Hi Reader, Happy Juneteenth! And I hope my friends in the Northeast are staying cool in the heat dome. Are you trapped in the never-ending game of whack-a-mole with your goals, tasks and priorities? Do you keep tackling the “small” things and putting off the “big” things. Supercharge your Productivity is the only course that connects the pursuit of productivity to life’s larger questions so you can design a system that works for you.
🎧 In this week's podcast, we ask: How do you build a lifestyle business? The new status symbolsI made the biggest purchase of my life when I was 26 years old. It was a fancy condo in the East Village of New York City. And a tale of two cities. It was 585 square feet ("worst of times") and had a sexy pool on the roof ("best of times"). I won't share what oversized closets were selling for nearly two decades ago. But I was single. And I had bought access to a rooftop pool. This was going to be a crowd pleaser with the ladies. (Turns out I met Lisa a few months later… she found the pool douche-y.) And it turns out status symbols can change with time.
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