Introducing Growth Meditations

Welcome to the first issue of Growth Meditations! It’s great to have you on this journey with me 🤩 

Each week, I will be exploring topics related to business and personal growth… then sharing my learnings to help you on your journey.

To start, I want to give you some context:

• What is Growth Meditations?

• Why did I create it?

• What can you expect?

Let’s dive in!

What is Growth Meditations?

Growth Meditations is a modern brand for high performers who want to keep growing in all directions.

It’s also my personal blog / newsletter where I …

• Reflect on what I’m learning

• Share actionable tips and frameworks

• Pressure test new ideas I’m exploring

You can think of it as an idea lab for business and personal growth.

To set the boundaries of what I’ll explore each week, let’s unpack the following definitions:

• growth

• med·i·ta·tion

Growth:

What is growth?

The first definition is all about personal growth. How can we become the best version of ourselves?

• Health and wellness 🏃‍♂️ 

• Mental and emotional development 💯 

• Human connection 😊 

• Purpose and meaning ❤️‍🩹 

You can expect a lot of content on these topics in the near future.

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The second definition provides the structure to frame business growth.

It includes a more traditional sense of growth (increasing in amount or value):

• More revenue and profit 💰️ 

• More customers and employees 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 

• More scale (geographies, offerings) 🏢 

But what struck me (and what I’m really intrigued by) is the last part of the definition: importance. Growth doesn’t always require more. It can also be about growing in…

• Significance

• Usefulness

• Quality

• Impact

• Purpose

As I explore business growth, you can expect tools, frameworks and actionable advice on topics spanning…

• Strategy

• Product

• Innovation

• Go-to-market (GTM)

• Growth hacking

Meditations:

What is meditation?

When you think of someone meditating… you probably imagine a monk sitting in silence, practicing mindfulness to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

That’s one form of meditation.

But meditation can also be discourse, which is written or spoken communication or debate.

• Looking at ideas from a different lens 👀 

• Pressure testing your thinking 🤔 

• Going deep on a subject 👇️ 

• Striving for clarity 💫 

When I think of this form of meditation, I think of Marcus Aurelius.

For those familiar with Stoicism, you’ve probably heard of him. Marcus was the emperor of Rome from A.D. 161-180, and his reign marked the last period of internal tranquility and good government in the empire before it descended into civil war.

Marcus Aurelius’ book, Meditations, is a series of philosophical reflections that were intended to be private notes to himself as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you check it out.

I’m no Marcus Aurelius… but I’m inspired by how he used writing to gain clarity and remind himself of what matters most.

Growth Meditations is my practice of building and thinking in public.

Why did I create it?

I hope Growth Meditations helps you…

• Cut through the noise

• Expand your perspective

• Level up your thinking

• Get inspired

But to be honest, I’m really doing this for myself.

I want to…

• Hold myself accountable to learn new things 🔨 

• Synthesize better insights from what I consume 💡 

• Shift from consumption to creation (be in the arena) 🏗️ 

• Use it as a platform to reconnect with (and expand) my network 👋 

• Have fun along the way 😁 

I’ve long been intrigued by the creator economy, and rather than learning from the sideline, I figured it will be more effective to learn by doing.

What can you expect?

Consistency. I commit to showing up every week.

A wide variety of topics. I’m giving myself the freedom to see where my curiosity leads me — that’s why I intentionally used such broad definitions of growth.

Different newsletter formats. I want to experiment with different ways to structure the newsletter. Over time I may land on a specific format, but for now, here are a few different formats I expect to try out…

• A short email with quotes I’m pondering

• Summaries of key insights I took away from books, podcasts or articles

• Spotlights on tools or frameworks, with guidance on how to use them

• Deep dives on specific topics (long-form essays)

• Stories that highlight lessons from history, peers or my experience

• New business ideas for you to steal

Evergreen content. I want the lessons, tips and tools highlighted to be applicable over time. The content may evolve (and need to be updated), but I’m intentionally NOT focusing on current events nor the latest trends and hype cycles.

Dialogue and debate. I’d like this to be a two-way street, so please respond with your reactions, thoughts or ideas. None of us have all the answers, but collectively we can achieve more clarity together.

Community. Over time, I’d love for this to grow into a community of diverse individuals with a shared objective to keep growing in all directions.

Let’s learn and grow together!

Next week…

In the next issue, I’ll introduce The Growth Compass: a simple framework I created (and I’m experimenting with) to keep myself growing in all directions.

Thanks for reading!

I’d love your feedback. Reply to this email, and let me know your thoughts…

• Which topics interest you the most?

• What do you want to see more of in the future?

Until next week,

Scott​

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