Friends news: Book cover šæ
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 youāre getting this: I'm Nick Gray and this is my Friends Newsletter. I send this every month to interesting people Iāve connected with and friends I want to keep in touch with. You can un-subscrĆbe any time and I won't be mad.
Book Launch Next Week
My book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party comes out next week on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022.
Hereās what the cover looks like:
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!
Iāll 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 canāt wait to share it with yāall.
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!
š® 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.
šļø 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.
"Iām 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 doesnāt matter - none of it. I wish Iād known that in the beginning - that it all wouldnāt 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 elseās 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 didnāt have time for. I canāt 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 āMulligansā. If you donāt get it right the first time, too bad for you. Iām 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. Donāt get stuck in a life that isnāt 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
Read the Article |
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!
š¤ Nick Gray