Hi {{first_name}},

I stopped watching shorts two days ago.

Today I'm tired and irritable. 

My body feels like it did when I quit smoking or drinking.

But yesterday I spent hours making scotch eggs from scratch. Invented a new sausage mix. 

Tonight I cooked a proper curry, better than anything you can buy.

I had time for all of it because I wasn't scrolling.

I smoked for most of my young life. Smoked weed daily. Drank most days from 26 until two and a half years ago. 

Stopping shorts feels the same as stopping any of that.

The withdrawal is real. Which means the addiction was real.

You can't feel the drain while you're in it. 

What came back when I stopped was the capacity to spend hours cooking from scratch, experimenting with recipes, doing things that require sustained creative energy.

I used to scroll shorts between client calls. 

Told myself I was researching content or unwinding.

But I was trading away the capacity to create. The time and energy needed to try things, make content, build the business.

That's what happens in Authentic Navigators. 

You build the capacity to create without certainty. 

Weekly calls where we figure out what works for your business while you learn to operate through the doubt.

It closes Friday at midnight. 

The $97/month founder rate locks in as long as you stay. When it reopens mid-February, it's $297/month.

Join here: https://www.skool.com/the-linkedin-basecamp

Talk tomorrow, 

Jack