11 Codes to Honor Your One Life:
1. Shower like you're washing off yesterday's version
2. Brush your teeth like the dentist is watching
3. Get dressed like the photographer's outside
4. Take stairs like elevators are broken
5. Train like your crush is watching
6. Read like the next chapter holds the answer
7. Work like your kids will Google you
8. Lead like your team writes a book about you
9. Speak like every word will be quoted
10. Visit your parents like it's the last Sunday.
I’ll be telling people this all 2026:
THIS is what your Incline Dumbbell Presses should look like if you want max effectiveness & the lowest injury risk possible
But…BE WARNED:
You will NOT be able to use as much weight with technique like this so be ready to check your EGO!
You can sit down to work and suddenly feel sleepy because the brain knows sleep is a clean escape. The task creates pressure, the body wants relief, and tiredness appears like a respectable reason to stop. Sometimes you are genuinely tired. Sometimes your nervous system is offering shutdown because action feels exposing.
The reason you keep postponing one task is because the task has become emotionally dirty. The form reminds you of money stress. The email reminds you of conflict. The gym reminds you of how inconsistent you have been. Productivity begins when you stop treating the feeling around the task as proof that the task is impossible.
i'm in love with this quote:
"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."
A reminder from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:
“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity.”
Hard truth: The gym isn't hard. Getting to the gym is hard. The conversation isn't hard. Starting the conversation is hard. The project isn't hard. Opening the document is hard. The activation energy is where 90% of resistance lives. Once you're in motion, the task is easy. The start is everything.
Unlearn shame. All kinds of shame: abuse, unemployment, sickness, vulnerability, longing, desire, mistakes, failures. You need not be ashamed of what you're feeling or living. Freedom and shame cannot coexist.
The scariest thing in the world is truly going all in on something. Because it strips away every single pre-built excuse you may have for falling short. You’re completely naked. It’s terrifying. But it’s also why all the rewards in life go to those who have the courage to do it.
Skills that have nothing to do with money but are worth dedicating an immense amount of practice to:
- Charisma
- Metacognition
- Critical thinking
- Sitting with discomfort
- Articulating what you believe and why
- Changing your beliefs when presented with new information
Almost nobody actually practices these and it shows.