BrainPint - Letter To Your Future Self

Hi everyone,

Greetings from the Spanish Pyrenees. I've taken the entire week off to rest and reset, and I didn't know how much I've needed it till now. Highly recommend.

This week we're exploring a useful introspective exercise, tricks to uncover personal leverage and how to attack seemingly impossible challenges.

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Cheers,
Janel

Letter To Your Future Self
Write a letter to your future self, which can serve as a useful introspective exercise. Here's what you might write about:

• Reflections on the Present
• Changes to Make
• Goals for the Future
• Fun & Crazy Predictions

A Simple Trick To Uncover Personal Leverage
Do more with less using the Pareto Principle. "If 80% of your activities are barely making a dent with your happiness, what does that mean? And what about that 20% that makes you light up."

How Nokia Ringtones Became The First Viral Earworms
"if you calculate the amount of phones that would make [the Nokia composers] one of the most recorded artists ever."

How To Grow Your Newsletter
Actionable tips on how to grow your newsletter from Katelyn Bourgoin.

How To Complete An Impossible Challenge
Use the "GOD principle" - guts, organisation and determination to tackle challenges in your life.

Guts: Attack the challenge
Organisation: Break the challenge into chunks 
Determination: Maintain your self-discipline through the challenge

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