OG Tuesday Issue #279

📓 The planners people swear by for 2026.

💸 A guide to measuring employee financial wellness.

🧠 The mindset shift that makes problems easier to solve.

🤖 5 Gemini productivity tips Google actually uses.

AI tools are everywhere, but which ones are actually worth your time? Here’s a curated list of the best AI tools organized by function so you can find what you need fast.

Website & Business Setup

Mixo: Launch your website in seconds. Perfect for getting a landing page live before you overthink it.

Namelix: Business name generator that creates brandable, memorable names based on your keywords.

Agent.ai: Explore and use pre-built AI agents to help automate specific tasks. (Psst…we’re hosting a live workshop with them today at 11am PT.)

Image & Design

Midjourney: High-quality AI image generation. Creates stunning visuals from text prompts.

Supermeme: Generates memes with your text. Great for quick social content.

Claid.ai: Create professional product photography without Photoshop or a photographer.

This Model Does Not Exist: AI-generated models for your marketing materials when you need diverse representation.

Pika Style: Takes a tweet URL and creates it into an image you can use on Instagram or Facebook.

Presentation & Design

Typeset: Automates the design of PowerPoint decks so you don’t start from scratch.

Beautiful.ai: Presentation software that makes your slides look professionally designed automatically.

Gamma: Writes and designs decks, websites, and docs from a single prompt.

Video Creation & Editing

HeyGen: Clones your face and creates videos of you talking from text. Text-to-video made easy.

Rask: Video localization and dubbing tool that translates your videos into multiple languages.

VEED.io: Browser-based video editor for quick cuts, captions, subtitles, and simple polish without pro-level complexity.

Runway: AI video editing and generation tools for creators.

Vidyo.ai: Turns long videos into short, shareable clips for social media.

ContentFries: Turn your videos into weeks of crispy, engaging content. Content repurposing made simple.

InVideo: Creates actual video frames from your script. Present content without being on camera.

Opus: Create 10 clips from 1 video. Perfect for repurposing long-form content.

Audio & Voice

ElevenLabs: Clones your voice. Create realistic voiceovers without recording.

Summarize: Summarizes audio and video content so you can get the key points fast.

Writing & Scripting

Copy.ai: Write video scripts, summarize and recreate existing viral YouTube videos, generate marketing copy.

You don’t need all of these tools. Pick one or two that solve your biggest pain point right now. Test them, find your faves, then add more as you need them.

Work expands quietly.

Emails turn into threads. Notes turn into documents. Quick asks turn into standing tasks.

Before long, your week is full, but your energy isn’t.

The AI Assistant Kit is designed for that exact middle layer of work. The repeatable tasks that don’t require your judgment, but still demand your time.

It helps you delegate those tasks to AI in a practical, low-friction way. The kind you can use immediately, without changing how you already work.

Here’s what’s included:

• Templates that handle common work tasks with minimal setup
• An AI Command Center that keeps prompts and tools easy to find
• A 60-minute setup guide so you can start the same day
• A time-savings tracker to make progress visible
• Prompts written to sound natural, not overly polished or robotic

The result is fewer small decisions competing for your attention.

More space to focus on work that actually benefits from you being involved.

👉 Download the free AI Assistant Kit and simplify how your time gets spent.

A response to Nina A.

“My biggest challenge is time, focus, and task management. It’s not because I don’t know how to manage time—it’s because I have 100+ emails coming in per day and at least 4 hours spent in meetings each day and multiple projects to set up and run.” — Nina A.

Nina, when email and meetings hit this level, it usually stops being a personal time management issue and starts becoming a systems and leadership issue.

If you’re spending four or more hours a day in meetings, that leaves roughly four hours for actual work and that’s before context switching, prep time, Slack messages, and the inevitable “urgent” requests that hijack your focus. That’s not a you problem, it’s a structural one.

Here’s how to think about fixing it.

Question why email volume is so high

High email volume is a signal. It usually means your organization is using email as a catch-all instead of designing clearer communication systems.

Ask yourself: why does so much information require your attention via email? And are there better places for it to live?

If you have influence, this is a place to lead. If you don’t, it’s still worth raising the issue with solutions in hand.

Ways to reduce email overload:

• Move project updates to Notion, Google Docs, or a project management tool
• Use Slack or Teams for quick internal questions instead of long email threads
• Set communication guidelines:
  • Email for external communication and documentation
  • Chat tools for quick clarifications
  • Project tools for updates and ownership

Email should not be the default for internal coordination. It’s okay to push for change here.

Audit your meetings

Four hours of meetings a day is significant. If most meetings are 30 minutes, that’s eight meetings a day. That alone explains why your focus feels shot.

Start asking better questions:

• Does this meeting actually need to happen?
• Is there a clear agenda, or are people thinking out loud together?
• Could this be a written update or async check-in instead?

Meetings are expensive, and when they start to dominate the day, it usually points back to how work is being structured and led.

Use language like:

• “Could this be handled async?”
• “Can we shorten this to 25 minutes?”
• “What’s the agenda? If we don’t have one yet, let’s regroup once it’s clear.”

This is an opportunity to lead (even if you’re not ‘the boss’)

Depending on your role, you may not control the system, but you can still influence it.

Frame the problem clearly to whoever owns decisions:

• “I’m spending 4+ hours a day in meetings and managing 100+ emails, which leaves little time for focused work. I’m worried this will impact delivery. Can we adjust how we communicate and meet?”

Then come with solutions:

• Clear communication guidelines
• A meeting audit
• Stronger use of project management tools
• Async-first norms where possible

This isn’t complaining. It’s managing up.

You can’t keep operating like this

Running at this pace isn’t sustainable. It’s frustrating for you and ultimately risky for the people evaluating your output.

You can’t solve a structural problem with better personal discipline. If leadership is open to change, push for it and give it time to work. If nothing shifts after you’ve raised the issue clearly and constructively, that’s important data.

You’re capable. You’re organized. But you’re operating inside a system designed for inefficiency.

At some point, the choice becomes whether to keep compensating for broken systems or find an environment that doesn’t require it.

Fix the system if you can.

Advocate for change if you need to.

And don’t internalize problems that were never yours to carry.

GLP-1 conversations are everywhere. For some people, they’re useful. For others, the cost, side effects, or access make them unrealistic.

If you’re looking for a gentler, non-prescription option to support appetite cues and steady energy, this is one worth knowing about.

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It includes clinically studied ingredients that support metabolic balance:

• Berberine for appetite and glucose support
• Zinc for metabolic and hormonal function
• Resveratrol and quercetin dihydrate for cellular health

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This is about informed support that fits real life.

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