The Weekly Startup #7

Welkom to your weekly dose of content. We did the hard work for you and made a selection of the content that's actually worth your time. That is if you still want to level up your hustle game and start living life on your own terms.

In today's email:

• 5 steps to design the life you want. (Borrowed from design thinking)

• Should I invest more now the market's down? (Answers in this article)

• A visual reminder to make the most out of your weeks. (Inspiring!)

• How to change your life in 1 year. (The fastest solution on the market right now)

• Review Mining Explained (How to understand your buyers when you've got limited time (and budget))

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Without further ado, the Weekly Startup #7:

5 steps to design the life you want.

This model is borrowed from Design-thinking.

Design Thinking is a process used to solve complex problems with the needs of a customer at heart.

But you can also apply it to yourself. To make yourself happy.

People often work on the wrong problems. They have a wonderful solution to something that wasn’t going to work anyway. When their plans meet reality they get knocked over. People get stuck and they don’t have the tools to get unstuck.

We have a lot of beliefs which psychologist label “dysfunctional beliefs”. Things believed to be true that aren’t actually true, beliefs that hold you back.

Digg in to learn about these beliefs and the 5 steps to make them history once and for all.

(My website is pretty slow, I'm working on it. Sorry!)

Should I invest more now the market is down?

There is a lot of investing advice out there, but what do you actually need to follow? Since stocks and crypto are down it's a good time to discuss strategy. A question asked a lot is: Should I invest more now stocks are down? The short answer is no. The longer answer with a clear strategy you could apply is below. 100% worth your time if you're serious about buying stocks and want a very simple approach to get started.

Your Life Visualized in Weeks

This pretty short but easy-to-read article really opened my eyes. It's a very visual article and pretty damn confronting in some ways. But also very inspiring. I don't want to spoil a lot but if there is 1 article I urge you to read from this mailing it's this one. 

How to Change Your Life in 1 Year

“Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” - Bill Gates

With all due respect to Bill, I'd like to propose an edit:

“Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a DAY and underestimate what they can achieve in a YEAR.”

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of ten years wildly intimidating. I'm 31, so maybe it's just the fact that ten years represents one-third of my life, or maybe it's my silent understanding that ten years ago I was doing embarrassingly immature stuff on a regular basis. Whatever the reason, I have a very tough time thinking on a ten-year time horizon.

What's more, I think it's completely unnecessary!

You don't need ten years to accomplish something spectacular. You don't need five years. You don't even need three years.

The truth: The massive, positive change you're hoping to make in your life is always just one year away.

Review Mining: How to Understand Your Buyers When You’ve Got Limited Time (And Budget)

This article gives a framework that I use a lot, until now I didn't know it had a name, but now I know: Review mining. If you are slightly interested in marketing, this tactic is perfect to:

• Determine the Tone of voice for your campaigns.

• Find marketing copy to use (even if you are just getting started and don't have any reviews of your own yet)

• Find opportunities to outperform your competition.

• And of course find the focus points for your own optimization.

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