If there’s anything I’ve learned in going through life and pursuing scary shit like building a business for yourself, it’s that gratitude is an absolute cheat code. Giving yourself a few minutes every morning to just express gratitude for what you do have in your life will absolutely change your day. Whether you talk to god, the universe, your muse, or just talk to yourself, give yourself a minute to pick out a couple things in your life that you’re truly grateful for. I promise after a few mornings you will feel a shift in your daily energy. I’m grateful for all of you that have joined our little community, and grateful to be learning for you all as we grow.

Working for yourself can be super stressful, super overwhelming. There's no getting around that, especially if you're working by yourself. Maybe you're a solo developer or an artist just trying to get their business going in the space. There's a lot of pressure on your shoulders to know what you should be doing on a daily basis to move your business forward. If you're not careful, you can get hit with that analysis paralysis. You have so many options that you end up doing nothing, or you end up doing so much and taking on so much that you no longer have a life, and you no longer like what you do. Neither one of those options is ideal or anything that you should accept. Here is a quick tip that has brought some more peace into my life, brought me a lot more work-life balance, and has still helped me maintain productive things. The Sunday Night Strategy At the beginning of every week, like Sunday night before your week starts, or whenever your week starts, take out a piece of paper and write down everything that you think needs to get done that week. Everything that's floating around in your head that's causing you anxiety: "I could be doing this, I could be doing that." Write them all down. Make a little bullet list of all those action items. The Magic Wand Game After you've done that, we're gonna play a game where I wave a magic wand, and we're gonna say that five of those things are guaranteed done and perfect, couldn't have been done better, but all of the other things don't get done this week. You have to pick five things that are done perfectly this week. What that's gonna do is it's gonna cause you to think of which ones are the biggest needle movers for you. Which ones, if I can only get these five done, will make the biggest difference for me. Once you highlight those five things, you now have a daily action item for every day of the week, and you're gonna approach every day knowing, "I just need to get this one thing done today, and it'll be a productive day."