🔴 The Butterfly Effect

Regular readers may have noticed there was no Monday edition.

Lately, work has taken most of my mental capacity.

Three days ago, we launched our YouTube Kids show, VeeFriends Cartoons. In the three-year history of VeeFriends, this is the first “real” cartoon in VeeFriends history produced by industry leader Moonbug Entertainment.

While I have nothing to do with the three-minute cartoons, I have a lot to do with the Instagram and Facebook accounts.

So, I’ve been going ham to ensure I’m putting my channels in the best position possible for the influx of people seeing us online.

This busy period at work will pass and I’ll get back to a regular cadence soon.

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The real reason I’m writing today’s newsletter is to share a realization from a conversation I had at work today.

You see, I used to be a devout Android user. Years ago, there was something I loved about not being an iPhone guy. It was about being an individual and going against the status quo.

Two years ago my Android broke, and against the recommendation of my mentor and boss at ONE7pm, Tyler, I decided to buy another Android.

Tyler said it was a bad career move to not own an iPhone.

I thought he was joking.

Within 48 hours (faster than Amazon could deliver a phone case for my Android), it slipped out of my pocket and shattered on the concrete. It was pulverized.

With Tyler’s voice in my head, I bought an iPhone the same day.

A year later, I got an out-of-the-blue text from Gary Vaynerchuk, the person I’d idolized for almost a decade.

20 seconds later, I was added to a group chat where Gary and a bunch of his friends played basketball a few times a month.

I’ve probably played basketball with Gary and friends 30+ times now.

If I had an Android, I simply would not have been invited to the group chat because Androids degrade the functionality of the chat with the incompatibility of iMessage.

If my Android hadn’t shattered on the concrete, I wouldn’t have the same comradery with Gary and my basketball friends.

The universe works in mysterious ways.

There’s an unimaginably large number of random occurrences that led you to be where you are in life right now.

You never know if a bad thing today ends up opening doors for you years down the road.

If something challenging happens for you, see it as a deposit in your future payoff…

Even if the challenge is as dumb as breaking your phone 48 hours after spending most of your paycheck on it.

Stay optimistic, friends.