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Hello {{first_name|Motivated and Miffed Community}},
You ever use a product and think, “This is great… but also why is this part like this?”
Yeah. Same.
Motivated and Miffed exists to help you make progress without burning yourself out—not to add more noise to your inbox. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
If we don’t know what’s actually helping you, we’re just guessing.
And guessing is how newsletters slowly turn into meh-sletters.
So we’re asking for a small favor (and no, it’s not “like and subscribe”).
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🧠 Help Us Build This With You
1) What Are Your Goals?
We put together a short Getting to Know You Survey to understand how you’re using Motivated and Miffed—and what you actually want more (or less) of.
This isn’t busywork. Your answers directly help us:
Sharpen future issues, so they’re more useful, not just interesting
Decide what tools, templates, and experiments to build next
Stop doing things that look cool but don’t help you move the needle
It takes about 2 minutes.
No essays. No guilt. No “tell us your life story” nonsense.
🔻 Help shape future issues → Fill out the Goals Survey 🔻
3) Short on time? We got you.
If even the survey feels like too much right now (we see you), the poll below takes literal seconds and still helps us shape what we send next.
What is your primary goal for subscribing to Motivated and Miffed?
🧠 New Stuff You Might’ve Missed
2) M&M Navigator Chatbot
While we’re tightening things up, here’s what’s new inside Motivated and Miffed:
🤖 The Chatbot (aka: Your Low-Energy Productivity Buddy)
You can now ask questions like:
“What should I work on today if I only have 15 minutes?”
“Help me unstuck this half-baked idea.”
“What’s a small win I can knock out before lunch?”
No scrolling. No overthinking. Just answers.
✅ Productivity Tips (small wins, actually usable)
We’ve curated our top-performing Productivity Tips articles below for your convenience.
Don’t Scroll—Ship One Clip — OpenAI just made AI social — here’s how not to lose your creative soul in the process. → https://motivated-and-miffed.beehiiv.com/p/sora-2-no-brain-melt
Parkinson’s Law, But Actually Useful — Use Tim Ferriss–style constraints to stop tasks from ballooning all day. → https://motivated-and-miffed.beehiiv.com/p/shorten-deadlines-slash-fake-work
Viral Focus Hacks, Dehyped — Stop collecting hacks. Start shipping. → https://motivated-and-miffed.beehiiv.com/p/viral-focus-hacks-dehyped
Find more productivity tips and techniques on our Productivity Page here!
👋 That’s All
Motivated and Miffed works best when it’s a conversation—not a broadcast.
Thanks for being here. Thanks for reading.
And thanks in advance for telling us the truth (we can handle it).
Stay MOTIVATED,
Gio
PS: If you’ve ever thought “I wish this newsletter did more of X”—this is literally how that happens.