A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”
The easiest way to stay mediocre is to keep your goals abstract and your days unexamined. Vague ambition lets you feel serious without forcing contact with serious work. The truth shows up in what you repeatedly do, not what you admire.
If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.
There is an absolute monster inside each of us…
Who wants a bigger life, a greater outcome, and knows we are capable of so much more…
We would do ourselves such a favor to actually let it run.
“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary.”
These three paragraphs will change your life:
The most successful people I know are rarely extraordinary.
They do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency while everyone else is distracted by literally everything.
the gap between where you are and where you want to be is called work.
it's not magic. it's not luck. it's not talent. it's work.
boring, repetitive, uncomfortable work done consistently over time.
they're gonna hate me for this but i'll tell you. all you have to do to become the person you want to be is mimic your idea of that person. all the world's a stage baby, start acting.