SΞX WOЯK CΞO

Every year around this time my DMs and comments fill up with the same question from creators.. "how do I ask for gifts in November without sounding like a black friday ad?" after 15 years of doing this my answer is simple..🧵

My day in September: up at 6am, often still working past 10pm. My day now: up at 5am, workout, cooked breakfast, meetings & calls, a walk, filming, another walk, then lunch when my puppy eats his. And I'm getting more done.. I can't quite explain how that works.. but there's something about taking good care of yourself that supports you performing well work-wise. As someone who came out of the 'hustle culture' era personally, it never seizes to amaze me that this feels like a revelation.

👀 IDK how legit this is coming from The Mirror since I can't find the actual report yet but it basically says a group of UK MPs is calling for camming to be banned outright since live content can't be pre-screened. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/o…

Hot take: you should quit consuming social media for 30 days. YES EVEN THO IT'S YOUR JOB. I'm 30 days in to a 90 day social media break, and tbh I don't even miss it.. My content is created and scheduled in advance. I'm still engaging and responding to fans (and you here) via Buffer. You don't need to login to social apps to run and maintain a social media funnel for your business.. You can be active WITHOUT actively consuming content yourself. It might give you something in return that you didn't even realize you'd been missing..

For months I dragged the same task from one day to the next in my task manager and never once checked it off. I called it laziness, which was easy to believe because I am an organized person and I have always considered myself disciplined. Eventually I went to my doctor and told her I thought I had depression, that I was not functioning the way I normally function in my life or in my work. She listened to what I described, said it sounded like it might be something else and walked me through the diagnostic questions. That's the appointment where I found out I have ADHD, in my mid-30s, after three decades of assuming everyone's head sounded like mine. The words you use for your own struggle change how you treat yourself. I spent years telling myself I was undisciplined while my brain was running on a different kind of fuel the whole time. If you have been moving the same task across your calendar for weeks, that pattern is worth bringing to a doctor instead of carrying it as a character flaw.