The Weekly Startup #8

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:

• Choosing Happiness. (Are you choosing happiness?)

• Does money make you happy? 

• How to make 64 pieces of content in a day. (By Gary Vee)

• From 0 to 700.000 followers. (Sahil Bloom on growing an audience)

• Feeling too old to start something new? (A short read on how to make the most of it)

Choosing Happiness.

Are you choosing happiness?

If not, you’re probably unaware of the choices you make that lead you there. I’m talking about the concept of cause-effect. It sets the stage for future unhappiness.

How this works can be illustrated in many different ways. Take the beach body you desire. If you want a beach body you need to skip junk food and take your lazy ass to the gym. And you gotta stick to it for a long time. Those 2 sacrifices are required to reach your goal. If you’re not willing to commit to both you can’t cry about it later.

I've written an article using the most common choice we make. Buying a house. I've tried to explain how many people create the base for unhappiness early on. You can read the whole article via the link below.

Does money make you happy?

Money. The concept made up by mankind that rules the world.

I’m managing a few Instagram pages for a while now. They’re centred around this concept. That is, centred around business, motivation and investing.

Whenever I engage with my audience or ask them what’s on their mind it’s always money and investing. To be precise, ways to make more money and the lack of knowledge on how to invest it.

There is but, some grey area if it comes to determining how much money you should make. This article is not going to help you with that. Because it’s a more delicate topic to fit into a short writing. At the end of this article, I will list a few links to help you dig deeper.

Today I want to discuss the topic of money vs happiness. Or in other words. Does money make you happy?

HOW TO MAKE 64 PIECES OF CONTENT IN A DAY

Sahil Bloom on content creation

One of the best creators out there (in my humble opinion) is Sahil Bloom. His newsletter is packed with great information. I always look out to consume his latest articles. The video below is packed with some great nuggets of wisdom in regard to content creation and growing a large following.

I highly recommend you subscribe to his newsletter if you like to receive some great articles from him as well. It's free and you can always unsubscribe. Thank me later!

Make the most of it.

Whatever age you are today, your future self would love to be it.

Most people do not consider 65 to be a young age... but when you're 75, you'd love to rewind to 65 and regain those years. Few people would describe 35 as your youth, but in your mid-50s your mid-30s will seem like the "young you."

Today is a great opportunity, no matter your age. Looking back in a few years, today will seem like the time when you were young and full of potential or the moment when you could have started early or the turning point when you made a choice that benefited your future.

The moment in front of you right now is a good one. Make the most of it.

James Clear

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