet guinea pig, who they named Piggy. Piggy…
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How I Tricked My Brain Into Being More Productive
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with a technique for beating procrastination: going through the motions. I first noticed this when I started incorporating Zone 2 cardio into my morning routine.…
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How to Stop Procrastinating and Finally Take Action
This video is based on Part II of my New York Times Bestselling book Feel-Good Productivity
