Journaling is unexpectedly useful (especially in retrospectives). No special form is needed. A good idea is to start with a sentence about what you’re grateful for.

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Self-sabotage is a real thing. What if we stopped it? What if we embrace what we can become, if only we wouldn’t be afraid of failure?

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The way you deal with the delta between reality and expectation is going to define your life, no matter the size of expectations.

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What if before we point the finger we recognize that at least three of them are still pointing at us? What if that makes us reconsider the fact that if it’s always “them”, it could very much so be that it’s actually “us”?

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What if you devote the first hour of the day to yourself, intentionally trying to improve an aspect of your life that you’ve been putting off for too long?

You can do that by reading, thinking, writing, meditating even. The Miracle Morning book can show you what and how to do it. Personally, the life SAVERS exercise is something I’ve stuck with for years now. Here are some other books that may be of interest to you.

Oh, and btw, if you spend half of that 1-hour on reading, you’ll end up reading 30 books per year (and here’s the math that proves it).

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We need more games that make us think instead of those that dumb us down. Video games are not bad (in moderation). Boardgames are better. Puzzle games are great.

I used to love hacker challenge games, and recently I stumbled upon one on iOS called 63.

As a testament that I didn’t lose my mojo completely 😏, I finished on the Leader board.

Great game, check it out, and please recommend any other that you may know that’s similar.

Oh, and BTW, because why not, you can get one of the 62 images (I kept one for myself) above as an NFT on OpenSea.

⚠️ In this new “Daily Thoughts” series, I’m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I’ve been reading and consuming. Not that there’s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn’t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer. If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it ‘on paper’.

Personally, I think best ‘on paper’, and it’s been a while since a wrote a post. So, I’ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I’ll use this as a retrospective a year from now.

Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).

In this new “Daily Thoughts” series, I’m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I’ve been reading and consuming. Not that there’s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn’t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer. If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it ‘on paper’.

Personally, I think best ‘on paper’, and it’s been a while since a wrote a post. So, I’ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I’ll use this as a retrospective a year from now.

Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).

So, let’s go:

Imagine a world where every individual gives their maximum. Not their neighbors, or their spouses; their own maximum. And imagine everyone competing against the only person they ever truly should strive to surpass – their past self. Would we be better off or worse? Would we solve the problems of today’s world that are screaming at our face, or would we continue to ignore them?

I would like to believe that before we ‘level-up’ as humans, we’ll have to start wanting more from ourselves, and then delivering on that desire.