Being busy doesn’t make you any special. It just makes you busy.

“Somewhere along the way we’ve gotten the message that the more we struggle and the more we suffer, the more valuable we will become and the more successful we’ll eventually be. And so we overwork ourselves, overschedule ourselves, and become “busier than thou” because we think there’s some sort of prize on the other side of the pain we cause ourselves. And you know what? There’s no prize. All you get from suffering is more suffering.” – Kate Northrup

The problem is that many think that only one strategy should be implemented. It’s either or. They want everything to be both easy and simple. Saving money is good, but cannot work alone. Increasing your financial income is essential. Investing isn’t useless. It only needs to take place when you’re rich enough. Only when you can afford to invest that kind of money. All three should go together to lead you to financial freedom. None of the three strategies is either simple or easy.

Save money. Increase your income. Invest in assets and stocks.

A lot of people engage in battles with you because frugality is wrong and saving money doesn’t make sense, trying to convince you that investing in buying assets and stocks is the only way to go. Why not do all of the above? There’s no contradiction.

Do you know that your performance can be enhanced if you listen to an interesting podcast while gaming?

Now there’s no chance in hell that someone could call your gaming sessions a waste of time or unproductive.

You can also listen to podcasts while working.

There really is no quicker or better method for learning like encountering the same piece of information being mentioned or explained by several different people or in several different sources.

The number one problem you might encounter while trying to write down your goals is: oh my God, I don’t have any goals. What am I gonna write down?

Then you may think that this is because writing goals down is useless or doesn’t work.

There sure is a ton of stuff that is on your plate today, but you will do them anyway without putting them down somewhere.

This is because you’re doing it wrong.

It’s not a question of writing down your goals that you have already.

It’s a matter of coming up with goals that are worthy of being written down, and then you write them down somewhere.

It’s like you’re handed out an empty piece of paper, and your job is to fill it out with goals that you can do today. Not that you have some things to do today so you’d better put them on a to-do list lest you’d forget them or something.

Sit down, think of what could be a good idea to be accomplished today, and put that stuff down on a to-do list of what you’re supposed to do today, currently, or these days.

You don’t already have goals for today, you create them from scratch, and then you write these goals down on the to-do list of what you’re supposed to do today, currently, or these days.

Whenever you get a thought, don’t become embarrassed or think it’s not a big deal. Write it down. Don’t be ashamed of it. Put as much detail as you like. Write it as if you’re presenting such an idea or thought to yourself for the first time. If you don’t like it, you’d feel bad because of it or even hate it, even if everyone told you it’s amazing. If it gave you goosebumps on the other hand, then at least there’s a single human being sometime in the future who would find it to be that amazing. Write for that person, not everybody else.

Don’t doubt that cheering from fans or positive feedback does have a nice or positive effect on you or that it does make you feel good.

Don’t block yourself from feeling that high.

We’re desperate. Anything that would make us feel better is most welcome.

Just don’t let toxicity or hate frustrate or discourage you.

The ugly truth is that in order to crush it on Instagram, it’s IGTV, in order to benefit from LinkedIn, it’s video. The same could be said about Facebook. And for Twitter it’s either follow for follow, or you’re already a person of local, national, or international interest. And TikTok is exclusively short video clips. So frustrating for anyone who’s not good in front of a camera. Not to mention YouTube is also video only. They have no idea that it’s an unfair competition. People who say useless stuff in front of a camera but are hot get super popular in no time because of the people. This is what they want. Do not let that fool you or deter you from following your passion. You’re not taking too long. It’s just what losers with WiFi survive upon. It takes time for greatness to be recognized.

Your mind is skilled at problem solving. You can always come up with hundreds of excuses as to why you shouldn’t do something. Do not fight that battle. Ask the right question.

It’s not about why you shouldn’t do something.

It’s about why not!

You will always gain nothing by exerting effort if your focus is on staying unfatigued or on avoiding getting tired.

Face it. Become as tired as ever. And if it doesn’t feel good please come and tell me.

Your logical perspective on why you should do something almost always includes the consequences of your actions. I’m going to be insanely tired after this is one of the responses that you get at the top of the list of reasons why you shouldn’t pause the damn movie and produce a new amazing or even crappy piece of content. That’s you negotiating. Jump right away. Make it a matter of how to do it, not why you should do it.

If you followed reason, you won’t be so creative. You’ll always be conservative. (Not politically but in terms of productivity and creativity).

I always hate myself immediately after writing. But after a few minutes, the euphoria starts to kick in. And then everything starts to make sense again.

Do it, then question whether or not it was worth it, after you’ve already spent the energy on it.