WORK LESS WEDNESDAY

WLW #210

September 18, 2026

👋 Hey Reader!

This is issue #210 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. New Podcast – “​my lessons from $50k+ of mentorship – rich diary 002”

Week 2 – we are back!

Thank you for all the positive feedback (messages, DMs, comments) – sounds like we will be going with this format for a while.

Among other things, this week I discuss:

  • Book proposal update
  • What i’m reading
  • How to find great mentors
  • The roi from spending multiple 5 figures on mentorship
  • Struggles with phone addiction and attention

Please let me know what you think and if there’s any topics you’d love to hear more about.

​You can watch the YouTube (video) version here.​

​Or take me on the go with the Spotify (audio) version.​

👊 2. Amazing Article Worth Reading – How To Unclench by Jonny Miller

Was really excited to discover this deep dive from Nervous System Mastery founder Jonny Miller on How To Unclench.​

If you don’t know what clenching is – here’s a good definition:

Clenching is unconsciously holding tension in a way that narrows your capacity to feel and respond.

Everyone does it.

Our nervous system will unconsciously clench or tighten as a way to protect us from perceived threats.

You might even feel this in your body as you sit at the computer or scroll on your phone right now.

Johnny’s guide is a 30 minute deep dive that uncovers why we clench and how to practice unclenching – it also includes 10 “Unclenching Practices” designed to help.

​Highly recommend checking it out.​

🎸 3. Underrated Strategy – Being Cringe Is Cool​

This short article from Sasha Chapin explains the Moat of Low Status.

(This is an idea that is expounded upon in their book “You Can Just Do Things” which I included in WLW a few weeks ago).

The point is that if you want to do anything cool in life, you need to be cringe first.

You must embarrass yourself. You must be a beginner. You must look stupid.

And this stops most people from doing anything.

When I started posting on Instagram in 2021, I committed to one thing – just post every day, no matter what – for one whole year.

My original posts were cringe.

But here I am now.

🏆 4. A Quick Way To Get Some Gratitude Back In Your Life – Ordinary Abundance

Give yourself four minutes to scroll through this ordinary apartment.

It may give you some perspective, and some gratitude.

We have much more to be grateful for than we realize.

​Check it out.​

🖐 5. More Things I’m Into This Week…

📕 Book I’m Reading – Mastery by Robert Greene​

🕹️ Video Game I’ve Now Bought For The 3rd Time – Elden Ring (On Switch 2)​

📗 Interesting Article As I’m Preparing To Write A Book – The Art of Self-Promotion by Jack Raines​

🇸🇪 Swedish Cartoon I Just Discovered – Moomin (thanks Isak!)

💬 Quote I’m Pondering…

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How we can work together

When you’re ready, here are two free ways I can help you:

  • 👤 My Substack. My weekly Substack inner entrepreneur discusses the internal side of entrepreneurship – mindset & growth.
  • 🎧 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.

And you can work with me here:

  • 🤝 Creative Partnership. I work closely with high-level creative entrepreneurs + consultants to hit their first (or next) million in revenue.
  • 🧠 Advisory. Custom advisory services to select brands, leaders, and companies on creative strategy, inner work, and influence.

How we can work together

When you’re ready, here are two free ways I can help you:

  • 👤 My Substack. My weekly Substack inner entrepreneur discusses the internal side of entrepreneurship – mindset & growth.
  • 🎧 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.

And two paid engagements:

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