Hello from the Sam and Claire (your Local Boys) with your weekly inside scoop on mindfulness and web3.

Have you called your Mom this week?

-S & M

Let's dive in:

• 🍭 What We're Excited About

• 🏖️ What Grit Really Looks Like

• 💪 How to Level Up

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT

1️⃣ Movie: This one is custom made for the Preservation of Badass Women Society. If you're craving an award winner with action adventure that's based off a true story, look no further. The Woman King reigns supreme.

2️⃣ Podcast: Renowned speaker and self-help guru Mel Robbins talks about anxiety, parenting, and why she turned down a million dollars a year.

3️⃣ Quick read: Forget work-life balance, learn to craft a harmonious life.

4️⃣ Work Jam: FKJ gets it.

5️⃣ Free Resource: We have an interview guide coming next week 👀 what should we make next?

GRIT

They say grit is the number one indicator of success, but it can look like the ugly stepsister out of all the leadership skills. Grit is the perseverance to achieve long-term goals and create a meaningful life. While "grit" is a nicely-packaged tough-sounding word, it stems from the Old English word greot, meaning "sand, dust, earth, gravel," and from Proto-Germanic greutan meaning "tiny particles of crushed rock."

When we exert grit, we often feel tiny and crushed.

Yet grit is the light that shines through the blinds while you're curled up in a ball feeling defeated. Your launch didn't work. Your big idea failed. Rejection arrived on your doorstep.

Enter: grit.

It's making a sandcastle out of wet sand. It's peeling yourself off the floor to figure out, where do I go from here? It's when you decide to take a step in the direction of something that really lights you up, no matter how dark your current space may feel.

Take note.

An old basketball coach once told me the difference between dream and reality is hard work. I'd take it one step further - it's hard work over time that makes the difference. It's exerting grit over and over and over again.

The reality is that many of us work in silence each day hoping our efforts attract the right eyes. It’s easy to grow frustrated or cynical by our relative lack of progress or that our work doesn't seem to be catching anyone's attention.

But being a true leader requires an unwavering faith that if we do the right thing, if we build honest relationships and stay consistent with our visions, our work will eventually get recognized. Our opportunity will arrive or we will make it so.

Thought prompts:

1. If a magic genie allowed you to do anything for work, with your whole life taken care of, what would you do?

2. Where is your place of recharge? Your oasis of solace that empowers you to stand up, again and again?

THIS WEEK I WILL

1️⃣ Be true to thyself. Pause and take a moment to act based on what you truly believe rather than what is expected.

2️⃣ Enjoy. An average life has only 4,000 weeks. Make sure to do one thing you love every day.

3️⃣ Observe what brings you into the present moment and what knocks you out of it.

WHAT WE'RE PONDERING

That's a wrap. See ya next week!

🖤 Your Local Boys

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