Thought I'd share the letter I forgot to send to myself last week.
Dear Jon,
Your data is not properly backed up. You know I'm right. Get squared away today. If something goes wrong, don't freak out too bad. Recovery mode and the terminal are your friends. Just google it.
Delete Instagram (for a few days at least). Everyone is better than you. Better at guitar. Better at being funny. Better looking studios. That's just how it is. But you've got work to do and fun things to make. Take a break from the doomscrolling.
Email people back. This is your kryptonite. You don't know why it's so difficult, but you're doing the hard work to overcome it. You've made the list of people you need to get back to. Knock them out one by one. Hopefully, if you're lucky, the people you've ghosted will reach out and give you a second chance. Good luck with that.
Go for walks and eat less. You've proved over the past 18 months that walking 10k steps a day and tracking what you eat is the only way to drop the weight and keep your brain right. You had a couple bad weeks with the snacking. Fix it.
Tell people about the Somerville sale. Yes, it was silly to leave the WELCOME20 discount code active during the sale, but there are worse things than giving folks an extra 20% of savings on top of the current discounts. It's a one-time-use code for those who downloaded a free prototype, so a bummer for anyone who already redeemed it. Just remind them there will be more sales in the future.
Talk soon,
Jon
P.S. There will be more sales in the future. But this one ends July 28: Somerville Summer Sale