“Seemingly small moments of gratitude can change everything.” 🤗 ~Greg McKeown

By Jessica L. Williams • Issue #260 • View online

For those in the states, I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and spending time with family and friends.

While I am trying to express gratitude more often throughout the year, this is always an excellent time to reflect and say thank you.

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On to the picks!

P.S. Just a heads up that after #jesspicks #262 (2 more after this one), I’ll be taking the rest of the year off to reflect and do some planning for 2022. I hope that you are planning time off for yourself and your business/newsletter/projects as well.

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🎧. Listening: This is Christmas. I don’t usually listen to Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. Same with movies. Granted, it’s not a hard and fast rule, but something I like to do. In addition to what’s usually playing on the radio, this is one of my all-time favorite Christmas albums. I mean, you can’t go wrong with Luther Vandross. Tracks 2-4 are often on repeat.

📺. Watching: Wheel of Time. I don’t know much about this other than the fact that Rosamund Pike is in it. And the preview looked mysterious. But there is darkness and one person who can save the world. It seems like it may be one out of 4 people, and part of the mystery will be figuring out who is the chosen one. Oh, and there’s MAGIC. Only watched the first episode so far, but I’m already curious about what will happen next.

💸 Resource: DeFi Orientation. So I keep hearing about crypto and blockchain and bitcoin and all the things. And my main gig is very heavy into the decentralized finance space. Nat Eliason created a course about getting started in DeFi and just made some updates. I have already made some investments and am curious to see how those pan out, but this seems like a viable passive income stream.

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1:10 PM - 15 Apr 2021

20 Things To Do Instead of Scrolling Through Your Phone

I’m a big fan of micro habits (and hacks) and implementing ones that make the most sense for my lifestyle and the season I’m in right now. I am guilty of reaching for my phone and mindlessly scrolling social media when I’m bored, so I like these ideas of other things to do instead. Here are the three principles I liked best:

Create before you consume - I think I would feel better about scrolling, knowing I created something first.
Visit your metaphorical “Cabin in the Woods” - I like this idea of spending time with my thoughts and giving myself the white space to think through and process things.
Spend evenings in a flow state - this is a big part of why I’m getting back into doing puzzles and LEGO sets. I can spend hours working on these and not realize how much time has passed.

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What It Takes To Build A Successful Creator Business

Josh Spector gives 13 fantastic pieces of advice in short video snippets. I’ve watched five of them so far, and my current fave is: Getting More Value Out Of Your Content. A thing that’s on my 2022 list is figuring out a good repurposing strategy to get more value out of the content I create and curate in #jesspicks every week.

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“I am worthy of the time it takes to do the things that heal my heart.” ❤️‍🩹~Morgan Harper Nichols

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Six things saving my life right now (one is LEGOs) ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

“Small progress is still progress.” 👣 ~Morgan Harper Nichols

Saturday, November 13, 2021

It's not about me. It's about them. And baby steps. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

“For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.” 😌~Toni Morrison

Saturday, November 6, 2021

My 2021 goal updates and why time is your friend. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

“Seemingly small moments of gratitude can change everything.” 🤗 ~Greg McKeown

Older messages

“I am worthy of the time it takes to do the things that heal my heart.” ❤️‍🩹~Morgan Harper Nichols

“Small progress is still progress.” 👣 ~Morgan Harper Nichols

“For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.” 😌~Toni Morrison

“Ask yourself daily: ‘What can I learn here?’” 👩🏾‍🎓~Morgan Harper Nichols

“Imagine how you want to feel at the end of the day. Start working towards that now.” 🤔 ~Lin Manuel Miranda

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