Your 2023 Theme | #100

Do you have a specific 2023 theme? Reply back and let me know! 👋

Mine is “double-down.” Want to hear more? Reply back and ask me about it!

Speaking of themes…

I was lucky to talk to Mari Andrew about her 2023 theme “I have everything I need” and so much more for a recent podcast mixer episode and event.

Below are some incredible unofficial excerpts from Mari Andrew. Please refer to our episode for the actual specific quotes and more. Thank you!

On intuition and what to do:

“listen to your life, pay attention to your life, listen to your soul. And that's going to be what guides you.”

On cultivating wisdom:

“We are a culture that has so much information, and so little wisdom. And if we're going to cultivate that wisdom, we have to stop like reaching for information.”

On prioritizing joy:

“Like so many things in life, it's a domino. It's when you are putting your own joy on the calendar and saying, ‘I’m going to do this at this hour.’ It makes you do other things differently… If I'm prioritizing my own joy for five minutes, maybe I can prioritize my own joy in other ways.”

On being specific when writing:

“The more specific you are, the more authentic you are, and the more singular your voices, it's like most people won't like it. But the ones who do connect to it are going to connect really hard. So I always try to think like, I'm just writing for one person right now.”

On her creative writing process:

“So I would say like the answer that comes to my head, and this is sort of a first draft answer. But just what immediately came up is I don't think I do create from what's currently happening to me. In the sense of, when I write about something, it's always processed. And that means that I might have processed it a second ago. So it might be past, as in it happened at lunch time, and I'm writing it you know in the evening. But it's always processed.... If my life is a potato, then my writing is like a bag of potato chips. It's like the most processed version.”

Looking for some theme inspiration? Here is what some people wrote during the podcast mixer! Don’t forget to let me know your life theme! 👋

Special thanks to Rachel Cantor and Kyle Hagge of Oddly Specific for cohosting this podcast mixer with me!

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🎧 Episode 270: Having a Good Enough Job with Simone Stolzoff

Two big ideas from this episode are around:

• having a good enough job. Not a job that you are really passionate about. Something that gives you ENOUGH, however you define that right now.

• taking a more transactional approach to work. Using and seeing your job as a way to get paid to do what you want and need outside of work, peace of mind, etc. And setting personal boundaries around that. What do you think?

That’s it for now!

I would love to hear from you on Instagram, having you reply back here, or leaving a comment below!

~ David Nebinski who is heading to London this week for our Chief of Staff London Summit. Are you in London too? Let me know! 🇬🇧

PS: OK... this is my final attempt lol. what is your 2023 theme?

PPS: so, this is newsletter number #100. do people celebrate these kind of milestones haha?!?!? either way, thank you for being part of my journey! And I hope you are having an amazing day!