monthly recap
Note: Close to 1,000 of you read my 2024 recap, which is crazy for such a personal piece. I'm touched that it resonated so deeply! “They choose the flashy place to live Network with the flashiest friends Work the flashiest job Read the flashiest books Showcase the
monthly recap
This year, however, was dead silent. Did I even have a mouth? My pages ran dry. A dense grey fog rolled in so slowly I didn't feel it coming. I just knew that one day, everything looked hazy and far away and slow and so so quiet.
confessions
My goal at the beginning of 2021 was to get fabulously rich and write a bestselling book. I figured that to do so, I'd need to grow my network. I wanted to make the most interesting friends in Austin, TX, and after that, the world. Despite all odds,
monthly recap
monthly recap
In January of this year, inspired by Pat Wall's daily blog [https://patwalls.com/], I started posting every day. For the first month or two, I only had about 5 repeat readers, but it didn't matter. I was writing for me. Every night, I would deconstruct
monthly recap
I read this thread [https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1301613151381860357] about a day in the life of a girl who makes 100K/month on Onlyfans, and something stood out to me: A large aspect of her success is her really good, repeatable routine. She's clearly a really smart,
Austin, TX
I moved to Austin, TX on August 1st! 🎉 Yay! Time to go out and meet peop- oh. It's 2020. Right. No meetup.com events, no group sports or exercise class connections, no volunteer events with others. Hell, I can't even be that lonely bitch at a
monthly recap
What you measure, matters. And by measuring this stuff daily and monthly, I can see a clear improvement in what I make, what I consume, and my physical health routines. Let's take a look at May.
monthly recap
I went into quarantine on March 1st. Today marks two months of no physical interaction with anyone that I know. March was a total shit show. Everyone's rock bottom looks different; mine looked like Love is Blind on Netflix and baking multiple types of cinnamon rolls while lying
monthly recap
Man, March was a shit month, wasn't it? The entire world shut down, we're all in isolation, many of us are out of jobs, some of us have lost loved ones, some of us are sick. I've been tracking my monthly goal progress (here
makers
Oh, February. That blissful month where the sun finally started to set after 5pm in Seattle, where coronavirus wasn't quite a concern yet outside of Asia, where flowers began blooming and I bought a friggin' car. Yeah, February was a pretty good month! Let's recap.
makers
My 2020 goal is 1 hour of creating, 5 days a week, and 30 minutes of reading, 5 days a week. How did I do in January? Hours spent reading: 32 (avg of 1 hr/day) Hours spent creating: 36 (avg of 1 hr 10 min/day) (tracked using toggl