“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. ... The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”
― Byrd Gibbens
via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter (https://t.co/iogsVLRc6u) from @tferriss
🧵 My expensive self-help addiction revealed an uncomfortable truth about why nothing "works."
The pattern:
• Buy a new productivity system
• Feel motivated for 3-7 days
• Hit first obstacle
• Blame the system
• Buy the next "better" system
• Repeat
Try this: What productivity method are you currently using?
Commit to it for 90 days.
No switching allowed.
The magic isn't in the system. It's in the sticking.
What will you commit to for 90 days? 👇
Easy/Hard Life Advice
If you're 30+ and want resilient leadership, stop screwing around.
Choose learning over knowing
Choose questions over answers
Choose discomfort over comfort
Choose growth over ego
The Sprint is designed for your convenience, arriving each day in the form of an email. One lesson, one activity. That's it. And it's all free.
Here is the link to sign up: https://t.co/oSVefRloTE
Here's what nobody tells you: your capacity for deep work isn't just about productivity - it's the difference between mediocrity and mastery. Between surviving and thriving.
Ready to take action on your scattered focus? Link below.
P.S. If you're comfortable with your current level of distraction, feel free to keep scrolling. This Sprint isn't for you.
Are you frustrated watching "overnight successes" while your hard work seems invisible?
The truth is we're conditioned to fixate on outcomes, not realizing this creates performance anxiety that inhibits our potential.
This is also true on a personal level. If you are always preoccupied with earning a certain amount of money, you will overlook the crucial steps necessary to boost your productivity.
I write about this in my most recent blog post. I will provide a link in the comments.
Today's practice: When you catch yourself judging something beyond your control, redirect that energy toward what you CAN influence—your response.
Where do you most need this shift right now? Comment below! 👇
#ResilienceMindset#FocusOnInfluence
STOP WASTING ENERGY ON WHAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL ⚡
Weather complaints are the perfect example: "It's too hot!" "This rain is ruining everything!" "I hate this cold!"
Yet all we can do is put a coat on or take it off.