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goddessoflists

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About goddessoflists

Writer | kadambari.bearblog.dev

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    I've tried Substack, Buttondown, ConvertKit but I overall prefer Ghost(Pro).

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    Many congratulations to you!

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    Comment #37552760

    One can dream :)

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    I used to collect ideas to act on later too. I still have several documents full of them, not to mention notebooks. Recently, I'm trying to stop looking for more and do something a…

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    > I think the hardest part is just getting started, so I'm scheduling time each day to write something. It doesn't have to be fantastic, just something to get me moving forward. Yo…

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    >It is quite simple. Do you want to build something? Then go build it. >You notice you lack information while building? Go read it. >Not the other way around. >Unless you want to r…

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    This! I used to spend ages on organising notes and documents because I believed that would help me work better. I recently gave that up and now focus only on taking action, and I'v…

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    > There's room for validation of an idea etc., but (over)imagining what completion looks / feels like prior to execution can rob that drive to execute. I think pairing sharing an i…

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    I've tried both telling and not telling, and it hasn't made a difference. I've told people and not achieved the goal, told and achieved it, didn't tell and achieved it, and didn't …

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    > I wonder if the author is doing more than writing about it. I was frustrated with how little, proper and useful information there is out there about studying psychology and makin…

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    I fell in this trap often, so to avoid it when I decided to launch a magazine, I also took an action at the same time, one that would make it difficult to back out: I sent emails t…

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    > But how actionable is most information out there? I think it depends on our individual information diets. I've gradually curated my internet diet to avoid receiving and reading s…

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    > Maybe corollary to this is that if you can’t do any immediate action with it, skip the read. This is what I do. I've been curating my internet diet a lot over the last four years…

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    Definitely. The thing is, I'm already doing things whenever possible as an individual, but I've spent so long alone that I'm really craving the company that a community provides. I…

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    I considered that too, but I'd like the group to exist offline as much as possible; talking about ideas isn't the same as acting on them. I really didn't think very deeply about th…

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    > I journal every day and I try build experimental software projects what I think is valuable or interesting. > For example, I love goodness, positivity, light and think on these t…

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    > I wish I could follow through with projects I’m not getting paid for ;) This was a problem for me as well, but this post by Oliver Burkeman helped me take action and launch The M…

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    > My hunch is that this club won’t work because it fundamentally is just another distraction from the goal here: which is to actually do something. Just do it. Hi, as I wrote in th…