Save your eyes, stop guessing, make a choice

🌱 HEALTHY

The 20-20-20 Rule for Your Eyes

If you're staring at screens all day, your eyes are working overtime.

Most people don't realize their blink rate drops from 15 times per minute to about 5 when looking at a screen. That's why your eyes feel dry and tired by the end of the day.

The fix is simple: the 20-20-20 rule.

Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. That's it.

Your eye muscles get a chance to relax, your blink rate goes back to normal, and you avoid that end-of-day eye strain that makes everything feel harder than it needs to be.

Set a timer on your phone or use an app to remind you. It takes basically no effort and actually works.

Takeaway: Try the 20-20-20 rule the next time you're workingg at your laptop. Set a 20-minute timer, and when it goes off, stare out the window or across the room for 20 seconds. Your eyes will thank you.

🪙 WEALTHY

Stop Guessing With Your Prompts

Most people using ChatGPT are just throwing questions at it and hoping something useful comes back.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes you get generic slop that sounds confident but tells you nothing. You end up rephrasing the same question five different ways trying to get something actually helpful.

OpenAI expanded its Academy earlier this year with free tutorials for specific use cases. Business strategy, deep research, planning, development - all with actual prompts that work, straight from the people who built the tool.

Here's why this matters: You're probably leaving better results on the table because you don't know how to structure your prompts properly. Most of us learned by trial and error, which means we developed bad habits and never knew it.

The Academy breaks it down by what you're actually trying to do. Need to analyze market trends? There's a specific prompt structure for that. Want to brainstorm business ideas? Different approach. Deep research on a complex topic? They show you exactly how to frame it.

It's not about learning more AI theory. It's about getting better outputs from the tools you're already using every day.

The best part? It's completely free. No upsells, no "premium tier" - just straightforward tutorials organized by use case.

If you're using AI for work but still feel like you're fumbling around in the dark, this is worth checking out. Pick one collection that matches what you actually do and spend 20 minutes going through it.

Takeaway: Head to OpenAI Academy, find the collection that matches your work, and learn their prompt structure. Stop winging it when the people who built the tool are literally showing you how to use it properly.

📚 AND WISE

Three Choices

In any situation, you have three choices: leave it, change it, or accept it.

Leave it means removing yourself entirely. Walk away.

Change it means taking action to fix or improve the situation. Do something about it instead of hoping it gets better on its own.

Accept it means making peace with things as they are. Stop resisting reality and find a way to be okay with it.

None of these options is better or worse than the others.

The problem isn't picking the wrong one. The problem is not picking at all.

Most of the time, you already know which option feels right. You're just avoiding the discomfort of committing to it.

Takeaway: Think about something that's been bothering you. Which of the three options have you been avoiding?