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The emotional cost.
Sometimes, cheap financial options come with a big emotional price tag. Are you saving money and spending happiness?
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Justin Welsh
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The ownership gap.
There's a dangerous loop that keeps people stuck in mediocrity. I call it the ownership gap. And it's what separates the successful from the…
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Justin Welsh
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Take a random Tuesday off. Weekends are overrated.
On random Tuesdays, none of your friends or family are expecting you to be free or available. Nobody’s created plans for you. It's your day.
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Justin Welsh
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The only essentials.
I've chased every definition of success. But it turns out that a genuinely good life has remarkably few components.
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Justin Welsh
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Stepping off of the default path with Substack CEO Chris Best and Justin Welsh
A recording from Justin Welsh and Chris Best's live video
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Justin Welsh
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We train people how to treat us, so train them well.
Every interaction you have with another person is a training session. You’re literally training them how to treat you. So, train them well.
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Justin Welsh
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Forget 5-year plans. Just make today better.
A lot of people spend too much time planning. I was that person once. But now I just focus on making today better than yesterday.
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Justin Welsh
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Business should serve your life, not consume it.
People think starting a business is about winning. We're told ad nauseam that the world's best businesspeople are scaling bigger, hiring more, and…
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Justin Welsh
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May 2025

Cosplaying entrepreneurship.
There’s a strange trend in the online business space that I can't help but notice: The rise of the entrepreneur cosplayer.
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Justin Welsh
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Everyone is burning out.
We've normalized burnout as the price of modern life, but constant exhaustion isn't natural. It's time to recognize this epidemic for what it is.
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Justin Welsh
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The dead internet is here.
Social media platforms are slowly dying, but not in the way you'd expect. They’re not shutting down. They’re becoming non-human.
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Justin Welsh
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What if the good old days are right now?
I spend a lot of time looking backward. I reminisce about better days. When I felt things were simpler. When I was younger. When my career and life were…
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Justin Welsh
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