Shifting My Attention (For a Bit)
I wanted to pop in with a quick note: I’m not very active here on the blog right now. Between working on my degree at WGU and updating some of my business processes, my attention is elsewhere for the moment.
I’m also in the middle of restarting my business email list, so I don’t have a timeline for when I’ll be back to posting here regularly.
But if you’d like to see what I’m working on behind the scenes (updates, experiments, and reflections from the business side) I’ll be sharing those through my Yellow Sky email list. You can join me there: https://www.yellowskybusiness.services/email-list
Thanks for sticking around, and I’ll see you when the timing’s right.
Why I’m being pulled toward this work: The invisible money game we’re never taught
I’ve always had a sense that I was missing something when it came to money.
As a kid, I liked to save coins in a little blue box, take them out and stack them, counting what I had. And later, when my dollars became more and my parents asked to borrow some, I gave it to them. I don’t remember getting it back, but I wasn’t keeping score. It just felt like something I did.
I remember watching my mom stress about money. I didn’t know the details as a little girl, but I knew we didn’t have enough. Later, when things got really tight and serious, I asked her to show me where the money was going, let’s make a plan. For the first time, she actually did and I wrote the numbers down on the back of an envelope. There, sitting on a bench at a park, I realized: this isn’t as bad as I thought. There was a plan in there, somewhere. That made me feel better.
Seeing the numbers made it less a scary unknown, something I could work with.
I used to think money was hard and complicated. That rich people had some secret code. Then I found the FIRE movement and realized, oh there’s a system. There are rules, like a game. And I could learn to play.
Starting a business really pushed me into that game. I learned how money flows differently to owners than to employees. I understood (and even empathized at times) why companies outsource. I understood how profit works (and who gets left out).
That changed how I see the world. It also changed how I see my role in it.
I'm not trying to win this game by traditional standards. I'm more interested in making the game visible to people who didn’t even know there was a game.
I care about money because it’s one of the main systems shaping our lives and it’s one most people feel disconnected from, ashamed of, or exhausted by.
But money is a process. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You just need enough clarity to make your choices.
I don’t want to be the expert who teaches you everything. I’d rather be the game tutorial. The person you watch play. “Here’s how I’m doing it. Take what works.”
I believe that when people have more clarity around money, they can rest more. They can eat better, breathe easier, parent with more patience. They can help others. They cause less harm.
People might still suck sometimes, but a well-fed, well-rested person is a lot less dangerous than one who’s starving, sleep-deprived, and not sure about tomorrow.
That’s why I care about money and consciousness.
Not because I think we can fix everything.
The game’s gonna be rigged as long as there are people committed to rigging it.
But once you know that? You can stop unconsciously playing their game, skip that side quest.
Or play your own game inside the game, build something that works for you and the people you care about.
That’s where I’m going to play.
What I Explored This Month - June 2025: An update: last post since I started my Bachelor's degree and how you can follow me on this new journey
Update: This will be the last What I Explored post as I focus on my online accounting degree (started in June!) My creative energy is shifting from this series to documenting my journey by uploading weekly videos to my YouTube channel. Follow along there if you’re curious about my journey!
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I DID
Podcast guesting and a new goal
In February 2025’s What I Explored post, I said I wanted to guest on more podcasts this year.
And I have! I was on 2 podcasts this month talking about neurodivergence and my bookkeeping business.
Now, I’m updating my ask from podcast guesting to “It would be cool to present more webinars and do a paid speaking gig.” (And so far, I have one webinar scheduled and more in the pipeline! So that ask is coming true very soon.)
Updated my websites (yes, again)
For Yellow Sky website - I made updates to better reflect what client testimonials consistently highlight: supportive and communicative bookkeeping. If you want a bookkeeper who won't ghost you OR clog up your inbox, that's me.
For my personal website - I clarified my main skill: creating options that no one offered you. I also added a navigation page to guide you through my world of content - like signs in a park.
Check out my world here: https://aneishavelazquez.com/links
WHAT I READ
How to Make Friend Soup by Madeleine Dore - I enjoyed her perspective on how to build momentum and make new friends
WHAT I CREATED
My latest blog post - The personal development I didn't know was coming: How my business changed me: (Why my intuition chose the 2000s makeover instead of the 90s one)
Accounting Degree Journey
As mentioned, I’m documenting my online degree journey with weekly videos on my YouTube channel!
It’s been a fun experience creating thumbnails that match the vibe I want to share. And harder than expected to documents my thoughts to share along the way along with my course notes. I used Notion to create a mini-dashboard to hold both course notes and my thoughts and that’s working well so far.
Here’s the first video thumbnail in the playlist:
And here’s the third video. See? I already updated the thumbnail vibe a bit:
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations these past months. I’ve really appreciated it!
The personal development I didn't know was coming: How my business changed me (Why my intuition chose the 2000s makeover instead of the 90s one)
Originally published on Substack
My business gave me a late 2000’s natural makeover but it could have been a 90s business template makeover if I had ignored my intuition.
The way it could’ve gone:
I would have joined a networking group like BNI, ignoring the internal squeeze I felt my first 2 visits. I would've tried so hard to fit in, imitating the way members did things. And it probably would’ve worked, just matching myself to their template of a “successful entrepreneur”.
Just like a 90s makeover.
The makeover artist would’ve looked at my frizzy, kinky curly hair, big glasses, and comfy clothes and thought “She’s got potential.” And then remade me into a classic 90s fashionable woman: straightened the hair, ditched the glasses for contacts, traded out the comfy clothes for pencil skirts with heels. And then erased my face with makeup to create a new face, just like every other fashionable woman’s face.
But I didn’t finish that makeover.
The pull in my stomach wouldn’t let me - it screamed “NO!”
It warned “If you finish this, then you can’t stop. You have to keep bro marketing and networking and showing up ALL THE TIME. That straightened hair needs regular straightening to stay that way. And that makeup requires daily application to keep your face fabulous. Starting means not stopping if you want to keep this success.”
So I took the harder path. I followed my intuition, not knowing where that led, just knowing it was better than staying in templated makeover hell.
Instead, I got a completely different metaphorical makeover.
And that was like a late 2000s makeover. The era of the natural hair and curly girl movements. There was no template for this kind of makeover. It was new.
The makeover artist was creating her own art as she looked at
my metaphorically scraggly hair, tired from constant flat ironing,
my red eyes, dry from daily contact use,
my slightly too small clothes, bought trying to fit in.
The artist could see the real Me hiding and worked to bring her out.
They’d get rid of the flat iron and coax my kinks and curls back to life. They’d tell me to return to glasses and find me clothes in the right size and silhouettes.
And after the makeover I wouldn’t be a new person with a new face and new hair. I would just be more Me.
That’s what doing my business my way did. It made me more Me.
Building my business brought out what was already there, showed me what I unknowingly was already great at instead of contorting myself to fit another’s ideal of a “successful business person”.
And I’m glad I took that way. The natural makeover is superior because the more you complete the makeover, the more YOU you are. Over time, it’s easier to maintain because you become more You.
Just like curly hair getting curlier and healthier with each wash.
What I Explored This Month - May 2025: Micro-conferences, networking goal update, and human psychology
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I CREATED
New blog post: What My Body Was Holding: What 365 Days of Meditation Revealed
WHAT I DID
WAVE 2025 - Seattle Conference
I attended Erin Pohan’s WAVE conference for women in accounting and finance. I loved that it was a one day “micro-conference” because one day meant my usual post-event “social hangover” is much less than a typical 3 day conference.
Update on Goal to Meet 50 New People
I set a goal to meet 1:1 with 50 new business owners this year to grow my network. So far, I’ve connected with 28 - more than halfway there! I really went for it in Q2 when I had momentum (and time). Now my schedule’s getting busier and I want to be more intentional about who I’m meeting next (not just any business owner anymore). So for Q3, I’m slowing down. I’m really proud of my progress so far.
My Workshop with Diversability
I gave a workshop Navigating Business Finances to the community members of Diversability. This was my second time giving this workshop. The attendees asked good questions that I’ll use to improve the workshop’s next iteration.
My goal is to iterate on this workshop until it’s unrecognizable because it’s gotten so much better, informative, and empowering than the original version.
WHAT I READ
BOOKS
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz - The customer marketing manager from the proposal and billing software Anchor, Haley Kershner, sent out books to Anchor’s customers as a way to introduce herself. Interestingly, she was also present at the WAVE conference in Seattle. I hadn’t read the book then when I met her, but I read it cover-to-cover the next day while I rested and loved it.
Every human is a magician, and we can either put a spell on someone with our word or we can release someone from a spell.
The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, free of emotional poison.
The Games People Play by Eric Berne - Another book chosen for me! One of my connection calls suggested I might like this book and she was completely right. It’s from the 60s but most of it is still relevant today. I wasn’t a fan of some parts but agreed with the overall message.
“Tell Me This” is also played in schoolrooms, where the pupils know that the “right” answer to an open-ended question asked by a certain type of teacher is not to be found by processing the factual data, but by guessing or outguessing which of several possible answers will make the teacher happy.
People pick as friends, associates and intimates other people who play the same games.
Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows & 2 more - I listened to the audiobook version of this so I don’t have any quotes ready to share.
I’ll just say: It’s an important book. Please listen to it’s lessons.
SUBSTACK
Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood by Patty Smith - A low-lift way to build community: sit in your driveway and drink coffee outside and invite people to join you.
How I Accidentally Created My Ideal Work Situation By Being A Sulky, Easily Dissatisfied So-And-So: The job I loved paid $16 an hour. So. by Yes & Yes -Another Substacker writing about money in non-finance bro ways.
Totally insane and truly helpful: The best creativity advice I've read in ages by MasonCurrey - Unconventional advice on how to get stuff done when you have ADHD. So many good suggestions. My favorite comes from the original IG thread referenced in the post.
Screenshot of IG comment: I put on upbeat Celtic music and pretend it’s the day of the big festival that only comes once a year in our quaint medieval village and everything I have to get done is in preparation for the celebration
WHAT I WATCHED
Ditch Your Old Thinking (with Roger L Martin)
I’m hooked on learning about strategy right now. This quote reminds me of the design principle “Fail fast” (a personal favorite):
Fail your way toward victory
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
What my body was holding: What 365 days of meditation revealed
Originally published on Substack
How I Started
I started meditating off and on in 2023, 10 minutes at a time, usually a simple somatic practice of focusing on a part of my body and noticing the sensations.
I usually only meditated Monday through Friday then stopped over the weekend and had to re-start on Monday again (if I remembered to do it). But in April 2024, I had a thought: what if I kept meditating through the weekend?
When I intentionally continued through the weekend, it stuck. I started a streak - 1 week, 1 month, 1 quarter. Eventually, I extended my daily meditation from 10 minutes to 15 (though I sometimes did 5 minutes or even just 1 on busier days).
I became curious if I could reach 365 days.
I did.
Now that I've finished, I'm reflecting on what I learned. After many of my meditation sessions, I journaled my observations. Looking back now, two big changes stood out: my racing thoughts stopped and I discovered deep-stored emotions of unworthiness.
How Meditation Changed My Racing Thoughts
Like many other neurodivergent people, I've always had trouble falling asleep because my mind races at night. When I lay down, my thoughts get the zoomies. I'd get ideas that I had to write down - otherwise I'd lie there trying to remember them instead of falling asleep.
When I started my micro-business tutoring math online, the racing thoughts got worse. I had SO MANY business ideas. And had the same problem when I started my bookkeeping business: too many ideas coming at bedtime.
When I first started meditating, I realized that sitting down, eyes closed, breathing slowly created the same conditions as trying to sleep. I'd slowed down, so my thoughts could come out to play and ideas started rolling in.
I wondered if I was having racing thoughts at night because that was the first time all day my mind had a chance to run free, like a toddler cooped up in a classroom finally released to run around at the end of the day. My mind needed more time to just be, with no distractions so my thoughts could exhaust themselves.
I learned to keep my phone or pen and paper nearby during meditation to write down ideas so I didn’t have to worry about forgetting them. And eventually, I noticed my mind felt clear after a 10-minute meditation. Around the halfway point of the 365 days, my thoughts and ideas became more complete.
I wrote in my journal:
I always have a lot of thoughts but these ideas are like my thoughts all got together and did a group project - more put together [as] one compact idea instead of multiple half ideas... Some days are full of thoughts whirling and other days they settle down quickly within the first few minutes and I can either sit quietly or focus on my body.
Now, 365 days later, those racing thoughts have mostly disappeared. Some meditation sessions are just quiet - I focus on my body instead of watching runaway thoughts. And at bedtime? I rarely have racing thoughts anymore. It's still not easy to fall asleep, but racing thoughts aren’t part of the issue anymore.
How Meditation Affected My Emotions
Meditating opened up communication with my body, and I discovered heavy emotions stored there. You know how people randomly cry during yoga when old emotions release? I got that with meditation.
My meditation shifted to focus on my physical body. (Doing qigong helped with this too - I wrote about that here). Sitting quietly to breathe and focus my attention on my body took it further. It wasn't just focusing on body parts, though. During daily life, I'd notice internal feelings - like a stomach twinge around certain topics or people. I learned to take a 'mental snapshot' of that feeling, then focus on it during meditation.
What usually happened: an emotion released, OR I found more emotions underneath that needed attention to release.
The big emotion that needed releasing: I viscerally didn't feel I deserved good. My body had stored the emotion that I just don't deserve good things, and it couldn't hold much good. Where did it come from? Not sure but some of it felt generational - passed down to me. Some came from childhood family dynamics. Some from my own experiences.
Whatever the cause, it was in my body and impacting me because not being able to physically hold much good caused an "upper limit problem" - unconsciously limiting how much joy I experience (as the book The Big Leap explains - loved that book and it helped me put words to this).
Meditation helped me find and focus on it - the only way to release it. Talking and writing helped me recognize and describe it, but couldn't resolve the physical sensation. I had to feel it and let it release over time. And it took a LOT of time.
Here’s some of my observations on what I found and released:
The discovery of stored emotions:
"Today I released the crap from my middle school to college years during my meditation. I felt something pop in my lower left abdomen/middle. Stuff moved." (Sept 22, 2024)
"Not deserving good" theme:
"I viscerally didn't feel I deserved good. I've been meditating on that part of my body for #3, giving it attention and warmth and I feel that part dissolving (best word I can think of) so I now feel more comfortable with good." (May 19, 2024)
"Today's meditation focused on my left side again and there was more sad. Lots of deep sadness." (Jan 11, 2025)
The discovery of stored generational emotions
"Eventually thought of my mom and aunt - there's some weird jealousy there. And then thought of my grandma and her sisters - some definite rivalry? Something there, probably based on lighter versus darker skin and what comes along with that. When I got to this point, something released in my left side - tension in my midsection and air? gas? Released." (Dec 17, 2024)
The emotional releasing process:
"Today's meditation I focused on what feels like a long rod in my midsection, stomach, like a plug…so I focused on it and it's moved some. Still there but made some progress. Tears fell after." (Feb 18, 2025)
"Found a place on my body where receiving resources (mainly money) has a physical reaction/restriction. It's in my throat, the upper part." (Mar 14, 2025)
I can't say all those heavy emotions are gone, but now my body feels unburdened. Looking back at my journal entries showed me the progress - from that deep buried feeling of not deserving any good to now being able to hold more good and accept more good.
What Now?
So now that I've finished my 365 days, what next? Am I still meditating?
Yes, but not every day. About halfway through, I realized I didn’t want to meditate daily forever. I knew it wasn't the only way to get more in tune with myself, so I gave myself permission to stop the daily practice and do it as needed or wanted. Some days I meditate, some days I don't. But I try to stay in tune with my body. I'm more able to notice what I need - to slow down, to take a breather away from people - in the moment instead of 2 days, 2 weeks, or even 2 months later.
I'm still doing somatic meditation because emotions that aren't mine - the deeply stored ones plus the ones I absorb from other people and situations daily - need regular clearing. But I want to incorporate my other favorite ways to clear emotions - singing and dancing.
Maybe that’s my next experiment?
What I Explored This Month - April 2025: First workshop, quit to win, strategy curious
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I CREATED
New blog post: You can have revenge or change but you can't have both: A lesson from our Southeast Asia travels
WHAT I DID
Blog updates
I created 2 new sections in my blog to make specific posts easier to find:
Thoughts from a Late-Diagnosed Autistic Woman - My thoughts and experiences after discovering I'm autistic.
What I Explored - (This post you’re currently reading!) Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
Hosted my first Financial Brain Dump (Bookkeeping body doubling workshop)
This month I hosted a beta virtual workshop Financial Brain Dump where attendees could come, learn how to create a simple bookkeeping system that doesn’t make you cry, then work on their books and get answers to their bookkeeping questions.
Workshop wins:
One attendee finished tasks for her bookkeeper
Another attendee got her Gusto payroll synced to her Quickbooks account
Will I do it again? Maybe, I actually enjoyed it more than expected. But not on a monthly basis, potentially just once a quarter.
WHAT I LISTENED TO
Beyond Margins podcast - Fresh Content Inked: A Subversive Approach to Driving More Sales By Creating Less Content - Yet another episode about simplifying marketing and sales using a content library. I’m intrigued
Hello Seven podcast - Meet The Woman Set To Make $1M Helping People Leave The USA! - I found Stephanie Perry years ago, during the pandemic early in my personal finance and digital nomad research phase. So I loved hearing her on this podcast episode.
WHAT I READ
Dirty Genes: Revolutionary Approach to Health and Wellness Through Nutritional Genetics and Personalized Plans for a Happier, Healthier You by Dr. Ben Lynch - My medical-interested mind enjoyed learning about the methylation cycle and MTHFR mutations.
My job is to give you the tools to understand how your genes are contributing to your mood and overall health. Your job is to give yourself the attention you deserve and act on what that attention reveals to you.
Just promise me that the next time you overindulge or eat a food you know you shouldn’t, you’ll enjoy it. Feeling guilty or regretful will only make your genes more dirty.
Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away by Annie Duke - Yep still reading this author’s books and enjoying her perspective on the benefits of knowing when to quit.
Contrary to popular belief, quitting will get you to where you want to go faster.
Inflexible goals aren’t a good fit for a flexible world.
Playing to Win: How strategy really works by Roger L. Martin - Strategy is my new interest so this was my favorite book I read this month.
In our terms, a strategy is a coordinated and integrated set of five choices: a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems.
Asking a single question can change everything: what would have to be true?
Best role of the consultant became clear to me: don’t attempt to convince clients which choice is best; run a process that enables them to convince themselves.
We Should All be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers - I nodded my head to a LOT of what this book said.
Set boundaries to prevent your own suffering.
If you are being nice when you don’t want to be, you’re really just lying.
We are the saviors we are waiting for. And it starts with bookkeeping. (Of course I had to quote this, I’m a bookkeeper!)
WHAT I WATCHED
As mentioned, I’m very curious about strategy and understanding it. I searched Roger Martin’s videos on YouTube to listen to and absorb his perspective on strategy. (I need that 360 view to really get a concept, remember?).
He mentions this idea often in his interviews and writing:
Great strategy is about creating a future that does not now exist
That means balancing the exploitation of what is and the exploration of what might be. All forces will pull towards exploitation of what is. A great strategist needs to resist that pull and always invest time and energy in exploration of what might be.
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!
You can have revenge or change but you can't have both: A lesson from our Southeast Asia travel
Originally published on Substack
You can have revenge or change, but you can’t have both.
And I gave up my chance for revenge to choose change in 2023 when my husband and I traveled for 6 months in Southeast Asia - combining his sabbatical with our desire to travel.
During our travels, my husband Aaron became the “house husband” since he was on sabbatical and I worked remotely. While I stared at Quickbooks on my laptop screen, he cooked and cleaned and even grocery shopped by himself.
And it was awesome.
I would rather not do any of those activities (except maybe grocery shopping).
And then this happened, the moment where I had to choose revenge or connection.
To give context: we arrived in Bangkok, Thailand on July 19.
The moment happened a month later on August 19. So my husband had been the "house husband" for about 2 months - starting when he stopped working a month before our departure, then continuing through our first month in Bangkok.
Read what happened direct from my journal entry:
OMG do you know what Aaron said? We just got home and sat a bit then I went to put laundry in the machine and he went to get water and he came back and said
“I can’t do chores and go out that much. It’s too much to do both.”
Or something like that. Can’t recall verbatim but that was the gist of it.
And omg it was so satisfying. Like he realized that on his own. It’s so satisfying and I wish I could communicate the visceral feel of
HOW
SATISFYING
THIS
IS!!
He gets it. Or part of it. But enough.
He’s not trained to accept that his life is a series of impossible missions just to exist as a woman. He’s just like “no this is not sustainable for me.” So simple.
As you can see, I had 2 reactions to him acknowledging the hard work involved to do chores and then still try to be a fun person who goes out and does fun things.
Let me start with the 2nd reaction.
He quickly realized how hard housework is and said so. I don’t recall how long it took me to admit that to him, but I bet it was longer than 2 months. We women are so used to silently enduring discomfort.
(Related detour that has a point, I promise.)
Do you remember in 2018 when Paul Rudd complained about his uncomfortable Ant-Man suit? And his co-star Evangeline Lilly quipped that men lacked "the life experience of being uncomfortable for the sake of looking good”, highlighting her tall high heels.
And while other women laughed sharing this incident with each other, I thought: “No, men aren’t babies; they’re right. Your clothes shouldn’t make you feel like you’re dying. If we have the choice, we shouldn’t choose this.”
So that was one of my reactions - amazement at how quickly he realized and expressed the too-muchness of chores.
Let’s look at my other reaction.
My other reaction was actually the first - satisfaction that he finally understood my housework struggles. And after that satisfaction? A brief temptation to let him wallow in that frustration, just like Evangeline’s attitude toward Rudd's complaints: "I've endured this all along, now it's your turn."
I was tempted to throw all that old frustration and feel that sweet sweet feeling of “Haha now you see?”
But I didn’t do it.
Because you can have revenge or change, but you can’t have both.
You can have revenge or connection, but not both.
You can have revenge or healing, but not both.
And I wanted change. I wanted to wake up late to a yummy breakfast and a clean home. I wanted to skip grocery trips knowing he’d still return with the right stuff. I wanted better than vindication.
You can have revenge or change, but you can’t have both.
And I chose change.
What I Explored This Month - March 2025: Books, New Blogs, and Some Quantum Physics
Originally published on Substack
Once a month, I share my future works in progress by sharing what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.
WHAT I DID
I was on a panel about participating in the IRS’s VITA program to provide free tax prep services to the community! 🔗 Click to watch it on YouTube.
I signed up to American Resiliency’s new “on the ground” project to bring resiliency into the community on the ground. 🔗Watch their video to learn more
Paused my podcast - I had fun figuring out how to create it and express myself, but I want the time to focus on other projects.
WHAT I CREATED
I published a new blog post:
I grouped all my essays about being autistic into one section so it’s easy for you to see them.
WHAT I READ
BOOKS
How to Decide by Annie Duke - Loved how the book breaks down a process for making good decisions even with unknown information. “The decisions you make are like a portfolio of investments. Your goal is to make sure that the portfolio as a whole advances you toward your goals, even though any individual decision in that portfolio might win or lose.”
$100 Offers and $100M Leads by Alex Hormozi - I enjoyed the books, even if I didn’t agree with all the tactics. I did appreciate the emphasis on constantly trying and experimenting to find what works for your sales and marketing. “Real business is messy. It takes a lot to find what audiences, lead magnets, methods, and platforms work best. And you can only find out what works if you try”
You are a Strategist: Use No-BS OKRs to get big things done by Sara Lobkovich - I read an advanced copy of Sara’s book and LOVED it. You can read my review here. My 2 favorite quotes:
“ The job isn’t to convince people that you’re a smart person, it’s to clarify situations so everyone can do the smart thing.”
“Data is helpful neutral information, not something to fear“
Lost Connections by Johann Hari - Loved his journey researching the cause and treatment for depression beyond anti-depressants. “What if changing the way we live—in specific, targeted, evidence-based ways—could be seen as an antidepressant, too?“
BLOGS
Keep Coming Back from “What Do We Do Now That We’re Here?” by Rosie Spinks on Substack about how to get more people (and eventually friends) into your life. I kept nodding along and taking notes from this essay.
The Substack publication Imperfect Working Order by Kira Stoops - This publication’s perspective and irreverent tone on money and taking care of ourselves is how I want to share about business finances and being an entrepreneur.
Quotes I love from her essays:
“Medicine doesn’t think money needs to make sense. So why do we? Turns out, the “rules” we thought we had to live by…aren’t rules at all. And frustrating as this realization can be, it also opens a door. Lots of doors, actually. When medical money stopped making sense, I stopped trying to make most money make sense.”
“Receiving assistance freed me up financially to try to be as well as possible, which let me contribute back more to my community—personally, and through non-profit consulting that amplified philanthropy far beyond my own personal impact. ”
“Living well, even luxuriously in places, is an act of love and rebellion.”
WHAT I WATCHED/LISTENED TO
Beyond Margins Episode #115 - I LOVED this episode about how to do sales calls without a discovery call.
Video Something strange happens when you trust quantum mechanics
One night, I went down a quantum mechanics rabbit hole and learned about the Principle of Least Action. This video reminds me of the book Thinking in Bets - something about the concept of exploring the different possibilities to choose the optimal one.
Thought: Is this how we can feel if something is “good energy” or not? Or why we get a vibe about something - do we feel the reverb of all possible paths?
Video MINI DOCUMENTARY: U.S. Vegetable Supply May Be POISONED After Lithium Inferno
This explains lithium’s harmful effects on the local area and farmland. My immediate thought was this documentary reminded me of the movie Erin Brokovich.
Interesting listen about how dopamine works, especially the point that prioritizing pain (like running a 5K or doing hard things) indirectly creates dopamine because the brain wants to balance itself.
Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the month. Take care!