💪 How to Make Hard Things Fun?

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🤖 An AI workspace
⏱️ The 2-minute rule
💬 A chat marketing tool
💪 How to make hard things fun?
📁 A directory of personal websites
🧠 15 mental models of psychology
➡️ And more…



🪶 Remember This

Simplicity scales.

Complexity fails.



🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


🤖 PopAi shared by Devon Artis
An AI workspace with presentation and flowchart features


💬 Manychat shared by Lwany
A chat marketing tool for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger


🧠 15 Mental Models To Understand Psychology shared by Pooja Patel
A podcast episode on human nature, cognitive biases, mental models and more



🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

💰 Katt Risen sold No-Code Exits


📁 Sarim Khalid built a directory of personal websites


🤏 Simon launched Tiny Flips with 20+ projects listed already


📊 Maciej Cupial reached $15,000 MRR in July with Calendesk


🎞️ Eddie Forson built an AI agent to make short clips from YouTube videos



🐦 Tweet of the Week



🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 Fireflies.ai — Automate meeting notes


🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit


🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast



🔧 Try This

2-Minute Rule

If a task takes less than 2 minutes to do, do it now.

This rule:

  • Makes time for more complex and focused work.
  • Cuts the mental energy drain of deciding to do them later.
  • This rule helps you build a habit of taking action rather than putting things off.



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🎧 Listen To

How to Make Hard Things Fun

Here’s how to do things that have long-term benefits, which you don’t want to do now:

  • In column one, write down the pleasures you enjoy and the temptations that you want to do.
  • In column two, write down the tasks and behaviors you should be doing, but often procrastinate on.
  • See if you can link one of your instantly gratifying “want” behaviors with something you “should” be doing.



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