WORK LESS WEDNESDAY
WLW #150
👋 Hey Reader!
This is issue #150 of Work Less Wednesday, where I share with you 5 things you should know about, in 5 minutes or less. That leaves you with 10,075 other minutes this week.
↗️ 1. How to work ON your business – New YouTube Video
If you are feeling “stuck” in your business, watch my 7 minute video here.
🤕 2. No, Everything Doesn’t Have To Suck – Blog by Paul Millerd
In this great blog post, Paul Millerd shares an incredibly controversial idea…
Work doesn’t have to suck.
Don’t believe it’s controversial?
How many of these “work stories” have you told yourself?
- “If you aren’t struggling, it’s not worth doing.”
- “You need to have a stable job.”
- “Work is about sacrifice for your family.”
The default perspective on work is that it should be hard, and it should suck.
This mindset is everywhere in American culture.
- We describe Sunday gardening as “productive.”
- We hide layoffs from friends and family like shameful secrets.
- We wear busyness as a badge of honor.
For every 1 person crushing their personal hustle olympics, another 5 are stressed or beating themselves up for not keeping up.
Here’s the truth according to Paul:
We don’t have a scarcity of grind. We have a scarcity of optimism, earnestness, kindness, curiosity, delight, and exuberance. We should worry more about those than extracting 1% more effort out of the population. We have plenty to gain by tipping the balance toward more joy and less pain.
🎨 3. I Am Looking For A Designer To Work With…
Please have mercy on my inbox.
I’m looking for a graphic designer to partner with me to create visuals like the ones I created above (and the ones here, here, and here).
You must be interested in:
- Communicating complex ideas with simple visuals
- Data visualization
- Minimalism
Us working together would look like this:
I send you my writing and video scripts and you help craft simple, beautiful, powerful, minimalist visuals to accompany (and enhance) the writing.
If you’re just looking to bill some hours and make some quick cash, this is not for you.
I’m serious about my partnerships and like to work with people for years.
If that’s you, please reply back to this email with:
- Samples of work
- General pricing (hourly, project, or whatever)
If I think it might be a fit, I will reply to your email with a (paid) test project.
🎥 4. Watch A Creator With 100K Subscribers Audit My YouTube Channel – Loom by Zach Heyde
Last week composer, Youtuber, friend, and client Zach Heyde generously recorded a Loom video auditing my YouTube channel.
It’s about 11 minutes and full of gold.
P.S. In the video Zach shared this “12 Hooks” framework with me. Here’s the link:
🖐 5. More Things I’m Into This Week
🌈 New Colors Just Dropped At East Fork – Yuzu & Prune
📙 Book I’m Reading – Pricing For Profit by Dale Furtwengler
📝 How To Avoid The Word “Very” – Writing Advice by Noam Kaestner
🔋 Article On “The Most Important Idea Of The 21 Century” – High Agency In 30 Minutes
💬 Quote I’m Pondering…
“Some struggles are worth fighting even if we know we cannot win, just as some are not worth fighting even though our victory is sure.”
🎧 ON THE PODCAST 🎧
Ep. 28 – 10 Shifts From $100k
To $500k As A Solopreneur
In this episode, I cover:
- How I scaled two solo businesses to $500k+/year and the exact shifts you need to make to get there.
- Why you need to pick a clear path between two business models to break through the $100k ceiling.
- How to charge 2-5x your current rates by making one simple shift.
- Why your success thermostat may be secretly sabotaging your business growth (and how to reset it).