âRaise your standards and youâll change your resultsâ - Shane Parrish
Hello!
Weâre now 15 issues deep⌠no turning back.
Today youâll get: 3 bullet tips, 1 borrowed idea, 2 reads you need⌠and a question for you!
Enjoy!
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Bullet tips
Productivity:
âDo not hide behind âbusyâ
It happens.
You do it. I do it. Lets hide together⌠or maybe not.
Weâre all guilty of hiding behind âbusyâ, using it as an excuse or an avoidance tool.
Which is great, but not if itâs detrimental or ends up in missed opportunities.
If itâs important enough and you believe it will ultimately be beneficial, then stop hiding behind a wall of busy.
Create the time.
Wealth:
âIt is not the man who has too little,
but he who craves more, who is poor." - Seneca
When is enough, enough?
We always want more. Donât be in denial, but be conscious of why you always want more.
Is it from what you see on social media? Is it auto pilot mode of assuming more is always better?
At what point do we accept and be happy with what we have.
Does that point exist? Does it come naturally? Do we have to create it?
Life:
âYou don't have to do something extraordinary to do valuable and meaningful workâ
What you do matters!
It doesn't have to be on an exponential scale.
It doesn't have to mean anything to others.
It doesn't have to be extraordinary.
If it's valuable and meaningful to you.
It matters!
A borrowed idea
Josh Spector on having two days in one.
Reads you need
A letter to your future self (Seth Godin)
We often send metaphorical letters to our past selves, berating the choices weâve made. We express regret about missed opportunities or past mistakes. Itâs easy to blame our younger selves for the mess weâre in.
What would you say to your future self? And how would you feel when you read that letter in a few months or years?
Maybe youâd discover that the crisis or cataclysm youâre facing right now didnât turn out quite as badly as you feared.
Maybe youâd express some optimism that you could turn into action. And maybe youâd develop some empathy for your past self, who was just doing the best you could.
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