Do it Your Way

It's Monday Night.

I have severely underestimated how long it takes to get over jet lag from coming back from Japan. It's a 17-hour time difference. As the kids say right now: I'm cooked.

Someone once told me it takes one day for every hour of time change when you change a time zone. If that's the case, I need two weeks to get back into it. I really hope not.

I have to shout out a couple things:

• This newsletter just grew by 20% because a handful of incredible people decided to join this last week because they really wanted to know about Japan. Welcome! I love you. You are in my little corner of the internet. Here I share stories of what it's like to move to a city where you don't know anyone, quit your six-figure job in tech, build a health and wellness brand, and dance the little dance that is called entrepreneurship.

  

  Now I see why they call them lead magnets

• Along the way, I like to share stories about interesting people I've met, things I'm thinking about, lessons I've learned, or things I'm fired up about.

Sometimes those can be long (like that Japan post). Sometimes they can be short (like this one because my bedtime was an hour ago).

The point is, it's just you and me doing the tango in your inbox. While I do like to get informal and personal with you, I take this honor of having a direct line of communication with you very seriously.

This week - I want to keep things really, really short. But don't worry my friend, I have a gentleman's agreement to uphold. I promised you I would do what I can to deliver a banger to you, week after week. While jet lag is not fun, that is not an excuse to not deliver this week.

Right now there is one question that has got me fired up: How can you do things... your way?

Ask yourself that question. Actually think about it. Our lives, work, relationships, and careers often have us zombie-walking through them because that's the way we've seen or been told it's been done before. Are you doing things your way, or because that is and was the clear and established path that was recommended to you?

I'm not just talking about some woo-woo "quit your job, travel the world, and start a business because the traditional career isn't for you." I'll save that for the $5k life coach selling you a course through Instagram (that's not life coaching, that's digital marketing 😘).

What I'm getting at is asking yourself this question with ANYTHING you do. I'll give you some examples:

• One of the best events I went to last year was an "anti-conference" put on by Andrew Wilkinson. Andrew hates conferences. But he loved meeting interesting people. So he hosted a conference his way: he collected interesting people and brought them together to talk about interesting topics and do fun stuff together, calling it "IP2" (this was the second one). It was just interesting people coming together.

• My cousin is getting married next year. He loves music festivals and wants to have me and his friends DJ his wedding like a mini festival lineup. He threw the classic idea of a wedding out the window and asked himself how he and his future wife can do a wedding their way. I think this is a bad-ass idea... may or may not have to do with the fact that I'll be DJing his wedding. Not my point.

• I met with some friends today about doing an all-day wellness event at a beautiful home in Tiburon. We threw around ideas of cold plunges, executive coaching, yoga, or even mindfulness training. But it didn't really stick. It felt bland. Then we asked ourselves what would we want a day-long retreat to look like if we did it our way - not what we've seen others do. That's when the idea juices started flowing. We came up with the concept of an adult summer camp for just one day over the weekend. Might sound weird to some, but it sounds kick ass to me. (Stay tuned for more on this)

That's what this newsletter is. It's a way to share my ideas and what I'm excited about with people who are interested enough in what I'm doing to get messages from me.

Once a week: my way.

Your turn. Give it a go. Let me know what you’d going to do your way.

You’re Awesome,

Jared

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I need a favor from you. Every week I spend several hours crafting this email to give you entirely for free. Banger, after banger. Except it’s not actually free.

I love doing this, but I also love seeing this grow (You might say I’m flawed. But you’re not my therapist). To keep this free it would mean the world to me, and my ego, if you shared this with just 1 person who you think would also like this.

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