WORK LESS WEDNESDAY
WLW #135
🤫 Announcing Something New Next Week!
Next week I’ll be sharing a new project/business I’ve been working on. I’m really excited for you all to see what we’ve been cooking up! Stay tuned!
🚰 1. What 47 Days Without Potable Water Looks Like
As many of you know, I live in Asheville, NC.
We were hit HARD by Hurricane Helene in September.
A lot has happened since then…
But what many of you probably still don’t realize, is that we STILL don’t have potable water, 47 days later.
The city’s entire water infrastructure was wiped out with the storm.
The water coming from our sinks is not safe to cook with or drink.
It also has a lot of sediment in it, which means it’s can damage appliances like our washer/dryer.
But you gotta live! So you figure it out.
In case you’re wondering, here’s some of the systems we’ve figured out to deal with it:
- Showering: Fill up a bucket with 2 gallons of water. Heat it up with this portable water heating wand. Then use this battery powered camping shower sprayer. It’s not fun.
- Drinking: Bottled water. So much bottled water.
- Cooking: Paper plates and disposable utensils. Cooking only stuff that doesn’t make a huge mess. Canned/frozen food when we’re lazy.
- Laundry: Buying a lot of new clothes :/
- Toilets: Fortunately our toilets work 💩 🙂
- Washing Hands: Extreme amounts of hand sanitizer.
There’s good new on the horizon though, we’re (hopefully) less than 30 days for water to come back online!
⛰️ P.S. Western North Carolina STILL needs support. You can donate here.
🎸 2. Playing Vs. Thinking – John McLaughlin On Discipline & Freedom
Been listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra this week.
This inspired me to go down the rabbit hole on their guitarist, John McLaughlin.
I came across an awesome video of him speaking about his creative process, and the value of practice and discipline.
This quote hit hard:
“Playing music is a way of being. Playing an instrument requires you to move out of the normal level of consciousness. If you’re thinking, you’re not playing. If you’re playing, you’re not thinking. That’s where the real music comes from. It comes from beyond thought.“
“My personal philosophy is be disciplined. Perfect discipline will lead to freedom on your instrument. But the key is love. Only love will make it work in the end.”
The best work manifests when we get out of our own way.
Discipline and mastery offer a path to that state of flow.
We practice discipline, so we can experience freedom.
We learn the rules, so we can break them.
We embrace ritual, so we can let go.
🍑 3. What Peaches & Darts Can Teach Us About Writing – WritingExamples.com
First: I don’t know where WritingExamples.com has been my whole life, but wow, what a cool site.
They use examples from literature to illustrate timeless writing principles.
For example:
This 4 minute video gives an example of how author Robert Kurson bringing scale to life in his writing.
He uses an analogy involving a 🎯 dart and a 🍑 peach to describe the precision required for Apollo 8 to successfully navigate the first trip to the moon.
My words won’t do it justice, just watch the short video here.
🤑 4. How To Get Insanely Rich In The Creator Economy – Article by Nat Eliason
This is the best kind of article – a joke, but also 100% true.
It is brilliant because on operates on multiple levels. It is simultaneously:
- An accurate guide to the paths creators take get rich.
- A scathing diagnosis of the sad reality of “creator businesses.”
- A peek into the future of expertise, where making content about doing the work is more important that doing the work in the first place.
🖐 5. More Things I’m Into This Week
🎶 Soundtrack For This Week – Mahavishnu Orchestra – You Know You Know
⛳️ What The Biggest Myth Of Golf Can Teach Us About High Performance – Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively by David Perell
🫖 Slow The Hell Down And Watch This Teapot Being Crafted – Teapot Craftsman
📓 Book I’m Re-Reading This Week – The Ultimate Coach
7️⃣ 7 Reflections On Seven Years Of Self-Employment – By Paul Millerd
How we can work together
When you’re ready, here are 2 free ways I can help you:
- 🎧 My Podcast. Listen to or watch my free podcast The Rich Webster Show. It is an unfiltered look behind the scenes at my life and work.
- 🛠️ 6-Figure Solopreneur Systems. Free email course. Steal the exact systems I used to run TWO multi-six-figure solo businesses in under 20 hours a week
And 3 paid engagements:
- 🏖 How To Work Less. From 2012-2023, I built a design agency that made me $500k/year, working 10 hours a week. 🏖How To Work Less teaches you how to do it. Enrolling now. (350+ past students. 5 stars) ($3k)
- 🏫 Announcing Next Week!
- 🤝 Work Closely With Me. I advise (high) 6 and 7-figure entrepreneurs on capturing, creating, and communicating value. If that’s you, let’s talk and see if there’s a fit for us to partner together. ($60k+)