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