5-Reps: Clear to you, showing love, and getting less busy

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Here's what's new this week.

Why Most People Never Achieve Greatness (and how you can) (Podcast)
5 Books That Will Change Your Life (YouTube)
How to Grow Social Media from Nothing (or, basically nothing) (Article)

Additionally, here is a podcast interview:

Passion, Profit, and Simplicity (Pt. 1) (The Knowledge)
Focus, Family, and Freedom (Pt. 2) (The Knowledge)

Moving on, here's a few short thoughts this week.

Money

You don’t get less busy by working harder. Ridiculous. That’s like trying to stop a storm with more wind. You get less busy by doing less things, but doing them better, and with more intentionality.

The paradox of social media growth:

People who create less and connect more often have the most success.

But with pressure to create, there's no time left to connect. The advantage, therefore, is in connecting, not creating.

From this week's new article: How to Grow Social Media from Nothing

3.You have a thing. A thing that comes natural to you. A thing that you just seem to get. Where you wonder why, even if it’s hard, you have boundless energy for it. A thing that makes sense to you in a way that disables you from having conversations with people you know about it because it’s so clear to you, and foreign to them.

Health

Everybody has a million problems until they have a health problem. Then they only have one problem.

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Relationships

Sometimes we show the least amount of love to the people we love the most. When everything at home appears to be in harmony, you will be lured into neglecting your commitment to your most important relationships.

By the time serious problems arise, it’s often too late. The time to invest in building strong families and close friendships is when it appears, on the surface, that it’s not necessary.

There's something fundamentally different about working alongside your children versus just playing with them. Both matter, but they build different kinds of connections.

Play teaches children that you enjoy their company. Work teaches them that you value their contribution.

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Finishing this, logging off, and taking a few days off. Going to try and actually be off. Maybe go for a three-a-day nap record, back-to-back.

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