Just because someone hates you doesn’t mean they also hate themselves or that they have ever suffered or felt bad in their lives.

I only find the people hating me loving themselves too much to the extent that they cannot accept the existence of someone better than them at anything.

So no, those who hate us aren’t always people who originally hate themselves, and their hatred of others is just a reflection of their own hatred of themselves.

Don’t wait for the whole world to validate or accept you first before you start to validate or accept yourself.

You’re afraid because you think the whole world would reject you because you’re different. Instead, you should be okay even if there was no one else like you out there to make you feel validated.

Sometimes the idea itself does not get created until you give it enough space or the right outlet to express it in full detail.

One thing unique to blogging is that you get to speak your mind in full detail without rushing yourself like in other forms of content or on social media.

We love it even if it has no audience. Even if it doesn’t “work”. It makes us clear our minds and discover and create stuff, and that’s enough.

I’m not undermining social media at all, but sometimes the thoughts don’t get generated at all in the first place unless we provide them with enough space to be fully expressed.

Don’t diminish your number of sleep hours in the name of productivity or being successful. Sleep every day until fully rested.

If you do not recharge your body enough every day, you’ll adapt to that low level of energy you have by picking up tasks that are matching that low level of energy. That is, you will aim for or choose easy tasks that do not necessarily lead you anywhere, because you’re already too tired to choose more difficult or energy demanding tasks. Remember how many things you didn’t do although you had the motivation just because you were too tired to do them.

Important point to note. If you are having trouble sleeping, it might be because you aren’t working hard enough when you’re awake.

Remember: It’s not about how long you sleep, but it’s about being fully recovered and recharged when you wake up. Always sleep until fully rested, no matter how long that takes. Only wake up when you feel you can no longer sleep, and can do anything after you wake up.

Sleep is great, but it’s not the only thing that you need to recover and recharge. There’s also pure resting sessions, regeneration sessions, and meditation. These other mechanisms are only performed when you’re awake. In rest you simply do nothing at all. In regeneration you do something that does not qualify or cannot be described as work. In meditation you give yourself a clearance to think about anything uninterrupted.

You are enough. That’s the meaning of life.

Eliminate the idea of getting rid of yourself.

You are not the problem. That should never be an option, no matter how low you feel. That is not a course of action that you take under any circumstance. Even if you feel everybody thinks that this is what you should do to or with yourself. To hell with what they all think. You will live anyway even if life sucks infinitely to you more than anybody else who has ever lived.

Your existence in this world is not the problem. Nothing will be solved by your absence from this life. Nothing will be better if you weren’t here. The world wouldn’t be better off in case you don’t exist. It’s great to have a higher meaning for life. A higher purpose. A calling. It’s awesome to be passionate about many things in life. It’s great to find what you’re really or most passionate about in this life. But the lack of these things doesn’t mean that you failed and you shouldn’t try to keep existing. It doesn’t mean that there’s no reason for you to keep living.

Stop looking for a purpose to justify your existence. Your mere existence is more than enough. Life doesn’t have to have any meaning beyond that. There should be a normal that is okay and fine that you value aside from the fact that you’ve reached the best in this world yet or not. It’s not all or none!

You should meditate every day even if you don’t feel tired or unable to do anything.

No matter how many hours you sleep, you still need to meditate every day. Meditation is also needed for reasons other than resting. Like processing for example. It should be performed daily even if you’ve slept for 12 hours!

Don’t wait until you’re tired to start meditating. Do it like it’s physical exercise, something that is done for its positive short and long term benefits, not a resting mechanism or an opportunity to unplug from technology.