Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 02/28/26

Updated: Mon, 03/02/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🎄 What feels like Christmas morning:

Over the last couple of years, it's like people re-discovered creatine.

Just wait until they discover red meat.

My latest half cow came in this week.

It's like opening presents on Christmas morning.

🥩 How to get quality and pricing:

Buying in bulk directly from your local farm is the best way to get the best quality at the best price.

Then, you can use this list of the most (and least) expensive supermarkets to supplement your stock and stretch your budget.

🏅 How to win gold:

Olympians view sleep as a performance tool. So they optimize everything from their pillow to their shower timing to get an edge.

Here are 12 "sleepmaxxing" tips used by Olympians.

💡 How to beat procrastination:

I'd gone two weeks without working on The Human Diet.

From the outside, it looks like I'd been procrastinating. But I didn't feel like I was procrastinating. This dichotomy led to an insight into my behavior.

It wasn't that I was avoiding writing, rather, with the SnoreBuds launch and Murphy's Law in full effect, I'd been inundated with urgent and important tasks.

My brain simply can't settle in and write with those lingering in the back of my mind.

My book falls squarely in the "Not Urgent but Important" box.

Insights

If my day is full of urgent and important tasks, simply scheduling something that's important but not urgent doesn't work.
If I could make my writing both important AND urgent, I'd get it done.

It seems I have some subconscious calculus that weighs importance against urgency and dictates my focus accordingly.

So the key for me to getting back to writing is increasing the importance, the urgency, or both.

For example, if the biggest publishing house in the world said, "Kevin, we'll publish this for you, but you must submit 1,000 words per week or we're out." I'd have weekly urgency and high importance, and I guarantee I'd submit 1,000 words every week.

The question is: how do you manufacture this kind of urgency and importance for something that doesn't feel inherently urgent-important?

Solve that, and you solve your "procrastination" for good.