It was love at first sight. I mean play. And with just that one set of keystrokes I was suddenly…texting Katie? Yep. Exchanging Wordle scores hooked me on something more important, regular but casual exchanges with Kate via text. How you do anything is how you do everything, as they say, and in this edition of Doing What Works we’ll inspire you to do something (anything!) new -- just to see where it takes you.

Here are your show notes…

Here’s…Wordle [https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html]!

This is Wordle [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wordle-craze-2022/], explained by the folks at CBS News.

If you’re a creative who wants inspiration for staying in the game, I cannot recommend the work of Steven Pressfield [https://stevenpressfield.com/blog/] highly enough.

Do you have a growth mindset [https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322]?

Are you interested in variations on Wordle? Here are a few! Heardle [https://www.heardle.app/], Worldle [https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/], and Taylordle [https://www.taylordle.com/].