Put the damn phone away when you’re supposed to be having a conversation with someone in person. Some love talking about conspiracy theories and how ‘someone up there’ is controlling them. It pains me to see that we (yes, me too, as I’m not some kind of a no-mobile monk) are letting ourselves be controlled by our own devices, and all that to a detriment to our human connections.

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

Work hard and go the extra kilometer (miles are overrated 😉) even if there’s nothing in it for you. You’ll learn that’s easier to do when you actually love what you do.

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

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— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) January 20, 2022

At what point do you give up?

I’m not thinking about the average “do only what’s necessary” folks. I’m thinking about the people that have the drive. Those that want to “make it” (whatever that means for them).

Is it when you run out of funding, or when you no longer share the same enthusiasm for the vision, or when you start hitting the point of diminishing returns (granted you already have a certain level of what you’re after)?

I want to believe that we never give up – that we only pivot along the way to new (and mostly better) paths.

So, really, giving up is not an option. Pivoting is more than welcome and, in the long run, a sound strategic tactic.

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

Jim Rohn said it nicely: “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”. And the thing is, one hurts a lot at the moment but brings you joy later, the other doesn’t hurt at all now, but brings you unrepairable sorrow later.
Couple this one with consistency.

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

If you don’t learn (through some form of introspection) how to deal with the imposter syndrome, you’ll never reach your max potential. I discussed this topic in length on the Devthink podcast.

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

Seems like not much has changed since Juvenal said this. The bread was upgraded to unhealthy mixtures of salt/sugar/fat that make you crave for more, and the games have indeed become a true plural – enabling one to consume them at almost any hour of the day. The thing is, it’s not necessarily ‘them’ who are trying to ‘control’ you; it’s also the easier choice of an individual – to consume, to escape, and not be ‘bothered’ with what’s really happening in his town/city/country/world. #sunday-blues

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

If you spend 1 hour a day reading, you’ll read more than 60 books in a year (here’s the math that proves that). What if you get only 1 actionable insight from each of these books? How much do you think you could improve x (whatever area of your life x represents) in a year from now by investing that 1 hour a day?

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

Besides your undivided attention when you’re with them, and above else the actual quantity of time that you’re with them, what you should give to your children is options to explore what they’re good at, and then teach them the power of discipline to stick to that one thing.

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

You control what you think and do, not what happens to you. Life will, hopefully, throw challenges your way. From them, you will either learn and grow or not, and degrade/plateau.

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

You either do something or you don’t. You either say something or you don’t. If something’s bothering you, you should speak up. If you don’t, then you don’t get the right to complain later. It takes courage to run at something when you’re not 100% of its outcome. It takes guts to say something when you don’t know if your argument/ask is going to get validated. Either way, ask/do and you’ll maybe get. Don’t ask/do, and you surely won’t get.

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