Another Excuse Newsletter

Welcome back to the Another Excuse Newsletter. It isn’t just another excuse, but a reason to start that thing you’ve been putting off.

What to expect this week:
👓Perspective - Loosen Your Grip
🔨 Tool - Session Buddy
🍿Consume - Pessimist Archive
📖Concept - Bottleneck Journaling

Latest Podcast Episode

This week’s guest is Yasin Mammeri.

Yasin is a content creator with close to a million followers across platforms and the founder of Viral Video Club. Viral Video Club is a business focused on social growth. It includes a community, boot camps, courses and 1-1 coaching. Yasin also consults some of the biggest brands to help them with their social growth.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Collaboration and support being crucial for social growth
• Why having a niche is important
• Mindset and having a support network to overcome self-doubt
• Experimentation and diversification being essential for continuous growth
• Transparency and vulnerability builds trust with your audience
• Challenges can help overcome mental blocks and unlock hidden potential
• Long-term consistency is key to sustained success
• Overcoming past struggles can fuel a hunger for success.

You can check out the episode here.

Perspective

Loosen Your Grip

When we start something we tend to be a bit stiff.

It could be starting a business, learning to play an instrument, a new sport, or anything in between.

We’re stiff because we're paying attention to every move. It's all new and doesn't come naturally.

And then the person who's teaching us will tell us to loosen our grip. To relax a bit.

It feels counterintuitive, it doesn't feel right, but it works.

Soon you realise that everything comes a bit more naturally when you relax.

You go with the flow and let things happen a bit more naturally.

In business, you give people more autonomy and trust.

Learning an instrument you literally loosen your grip.

And playing a new sport, just do the basics. Relax and the rest will come.

I needed to hear this.

Sometimes we get caught up in it all. Forget why we’re doing it.

The point is to have fun and enjoy the journey.

So, loosen your grip, it will all work out fine.

Tool

Session Buddy

This tool has saved me countless times.

It might be more applicable to PC users than to Mac users, but I think it’s helpful to everyone.

It’s a Chrome extension that allows you to save tabs and windows from a particular session.

You can save them in categories and dates to keep them organized too.

If you didn’t realize, I use a PC and unlike Mac, it’s definitely better for them to be switched off every day after use.

Or maybe mine’s just a bit old, but I know it helps.

Anyway, I’m a serial tab collector.

I open hundreds of tabs in a session and then I tell myself I’ll definitely need them later.

Most of the time I don’t, but having the ability to save them all to give me that peace of mind, has been a lifesaver.

So, if you’re like me and need to record all of your open tabs, but need to save your computer from over heating, I’ve found your solution.

You’re welcome.

Consume (Read / Watch / Listen)

Pessimist Archive

This might be one of the best social accounts on the internet.

The Pessimist Archive is all about the past.

It’s “a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and trends.”

Where we've come from, what we achieved and the scary predictions made by the media that never came true.

We forget about the past so quickly. Too quickly in fact.

This account makes that evident because our reactions to things seem to repeat themselves.

Check out his most recent post below:

A page like this is so important.

It acts as a reminder not to buy into everything we hear. To not get sucked into the hysteria.

To take a step back and understand what’s really going on, and maybe it isn’t the case.

It’s a reminder to think for yourself.

And I think we all need to be reminded of that sometimes.

Concept

Bottleneck Journaling

We all know what a bottleneck is.

It’s something or someone that delays progress.

And if you’re reading this, I assume you’re someone who likes to make progress, but are you paying attention to your bottlenecks?

We all have them, but we very rarely pay any attention to them.

Like most things, they can only be addressed if you pay attention to them.

And Bottleneck journaling does just that.

It’s a method of reflective journaling where you have one main objective: removing the bottlenecks holding you back.

The external ones are usually easier to remove than the internal ones, but either way, you need to realize they’re there before you can take action against them.

And turning it into a journaling practice forces the level of reflection necessary to highlight them and then take action.

Many successful entrepreneurs swear by this practice. They attribute their success to it.

This applies to most things in life. We look for an external solution, an answer or wisdom from a coach, but most of the time we already know the answer.

We just haven’t taken the time to figure out that it’s there and then come up with a plan to solve it.

Get rid of your personal bottlenecks. See what happens.

Thanks for Reading

Now start something!

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