It takes a while...
Hello everyone, hope everyone reading this had a Merry Christmas!!
Tip for content creators
This week’s tip is that it takes a while to get results. Results aren’t overnight; if you’re looking at it from an outside perspective, yes, it is an overnight success, but behind the scenes, it wasn't; it’s hours and maybe even years of hard work. So, just keep doing your thing, don't get discouraged by others' success, and stay committed to your work.
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My thoughts from the past week
This next part of the newsletter will include some interesting content I’ve seen and questions I’ve asked myself over the past week!
Movie recommendation
This week’s movie recommendation is 7 Years In Tibet, I watched this movie for the first time last month, and I loved it! At first, I didn’t want to watch it because it seemed boring, but I was proven wrong. I’m recommending this movie because I’ve spent this past week in Peru, and the part where Heinrich Harrer is hiking reminds me of the trip!
Book Recommendation
This week I listened to the audiobook versions of two books: Man’s Search for Meaning and Outwitting the Devil, and to me, both were 5/5 stars.
Man’s search for meaning was amazing; the first chapter where Viktor Frankl’s experience in the concentration camp is described is insane. I can’t imagine what it would be like to actually be there. I also found it very inspirational and would recommend it to anyone.
Outwitting the Devil was also amazing, but it’s a very controversial book. It is one of Napoleon Hill’s least known books, but I can’t compare it to his others because I haven’t read them. But I think this book is one of the most thought-provoking and life-changing books. It talks about everything from the current educational system and why it is bad to habits, the law of attraction, what it means to be a drifter, hypnotic rhythm, religion, success, and so much more. What makes it better than other self-help books is that it is a conversation with the devil, and the devil reveals all of his secrets about how he manipulates people. Outwitting the Devil was written in 1938, and it wasn’t released until 2011, because Hill's family and friends considered it too controversial to be published.
Exquisite Podcast
I’ve probably listen to this podcast like 2 times, and I think you should listen to it too because it talks about the power of audiobooks and why listening at 3x speed can change your life!
I can’t keep recommending my own podcast in this section of the newsletter every week because it would be bias. From now and on i’ll only be recommending my own podcast when I release a new podcast, and last week I recently released a new podcast with Kyle Pritchard who is the video editor for many famous influencers. I interviewed him because 3 years ago we decided to come back and do another podcast every year as a reminder to where we were last year and how much we have improved. If you can’t tell it was inspired by Billie Eilish same interview a year later.
It was also my first interview using riverside!
Photos from Peru
Here are some photos I've taken these past 5 days while in Peru. There are still two days left, so I might share some more photos next week.
I’ve also recently been learning how to edit in Adobe Lightroom, and the images above are the edited versions of the images. If you can’t tell, I went for a film-type look. I’ve found it really hard to decide which images to publish on socials since I’ve taken so many photos, hahahaha.
Writing Medium articles?
I’ve been enjoying writing these newsletters so much that I’m going to start writing articles on medium about random things. I already write articles about “what are (random business terms),” and I enjoy that a lot, but I also want to write about random things. So by next week, I’ll have my first article written, and I’ll share it here. (I'm writing this to hold myself accountable). Here is my medium account that I literally just made:
Fun fact: This is something I actually thought about doing when I first started this newsletter and I never ended up doing it until now!
See you next Sunday?