💌 Intuitive writing + software to get you in a flow state

Plus: Brooklyn Meet-up on Tuesday! (7/25)

Jul 21, 2023

Hi Friends,

If you live in the greater New York City area, I'd love to see you next week! My friend Khe Hy will be in from Cali, and we're co-hosting a meet-up with Paul Millerd of The Pathless Path in Brooklyn on Tuesday, July 25. Yes, I'll be staying up past my usual grandma bedtime and would love to see you there! :)

Both have been guests on the pod this year in some of my favorite conversations:

Now onto this week's goodies . . .

💌 Time Well Spent Roundup

🎉 Featured

I was honored to be a guest on Eric Zimmer's The One You Feed podcast on How to Find More Free Time. We recorded in person, and also did an episode for Pivot: The Wolf You Feed — On Addiction, Recovery & Codependency — and What We Get Wrong About All Three.

Big congrats to BFF Jacqueline Fisch who released her new book this month, Intuitive Writing: The Remedy for Writer's Block and the Secret to Authentic Communication!

⚙️ Tips & Tools

I have been inspired to return to more personal writing recently (for the first time in a loooooongtime), and I always come back to OmmWriter to get me in the mood.

You can choose from seven calming music or white noise tracks, and seven (!) different keyboard clacking sounds that harken back to typewriter days. Just make sure you save regularly! I try to write for ~15-20 minutes each day, then I copy-paste my output into Notion. (Check out the Author Toolkit for Loom walkthroughs of how I organize ideas, content, and writing projects, as well as my brand new Behind-the-Book podcast episode playlist on Spotify).

Although I'm not using AI to enhance my writing voice (at least not yet) as I'm trying to dig deep within me and speak from the heart, I am fascinated by Sudowrite, an AI writing helper than can enhance text, especially fiction (as it tends to make things up willy nilly).

For example, if you highlight a phrase like "New York City street" and click a describe button, it provides five fleshed out paragraphs, one for each of the senses, that you can choose from to add into your piece.

+ Join us in BFF to get my bonus episode on Hard work vs. hard work on why recent feedback I received landed like a record scratch, and how I zoomed out to see the larger truth behind it.

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💬 Quote

"Imagine a security guard on the night shift. The guard can stare at six different screens and easily spot the slightest movement. But give that guard six hundred screens and you can be sure that they will miss something."

—Mike Michalowicz, Clockwork + check out our related podcast, 185: How Licensing Helps Serve the Queen Bee Role + Stop Keeping up with the EntrepreJoneses

💭 Question

Where are you overwhelmed by inputs and data?
How can you simplify your business (and body) health dashboard to just a few key metrics that reflect your most important values and goals?

📝 Permission

Not to track (or even care) about every micro statistic in your business operations. What one or two vital measures, if you improve or focus directly on them, lead to outsize results? (For more inspiration along these lines, I highly recommend The One Thing by Gary Keller.)

🎙 Podcasting — Recent Episodes

Free Time:

206: Celebrate the Small Fixes, aka Your Business Rose

205: Why Paul Millerd Turned Down a $200K Two-Book Traditional Publishing Deal
204: 8 Benefits and Strategies for Managing a Shared Team Inbox (Through HelpScout)
203: Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster of Launching with Natalie Lue
200: 20+ Free Time Permission Slips for Small Business Owners (Part 1) and Part 2
201: Never Lose a Team Member Again with Joey Coleman
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