Cody Bringham

Becoming a finisher

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@lucaspatiri_ UGC

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@kyanbuilds This is super helpful, really appreciate the insights here!

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@ammalusty 🙋‍♂️ I’m still around, but might be the last one

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Posted daily for almost a month. Great consistency for me and helped build a habit of creating and putting things into the world.

And now it’s a distraction, so I’m signing off.

Time to go build stuff. ✌️

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I’ve stayed up pretty late the last few nights working on coding projects and business pricing overhauls.

Then waking up early when my daughter wakes up.

Conclusion: unsustainable, but can work in the short term.

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Just put on the shoes.

I really didn’t want to go to the gym today. Stayed up too late. Knew it would be a lot of work to get my daughter ready. Snowing outside.

I pushed all that aside and decided to just put on my shoes.

And now here I am at the gym. 🤷‍♂️

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When my wife goes out of town I…

- eat tuna out of the can
- make homemade Thai green curry
- leave a mess of everything then clean it all 30 mins before she gets home
- stay up too late vibe coding or mindlessly scrolling

Not sure what this says about me as a person.

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I’ve been trying to find a simple yet functional focus timer app for my MacBook Pro for years.

Tonight, along with OpenAI Codex 5.3, I created my perfect timer app while washing the dishes.

It’s an exciting time to be alive. You can just build things.

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Thinking about love this Valentine’s Day.

For me, love is sincerely wanting the other person to be happy, and being willing to sacrifice your own time, money, desires, goals, etc. to make it happen.

It’s putting someone else first, even when inconvenient.

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Accomplish your goals daily-ish

It’s okay to miss a day. Try not to miss two.

Give yourself some grace and focus on progress instead of perfection.

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Such a relief to close out portions of your life that are taking up space, time, and attention. To simplify and focus on the few things that matter most.

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I heard that when a storm is coming, cows turn and start moving the opposite direction.

However bison turn and start running towards the storm.

I’m trying to be more like a bison when anxiety hits. Charge towards it with intense action instead of running away.

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There are few things in life more satisfying than actually doing what you said you were going to do.

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Small changes with a big difference:

- lift heavy weights
- wake up before the rest of the family
- drink more water
- delay social media to later in the day/week

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If I have more time, I review my to-do lists for lower priority items and see if any need to be higher priority. I also go through current projects and make sure they have a next action scheduled. Even more time? Look further ahead on the calendar.

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The most helpful thing in building a weekly review habit has been creating a system that scales depending on how much time I have.

I follow a checklist that has the most important step first.

With 5 minutes I only do that step. With more time I can work my way down the list.

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Here’s that first step: open my calendar on one half of the screen and my to-do app in the weekly view on the other half.

Then review each day this week on the calendar and write down what you need to do on each day in the to-do app. Pretty simple.

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New Saturday morning reset routine:

Turn off your phone and just start organizing and cleaning and doing stuff full speed without a plan.

I can’t believe how much I just got done around the house and how much my energy and motivation kept growing.

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Nothing like staying up late working on a project and feeling all motivated and in the zone and then you remember your kids don’t care and are still going to wake up early.

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I’ve found that taking immediate, even sloppy and inefficient action is my biggest reliever of anxiety.

Taking a step is infinitely better than just standing there forever trying to decide which direction to go.