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💭 ONE THING WE’RE THINKING ABOUT

Despite what you may have heard, we have not been sipping cocktails by the pool in our absence (okay maybe once or twice), we’ve been rebuilding the Portal — Welcome to The Portal 2.0!

We're excited to share that our "One Thing We’re Thinking About" deep dives now have a new home on our new BLOG 🥳 This means our weekly emails will remain short and sweet, while our longer rabbit holes live on a blog that you can read now, later, or share with your friends.

HERE’S A PEEK AT THE FIRST 5 ARTICLES

🤡 Why Perfection is Ruining Your Productivity: How to Ditch Unrealistic Expectations and Get More Done

🧠 Overcoming Executive Dysfunction: 5 Strategies to Eliminate Brain Buffering

☁️ The Best Kept Productivity Secret is Deep Chill: Why Downtime Enhances Focus and Creativity

💎 How to Overcome Shiny Object Syndrome: 4 Ways to Implement Deep Work and Finish What You Start

🔋 How to Prevent Burnout Before It's Too Late: 5 Easy Practices to Refill Your Tank Before it's Empty

🎧 ONE THING WE’RE LISTENING TO

HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST: How to Break Out of a Rut (50 min)

Whether it’s creative block, general life inertia, or just feeling a little itchy about life, this is an excellent listen with a lot of great ideas and reframes for getting out of a rut.

👀 ONE THING WE’RE OBSESSED WITH

Okay, so our relationships with screen time is… complicated. Our screen time limits just aren’t hitting these days, so we’re giving the Wellspent App a try.

The UX and UI are phenomenal, you can choose the tone of the notifications, and the free version gets the job done. It turns out that getting roasted by a screen-time app and reminded to go outside and touch grass is pretty effective 🤷‍♀️

Here’s a sneak peek of the app, and if you try it out let us now what you think!

🤔 ONE QUESTION FOR YOU

⭐️ ONE LAST THING

Our invite must’ve gotten lost in the mail 😒

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