Hello My Adventurers! 

Happy holidays! I hope you're all enjoying this festive season with your family and friends. This week, my core focus was solely on writing and learning about health-related topics. Recently, I began the Andrew Huberman Blue Print program, which is divided into three phases from morning to night.

Moreover, I've started noticing positive changes in my body; even my energy levels remain stable after lunch. I've become more conscious about health, and a particular phrase is resonating in my mind: "When you become an adult, eat like an adult," meaning no snacks for adults. I've revamped my entire diet and am experiencing improved results in terms of sleep quality and attention span.

On another note, I just finished reading "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" by Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad. I've distilled key insights from the book that I'd like to share with you.

• Ask Yourself: If I could fix one thing about my world, what would it be? What kind of business do I want to own and run?

• Ideas from Problems: The ideas for a successful business come from solving problems within your community. Narrow down your ideal customer, define the problem, build a solution, and charge for it. Formula: Community + Problem + Solution/Product = Business.

• Minimalist Businesses: They're not about settling for the minimum. They're about creating sustainable value, taking calculated risks, and empowering others to do the same.

• Startup Reality: Around 70% of startups fail. But the 5% that succeed bring significant returns. "Every entrepreneur should have the creator mentality.

• Building with Purpose: Focus on a community you know well. Tope Awotona started three companies before Calendly, proving that understanding your community is key.

• Passion Over Skills: Entrepreneurship is about interests, not just skills. Start by focusing on what interests you and finding a problem you're passionate about solving.

• Starting Small: Every big idea was once small. Consider freelancing or working on side projects to experiment, learn, and make mistakes.

• Flexibility is Key: Be open to changing industries or refining ideas. The best businesses often evolve from freelance work or side projects.

• Early Challenges: Collect customer feedback, test with early adopters, and celebrate the product-market fit milestone. Slowly sell to your first hundred customers before a grand launch.
  
  Did you know: Jeffrey Katzenberg, former CEO of Dreamworks, and Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, founded a streaming video service Quibi. After rushing to launch before going to the market, the company's launch party got canceled due to COVID 19. Within six months, it closed down and returned investors' money.

• Mastering Content Creation: Share educational content to position yourself as an authority. People will come to you for expertise. Remember, content creation is a powerful marketing strategy.

• Inspire and Entertain: Share inspiring stories and entertaining content. Make your business relevant and connect with a broad audience.
  
  Try This:
  
  1. Identify Your Ideal Customer.
  2. Define the Exact Problem You're Solving.
  3. Set a Deadline, Build a Solution, and Charge.
  4. Repeat Until You Find a Working Product, Then Scale.

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a healthy start to the new year!

Love,

Ammar

💌 Things I Love the Most

AI Tools for Productivity

1. Papermark AI: Revolutionize your document sharing and collaboration. Share pitch decks, sales proposals and other docs securely with real-time analytics and white-labeling options.

2. Dewstack AI: Effortlessly craft and manage AI-powered docs that elevate your content and empower your users with instant answers.

3. CapGo AI: Make market research effortlessly fast. Seamlessly gather vast web information into spreadsheets in seconds.

4. Linnk AI: Skim any website and get Instant insights. Navigate directly to your point of interest with just one click using AI.

5. Create: Create apps automatically in under 2 mins with AI.

6. Krisp AI: Communicate with increased clarity and confidence in every call with AI-powered noise cancellation, transcription and meeting notes.

7. Snoooz AI: Send personalized out of office responses and automatically loop in backups on urgent conversations, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.

8. Innovating with AI*: Unleash your productivity with the No-Code AI Toolkit. Save hours weekly with user-friendly automation tools and streamline tasks without coding.

9. Simple Analytics: Get insights about your business by chatting with your analytics in real-time using AI.

10. Streak: AI-powered CRM co-pilot with data entry, precise insights, and tailored suggestions to help your team make informed decisions.

Weekly Quote:

My Weekly Journaling Prompts:

1. What’s 1 new thing you learned about yourself this week?

2. What do you have fun failing at?

3. What do you keep trying to excel but hate failing at?

4. How has that held you back?

5. If you had all the money and time in the world, how would you use your talents to serve others?

6. What would you like to do, if you knew you couldn’t fail?

Video Of The Week :

In this video, we delve into a topic that often carries a negative connotation: loneliness. We're going to explore the potential advantages of experiencing loneliness, offering a fresh perspective on what is typically seen as a solely undesirable state. Our discussion will not only examine the various ways in which loneliness can have positive aspects.

A Podcast Worth Listening: 🦻 

Remote Jobs: 🧑‍🏭 

1. Sports Illustrated needs freelance writers with experience in health, beauty, and lifestyle.

2. Freshbooks needs freelance writers for 2024 accounting/fintech blogs, ebooks, case studies, landing pages, and social media writing

3. The Skimm (US) needs a part-time brand marketing contractor for December into 2024 (post is from two weeks ago, but doesn’t say closed)

4. Atlassian (US) needs a full-time community manager intern summer 2024

5. IPG Health needs a freelance associate director of engagement strategy

6. Ruby Money needs a freelance social media manager to run Meta campaigns for B2C fintech brands

7. Accounting Associate at Zotec Partners

8. Controller at Rhino

9. Senior Accountant at Business Wire

10. Sr. Executive Assistant at Extra Hop Networks

11. HR Business Partner (Contract) - Remote at Clari
    Payroll Specialist at Kin + Carta

12. Content Strategist at Included Health

13. Freelance Senior Content Designer – Americas Team at 10up

14. Delinea | Talent Acquisition Coordinator (Remote)

15. Ascendion | Content Writer (Remote)

16. Onboarding Specialist - REMOTE..

Juicy Reads to Check Out: 📰 

I watched a clip of Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan sharing how his life changed when he understood the phrase "Focus on the snow, not on the Trees." If you are doing ice skating and try to avoid trees, eventually, you end up hitting them. Your mind and body naturally gravitate towards what you are actively doing or thinking. The act of avoidance can ironically make the very thing you are trying to avoid more inevitable.

"The key is to look where you want to go, not at what you want to avoid."

In 2004, UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff brought attention to this phenomenon with his book, "Don't Think of an Elephant." The premise remains the same: the more we try not to do something, the more likely we are to do it.

Psychologists refer to this as the Ironic Reversal Theory or the Ironic Process Theory.

This phenomenon explains why anti-drug PSAs have been shown to increase drug use among teens who had never considered doing drugs before. The power of a suggestion about avoiding something makes it more likely to happen.

How can you focus on what you want? Here are some action steps:

1. Understand how to focus on things. If you constantly think about money, it might eventually elude you. Instead, focus on the process of making money, not just the thought.

2. Focus on converting things you want into habits. This method helps break many habits. For example, if you want to quit smoking, instead of constantly thinking about not smoking, replace that urge with another habit. Use cues and triggers, like setting healthy food in your fridge and on your table when you feel hungry. This consistent #cue and #trigger setting helps you maintain a healthy diet.

3. Give yourself a #reward" when you engage in positive behavior. If you eat healthy, celebrate and appreciate yourself. Make it a positive, reinforcing experience.

Remember, always look where you want to go, not at what you want to avoid.

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See you next week. 🙂