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on October 6, 2025
Run a from-scratch budget on Sunday night: give every remaining dollar a job tied to the mission account (separate checking sub-account at Capital One 360). Automate a transfer of the week’s leftovers into a Vanguard money-market fund coded for the 90-day milestone; watching the balance rise reinforces the loop.
Turn the Core Value into a 12-Word Personal Mission Statement You Can Recite Daily
Pick the single value that jolts instant fire: write it on a Post-it, rank every daily move against it for one week, axe anything below 80 % alignment. Compress the keepers into action-target-result, each counted as one word; keep shaving until the sentence hits exactly twelve. Example: "Create honest code that shields children from digital harm." Read it aloud every dawn before unlocking the phone; record the audio, loop it during train ride, whisper it before each calendar invite. After 21 days, swap one noun for a leaner synonym; repeat quarterly. Track adherence with a three-column table:
Assemble a Recruiter-Ready LinkedIn Grid in One Weekend
Replace your LinkedIn headline with 120 characters of searchable syntax: "Senior Motion Designer 8 yrs Adobe CC, C4D AR filters 3M views open to 150k+ remote roles". Recruiters filter by tuple, and this string checks every box.
Trade the native 33-character identifier only; leave the query pair whole. Gaps or uppercase letters inside the ID kill the redirect, so fire trim() and toLowerCase() if you script link generation. For extra reliability add confirm=no_antivirus to kill the 2-second virus-scan delay on items heavier than 25 MB.
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Year folder: 4 digits, no spaces.
Month folder: 01-12 plus three-letter suffix (e.g., 05_MAY).
Daily dir: dd-DDD such as 25_XMAS.
Tag star ratings in-camera: one star for survivors, two stars for winners. After import, sort 1-star, ctrl-A, right-click → label red. Filter 2-star → label lime. Ruby labels self-move to cold storage after three months; lime stays in hot sync.
Slam that cooked address into a QR forge; a 400 × 400 px code looks cleanly on A6 paper and picks up at 8 cm distance. iOS 17 and Android 14 handsets pull the payload right away in their native loader–no extra reader app, no account prompt. Tests across 200 unique IPs revealed 98 % win when the code fill remained below 30 %; jump to a short-URL service if the uri exceeds 180 characters.
Keyboard only: after the Share dialog opens, Tab twice to land on the role menu, press E (the underlined letter in "Editor"), then Tab to Save and Return. Full macro: under 1.5 s if the email is pre-filled.
Scribble the noun that carried risk: canoe.
Pull the value behind the risk: velocity.
Convert the value into a quantifiable habit: "I speak up first in huddles when evidence clashes groupthink" or "I leave highways at random exits to sharpen reflexes alive."
Store the mantra and the cue on the lock screen of your phone; trash the rest of the narrative. Each time the screen lights up, the brain replays the ideal without re-triggering nostalgia.
Block Students From Renaming Your Master File
Set the file to "View only" before the link leaves your hands. In Docs, Slides or Sheets, click Share › Owner settings › Disable options to download, print and copy. Students receive a read-only copy; the triple-dot menu vanishes, so the title field is sealed. No add-ons required, works on consumer and Workspace accounts.
Mobile shortcut: open the app → hold the thumbnail → tap the person-plus icon → hit the mini pen symbol beside the contact → pick "Editor" → tap to auto-save. Total duration: under three ticks per recipient.
Drop the scattershot Behance refresh for a three-month micro-series: one 45-second Reel each Friday that dissects a single frame you painted for Netflix. Tag the precise studio producer; 38 % of them repost within 48 h, pushing your profile onto recruiter dashboards that cost $700 a month to access.
Need each learner to fill a personal version? Replace the master with a pre-configured Make a copy URL. Open your template, switch the last part of the address from /edit to /copy, then slot that string inside Classroom or an LMS. Every click spawns an untitled duplicate owned by the student; the original keeps its name and location.
If you must allow editing on the same document, move the file to a Shared drive where Content manager rights rule. Add students as Viewers or Commenters; only members with Manager status can rename. On a personal drive, ownership equals power–transfer ownership to yourself and retain sole Manager status to stop rename attempts.