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Your phone is a pacifier for adults. Discomfort arises, IG reels instantly opened, nervous system numbs. You're self soothing, because it's easier to "check your phone" and escape the pain of your existence than sit through the first 20 minutes of overstimulation withdrawal. You've forgotten the magic that exists in long states of boredom (child like imagination) and all it takes is to experience that is going on a leisurely walk with no destination.
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You gotta be putting like 10x shots on net compared to what you’re currently doing. Most people take one shot every few years. To run up the score you should be putting up 2-3 shots a day minimum. At the end of each year you’ve shot thousands of shots while most people did nothing. It’s a numbers game. Your shooting percentage can be horrible and you’ll still lap everyone. Gotta score to win. Gotta shoot to score. Shoot more.
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The 2-4 hours you spend scrolling each day (or 730-1460 hours each year) is more than enough time to write a book, build a business, or get in shape. In the moment, it seems like nothing. That's why it's so dangerous. Your time disappears without you being conscious of it.
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you wake up and reach for your phone before your eyes focus. scroll through a hundred thoughts that aren’t yours until your own voice sounds like someone you used to know and by noon you’ve consumed more information than your grandparents did in a year but can’t name a single thing that actually moved you. the feed keeps serving up other people’s lives and you keep swallowing them whole, mistaking the fullness for satisfaction when really you’re just bloated on nothing. you’ve become a processing unit instead of a person and the loneliest part is how normal it feels.
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Some life alpha:
If you are determined, ambitious and hardworking, life will give you a lot of opportunities to succeed by allowing you to find spots in which you can press for an advantage.
You can think of your day to day as mostly being uneventful as you press yourself up against the wall of opportunity. Months go by and often nothing happens.
One fine day, without warning, a crack on the wall will appear and you will be able to reap what you have been sowing for the past couple of months/years. The time from pushing to reaping is indeterminate, random and extremely frustrating.
Most people will give up long before it happens - for 2 reasons:
1) their patience is finite, fragile and thin and
2) they are easily distracted by the things that don't actually matter. (hint: MOST things in life don't actually matter ex-post)
When you are chasing an outcome, you will find a hundred distractions in your path and conjure a million reasons on why you should give up.
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But if you are earnest about your goals and have the patience of a monk and the drive and tenacity of a warrior - the wall will break. Reality will crack under your will.
Everything else is a distraction.
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I have a friend who does $500M+/year revenue and another friend (young kid) who cashflows $2M/month on crypto.
Before both of them found success, they had started three or four different things at once. A lot of people thought they had a “lack of focus” because they pivoted constantly.
But eventually they hit a winner, and then they 10x'd on that one thing.
That’s a pattern I've noticed with people who build successful businesses.
They try a ton of different things, find creative new ways to acquire customers because they're not locked into one channel, and then go all in once they find what works.
But not everyone can operate like them.
That’s why I still think being focused when building is good advice providing you have something worth working on long term.
But for a certain type of person, the "lack of focus" early on is exactly what helps them find the real opportunity.
The trick is knowing which one you are.
And then having the discipline to 10x on the winner once you find it.
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Your day will automatically be 7x better if the first thing you do in the morning, once you wake up is tell yourself how lucky and grateful you are to live the life you are living right now
Being completely in control of everything you do and the decisions you make
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Become financially stable doing something you're good at. Find yourself an honest lover to build a purposeful life with. Live within walking distance of a friend or two you enjoy working out and eating with. Design your home in such a manner that warm is the best way to describe it. Have niche interests that excite you to talk about. Remind yourself throughout the day how lucky you are to have been blessed with the opportunity to create a perfect existence
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"If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money."
— Ray Dalio
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if you're not willing to brutally cut off parts of yourself that are holding you back - whether it's people or bad habits - you have close to 0% chance of making it big in any industry
no looking back allowed - you should become unrecognizable
merciless. ruthless. unapologetic.
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"No dream is too big, No challenge too great, Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach." –President Donald J. Trump
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here’s your quick checklist steps to outperform in any endeavor:
1. commit fully
2. singular focus (only focus one task at a time)
3. progress through high leverage decisions and actions not mental masturbation (things that actually move the needle not just stuff that makes you feel productive)
4. operate from an abundant, optimistic outlook and not from a desperate or fearful one
5. put the responsibility on your own shoulders, don’t complain, don’t whine, don’t make excuses (take ownership of your life and your decisions)
figure out where you’re messing up here and fix it
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Ask yourself: what can I become undeniably exceptional at?
The goal isn’t to compete to be the best—it’s to be the only one who does what you do.
Identify your unique strengths, double down on them, then align with roles and people who amplify their value.
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Turns out when you upgrade your wardrobe, get back in the gym (seriously), eat right and optimize your focus everything starts going smoother in your life
Honestly the wardrobe is key (and health obv)
what you wear dictates how others view you
it sounds simple but it’s such a huge key to getting more of what you want out of life
Stupid it’s taken me this long to grow up and say “I’ll spend whatever i need to up my game”
night and day difference
unrecognizable difference in treatment
now i’m hooked
i’ll be building out a top tier wardrobe moving forward
never gonna slack on this again
it opens countless doors and makes current doors open so much smoother