If you want to learn about yourself, do a retrospective at least once per month. Journaling will help.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Before you demand more from other people, show how ‘more’ looks like.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Welcome failure in your life, but be wary of its two-edged blade. Make sure you learn from it and grow, instead of falling into self-pity and never getting back up. Looking back at your life, you’ll see that those local minima (math lingo alert! 🙂) were your defining moments.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Too much is never enough.
On average, we have more than we need. When you’ve covered all of Maslow’s needs, and you start to yearn for more, that’s when usually problems start.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting and yearning and working towards more, but beware of the reason for doing that and make sure you’re grateful for what you’ve got; because wanting more and never being happy with what you’ve got, will lead down the path of disappointment and depression.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

What if you’re the one who brings a happy face to every interaction? How much would the quality of your life change if only 0.5% of the people reciprocate? Start small and see the positivity around you compound. Don’t get discouraged, life’s too short to be dragging a 🙁 face around. What happens to you is not your choice – what you make of it, is.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Don’t be afraid to not finish a book. Reread the good ones.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

You’ve probably already heard that time is your most precious token. No, I’m not talking about crypto here – although, funnily enough, there’s also a token named like that, which is also not doing really well lately 🤦, but I digress…

Anyways, as the physicist, Albert-László Barabási once wrote:

“Time is our most valuable non-renewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.”

I came across an interesting concept by several authors (here’s just one for example) where they suggest that you calculate your hourly rate, and see how much does watching TV cost you. If you do that, you may realize that you’re throwing away several tens of thousands of dollars per year (logically, the more you make, the more you lose). And, that just may get you to rethink how you’re spending your time. I wrote about why using TV as a news source is not the best idea and how To-Do Lists may help you in setting your priorities.

So, TL;DR: invest time in that which is most important to you. And, I’ll also say this, because there is no balance: if at this point in your life most of your time goes to work, so be it – make the most of it and don’t feel bad about it.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

What if you stopped watching TV?

More specifically ‘news’ on the TV. I don’t have anything against an occasional movie or a show (hell, I do it myself), but I don’t think watching TV news is the best time investment one could make (‘world’ news on the Internet fall in the same category).

I heard a cool abbreviation for CNN the other day: Constantly Negative News. IMHO, this goes for almost any other channel, be it red or blue or whatever ‘color’.

If the world was ending, you’d probably learn that from your neighbor.

What if, instead, you spend that time reading the news from your particular field or industry, or what if you watch an educational documentary? See which one brings you more benefit on the long run.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

WAGMI – We’re all gonna make it.

But, haven’t we already?

I mean, think about it: if you were able to buy (any) crypto thing (coin, token, NFT, someOtherThingYourRichNeighbourToldOnlyYouAbout, …) I’d argue you’re probably already doing better than x% (where x is at least < 5, IMHO) of the people in this world. You, for sure, have a (good) internet connection and other things that (on average) inevitably come with that (food, transportation, clothes, place to stay, …).

So, really, it should be WAMI – we already made it!

I won’t go on because you’re probably already thinking OK, BOOMER, so what!?

The thing is: nothing. There are literally 0 problems with that. Just one caveat: go and check all those lottery winners and see what’s their long-term success rate.

This brings me to the thought of the day: I wish all of us would win a real (not proverbial) lottery (pick your poison: crypto, stocks, real estate, gambling, actual lottery, …) so that we see what we truly are and what our character is made of.

Happy Saturday friends <3 👋

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

WA(G)MI https://t.co/LKDIwBexsd

— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) January 29, 2022

Because there’s so much noise today, people pay for common sense – which they could have come to on their own if they only employed their brain.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.