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The cocktail party effect, the car you suddenly see everywhere, the goal that starts appearing in unexpected places. Here's the RAS and why daily repetition is not just motivation.
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I downloaded 47 productivity apps and abandoned every single one. This is the paper system I use instead and why it works when everything digital fails my ADHD brain.
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I kept showing up at the dinner table without actually arriving. This is the 6pm ritual that helped me close the gap between being home and actually being present.
While managing my daughter's screen time, I realized I was the one who needed the lesson. Here's what watching a toddler approach the world taught me about curiosity and learning.
After a decade of building BestSelf, here are the practices, beliefs, and habits I'd keep if I were starting again today, and the ones I'd leave behind.
From a tiny NYC apartment and a Kickstarter campaign to a decade-old brand. Here's what making it actually looks like from the inside, the part I rarely photograph.
A decade of building BestSelf taught me things no business book mentioned. Here are the honest lessons from ten years of showing up, failing, adapting, and growing.
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Hi, I'm Cathryn Lavery, founder of BestSelf, and I write Winning Wednesday each week as your mid-week reset button.
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I chose Wednesday because it's when motivation naturally dips (they don't call it hump day for nothing). It's the perfect moment for a reset that helps you finish your week stronger.
With an ADHD-friendly format, each edition respects your time while providing maximum value.
My goal? To make this the most valuable email you receive all week, one that consistently builds momentum in your work, relationships, and personal growth.
While managing my daughter's screen time, I realized I was the one who needed the lesson. Here's what watching a toddler approach the world taught me about curiosity and learning.
After a decade of building BestSelf, here are the practices, beliefs, and habits I'd keep if I were starting again today, and the ones I'd leave behind.
From a tiny NYC apartment and a Kickstarter campaign to a decade-old brand. Here's what making it actually looks like from the inside, the part I rarely photograph.
A decade of building BestSelf taught me things no business book mentioned. Here are the honest lessons from ten years of showing up, failing, adapting, and growing.
I trace my luck back to the days I worked crazy architect hours and found something life-changing. Here's the research on luck and why attention is the mechanism behind it.
Impatience is expensive. Here's what I learned from an Austin ice storm about the hidden cost of trying to get to level ten before I've fully built level three.
Thirty minutes lost to standing in my kitchen unable to decide. Here's what decision paralysis actually is and the specific technique that snaps me out of it every time.
Rest sounds simple but for me it required deliberate permission. Here's what finally stopping in Ireland taught me about why rest matters and how to let yourself have it.
I abandoned the very system I built. Here's what pulled me away, what brought me back, and the honest lesson about when to innovate versus when to just recommit.
My current systems were designed for who I was, not who I am now. Here's the process I use to audit my defaults and rebuild what's quietly making life harder.
Fine is the response that ends a conversation. Here's what I've learned about the emotional middle ground where too many people park themselves and what it takes to move past...
Newborns are fully present by default. Here's what that state revealed to me about how much presence I've lost as an adult and what it looks like to deliberately get...
Passion is a fuel but it burns differently in an ADHD brain. Here's the pattern I've seen in myself and others where a single focus starts cannibalising everything else.
A late-night call from a friend in crisis led me to the framework behind what actually makes partnerships strong. Here's the equation most couples never see.
On the hardest weeks, momentum rarely starts big. I share how the smallest completed action can become the thread that pulls everything else forward.
I forgot it was teacher prep day, showed up to an empty parking lot, and realized I had nothing left. This is what that taught me about capacity and why...
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