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Chugging Books

Published on February 1, 2022

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.

Lifetime Xed

Published on January 31, 2022

How many time commitments do you have that you don’t even realize you have?

  • The lines you’re forced to wait in
  • The long commutes
  • The time it takes to get ready

How might you creatively reclaim some of that time?

  • Do you have to wait in those lines? Or is there a way you can skip them altogether? i.e. Rather than buying coffee each morning, can you start making it from home?
  • Assuming you can’t opt out of the long commutes, is there a way you can improve how you spend that time? i.e. Long commutes are a perfect time to soak in audiobooks—which are great because they don’t always have to be nonfiction/ productive. They can be leisurely and entertainment oriented, too. Much better than yelling at stupid drivers.
  • Is there any way you can shorten the time it takes for you to get ready? i.e. Can you set clothes out the night before or get one step ahead of breakfast some how? Smooth starts are usually a byproduct of end-of-the-day preemptive thinking.

It might take you 10-15 minutes to thoroughly think through these ideas.

The benefit, of course, is that even if you can only manage to find a way to save 10-15 minutes throughout your entire day… you just LIFETIME Xed your investment.

In other words, if you hold true to this idea for 100 days—you just 100xed your invested time. If you hold true for 365 days—you just 365xed your invested time. And if you can keep it going for the rest of your life…?

That’s right—a lifetime xed investment.

Unbelievably worth it.

One To Ten

Published on January 30, 2022

Be generous with your thoughts.

When those who express kind, constructive, supportive thoughts are quiet, then our collective mind is taken over by those who spew overwhelming amounts of the opposite.

We may only be one, but we are connected to ten.

And so are they.

Every Choice Counts

Published on January 29, 2022

Every interaction is an opportunity:

  • To choose kindness > cruelty
  • To choose connection > division
  • To choose grace > haste

I hope you’ll fully capitalize on the bountiful opportunities of your day.

Before You Judge

Published on January 28, 2022

Unless you understand every single aspect of another person’s life, stop judging.

Instead, take that judgmental energy and turn it towards yourself.

Get your own thoughts, actions, and intentions perfectly aligned before you bicker, demean, and tear down others.

Precisely What’s Needed

Published on January 27, 2022

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.

Forcing Original

Published on January 26, 2022

Don’t “try” to be original.

You already are original.

Just surrender to your originality.

And stop trying to force what’s already there.