Slow steady pointed compounding non-comparative improvements. Each day.
Helping busy people do inner work.
Slow steady pointed compounding non-comparative improvements. Each day.
We are a mind, a body, and a spirit.
We cannot perform at peak capacity with just one and not the others.
Train the body to improve the mind; train the mind to improve the body.
Train the mind to improve the spirit; train the spirit to improve the mind.
Train the spirit to improve the body; train the body to improve the spirit.
Order doesn’t matter.
Spending time on EACH is what matters.
What are the things that make you feel great?
And I’m not talking about 10 seconds great… I’m talking about 10 hours great.
I’m not talking about pleasure-seeking tasks—I’m talking about soul-filling tasks.
Exercising? Walking? Journaling? Meditating? Stretching?
First of all, once you come up with your list—why not include each of those things into each of the days of your week?
Why would you ever skip out on the things that make you feel great?
Your state—mentally, physically, emotionally—affects everything else in life. And so they should get the top priority each and every day.
Especially on the days when your state is at its lowest.
Skipping state-boosting tasks when you feel off/down/awful is a mistake and only reinforces that feeling of off/down/or awful.
And, worth noting, skipping them on the days when your state is at its highest is also a mistake.
Because if you stop doing the things that make you feel great when you’re feeling great—it won’t be long until you’re no longer feeling great again.
And up and down the rollercoaster you’ll go.
Better to prioritize feeling great on all the days.
Unpopular opinion: Read slower.
Forget 2x/3x-ing your speed.
Blasting through someone’s deep work is like dumping a gallon of water into your mouth all at once.
Drink deeply from the words that were carefully chosen for each page of any given book.
Finish each drop.
Self-discipline is the crux of all lifestyle change.
Strategies, tactics, and techniques are mostly irrelevant without it.
Why? Because without self-discipline, they will eventually falter.
Self-discipline is precisely what’s needed when the going gets hard (which it will).
Self-discipline is precisely what’s needed when you face the fork in the road between: do it even though you don’t want to and let the ego come up with a totally viable and believable excuse so you don’t have to.
Self-discipline is precisely the difference between sticking the next move of the climb and falling from the boulder back to where you started.
The quality of your life is a byproduct of your standards and how well you hold yourself to them.
If you want to live your best life, you have to hold yourself to your best (realistic) standards.
This isn’t to say you can’t update and revise your standards as you grow, change, and mature.
It’s merely to say, if you don’t have standards set then anything will do.
And living your best life isn’t something that happens where anything will do.
What a waste to miss out on what’s here because we're too busy whining about dreaming about scheming about what’s over there.