Justin

Using this app to document my thoughts and beliefs.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

Everyone is unhappy because they say they want to happy.

Rather than just accepting life for what it is. You think the Goal is happiness but it’s just an emotion.

The Goal in life is fulfillment, happiness comes with that, but it’s doesn’t always take happiness to achieve that.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Good times are opportunities to be grateful.

Bad times are reminders to be grateful for good times.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

this perspective has drastically changed my mindset in the last month:

don’t wait for motivation to take action.
take action to gain motivation.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal.

A goal written down with steps become a plan.

A plan that’s backed up with consistent action becomes reality

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

3amed Jet Lagged Dubai.

If you think you will get "rich" n be happy. Read this.

The danger of working for money is we think the end result...The money. Will make us happy.

It literally can't. There's only 1 way as a man you will consistently be "happy".

Here it is :

Yes. Money can buy lack of stress and comfort. It can help you avoid discomfort.

Not worrying about bills, being able to have choice, not flying coach on long flights.

But these will not make you happy. Its just avoiding pain that makes you unhappy.

Once pain is avoided, many quickly find themselves wildly unhappy ALL the time once they have money.

"I have free time, I have a big house, I can party tons, etc etc etc...Why am I not happy".

Its simple. When you get a big house, a cool car, party, etc...You are just playing a dopamine game.

Dopamine games are finite OR worse just manipulation of your brains chemicals (in the case of drugs/partying).

Thus they cant give you anything long term.

Remember back to if you ever got to the highest level in a video game. You probably QUICKLY got bored. Same thing.

So then people get in a nasty loop. They work HARDER and try to achieve more to go bigger in terms of money. BIGGER vacation. MORE cars. MORE HOUSES. More lavish parties.

And the cycle keeps biting back 10 fold, especially if they don't love their work.

To then bring you back to a simple truth : The work and challenge is the only source of infinite self fulfilling happiness you will ever get.

I can check my networth at any time. There is almost nothing I cannot buy with ease. I can just take off n travel non stop if I want.

But this doesn't make me happy. I don't walk around euphoric.

The only time I am consistently fulfilled still to this day is when I am honoring a good routine focused around work/challenge as play.

If I get away from this I become sad. If I try to seek happiness via partying, travel, luxury I become DEEPLY sad.

If I embrace it I am happy. It's that simple.

This is essentially true for anyone and you have access to it almost at any networth level.

I get no more joy waking up in a large home my partner and I have now VS my empty apartment I had in Austin when building HYROS.

I simply dont get some long term euphoria from traveling that I get from consistently improving at Jiu Jitsu.

This is why Jiu Jitsu for example gives so many men long term joy. Its an infinite game/challenge.

This applies to business 10 fold, but business OFTEN gets confused because its tied so deeply to money.

The work is the point. The game is the point.

Yes nice things are nice. But your only outlet is the game, not the results of the game.

So the point of this post :

A) Dont fall in the deadly cycle of trying to find joy in the result of the work, especially the money.

B) You can relax a bit and know the tools for peak are much closer than you think.

C) Whenever you are not happy look at the games your playing and your routine.

Are you thriving in taking on challenges you enjoy?

If the answer is yes, congrats this is it. Peak of the mountain. Enjoy.

If the answer is no fix it.

Lez go.

(Its not 3am in Dubai, but my sleep is effed up n Im starting my work day at like 9pm here haha)

[Justin @justincoughlin]

when your 20, all you do is think about what others think of you.

when your 30 you stop caring about what others think.

when you 40 you realize no one was thinking of you to begin with.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

consistency won’t guarantee that you’ll be successful.

but being non-consistent will guarantee that you won’t reach successful

[Justin @justincoughlin]

what is the goal was solely to work as hard as you can on the thing you are trying to achieve. instead of the achievement itself.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

anger is drinking poison and hoping that the other person dies

doesn’t serve you

[Justin @justincoughlin]

we have to be careful how we define worth, because we spend our life pursuing that definition.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

I think the one lesson i would take a way this year is that there is no right or wrong answer. life what you make it to be.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

you don’t need to be 100% certain when making a decision - only 51% certain.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

the more you do the more you realize you can do

[Justin @justincoughlin]

In life you must choose what you regret.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

The struggle didn’t come to break you. it came to show you who you really are. if you going through hell, keep going.

[Luke Belmar 👽 @lukebelmar]

Self education will never betray you

[Justin @justincoughlin]

the man who loves walking will walk farther than the man that loves the destination

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.

Outwork your self doubt.

[Justin @justincoughlin]

Listen to those in the position you wish to be in.