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.

John Maxwell said, and a lot of others agree: “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

I’d add that it works in the opposite direction too. Meaning, the reason for your failures can be found in your daily routine. Do you wake up and scroll X (where X is whatever ‘un-social’ app you use these days) or do you wake up and do something good for yourself like read, exercise, take a (cold) shower, write a sentence of gratitude in your journal, etc.?

One thing that stayed with me for years now (habit alert!) has been so-called life SAVERS from the book Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. Try it out and see if it sticks for you.

What’s your daily routine?

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Jim Rohn said that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Looking at my own life, that’s both true and shocking at the same time. Be it finance, relationships, fitness, beliefs; it all checks out more or less.

Now, it may be the same for you. But, you may not like what you see, and you want to change for the better. Now what? Do you go out and find new people? Sometimes that may be easier said than done.

And even if you’re able to make the change, what do you do with, essentially, your friends, that don’t want to continue ‘traveling’ with you?

I’m seriously curious how did you deal with this in your life?

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

Why financial literacy isn’t taught in school?

P.S. I know, the drawing looks like a kidney. And no, the joke is not lost on me 🙂

This is why I write these “daily thoughts” posts.