Hey hey,
Here is your Weekly Boost, a roundup of things I’m exploring, creating, or simply enjoying to help you get that extra edge this week.
🧘🏻♂️ Silence unknown callers
Let’s get an easy one out of the way here…
If you have an iPhone, you can send unknown callers directly to voicemail.
This feature is a lifesaver. Out of nowhere I started getting an ungodly number of spam calls. Not anymore.
Here is where you flip the switch:
🇩🇴 Merengue music
If you want an entry point to latin dance, merengue is a good choice because it’s so simple. At a basic level it’s just two steps—left, right, left, right. And then you can add spice on top of that.
This video shows how easy the footwork can be, while still being playful and expressive:
I usually listen to my merengue playlist when I meal prep and I probably finish 15% faster, dancing the whole time. The playlist is worth checking out for the albums covers alone.
⚖️ Hard decisions
Someone I used to work with made a very wise observation. He said:
The alternative to hard work is hard decisions.
Hard work is absence of strategy. Or rather, it is an avoidance of strategy. I am working hard because I am avoiding hard decisions. Instead of making decisions — about what is important and what isn’t, about what needs to be done now and what can be done later, what is and isn’t working — I am choosing to do everything.
This is one of those good ideas that has lodged itself into my skull. Rarely does a week go by, certainly not a month, where I don’t revisit this tradeoff.
Reminder to myself: Hard decisions refocus my attention on the larger vision, beyond FOMO. It is foregoing immediate gratification for long-term results. It is having less to show right now in the spirit of compounding gains. It is calmness. Peace. Hard decisions are doors in the mind that are sometimes obscured, usually heavy, but always worth passing through.
What is one thing you’ve been learning more about lately? Reply to this email or let me know in the comments. I want to hear from you. :)
Alrighty, that’s all for this week. Take care.
- Matt
What a great feature on the phone! I had no idea, can’t wait to share!
Love merengue!!! Thank you for sharing!! Enjoying all your ideas and thoughts!