Nov 1, 2020

Sunday Brief - Issue #6

By Kieran Glover • Issue #6 • View online

Hey,

Welcome back to Sunday Brief, this is issue 6 of my weekly email newsletter for creative professionals where I share my thoughts, inspiration, life lessons and interesting reads from that week.

This week marks the start of one of the largest national holidays here in Cambodia - Water Festival! So I’m taking the time to recharge, reset, refine and goal set for the coming month.

I also got around to redesigning and developing my new personal website, so make sure to check it out if you want! It’s still a V1, but keeping it as minimal as possible this time 😀

Current mood: Tinkering with my personal life machine. Artist: Dongkyu Lim.

What I’m thinking about

So I thought it would be fitting to revisit one of the simplest forms of staying productive and that is goal setting.

I think it was in The 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Ferris calls goal setting a dreamline but it’s essentially just a fancy way of defining goals by framing them with a cost attached to them to make them feel more tangible. For more info you can check out the blog post over on the Tim Ferris blog.

Ideal Lifestyle Costing – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

IT’S LESS THAN YOU THINK Somewhere between college graduation and your second job, a chorus enters your internal dialogue: be realistic and stop pretending. Life isn’t like the movies. If you’re fi…

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For me, I use Notion to plan out my Roadmap, but don’t underestimate the untapped potential of something as simple as once a month, once a week, once a day setting some goals in a tangible way. For more details on how I set my goals up in Notion you read one of my very first blog posts and YouTube videos.

Goal setting - My Updated Approach for 2020

I’ve always been a goal setter and have a Yearly Roadmap set up on a productivity tool called Notion. I did a full video in this which you can watch here.

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My favorite things this week

Using Automation to Boost Productivity in the Workplace - My most recent blog post was featured on the N8N Medium.
Sam KB Trading YouTube - For anyone with an interest in Forex trading.
Epidemic Acoustic - Nice for some evening work blocks.
Growing a Successful Business While Working Less - Ali Abdaal Deep Dive

Quote of the week

If your only tool is a hammer, all your problems will be nails

Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly

So that’s it for issue #6 of Sunday Brief. I hope you enjoyed this and it brightened up your inbox ☀️Thanks again for taking the time to read and I hope you have a great week!

Kieran

Resources for creative

As a web designer / developer working on a creative agency, I’m always on the lookout for new tools to a) keep me more productive and b) help me do my job better. Check out some of my favorite tried and tested tools:

Notion - My all time favorite note taking/productivity app
Digital Ocean - My go-to tool for spinning up blogs, websites and more
Webflow - The tool I used most often at work to Build better business websites, faster. Without coding
Landbot.io - Used both personally and professionally, Landbot makes it intuitive and easy to make both simple and complex chat bot experiences. The best part is, it’s a no-code tool.

P.S: Some of these links are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😋

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By Kieran Glover

Welcome to the Sunday Brief ☕️ My name is Kieran Glover and I'm a professional web designer / developer at Cambodia's leading creative agency. Every Sunday I write a weekly email newsletter for creative professionals where I share my thoughts, inspiration, life lessons and interesting reads from that week.

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