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🎩 One Theme → I Desire Attention
😄 Funny Business → What a beautiful day
📊 Community Poll → Fuck off, spiders
🤝 Help → I request your judgement
🌖 Tonight’s Breathwork → Guilt Release (join here) for Earth’s moon being waning gibbous, a time to be thankful for the present and release guilt from the past.
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I Desire Attention
I’ve kept my life relatively private.
I have a The Facebook account I haven’t looked at in over a decade.
Okay, I looked today to see my first profile picture, from 2008.
I’ve used Snapchat infrequently for a while—the platform that pioneered ephemeral content. Still private.
And that’s been it—until the past 12 months. That’s all I wanted.
Now, I want attention.
Pictured: Anyone who knows me after reading this.
I know, it’s wild. So why the sudden change? Did I wake up one morning suddenly craving attention? No. However, as I wade deeper into my inevitable fame, I’m not ruling out a mindset shift down the road. Maybe I’ll enjoy it one day—only the gods know for sure.
But for now, it boils down to two things:
1. I’ll do anything for my babies. I truly have the love, devotion, time commitment, and attachment to Doug’s Newsletter and Slow The Fuck Down as parents have to newborns.
Fair, I don’t have a human child yet, but my life is tied to my 8-month-old newsletter and 3-month-old community in the same way. I feel them as living.
And what my babies need right now is attention. From people that aren’t me.
This means I need attention which I can pass on to my babies. The testimonials rolling in for STFD (and my newsletter) prove that they can handle the spotlight like champs and are ready for more.
2. I’m really fucking proud of what I’m doing. My work, my offerings, and the value I provide people when they give me their attention…this is what 25-year-old me had in mind when the catalyst of a mushroom journey prompted him to leave his job in finance to have a more meaningful career.
When people give me their attention, I give them something valuable in return. When people give me their time, my offerings become even more valuable—and I have the capacity for more.
My mission is to build a community of 150 people committed to slowing the fuck down.
144 more, to be exact.
P.S.
Tell your friend in LA to come to my event in September. It’s free. Plus, we’re getting ice cream after.
😄 Funny Business
📊 Community Poll
Results for last week’s question: You find a spider in your house. What do you do?
Top Answer: 🔪 Kill that motherfucker.
Looks like we’re a bunch of ruthless home protectors. Props to those who leave it be…that is some serious trust.
I’ve done all four of these at some point. The bigger it is and father it is from a door, the less likely it will survive my wrath.
Agreed, Charlene. Ants are always bringing their friends along, and then it becomes a whole thing…
Taylor’s not giving you heavily-reduced rent to sit on your ass, cat.
On to this strong’s question…
Aliens have taken over Earth, and the first change they implement is limiting specifically you to only being able to have one “blended ice with sugary flavoring" drink for the rest of your life.
Which drink do you choose? |
🤝 Halp.
How you can help me:
I request your judgment!
If you’re down to judge me (and my work), please skim through the new landing page for my Stillness Course. Then, reply to this email with your judgements.
In particular, it is very helpful if you judge me on:
Did I make it clear to you what problem I help solve?
Did I make it clear clear to you why it’s important to solve that problem?
Did I make it clear clear to you what I offer to solve that problem?
Thank you in advance for your help 🙏
How I can help you:
🐢Slow your self | 🔬Grow your business | 🧑🎨Tell me what could help |
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I have often wondered how it is that every person loves themself more than all the rest of people, but yet sets less value on their own opinion of themself than on the opinion of others. — Marcus Aurelius