Major cheat code in life: Understanding you can reinvent yourself at any time. New habits, new standards, new friend group, new career, etc. There's no rule that says you have to stay the person you've always been. You're allowed to decide, "I'm done being this version of me."
Your parents are getting older at 75 and they haven’t told you how scared they are.
They are not dying, or becoming a problem, or of being the reason you’re stressed, the reason your money is tight, the reason your patience runs out. They watch you build your life and they quietly pray they are not in the way of it.
That silence you mistake for peace, it isn’t always peace. Sometimes it’s a 70-year-old man swallowing his needs because he doesn’t want to be a burden to the child he suffered to raise, sometimes it’s a 68-year-old woman who once moved mountains for her family, now unable to move without help, smiling so you don’t worry.
They have already grieved the version of themselves that was strong, they did that alone, quietly, at night.
What they have left is you.
Not your money, not your success, you. Your voice on the phone, your presence in the room, the way you look at them like they still matter, like they are not just a responsibility to manage but a person to love.
One day there will be no one left to call you by the name they gave you, in the voice that first said it, no one who remembers who you were before the world got to you.
That day is coming, you don’t know when.
So before it arrives, go home, sit down, put the phone away, let them talk.
The chair will empty, make sure you left nothing unsaid.
Goodnight
Falling in love is a top-tier experience and it’s crazy to me that people rearrange their whole lives for a portfolio return but won’t rearrange a single habit for the most transcendent experience a human can have.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die
This is funny.
What if you invested in the S&P 500 every time CNBC had a "Markets in Turmoil" special?
Well... your average return after one year would be 40%, with a 100% success rate.
Brutally Honest Reminders From Seneca:
1. Stop putting things off
2. Most suffering is self-inflicted
3. Seek out challenges
4. Stop acting like you’re going to live forever
Let me teach you one of life’s important lessons, then. When you achieve a goal, you set your sights on the next one.
That’s the meaning of life, staying hungry.
My best advice is to stop using motivation as your only fuel. I know it feels great when you’re fired up, but it’s a short-term fuel source. That’s why the vast majority of people who start anything - diet, fitness, new projects - don’t finish. They run out of gas.
The only lasting fuel is routine. And you only get a routine by dragging yourself on the days when you have no motivation. Over and over.
I know that’s not the answer anyone wants. I wish I had a magic pill for you. But the only thing that works long term is showing up for yourself even when you don’t want to. Brute force.
I’m slightly crazy and don’t have any investors or consultants to listen to, so I’m giving people 50 dollars of their 100 dollar annual subscription back when they show up for themselves and complete a full program in my app. If that motivates you to start, it’s designed to build your routine to keep you going like it has for thousands of other people, so join us: https://t.co/7hmVrdc2Gp