Life's trajectory settings
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." - Gerry.
Letter 28
‘Insanity is doing the same things repeatedly and expecting different results.’ - MJ DeMarco.
The author of the book, ‘Millionaire Fastlane’ said it right but I want to add to it a few exceptions that I have encountered on my journey until now.
‘Doing the same things’ has the power to decide the trajectory of the future outcomes of your current action.
If you put the right actions, habits, and tasks into your daily life, you will improve slowly and steadily. Furthermore, the future outcomes will be well-placed and close to what one desires to achieve.
If you work towards the negative tasks, habits, and actions, that consume your energy, waste your time, and don’t move the needle toward your future values and goals, then the immediate outcomes are not good and future outcomes are also doomed.
There are some mind posts from reading articles and books on self-development topics.
‘We believe what we are taught until we gather evidence to the contrary.’
Breaking self-limiting beliefs was the first step that got me in the right direction of reducing un-meaningful things from life.
We cannot blame our parents for not enriching us with the precious available resources that we can access from anywhere at any moment in time.
Book - The Millionaire Fastlane by Mj DeMarco
“Many people think what they lack is motivation, but what they really lack is clarity.”
What we struggle with is clarity. {I too am a victim of the situation}. Probably the most essential and urgent.
the more we align our values, goals, and aspirations to our daily habits, our daily tasks, we grow and move the actual needle that propels us forward.
As James Clear wrote in his international bestseller book, ‘Atomic Habits’ - “Habits do compound. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.”
Book - Atomic Habits by James Clear
“Impatient with action, patience with results.” - Visualize value.
In his book ‘The Practice - shipping creative work’, legendary writer Seth godin advices the readers that practice is the constant controllable variable that we can execute.
The practice (whatever art or work do) demands that we approach our process with commitment.
‘Inspiration is for breathing out’ - Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is one of the finest writers. His book ‘Hell yeah or no’ is a culmination of focusing on creating outputs, its advantages, and disadvantages, and the reduction of outside noise.
He penned down a cool thing about inspiration that I dare not forget about.
Book - Hell yeah or no by Derek Sivers.
A Stoic Belief
Reading ‘The Daily Stoic’ book by Ryan Holiday, in which the chapters are divided into each stoic lesson onto a full calendar year.
Came across a chapter about ‘Life is a Battlefield’, which I thought would fit in in this substack.
Life is a struggle waiting to happen if you move without purpose.
P.S. - The subtitle I mentioned is from the 2011 book ‘Millionaire Fastlane’ by author MJ DeMarco. The book is precisely one of the best for knowing the importance of :
time
choices.
gaining knowledge
and understanding of the fundamentals of solving problems.
money.