Many young people trapped in the "intellectual black hole". A person that's very good at consuming impressive amounts of information. But doesn't produce much.

The best people output often more than they input, IMHO. In a kind of uncontrollable way.

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If you’re not a person who hustles, who are you?

Where does that leave the people counting on you?

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“You’ll probably surprise yourself with what you can accomplish—if you’re focused on one thing.

You’ll probably frustrate yourself with what you fail to accomplish—if you’re doing 5 or 7 or 10 things.

Nobody performs well when stretched in a half dozen directions.”

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Stop exchanging things that matter for ones that don’t.

“If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade.

And yet we talk ourselves into it all the time. We take promotions that pay more, but swallow our free time. We already have a successful business, but we break ourselves trying to make it even more successful.

Too much focus on wealth, not enough focus on lifestyle.” — JamesClear

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The Difference between being Effective and Being Effecient - Tim Ferriss


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On saving time - A Letter by Seneca
 
Greetings from Seneca to his friend Lucilius.
 
Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you, or filched away, or has merely slipped from your hands. Make yourself believe the truth of my words, - that certain moments are torn from us, that some are gently removed, and that others glide beyond our reach. The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness. Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose. What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.
 
Therefore, Lucilius, do as you write me that you are doing: hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. What fools these mortals be! They allow the cheapest and most useless things, which can easily be replaced, to be charged in the reckoning, after they have acquired them; but they never regard themselves as in debt when they have received some of that precious commodity, - time! And yet time is the one loan which even a grateful recipient cannot repay.
 
You may desire to know how I, who preach to you so freely, am practising. I confess frankly: my expense account balances, as you would expect from one who is free-handed but careful. I cannot boast that I waste nothing, but I can at least tell you what I am wasting, and the cause and manner of the loss; I can give you the reasons why I am a poor man. My situation, however, is the same as that of many who are reduced to slender means through no fault of their own: every one forgives them, but no one comes to their rescue.
 
What is the state of things, then? It is this: I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him. I advise you, however, to keep what is really yours; and you cannot begin too early. For, as our ancestors believed, it is too late to spare when you reach the dregs of the cask.[1] Of that which remains at the bottom, the amount is slight, and the quality is vile.
 
Farewell.

You become physically stronger by lifting challenging weights.

You become mentally stronger by having hard conversations.

You become spiritually stronger by pushing your comfort zone.


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Drop a ❤️ if you agree!

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We say “I’m not a morning person,” but that is almost certainly because we have been an irresponsible or undisciplined evening person. The best way to master the morning is to have mastered it the night before. Just as anyone who has ever sleep-trained an infant learns—sleep begets sleep—so, too, does discipline beget discipline.[*]
Early to bed. Early to rise.

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You want to think clearly tomorrow? You want to handle the small things right? You want to have the energy to hustle?

Go to sleep.

Not just because your health depends on it, but because it is an act of character from which all our other decisions and actions descend.

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The very act of taking the time to decide what you really want in each area of your life can change your life completely.

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“People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’”
~ DYLAN MORAN

✨ The self-imposed limitations of others can only bleed into your reality with your permission. Protect your energy and be radical with what you consume / who you spend your time with.

✨ You are the main character of your life and to some extent no one / nothing else exists in the way they may seem to for life is entirely a reflection of the happenings in your mind. Every interaction, situation, and obstacle is happening FOR you not TO you. It’s imperative you start looking through that lens as the way you perceive dictates how you speak which will then determine how you act.

✨ Every day is a new opportunity;
a fresh start to take back control of your life.

I know
deep within
you KNOW
you are capable
of so much.

So I feel just how much pain it causes you
to see that potential slowly slip away.

Time waits for no one.

WE ASCEND AS ONE 🕊️

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"Clarity isn't about knowing what you want to do with your life, it's about knowing what you want to do this week.

You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step."

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