Reading time: 3 min
On today’s menu, we keep it light. I’m serving a short thought on consistency and building resilience, and hopefully, we solve the dash line situation once and for all. And as for a life experiment, well, I’m co-organizing a cool event in NYC, happening in less than 48 hours.
What if the secret ingredient isn’t consistency?
Consistency sounds sexy, but what defines people who lead their lives well isn’t that they never fall off. It’s how fast they get back on.
So maybe we don’t need to be consistent all the time.
Maybe we just need to learn to recover faster than we spiral.
As Atomic Habits reminds us (and we all know this one): Never miss twice.
Giving ourselves grace for the failures and encouragement to get back in the arena is how we build resilience.
To Do:
When you feel momentum for something, act on it in the next 5–10 minutes. (Otherwise, you’ll lose it.)
- If you want to run again, at least put your shoes by the door.
- If you want to cut sugar, throw the cookies.
- If you want to read more, open the book and read for 1 minute.
Micro-actions!
And when you fall off again (because you will), don’t call it a restart.
Call it a return.
Something basic to solve the dash (“—”) situation
Everyone’s allergic to the em dash (“—”) because it screams AI.
Seems there’s an actual fix I read about this week and wanted to share it here.
Don’t just tell ChatGPT “stop using em dashes”. That’s like telling someone “don’t overthink”, it doesn’t help.
Instead, teach it what to do instead.
Add this to your Custom Instructions (Bottom left, where you have the profile picture → Personalization → Custom Instructions):
Systematically replace em-dashes (“—”) with a period (“.”) to start a new sentence, or a comma (“,”) to continue the sentence.
Someone said an event in NYC?
Yesss! I joined a friend in co-organizing this.
We’re bringing together Romanians, Americans, and a few great internationals.
It’s a community gathering, not just a networking event, because conversations > business cards.
There will be photos on Tuesday… probably some great smiles.
And why do I mention this as a life experiment? Because sometimes when life gives you just half a lemon, it’s an experiment in itself to make lemonade for a crowd. But not impossible!
Be curious and enjoy the week,
Silvia
