Before we begin, there's been a lot of media with the launch of Unhinged Habits. I've selected a few I thought you like and find useful:
My family has left Canada every winter for 13 years. Here's how it's changed my life (Op-ed essay in the Globe and Mail Newspaper)
Why Unhinged Habits are the Key to Your Dream Life (Podcast with Abel James)
From one-bedroom apartment to $40m: How Jonathan Goodman initially broke through (Article)
Next, here are a few short thoughts this week.
Money
1
Hardworking people often feel stuck because they don’t have a definition of what being unstuck is. They don’t feel joy because they don’t know what they’re trying to achieve at any given time. They work on a lot, not excited by much. It sucks.
2
"We’ve been sold on a lie that slow and incremental progress in the pursuit of some faceless better future is the ideal way to make changes.
That we can have it all if we just be more consistent, build better habits, and work a bit harder, day after day, for a long time. It’s easy to fill a year this way with chasing down a lot, accomplishing a little, stuck in the trap of consistent mediocrity.
The longer I live, the more I realize that many more things sound correct than actually are correct. Lots of things make complete sense, and just don’t work. Gobstoppers. QR codes as menus. Nickleback’s music. I don’t accept the power or the impact of marginal, small, daily, improvements. It’s too nice. Too pretty. Therefore, too unnatural."
-From Unhinged Habits (Buy your copy here)
Health
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The older I get, the less I want to train super heavy or with barbells.
The risk/reward ratio doesn’t add up. I’m 40 years old and training higher reps (sets of 15-20), full-body, and mostly with DB’s.
Today’s workout was:
- Db rack squats
- DB goblet cossack lunges
- Db romanian deadlift
- Neutral grip weighted chin-ups
Then a smattering of core and arms. OK, fine, then 8 sets of biceps. Obv.
Relationships
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"Breaking through is difficult. Hard work done well isn’t enough. You need leverage. And in a world where everyone is focused on themselves, perhaps the best thing you can do is be the one to lift others up."
-From "From one-bedroom apartment to $40m: How Jonathan Goodman initially broke through"
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I am a Dad and an author, in that order.
-From "How I'm Feeling as an Author on Launch Day"
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-Jon
Promo
"This Book Is a Counterspell for Modern Brain Fog"
Ok, so I read the Goodreads reviews for my book. I am not proud of this fact. Authors should not read the reviews of their book - especially immediately after publication.
There were negative reviews. Corrin gave the book 2 stars and said "Ever notice it’s always men who write these type of books?"
Fair point, Corrin.
But Corrin, I can't change that I'm a man. Well, I guess I could. But I choose not to. So, you're right. A man wrote the book. A man who deeply loves his wife and readily admits that she is the reason he was able to write the book in the first place. But, a man nonetheless.
If you want a book written by a woman. I guess what I'm saying is that I am not your guy and Unhinged Habits is not your book.
Dimitry, on the other hand, gave the book 4 stars - an 86 out of 100, to be exact. Dimitry was very exact. His review is an astonishing 937 words long. It starts like this:
"It is not written from a mountaintop; it’s written from inside the cluttered, negotiated, half-chaotic reality most readers recognize: kids with sticky hands and urgent needs, a marriage that is both refuge and logistics, a phone that always seems to be within reach, and the strange modern problem of having too many options and too little peace."
He then went on to say:
"Its central wager is not that you can become a brand-new person in thirty days. It’s that you can stop being quietly owned – by your stuff, by your screen, by your reflexive obligations, by the identity you keep performing because it once worked."
Dimitry kinda nailed it. But Dimitry's also a man (I'm assuming). So take it with a grain of salt, I guess.
Anyway, stop reading this and buy the damn book already. I'm going to go pick my kids up from school.
This is Jo Chapman. Thanks for the thumbs up Jo!
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