What's eating away at you?

Hey 3,220+ friends, it’s Hannah here from Quoted Visually 🤍

It’s been a minute since I last wrote to you! I want to do a better job with these emails but ironically that means sending less in the meantime while I strategise 💪

*an informal chat about the topics mentioned in this issue

How often do you take a minute to consider the things that eat away at you?

Like the scripts that run in the background…

The number of times, coupled with guilt, that we remind ourselves to reply to someone before we actually reply.

The habits we keep doing, that clearly don't serve us.

Or the flip-flopping back-and-forth in our minds about small unmade decisions.

These little things add up and create noise in our minds that can overwhelm us and prevent us from getting to what is actually important to us.

Invisible mental clutter that eats away at us.

Done once, twice or three times and each of these habits are arguably harmless. No alarms will sound. But done 100 times over, and we start to feel the negative compounding impact of these seemingly small insignificant things.

But the empowering realisation is that when we make time to stop and recognise these patterns, we can work to slowly break the repetition and make our habits compound more in our favour!

📖 What I’ve been consuming

I always find podcasts with Oliver Burkeman reassuring, and leave with the feeling of space. The realisation that felt like a hug here was his definition of productivity being leaving good stuff on the table.

In short, productivity isn't doing everything that's worth doing. It’s doing a few things that are worth doing well.

Accepting that we can't do it all can make us feel more satisfied with what we have done and are doing, and can feel weirdly liberating!

🗞️ Updates behind the scenes

1️⃣ Guess what… after 2+ years, I’ve tweaked my brand font to make it feel more friendly and more “me” and I’m chuffed to bits with it 🥹

You’re getting the first look… do you notice the difference? It’s very subtle! But that was the goal, I didn’t want it to feel jarring.

2️⃣ I’m excited to share that my first in-person podcast with the amazing Alice Benham went live this week.

When I said yes to doing this episode over lunch with Alice, at the Soho house earlier this year, I was filled with gratitude, excitement and food, but the thought of *actually doing it* sounded quite stressful. I said yes anyway to push myself.

Here we are, I’m cringing at the video of me, but I also feel this growing sense that I could do more of this. Speaking with Alice was an expansive feeling… ☀️

Maybe you're sitting on similar decisions, can you push yourself over the edge and say yes? Short-term challenge for long-term gain.

3️⃣ Students in the Quoting Ideas Visually course and community are sharing visuals left, right and centre on LinkedIn.

What's lighting me up even more, is seeing other community members support each other, publically and privately 🔥

Community support has been pivotal to my own growth!

• It's where the 150k+ followers came from.

• It's 100% why I couldn't JUST release a self-paced course!

There had to be a community element, a way to connect with others at the same stage of the journey. Could you be next? ⤵︎

4️⃣ I’m going to be more free with these newsletters, and writing this here is almost permission to myself, lumped in with accountability 👀

It would be helpful to learn more about you too so that I can write with you in mind and lean into topics that would help you.

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That’s a wrap!

Big love,

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