I’ve recently developed a bad habit where I write every small thing down on the same Macbook sticky: from ideas to dreams for the future to my unrelenting New York pizza craving. Once it’s on the note, I never read it again.
The process is essentially a way for me to feel better—if I ever did want to retrieve an idea, I could find it. That is, if I remembered exactly where in the 823-word document it was.
I imagine that Milana Lewis would be less appalled by my newfound habit.
She’s the founder of Stem Disintermedia, a company that empowers musicians with distribution and payments. She started her career as a talent agent in Hollywood. Every time she heard about someone interesting, she would add them to a running list. Her goal was to one day reach out to them.
“If you don’t write things down, you can’t manifest them,” she explained when I heard her speak.
Over time, Milana ended up speaking with everyone on her list. Her company has now raised millions from people like the ex-COO of Venmo and Gary Vaynerchuck.
Writing things down gave Milana direction. And her words helped me reframe my perspective on my master sticky doc. I wasn’t writing things down into the bottom of a doom scroll. I was manifesting them. **
In other words, write your New York pizza dreams down. And always seek validation of your bad habits from the successful.
