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🌱 HEALTHY
Your Sign to Drink More Water
Studies show that around 75% of people are chronically dehydrated, drinking far less water than their bodies actually need.
Most healthy adults need between 2 to 3.5 liters daily - roughly 8 to 15 cups depending on your size and activity level. But that's just the baseline. If you're traveling, exercising, or in a hotter climate, you need more. Your body loses water faster in all those scenarios.
Even losing 3% of your body weight in water can mess with your memory and attention. Dehydration thickens your blood, forces your heart to work harder, and slows down pretty much everything your body does.
Most of us wait until we're thirsty to drink water. By then, you're already behind.
Here's what works for me: I drink 500ml of water the moment I wake up. Before I even think about coffee. Then I make a big pot of tea - about a liter - before starting work. It's usually rooibos tea with collagen powder, 5g creatine, and a teaspoon of honey, if you’re wondering. I sip it during my first work sprint in the morning.
That routine alone gets me halfway to my daily goal before lunch.
Quick tips to stay on top of it:
Get a water bottle and know exactly how much it holds. Mine's 500ml, so I know my target based on how many bottles I've finished. Way easier than trying to measure cups.
Drink a full bottle right when you wake up
Keep it visible on your workstation all day
Track your urine color - pale yellow means you're good, dark means drink more
It's the most basic health advice there is. But most people still don't do it.
Takeaway: Get a water bottle with a known capacity. Start tomorrow with one full bottle before anything else. Count how many you finish throughout the day.
🪙 WEALTHY
The Unsexy Way to Get Clients
Everyone's looking for the clever way to get clients. The perfect funnel. The viral content strategy. The warm intro from someone important.
Meanwhile, cold outreach sits there. Boring. Unsexy. But incredibly effective.
It's a numbers game, which is exactly why people avoid it. They'd rather spend months attempting to build an audience or waiting for referrals than send 50 emails this week.
I get it. Cold outreach feels like grunt work. But when I was building links for clients, I used this approach in two ways: finding the clients themselves, and doing the actual outreach to site owners to build the links. It worked for both because the framework works.
Here's the structure that actually converts:
One line about why you're reaching out. No fluff. Just context.
The problem you solve. What pain point are they dealing with that you can fix?
Your solution. How you solve it. Keep it simple.
Social proof. A quick example or result from someone similar to them.
Clear CTA. What do you want them to do? For example jump on a 15 minutes call.
That's it. Five parts. One email.
Most people mess this up by making it about themselves instead of the prospect. Or they write three paragraphs when five sentences would work better. Or they ask for too much too soon.
The other mistake? Not sending enough. This is volume work. You're going to get ignored. You're going to get rejected. You might even get told where you can go 😅
That's part of it. But if your offer solves a real problem and you present it clearly, enough people will respond to make it worth your time.
Cold outreach isn't the only way to get clients. But it's the most direct. And it's completely in your control.
Takeaway: If you need clients, use this five-part framework and send 50 outreach emails this week. Track what works, adjust what doesn't, and keep going.
📚 AND WISE
Starve Your Self-Doubt
Self-doubt doesn't need much to survive. Just a few good reasons why something won't work, and suddenly that business idea you were excited about feels impossible.
We do this to ourselves constantly. We have an idea for a product, a service, a pivot. It feels promising at first. Then we start thinking. Really thinking.
What if nobody buys it? What if the market's too crowded? What if I don't have the right experience?
Each question feeds the doubt. It grows. What started as a small concern becomes this massive obstacle.
The problem isn't the questions themselves. It's that we mistake thinking for progress. We convince ourselves that if we just analyze it enough, we'll find certainty. But certainty doesn't come from thinking. It comes from doing.
Self-doubt needs oxygen to survive, and that oxygen is our thoughts. Every time we cycle through the same concerns without taking action, we're feeding it. The more we think, the bigger it gets.
So stop feeding it.
Take the smallest possible action instead. Send one email. Build one prototype. Have one conversation. The action doesn't have to be big. It just needs to exist outside your head.
When you act, doubt loses its grip. You're no longer fighting the imaginary version of failure you created. You're dealing with actual results.
Takeaway: Next time you catch yourself spiraling on a decision, take one small action within 24 hours. Starve the doubt, feed the momentum.