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Some quick life updates:
- In December, I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to focus more seriously on some chronic health issues. I love Mexico City, but navigating health care en español wasn’t ideal.
- I’m still running Focusmate. We hired our 10th team member — our first growth hire — to help us deepen our reach in the ADHD community, where Focusmate has had the strongest impact and clearest product-market fit. I’m almost 10 years into this journey and still fired up about what’s coming, and I’m grateful for that.
- I am newly obsessed with pickleball and playing as much as I can handle 🙂
Some interesting tidbits from my world lately:
#1: “Attention = no tension”
- I love how this phrase conceptualizes paying attention as a physical experience of relaxation. For example, when I’m listening to someone but thinking about my response, I can feel that as tension in my neck, face, etc.
Related to this, if I notice tension in my body, I use that a potential sign to not say what I’m considering saying.
#2: Money mindset
- In my younger years, some serious “wealth is bad” conditioning unconsciously drove my life choices in the direction of poverty. Two new narratives helped up-end that: First is that money can facilitate ease in life, so not having enough sabotages your ability to share your gifts with the world. Poor = selfish (?!)
Second is that wealth can mean stewarding resources that aren’t yours per se, but which you can put to work in service of others or your purpose.
Together these helped me stop martyring around money and get excited about welcoming wealth in my life.
#3: Sustainable > Ideal
- When I was considering this newsletter, my brilliant friend Blake Smith asked me: What topics can I easily write about? And what frequency can I easily maintain?
I used to set goals based on what seemed ideal, which often led to failure. I’m loving the context of setting goals based on what I can easily sustain, rather than what seems ideal.
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