Take the time on your best days to prepare for your bad days, because one way or another, they always come.
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Read MoreIt forces you out of a tunnel vision that easily sneaks in when you spend too much time focused on just one thing.
Read MoreIf you need a little perspective.
Read MoreSmall details always trip you up, even in a Marvel movie.
Read MoreIt’s probably the most cliché thing to say: process is everything or enjoy the journey, not the destination.
Read MoreSometimes things happen that just make you want to blow up. You can’t.
Read MoreOne step at a time.
Read MoreAre you active or passive?
Read MoreMost people focus on maximizing their time, but maximize your focus and you get more time.
Read MoreLast week, after thinking and saying and maybe-ing, I started a daily blog. I didn’t announce I was starting a daily blog, I didn’t prepare to start a daily blog, I didn’t imagine what it would be a like to have a million-reader daily blog (because that’s where my mind invariably ends up at and I become slightly panicked about the implications and then decide that it’s terrible idea after all). I just wrote something, published it, and thus started a daily blog.
Read MoreSundays are for dreaming.
Read MoreI hate the unexpected. I like to plan, to organise, to anticipate. So when something doesn’t go according to plan I have to say that my natural reaction tends to be freezing.
Read MoreKeep learning. It’s easy to not see it as non-urgent, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be a priority
Read MoreYou have to make do with what you’ve been given and the effort you’ve put in, and accept that at some point you took the best decision you could with the information you had at the time. Which, by the way, is also a good reminder of what farming is like.
Read MoreLately I’ve chosen to see it social media as an asset, a way to document what I do, for inspiration, for motivation. Nothing may come of it, but no matter what, the process is still useful to me. It all depends on how you see it, and you never know what it might lead to.
Read MoreIt’s great to prepare, to gather the resources about a particular topic, but it’ll never replace the actual doing.
Read MoreThe work trifecta of working hard/working smart/success is a tricky one. To be successful, you need to work hard and you need to be smart about it. But those two things don’t guarantee any success, so you actually have to enjoy your process. And there is no magic formula for it: you have to figure out what works for you. So take the time, think about it, experiment, figure it out.
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The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday, is the first book I’ve read in 2022, and it is now firmly in my top books.
This book was great reminder of the fact that when you aim high, you automatically expose yourself to more pressure, but you can always choose to see it in a positive light.
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Sure, that Notion template can be really useful, but if nothing comes of it, then what was the point?
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