Monday - This One’s All About Me

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Hi friends,

Today’s newsletter is about me. Like a public journal entry or something talking to you about what I’m up to and how I feel.

So if you have better stuff to do on a Monday than to read about my life for 5 minutes, go ahead. :)

We’ll talk about:

1. Random thoughts

2. Books I read in January

3. Cool Stuff I’m doing this week

4. Cool Stuff I’m doing this month

5. Summary

Let’s go!

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Random Thoughts

I couldn’t write to you over the weekend because I was busy wrapping up Summit 21’s second cohort. I can’t believe it’s over already! All the anxiety when I released it, the self-doubt about ‘what if it doesn’t work out’, and so much overthinking.

I guess I did something right that we had zero refunds and incredibly positive response.

You know, the last week of January was the first time in this month that I felt free from a trap I created for myself mentally.

I was stressing out so much about everything. Probably because I was suddenly responsible for 25 people who paid me to help them in a span of three weeks, and that felt like a responsibility I’d never taken before.

But it ended well, and that’s all that matters, right?

I also realised that being negative is only making me attract negativity.

And now after a few days, I feel so light and I’m breathing better.

So IDK who needs to hear this but your energy matters. The universe will give you back what you put out.

Also, I hit over 5k followers on Medium!

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📚Books I Read in January

I read six books this month, which is a huge number for me haha. But three of them were audiobooks.

Now I know some people love them and some also find it cool to say they read 5-10 books a month thanks to audiobooks, but I didn’t get absorbed in them one bit.

When I read, I’m on a journey. With audiobooks, it felt like background music. I’d rather absorb two books a month than play plenty in the background. But that’s just me.

Here’s what I read:

1. Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo

2. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult (my #1 fav author btw)

3. If Truth Be Told by Om Swami

4. The Austin Kleon Trilogy (audio)

   1. Steal Like an Artist

   2. Show Your Work

   3. Keep Going

#2 was my favourite and #1 was a breezy and inspirational read one can finish in a day or so.

Fun fact: Jodi is my favourite author since school because hers was the first ‘thick’ book I read with tiny text haha.

Random realisation: I bought 3 fiction books in one go and realised I need to keep altering between non-fiction and fiction.

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Cool Stuff I’m Doing This Week

Asked a random question, got a good response, and am going ahead with it.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, a thread is a series of tweets under one tweet to give you information.

I’m publishing one every day at 1930hrs IST approx with an automatic retweet in 12 hours for the side of the globe that missed it.

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Cool Stuff I’m Doing This Month

I’m doing a bunch of learning, doing, and reading this month.

I will mention all the links in the end again so don’t worry about navigating on the go.

Learning

I’m so, so excited about this!

🏛Stoicism Course

I’ve enrolled myself in a Stoicism course that I told you about a few weeks ago. So happy that three of you joined in!

• Why I’m doing it: So far, I’ve only read Ryan Holiday in Stoicism. I’m looking forward to exploring and learning more and using it in my daily life to balance my emotions (unlike earlier this month when I was stressed and overwhelmed).

Cost: $50

If this is something that you’d be interested in, you can reply and I’ll ask the instructor if there’s a link for the next one as the current one is expired.

💰LinkedIn Course

I know there’s a lot of potential in this platform that I haven’t tapped into. I’ve had my virality but I really don’t care about going viral it’s a stupid metric in my opinion and I’d rather aim for sustained traction.

• Why I’m doing it: It’s by Tim Denning. If you’re on Medium or LinkedIn, you know he’s big there. And I want to learn from the best, always.

Cost: $297 (has 3-tier pricing)

It’s expensive I know, but so far the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent to learn have always given me thousands in return. So I take this as an investment.

Think about it - If spending $300 can give you a $3000 customer, then ROI is huge :)

It’s self-paced, so I’ll take my own sweet time to finish it. 15m a day or something, let’s see.

Here’s the link if you want to kick ass with your LinkedIn game (+ be my accountability buddy if you join, please).

🤓Reading

I’m reading

1. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshal.

This is the sequel to Prisoners of Geography which is a mind-blowing book. I don’t enjoy geography one bit but that book really gave me such interesting nuggets of info I didn’t know earlier.

10/10 recommend!

2. The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature by Robert Greene

3. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday

I wanted to read these ‘daily meditations’ book in 2022 as it’s one page a day, but I forgot. :)) So starting in Feb.

⛰Teaching

After

• 2 cohorts

• 100% sold out

• 65+ students

• 25+ countries

• 0% refund rate

I’m kicking off Summit 21 Cohort 3 from Feb 14 - March 07, 2022.

If you want to become more consistent, improve your writing game, build your online presence and while you’re doing it - create your personal brand with no effort, this course is for you.

The last day of cohort 2 is today and I’m yet to ask for testimonials, but these two flooded in last night :)

Wendy from our cohort is even made this BIG move to reduce her working hours and make more time for writing. This is exactly how the journey from full-time to self-employment starts.

If you have questions about it, reply to this email or DM me on Twitter/ LinkedIn.

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Lastly

Whoa, that was a long read.

I told ya, it’s just me rambling my thoughts on a Monday.

Here are the resources I shared:

1. Books

   1. Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo

   2. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

   3. If Truth Be Told by Om Swami

2. Courses

   1. Summit 21 - of course, I’ll put this first. :))

   2. LinkedIn Bad Assery

   3. Stoicism (don’t have the link, reply if you want me to ask around for more info)

Also, I’m going to be on a holiday later this week so you’ll probably not hear from me next weekend.

I hope you all have a lovely week ahead.

Love,

N