Oh, the joys of mono-tasking!
Oh, hi friends!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
The only way to get through a busy time is to pick one task.
Work on it.
Finish it.
Then, and only then, you move on to the next.
This means not picking up my phone while I’m editing a story, or peeking at my email when I’m drafting an invoice, or changing the song on Spotify while I’m writing this newsletter, or drifting onto Slack after getting my patented 3pm M&Ms and pretzels snack.
I’m always hunting for a shortcut, but the real shortcut is mono-tasking.
I dare you.
Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous.”
I remember the people who lifted me up in this way. Do you? And can you return the favor to someone else? (ht/ Farnam Street Brain Food newsletter)
Um, a stray cat stumbled onto a fashion runway in Istanbul and cleaned itself and gently swiped its little paws at models and then, literally, walked the catwalk. I watched this Instagram clip eight times yesterday. (h/t The Cut)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara