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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.
the story behind
Hi, I'm Cathryn Lavery, founder of BestSelf, and I write Winning Wednesday each week as your mid-week reset button.
Here's what you'll get:
Join over 150,000+ people like you who rely on Winning Wednesday for actionable strategies to boost productivity, deepen relationships, and create meaningful progress – delivered exactly when you need it most.
This isn't another promotional email cluttering your inbox. Every Winning Wednesday delivers genuinely useful content you can implement immediately. No fluff, no sales pitches. Just actionable insights when you need them most
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.
The daily negotiation about whether to do the thing I already decided to do costs more than the thing itself. Here's pre-deciding and why it changes my follow-through.
Thinking about a problem and writing it out are neurologically different processes. Here's what seven years of morning pages revealed about why the page solves what the mind cannot.
Missing the newsletter for the first time put me face to face with my approval instincts. Here’s the honest lesson about why seeking unanimous validation keeps you smaller than you...
The people closest to me were getting the version of me that had already given everything away. Here’s what motherhood taught me about protecting energy for who matters most.
The worst thing that happened to me in 2018 became the thing I’m most grateful for. Here’s what a broken collarbone and two weeks of forced stillness set in motion.
I solved a three-week problem between shampoo and conditioner. Here's the neuroscience behind shower thoughts, the default mode network, and how to give your brain space to work.
Amundsen and Scott both tried to reach the South Pole. Only Amundsen made it back alive. Here's what their different strategies reveal about how consistency beats intensity.
I'll spend more time with myself than anyone else. Here's what I wish I'd understood at 25 about the relationship with yourself and why it determines the quality of everything...
Adult friendships don't maintain themselves. Here's what led to 30 people showing up for me and the deliberate choices that keep close friendships alive across busy adult lives.
This is edition 52. Here's the behind-the-scenes system that kept this newsletter going for a full year, including the weeks I nearly didn't send it.
Overthinking is not a personality trait. I share the neuroscience behind why some brains ruminate more and the concrete practices that helped me interrupt the cycle.
When a habit falls apart for weeks, my instinct is to go harder. Here's why going smaller first is what actually gets it restarted and why the 5-minute rule works...
Most phone habit advice targets the surface behavior. I dig into what's actually happening underneath the compulsive reach and why that changes the whole approach to fixing it.
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.
I caught myself watching TikTok in the shower at 8am. This is what that moment taught me about compulsive scrolling and why the real fix has nothing to do with...
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.
Join 150,000+ people like you who get their mid-week reset every Wednesday.
