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Silly Word Games, Kermit the Frog, and Bringing Your Creative Ideas to Life

Internet People: Issue 091

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Internet People
July 17, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Welcome to Internet People: A weekly email about slow productivity, digital well-being, and living a more creative work life — written by and for Internet People :)

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Hellloooo to all the new Internet People who joined us in the past week after grabbing one of our shiny new freebies 👀 You’ll come to find out that most weeks, things are pretty unserious around here — and this week is no exception! Welcome hehe 😎

🚨 Happening Soon

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Our weekly Community Coworking Sprint starts at 11a PT/ 2pm ET and we’d love to see you there! 👉 Join us on Zoom

💭 One Thing We’re Thinking About

Even if you’re not a sports person, we all love a good comeback story, because it’s always about overcoming resistance and finding success. You know the ones — Rocky, Remember the Titans, A League of Their Own.

As it turns out, the psychology behind how these comebacks happen has some very interesting parallels with what we know about focus, attention, and getting things done.

When faced with resistance, you have to find the momentum to get into a flow state.

It’s very easy to see flow happen in sports and creative activities, but we’ve discovered that it’s just as likely to show up for mundane activities like doing the dishes and answering emails — you just have to understand how to create it.

This is why we always talk about the power of flow state. Being in a flow state makes it easier to override mental resistance.

We developed the Flow State Formula to actually train ourselves for focus (yes, even you with ADHD, bc same — that’s why we made it lol). We’ve practiced this formula for years and it’s amazing how consistently it works and has trained us for flow.

🤩 This issue of Internet People is sponsored by Sunsama

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👀 One Thing We’re Obsessed With

Anna may be trying to reduce her tech usage for the next 30 days, but that might be f*cked by this CUTE ASF word game??!

They release 1 new free puzzle everyday, so it’s not addictive! No ads. Satisfying haptics. Very delightful. We’re huge fans of little games around here.

🎧 One Thing We’re Listening To

NEW PODCAST EPISODE:

How to Stop Daydreaming and Actually Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life (23 min)

This week, we dropped a new episode that actually started out as a hot take on MJ’s Instagram stories!

In this episode, MJ shares:

🌀 The one activity that she thinks every creative person should do
💫 How to make progress toward the creative work life you want
👀 The unexpected creative practice that brings us the most opportunities
🧠 4 mental roadblocks that keep you dreaming about “one day”

🤔 One Question For You

⭐️ One Last Thing

📌 Happening in the Spacetime Universe

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