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Thursday is International Coffee Day, which seems like a good excuse to talk about something many of us find surprisingly difficult: taking a proper break when there’s still work to do. You make a coffee, sit down for a moment, and your brain immediately starts listing emails, unfinished tasks and things you might forget. Before long, you’re checking your phone or opening your laptop. The break has turned into work with a mug beside it. One small thing that can help is to decide what you’ll...
Some projects are hard to start because they feel like ten projects hiding inside one. You want to build something, but then you start thinking about all the pieces involved. What tools do I need? What do I choose? How do I set it up? What am I forgetting? What if I choose the wrong thing? And before you have even started, the project already feels exhausting. When that happens, I think there is another question worth asking: What could make this easier before I begin? Sometimes the answer is...
Here is a small job that is easy to postpone: checking the products and freebies you have already published. Last week, I opened one of my Notion freebies and found that some of the links were outdated. The freebie itself was still useful, but parts of it no longer matched what people would find when they clicked through. That can happen to any digital product. A link changes, a tool is replaced, an offer ends or an example becomes old-fashioned. Nothing is necessarily wrong with the...