Saturday Success: help yourself, spending simplified & how to be a top 1% writer
Making life & money work for you.
Welcome back to the Saturday Success Series email!
This week we have:
Master Yourself:
Master Your Money:
And of course…
The Weekly Special:
The goal here is maximum value, so let’s get to it.
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Master Yourself
Chris Rock tells a great story about having to help yourself first.
When he was still broke he had a piece of shit car that would constantly break down on him.
He’d have to push it to an auto shop.
When he would try to flag people down to help him, no one would stop.
When he would start trying to push the car himself, tons of people would stop to help.
Because when people see you trying to help yourself, they’re 100x more likely to try and help you too.
If you pop into someone’s DMs immediately asking basic questions, you’re likely to get rebuffed.
If you pop into someone’s DMs explaining how you used a piece of their content and are trying to figure out the last part, you’ll get help 9 times out of 10.
Master Your Money
We all spend a good bit of money every month. Some expenses can’t be helped. Housing, transportation and food have to happen. And you should always be checking to see how you can save on the Big 3.
But every other purchase is up for debate. You can think before you spend. And you absolutely should.
View your monetary spending through three lenses. Negative, even and high.
Let me explain.
Negative ROI:
You bought Burger King for dinner. You spent 20 bucks and it left you unhealthier. Your financial bucket and your health bucket are both squawking.
Even ROI:
You bought a 200 dollar pair of sneakers. You spent more than you could have, so your financial bucket is balking. But your health bucket thanks you for running. So we’ll call it even.
High ROI:
You purchased an ETF that will pay you dividends plus appreciation. There is no downside here. Only upside. You took money that could’ve went into the world as a consumer and instead invested it as a creator. Creation > consumption.
Now, if you go back over your last bank statement- how does it look?
How many high ROI purchases did you make? Were there a lot of negative ROI purchases?
If you start using these lenses, you will make better choices with your money.
Weekly Special
How to Write Better Than 99% of People
Most people don’t write very well. Most people don’t even bother writing very often.
And when they do they sound formulaic or robotic.
I’ve found a better way to write. It’s an easier guide than most. But also harder. It requires you to peel back your exterior and let us see you.
When you sit down to write, decide to write…
With blood and guts.
With scraped knees and bruised elbows.
With broken bones and missing teeth.
With a diseased mind and a broken heart.
Without a mask or defenses up.
Feel your feelings and then make it make sense. Make them make sense.
All the realness, all the fucked-upedness in your life, every failure, every win, the processes that led to both, how your messiness helps us.
That’s what we want to see.
It’s so easy to write best of lists. I should know, I’ve done it. I’ll do it again too, because I like them.
But lists are easy. Light work.
It was much harder to write about my mom not liking me (she likes me better now that I don’t live with her), growing up gay (still gay, by the way) and being a borderline alcoholic (couldn’t even commit to that 100%).
But it was much better writing. It’s hard to carbon copy that. It’s what makes you unique.
Other people may have had similar experiences but no one experiences your experiences like you experience them. Your take is unique to you. And it will resonate with others.
Thanks for reading! If you found this valuable, please share with someone who could use it. See you next Saturday!
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