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Hello Reader, from your pal Nick.

In this issue: 5 not-obvious Google Chrome extensions that I use, advice from an elder, my book cover reveal!!, a Stanford study on results from Tony Robbins, and how to manage your calendar better.

Why youā€™re getting this: I'm Nick Gray and this is my Friends Newsletter. I send this every month to interesting people Iā€™ve connected with and friends I want to keep in touch with. You can un-subscrĆ­be any time and I won't be mad.

Nick holding a poster of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party book cover
This is my book cover! What do you think??

Book Launch Next Week

My book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party comes out next week on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022.

Hereā€™s what the cover looks like:

3D photo of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party book on a blue background
Coming to Amazon and other online stores on June 14, 2022

After five years of writing and rewriting, including testing with 55 different people from this newsletter to host parties for their neighbors, old friends, new friends, and work colleaguesā€¦ this is finally happening!

Iā€™ll email again on Tuesday once it goes live. I am pretty dang sure that The 2-Hour Cocktail Party will help you build big relationships in your life. That can mean new friends, reconnecting with old friends, or even boosting your career. I canā€™t wait to share it with yā€™all.


Random Links

ā±ļø TED talk: The real reason you feel so busy (and what to do about it)ā€‹

New talk by my friend Dorie Clark. Almost 700k views!

šŸ˜® Stanford University Genetics Lab Study on Tony Robbins Eventsā€‹

That's a fancy landing page that Tony's team must have made, but even the vanilla ScienceDirect article is pretty impressive RE: actual results that attendees saw.

šŸ—“ļø Calendly Message Examples: How to Make Your Meetings More Friendlyā€‹

If you use Calendly or some other online scheduling thing, do these 3 things to make your invites better: 1. Edit your profile pics (see my examples), 2. Personalize the automated messages, and 3. Consider shorter meeting times. Also advanced settings and screenshots in the article. I wrote this!


What is something you wish you had known sooner?

I saw this question, and this answer, on Quora and loved it. The whole thread of other answers is good, too.

"Iā€™m 77. I created four successful businesses, married two beautiful women (one at a time) have two great sons, and retired at 49. My life has been full. And it really doesnā€™t matter - none of it. I wish Iā€™d known that in the beginning - that it all wouldnā€™t matter. I beat myself up most of my life trying to accomplish success and I could have had a much easier time of it. I was chasing someone elseā€™s dream, not mine. No 14 hour days, six days out of the week. No heart attacks. No ulcers. No enemies. I could have learned the piano, painted, sculpted, read more books, learned to dance the salsa, had more dogs. At the end of life, and mine is just around the corner, the important stuff is the stuff I didnā€™t have time for. I canā€™t speak for all wealthy people, but the ones I know are pretty damn empty. We come into the world naked and we leave pretty much the same way - and there are no ā€œMulligansā€. If you donā€™t get it right the first time, too bad for you. Iā€™m too old to climb the mountains I always wanted to climb, too old to buy a dog, too old to learn to surf, too old to learn the piano. All the good stuff is behind me. Donā€™t get stuck in a life that isnā€™t yours."


5 Great Chrome Extensions That I Use

Here are a few extensions that I use every day in my web browser. These Chrome extensions help me be more productive.

  • Send to Kindle
  • Buster: Captcha Solver
  • I don't care about cookies
  • Birthday Calendar Exporter to Facebook
  • Bypass Paywalls
Google Chrome Extensions image on a yellow background with Nick
See links to all extensions, and how I use them, on my blog

The End

Thanks for reading my Friends Newsletter. This was a quick one as I prep for my book launch.

Hope you have a great day and an awesome weekend!

šŸ¤  Nick Gray

An investor, entrepreneur, and author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party. I started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Join 20,000 CEOs, investors, and founders and receive business tips, productivity tools, and other resources from me.

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