🗓️ Using August 23rd for Projects
Theme: 🛁 Desire – AI17 沐浴 ("Bath")
Water 💧 Element — Emotional Depth, Flow, Self-Immersion
E5 Water 🌊 ❄️ – Exploratory, Driven, Self-Motivated
Best for:
- Projects that require intense focus, technical skill, and independence
- Launching self-directed tools or products—especially those that empower users to take action alone (e.g. fitness trackers, productivity tools, privacy-first software, solitary learning apps)
- Campaigns or features appealing to self-reliant or bold users
- Any initiative requiring physical energy, hands-on testing, or prototype iteration
- Working through backlogged tasks or issues with assertiveness and discipline
Avoid:
- Over-collaborative, people-pleasing efforts — August 23 energy does not like groupthink or coddling
- Flimsy or superficial pitches — this day has no time for fluff
- Expecting immediate emotional validation — this day is more “do first, feel later”
🧭 Energy Profile:
August 23 is for the engineer of action, the lone wolf builder, the one who works best with clarity, ownership, and challenge. It favors no-nonsense productivity and tactical self-discipline.
Use this day to:
- Work on projects requiring technical execution
- Test products or ideas that demand high energy output
- Outline next steps with brutal honesty and directness
- Launch features or offerings that appeal to doers, makers, fighters, defenders
🎙️ Tone to adopt:
Precise, independent, direct, gritty
🎯 Quote to carry:
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln