Hi friends,
 
I hope you enjoyed your Eid vacation! May you enjoy it every year with your loved ones, healthy and happy.
 

Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 5 insightful things I thought were worth starting your week with: 
 
1. 📝 A great blog post about 1:1 meetings and how to prepare for them, the writer Sasha provided helpful resources at the start.
 
 
2. 🎉Hello July, my birthday month! How to plan for the new month is one of my most popular podcast episodes; listen here or read my blog post here.
 
 
3. 👋 And hello to the second half of the year 2023! Here are old but valuable videos I created to help you reset your goals for the year, part 1, part 2.
 
 
4. 🧳I hope you need this checklist this summer, it helped me while I packed for my little trip: The Complete Travel Packing Checklist for 2023 & the Best Packing Tips [Printable].
 
 
5. 💭 This week's quote:
“If you want to hone your intuition, you must dedicate some time to being still, alone with your thoughts, off the grid, and without distraction. This is so effective because you begin to “hear” things that are often drowned out by the noise.” 
― Todd Henry, Daily Creative
(Thank you Readwise for helping me find this quote from a book I read)

This is Sunday Spark issue #135! 
 
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Some cool resources I personally use, love and recommend, with discounts just for you: 
 
  1. I like to start the day with my personalized Momentum Plus tab, which helps me stay focused with a powerful mantra, an inspiring image, a to-do list, countdowns to big dates, and world clocks where I keep an eye on time zones of friends and family living abroad before contacting them. Being a newsletter friend, you would get a special offer of a 10% discount when you subscribe to Momentum Plus with the promo code: bardees.
  2. Enjoy a free month of the Readwise app, it is the BEST way to retain the knowledge you gain through reading. Using spaced repetition, it helps you remember your highlights from kindle books/articles you read. I am in love with their new reader feature. Reading online has become a top-notch experience thanks to Reader. Get one month free using my link.
  3. I have been using Exist App for years as a digital journaling tool to track my mood in relation to my productivity and health choices. Try it out.
  4. I use Rescuetime to track my digital productivity. Rescuetime tells me how much I spend on email, Excel sheets, meetings, and nonwork activities. I have been a happy client since 2014.  

Note: some of the links above may be affiliate links, but always keep in mind that I don’t endorse anything I don’t use and love myself. 

 
See you next Sunday First name / my dear friend! 
 
Have a Brilliant Week! 
 
 

 

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