If you aren't:
- Setting new goals
- Learning new skills
- Acquiring new knowledge
- Making massive mistakes
- Creating a story worth reading
Then it's safe to say your life is boring, robotic, and filled with worry about a future you refuse to take control of.
"I don't want a second 9-5."
The entire purpose of entrepreneurship is to solve problems.
That's a problem.
You solve it with focused work, priority management, and protecting your time.
You built yourself into a second 9-5 because you still think like a 9-5er.
There is a time and place for words and thoughts, but we also need to honor the feelings that have no explanation.
The deepest transmutation occurs when you surrender to feeling what you can't define.
Exposing your eyes to sunlight in the morning increases daytime energy & mood etc. & improves nighttime sleep, but it also triggers a cascade of short, medium & long-acting peptides & hormones that powerfully modify state of mind & body in other (positive) ways too. *Blink as needed of course; don’t harm your retina. Science can’t satisfactorily fix broken retinas yet…
And no, there is no true artificial replacement for sunlight that is as good, but if you can’t view sunlight in the morning then bright artificial light would be your next choice. And don’t forget that there is sunlight on cloudy days. It’s especially important to view that sunlight on cloudy days.
Have you ever thought…
“I wish I could just fast forward thru this shitty part and get to when my goal becomes real?”
Right. Me too.
But taken to the natural extreme, the day you die, you would’ve achieved all the goals you set out to accomplish.
And then - immediately die.
Which when you think about it - shows how silly it is for us to think this way.
You might as well say “I’d like to fast forward to the end of the movie”
If that’s the case, you might as well not watch it. Or in our case - live it.
So - the reverse of that would be to value the shitty part as equal (or even greater than) the end.
Since we don’t want the story to end (we die), we flip the “fast forward to the end” frame to “slow down right now”
In other words - the todays - become the “good ol days” of our future selves looking back.
And - doing the work - becomes the only goal worth living for.