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Joel

@joelium
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Reminder to self: Short term pain = long term gain.
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Really looking forward to reading this little beauty that came through the post today @sivers!
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Just got back from Palma in Mallorca - first trip abroad since lockdown. And rather splendid it was too…
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I know location independent businesses are the rage, but are any SEOs/marketers creating local service-based businesses and hiring people to manage operations?
No-one knows which ideas will work and vice versa, because all ideas precede action. Very few ideas survive contact with reality.
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Therefore a good heuristic to employ is that every idea you have is bad until validated. Strive to test your assumptions as quickly and iterate.
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I'm increasingly aware of the importance of conscious lifestyle design i.e. the relinquishing of social and capitalistic norms around economic output, status and prestige to optimise for time and freedom over traditional measures of success
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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” Great quote from Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The subjective experience of time only seems to have accelerated in our hyperconnected online reality. Running on our hedonic online treadmill, we consistently push ourselves to take action, accomplish more and go faster.
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Walking in nature is a wonderful way to return to a more primitive experience, permitting an awakening from the matrix and immersion in our native environment. Slowing down is an integral part of the process.
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Just finished reading 'Endurance', about Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic voyage, following the book recommendation in @jwmares newsletter. Incredible story. I will never complain about being cold again!
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Infusing our days with mindfulness allows us to observe our kneejerk psychological reactions dispassionately. Often initial recognition and ongoing awareness are the catalysts to breaking the mental patterns which bind us.
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#MarketingTwitter Cool visual search engine - same.energy/
Remember - capitalistic culture thrives on exploiting comparison, emphasising the pain of your present condition versus the potential pleasure derived from purchasing products and services, powering the hedonic treadmill.
Our brains are comparison computers, crunching numbers to solve daily expectation equations
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#MarketingTwitter - Is anyone else having their Facebook ad account repeatedly disabled despite no discernable policy violations?
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Hey good people of #marketingtwitter. This seems like a great collaborative community, so just wanted to say hello. I'm a freelance marketer (currently start up based) and hoping to connect with fellow marketing minds!
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A cool rainbow :)
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Humans operate like a flywheel. It takes energy to engage in rewarding activities, but once we're in motion, our momentum is easily maintained.
If you can't make a choice, change your perspective. There are no wrong decisions, just different outcomes.
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So I started a new thing - monthly reviews to parse patterns and reflect on results, so as to inform, and hopefully improve, my future behaviour -bloomsoup.com/august-2020-re…
We humans are obsessed with achievement, seemingly the measuring stick for a life well-lived... [A thread]
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Just as money represents the imaginary method of value exchange for products and services, so achievement is the social equivalent, acting as a proxy for individual worth.
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