Man-Up

We have it all backward. We spend our work hours helping someone else build their dream, and spend our free time watching TV and surfing the internet. We think we enjoy these things – but this is a lie.

The truth is that these mindless things distract us from achieving the things we really want to achieve in life. They make us forget that time is the most precious and irreplaceable commodity in the world.

When your final countdown begins, you cannot buy more time. Not even if you’re a billionaire (Steve Jobs died at 56!) The time you’ve spent is all there is. 

What’s scary? You don’t know when that final countdown will come. It may be fifty years from now, or ten years – or tomorrow. You’ll never know…

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Beliefs are extremely powerful.

You don’t have to look any further than the existence of placebo effects to recognize this fact.

Placebo treatments that literally offer zero benefits to patients with very real conditions have actually succeeded in curing them. Studies have shown changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and the relief of depressive symptoms – and even some symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease – through placebo treatments.

The only explanation here is that these patients’ bodies have essentially cured themselves all because they believed that they were being given an effective treatment.

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You act one way in person, but let your inner child run loose online. Bully people, complain endlessly, pick fights with strangers, leave nasty comments.

What’s the harm? It’s not you. “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.”

Oh wait, it IS you. You ARE the person you act like online.

When you complain online, your real-life experience sours.

When you obsess over doom-and-gloom news stories, your worldview darkens considerably.

And when you’re mean and juvenile and nasty to perfect strangers, you’ll find your thoughts becoming sharper about the real-life people that you love.

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Many of us know what we need to do to attain our versions of success. At least broadly, if not exactly what needs to be done. Have a goal (or goals), be consistent, keep getting better, adapt when needed, form a team, be grateful, avoid burnout, work, work, work. Work.

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You need to actually care about your future self.

It helps if you’re confident enough to know you’ll get everything you want in life, but are humble enough to know that it won’t just come to you.

We like to put things off and say we don’t have time for it. But we know we’re lying to ourselves.

Everyone has time for things, it’s just that we don’t make it a priority.

It might be we’re avoiding it because we’re scared of failure.

At some point we’re going to need to go for it.

It’s up to you to decide when enough is enough and make a change.