Who I learned from this week (July 23, 2021)

https://michaelhyatt.com/shave/

Michael Hyatt put together a crazy in-depth guide with four big parts. If you’re looking to up your productive and get more done while working less, I highly recommend you download this ebook.

An absolutely fascinating post by Seth Godin about reaching your audience organically.

Serve a handful of people well, be remarkable, and they’ll tell a few others. It starts small, but the results are exponential.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-made-simple/id1569923210?i=1000526591946

Donald Miller’s “StoryBrand Framework” is the gold standard in effective marketing, especially for creatives, solopreneurs, and small business folks.

His team recently came out with a new podcast called “Marketing Made Simple” which I’m absolutely DEVOURING. Not only are the hosts incredibly engaging and funny, they give practical advice and step-by-step instructions on how to market your business from beginning to end.

There are five episodes so far, each with a call-to-action to fill out your very own StoryBrand Brandscript (which you can start for free right here).

A great article by Ryan Holiday that makes a compelling argument for anger being a primary cause of the Confederacy’s failure in the American Civil War.
I’d like to specifically draw your attention to his 3rd idea in this newsletter.

What’s the single tiny step you can do to move the needle on your project or goal? Even if it feels microscopic?

https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2021/07/21/on-pace-and-productivity/

Last, but not least, this article from Cal Newport shows us that how much time we look at collectively has a big impact on whether or not we look productive.

Scientists like Galileo and Newton had seemingly slow, unproductive days when looked at individually. But when you look at their accomplishments over the span of years, it’s mind-boggling what they did…

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