Cheat codes to make things easy

Greetings back in Austin, 

Spoiler alert: there are no cheat codes. 

BUT there are easy and hard approaches. 

Say whattt? Example time. 

I woke up at 5am all 28 days of February. 

Hard way would be to do this alone. 

Easy way was finding a group. 

Think for yourself, where is your group? 

Update: the Feb 5am group led to other fun things. My homie/fellow newsletter reader Jordan invited me to his March daily habits group. (Thanks Jordan!)

Okay, let’s boogie. 

🐦 Tweet of the week

Here are my 5 favorite tips for ANYONE who uses Google Docs.

✍️ Essay: Now, Not How

Have a bunch of ideas but don’t know where to start? 

Samesies.

Well, that’s how I used to operate. I wanted first to read a book or take a course, before doing the actual thing. (dumb approach)

Then I learned a WAY better approach.

A simple framework to prioritize now, not how.

 Check it out here. 

🧠 Highlight of the Week

Picasso said this too. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” 

Okay, so wtf does it mean? 

• To create a painting, you destroy the clean white canvas
• To create a morning routine, you destroy the late-night routine
• To create a new way of thinking, you destroy the old way of thinking

Let’s get specific. Who wants to write more? 

*points microphone at the crowd*

*crowd is silent, confused*

*one person in back shouts “I do!” and mitchell gets hyped*

Nice. 

So the act of daily writing is a new creation — therefore something needs to go (aka get destroyed). How about scrolling IG? Checking email first thing in the morning? You get the point. 

Remember there’s an easy way and a hard way. 

BONUS: I’m starting a Twitter Writing group in a few weeks. 

Reply to this email “Let’s write together” if you want in!

Todo es bueno,

Mitchell 

PS. When Steve Harvey had hair