By Colby Kultgen How To Measure Your Life, A Website Worth Bookmarking, And Something To Grow Into Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. If you're new here, this is the newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's not waste any time! A bit of sage wisdom from Twitter I love it when a Twitter bro manages to sum up an entire shelf of self-help books in one sentence. Jokes aside, there’s a...
14 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen A Better Definition of Wasted Time, How to Unclench, and Poems for People Who Hate Poetry Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right to it! A quote I loved I really like people who still know how to waste a little time. They stop and talk to the neighbor. They spend twenty minutes looking at something growing in the...
21 days ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen A Life Hack Worth Stealing, A Book Every Introvert Should Read, and Diet Advice from Mr. Olympia Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right to it! A life hack I'm stealing I got this hack from Ali Abdaal’s newsletter. And considering Ali is basically the productivity guy, I’m inclined to trust him on this one. His tip:...
28 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Overthinking the Best, the Cost of Playing It Safe, and Urge Surfing Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right to it! A question I'm kind of obsessed with If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best? Genuinely though, why can't we? I know our caveman brains are pretty much hard-wired to seek out...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Emotional Forwarding, A Brain Rot Scorecard, and A Very Important Cheesecake Innovation Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. If you're new here, this is the newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's not waste any time! 1. A tweet about emotional intelligence I can't stop thinking about Oof. This one hit a little close to home. There’s a term I’ve started using for this:...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Cost of Over-Optimizing, Ordinary Abundance, and Books You Can’t Put Down Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! We're back with your weekly dose of 1% Better. If you're new here, this is the newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's not waste any time! 1. A reminder to stop optimizing everything Ok, I'm cheating a bit with this first one. This is an idea I already shared over on Instagram. But a shocking number...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen The “I Did That” List, a Notebook That Replaces Your Phone, and 24 Questions Worth Asking Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! You may have noticed a distinct lack of newsletters the last couple weeks. To be honest, I've been dealing with some tough personal stuff. And as much as I pride myself on never missing an issue, I had to put the newsletter aside and prioritize my well-being. But I want to let you know I'm doing good now, and as the kids would say—WE'RE...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Cost of Comfort, The Crime of Doing Nothing, and How to Build a Village Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! I'm back after a (very) brief hiatus. This is your weekly dose of 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week. Let's get right into it. 1. A harsh truth + two useful reflection questions The theme of this week's newsletter is TOUGH LOVE. A few of these may seem harsh, but please don’t take anything...
3 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Turn Off Your Internet, How to Manage Multiple Interests, and One of Life's Most Important Skills Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! I'm traveling this week! Gloomy Vancouver. But look at that view! I'll still be sharing my 5 favorite things, but the write-ups might be a bit more brief. Because as much as I'd like to be sitting in this cafe writing to you, I'd rather be out exploring. Sorry, not sorry. Enjoy! 1. An extension everyone should install - Unhook...
3 months ago • 2 min read
