Happy Wednesday, Wise Owl Nation!

We have made it through January and into February!

For some reason that feels like a solid accomplishment these days.

Also, happy lunar new year to all my readers that celebrate!

It is now the year of the Tiger 🐯 which is pretty cool.

Basically what I am getting at is that time is passing along.

Since we are in February it's time for a monthly OKR progress report.

If you don't know what OKRs are, they are "Objectives and Key Results." OKRs are a fancy way of crafting goals.

I wrote about my personal 2022 OKRs in issue #101.

So here is the progress I have made in January:

• Write 5 new chapters by April 1 - 20% complete (1 chapter written)
• Publish 10 YouTube videos by April 1 - 20% complete (2 videos published to YT)
• Reach a $5,000 poker bankroll by April 1 - 39.6% complete (Bankroll at $1981/$5000)

As you might imagine, working on three separate projects at the same time can be somewhat difficult, which is why I have key results to work towards that span the entire quarter.

The biggest success was writing a new chapter in the fantasy fiction novel I have been working on for a while. Writing fiction is fun, but takes a lot of willpower for me to get started. But each and every day that I show up and try to write, the effort to get started becomes much less.

Which is why this week's newsletter is dedicated to the importance of showing up.

Let's get into it.

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🦉🧠 Wise Owl Thought(s) of The Week: Just Show Up

"There is no formula for success - you just begin and then you continue." - Cameron Esposito

The past few weeks at my day job, my software teams have been discussing how to work better. They are working on establishing a process or a workflow that works best for them.

At some point, I realized they were trying to create the perfect workflow in this meeting and I had to stop them. The only way you can find the "best" way of doing something is by getting started and then iterating.

A habit must be established before it can be improved.

You establish a habit by showing up. Every. Single. Day.

I've written about this before, but some topics are worthy of some creative repetition.

Consistency is the key to success. We know this already, but life happens and we rarely have the same levels of energy each day. So when establishing a new habit, it is always okay to do the minimum as long as you are showing up.

Even if you only do one pushup, write one sentence, or meditate for just one minute, that matters.

Not every one of these newsletters is going to be a home run.

That's okay, as long as I am showing up and attempting to provide value to you all each week.

Even if you end up developing a habit of doing the bare minimum, you can always start to focus on doing a little bit more for a while until that becomes a habit.

If you have loved ones that are trying to establish a new habit, be supportive of them by making sure they don't have any "zero days." It is much easier to encourage a loved one to "just do the first pushup" than it will ever be to try to hold them accountable to the full extent of their goal before it has become a habit.

I write this today to remind both you as the reader, and myself as the writer to focus on establishing the new habit by showing up.

Establish now. Optimize later.

Some Cool Things I Found On The Internet

• Curious Beginner's Guide To Crypto
• How To be Wise
• Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
• Soulbound: An NFT thought experiment

Quote/Meme of the week:

Have a great week!

This concludes our issue this week, I hope it gave you some perspective or injected a little motivation into your life!

If it helped, let me know! I read every newsletter response I receive, and I absolutely love hearing from all of you. This newsletter is for you, so I need your help to make it as great as possible.

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More Resources

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Crypto Resources

The Bankless Podcast: This is a link to the bankless podcast on Spotify. Start from the very beginning and learn why I am so positive about the power of Crypto and Ethereum in particular. You can find the podcast easily on the internet, but I am linking to episode 1 on Spotify for your convenience.

Buy your first ETH or BTC:

• On Coinbase - this is the easiest starting place for the newest beginners
• On Gemini - Another great option founded by the Winklevoss brothers. They are based out of New York.
• On Kraken - Kraken has a bit of a harder user interface, but they already have ETH staking enabled with the push of a single button.

Earn interest on your crypto

• BlockFi - Currently, you can earn 4% interest on BTC, 5% interest on ETH, and a whopping 8.5% on stable coins like USDC. Use the referral code b09f24fd to support the newsletter.

Other tools:

• Argent Wallet - This is the best mobile wallet for Ethereum, Defi, and all things on the Ethereum network, including staking. They even have plans to implement Layer 2 to remove network fees.
• Ethhub - this is a weekly newsletter that lists out all the interesting news, articles, and tweets that have happened in Crypto that week. It's free and awesome.
• Ethdashboard - A simple dashboard to look at various metrics in the ethereum space. I mainly use this as a quick tool to check ETH gas fees.
• Cointracker - this is one of the better tools for tracking all of your various crypto across all of the various wallets, exchanges, etc. You can also use them to do your crypto taxes each year.
• Metamask - this is a crypto wallet that you can access from your browser and allows you to easily interact with blockchain apps online.