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The final Brass Ring Daily of the year

On the subject of finish lines

We’re almost there

A moment to turn around your week

Have you forgotten what you like to do?

You got this, whatever this may be (again)

You know I say this every year

To get out of anticipation stage

Ask Brass Ring Daily: How to find confidence

Changing the narrative of your week

When work is a bento box

The truth about publishing a book

Rejuvenated

It’s me, your friendly neighborhood newsletter writer

A lot can happen in 20 city blocks

When the work doesn’t give you joy

A bit of pep for your Monday

Let's streak through the end of the year

Monday motivation

Why I never talk in the Zoom meeting

Just between us

The 10 ideas exercise

A quick boost for ya

If you’re stuck in a bad loop

Dissolving opportunities

How to focus when that idea seems absurd

Feeling lighter

How to stay hopeful (yes, still)

How to stay hopeful, part 3

How to stay hopeful, part 2

How to stay hopeful

What to do if you can’t concentrate

When you're trying something new

You get extra points this week

How to avoid internet rabbit holes

Alrighty, let's get BACK to it!

How to walk toward the big goal

if this week already has you dry-heaving

In praise of the ‘good enough’ decision

You, your stuff, your identity

A quickie for you

How to choose when there’s too much going on

Is this considered a pep talk

I revived my ancient MacBook

Plotting out your day

Plotting out your day

Logging out for an hour — or forever

Revisiting the project you put on the shelf

closing down the week

I don’t like asking for things, but

Curing the stress hangover

One thought if you’re already behind

My 98-year-old grandpa did it again

We’re almost there

Learning from the best

Limitless energy

Let's believe it

Your pre-Monday recharge

A word flip to make your Friday better

The secret spaces

My three-word mantra for the week

A trick for conquering little annoyances

How to flake...ethically

For when you’re annoyed

Every day for six months

Confessions of a failure junkie

Do it for yourself

Reboot time, my friends

When you call yourself an expert

You are more expensive than you think

Leaning in to that fresh new month feeling

Getting past excuses rooted in fear

Wait, there might be a solution

Today's Brass Ring Daily

Today's Brass Ring Daily

You don’t have to put things off forever

A hopeful Monday

Those days where you do the most

Splintered time vs. chunky time

Getting in the door a different way

I replayed this lunch a thousand times

A super secret project only you know about

why do we put off what we actually want to do?

that unique pain of always wanting more praise

There are no rules

When you're thisclose to being finished

This 97-year-old just fulfilled his lifelong dream

Finding the bliss of being done

You’re better than this and you know it

Go toward the unknown

brought to you by trchnical diffoculties

Let's give July a decent ending

Killing your magazine piles

No one wanted this essay lol

Rip off the wallpaper

Switching to ‘create’ mode

You should just put it out into the world

The politics of group chat

Already feel behind? You need time chunks

The magic of routines

A tale of two Mondays

Playing tennis (or something like it)

Right in the middle

How to respond to ancient emails

Nope you're not gonna do that today

500 words a day

Ocean thoughts

Easy answers

A note for the weekend

Better late than never

A tale of two opportunities

When you only have 5 minutes

What to do when you're in a rut

What hope looks like

Oh boy, the Maisel musical is here

Um, how is it 4:30 in the morning

The deliberate summer

Playing well with others

Stop your doomscrolling

Remember to take one

The work trick that always works

You can come back

A quick one for today

On progress and getting better

A fresh morning

Finding the Delete key

Resisting the speed-scroll

Frasier strikes again

There is always a time

It’s follow-up Friday

a little thing to direct your day

I got nothing

Conquering an unexpected deadline

Finally writing that follow-up email

Send the imperfect pitch

My one trick for focusing every day

What to do when your work plateaus

I love a first day

Finding a reason to work toward anything right now

Imagine what it would be like

Very interesting work

Knowing what you can do

Gathering the crumbs

Getting out of the work (or non-work) rut

Seinfeld’s writing advice for right now

Um, is this cell phone thing normal?

The 102-year-old with a to-do list

Obsession loops — got one?

Your rival is thinking about you, too

Travel regrets

You really don’t want to see my desktop

Reinventing Mondays

Three cheers if you washed your hair this week

Your instincts

Appreciating a dream deferred

Something’s happening at 10:11

How to make Monday feel like the weekend

Blowing up the boxes

Lessons from a pandemic root canal

You simply push through

The time is now

Why all our conversations are the same

You’re doing way more than you think

Permission to ignore a bunch of stuff

Please just delete your to-do list

Well, I’m never going back

Yes, I have the napping gene

What I’ll be watching all month

On acing the bare minimum

Where the days go, go, go

You are adapting

Writing a TV script in a week

Accidentally forgetting your hopes and dreams

How to get rid of old ideas

How to stay creatively engaged

There is always possibility

A Friday is a Friday

Let’s go beyond the to-do list

How to stop reading the news every 5 minutes

Remember all the fun things?

Oh, hi Monday

Working from home? I got you

The most calming thing I did yesterday

Gillian Anderson will make everything better

Pulling it together

So easy they put it on posters

I tried three weird tactics this week

If you’re out of ideas…

Creativity isn’t real

I love a rejection

Power of the ask

When your ex starts dating Lady Gaga

If it felt like nothing got done yesterday

Showing your work

When things don’t go as planned

A cautionary tale

Pulling the thread

I didn’t know you did that?

everyone’s got an opinion

How to protect your time

The genius and the dummy

Four different kinds of finishing

May I borrow your brain

The bus was driving me insane

what happens the day after you win your Oscar

You know I love a streak

Advice from a 98-year-old I know

Swooning over your first iPod

What's the actual cost?

Be the lemur, my friends

A new trick for your to-do list

Hitting that sweet reset button

Hi, here’s a Band-Aid, now rip it off

Laziness, Flow State, and creative sparks

Obsessed with Niles Crane

Shhh, it’s quiet time

That whole 10,000 hours thing

A case of the bad carrots

What I learned from writing 700 of these things

Finding the best spot to create

Your audience is tiny

Hit send before you’re ready

When you don’t have a backup plan

Hungover Friday

Who are you catching?

Maybe this is why you can’t get started

Let’s embrace the utterly boring

I finally know what day it is