3-2-1: The importance of bad days, making the most money per minute, and how to start a revolution

Welcome to the new Saturday edition of the Better Listener email. As this is meant to be a developing practice of honing the craft of making meaningful messages, I’m going to be taking Saturdays to steal the format of some of my favorite newsletters in order to feel what it’s like to write in new formats and eventually land on a unique one here.

Today’s heisted email format: Best selling “Atomic Habits” author James Clear 

Happy 3-2-1 Saturday! 

Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week...

3 Ideas From Me or My Memory

I.

"Everyone you look up to looks up to someone else. Your “hero” or competition is often an average to above-average performer who spends more time working on what is important and less time on distractions. The talent is staying focused."

FormatL Concept. Analysis. Action.

II.

Reminders for those who are struggling: 

• If you are struggling, remember you’ve made it this far.

• If you are struggling, start with gratitude for what you can learn.

• If you are struggling, the hardest thing to do may be asking for help, but it may make things easier.

It’s easy to be happy when you’re in motion.

• Anyone can find motion by going on a walk until they feel it the motion.

• Anyone can find motion by calling a friend or a Loqui Listener*

• Anyone can find motion by letting life drive them into a corner.

Your greatest challenges will be the most inspirational parts of your story to those you tell it to.

III.

Brainstorm some answers to these questions: 

• What do you do that leaves you worse than when you started?

• What do you do that leaves you better than when you started?

• What do you do that you would hide from others?

• What do you NOT do that you wish you should share with others?

It’s easy to do what leaves you worse. The things that leave you better are harder.
Until you build the routine.

2 Quotes From Others

I.

Indian guru Sahdguru explains that the ability to be in silence is lost in Western culture: 

"If one enjoys being alone, they are definitely better organized, psychologically and emotionally, than others. Once you really taste what it is, you can’t be without it." 

Source: ​Sahdguru

​II.

American personal trainer Hayley Cordova reminds us to recognizing the value of conserving your motion:

“If you stop things when they get hard or you get uncomfortable, you’ve proven to yourself that you do have a reason to stress how you feel emotionally, because you’ve based your actions off your emotional circumstances, but if you give yourself the evidence that you can still do hard things while you hate it the whole time. You no longer have to depend your routine on your mood and you’ll be much more consistent.”

Source: Hayley Cordova, Certified Personal Trainer

1 Question For You

If you and the love of your life switched bodies for a year, and at the end of one year you would have to give the body back. How would you treat it?

Until tomorrow,
Orly Israel ​

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