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I turned 59 yesterday.
Life whizzes past faster than you can imagine.
Live in a subsidized senior apartment, 1 bedroom, balcony, I rent my parking space to another tenant, I have a bicycle and a scooter.
JFK was president when I was born. Seen a lot, didn’t do much of anything
Air Force for 30 years, now a night janitor at a government building, in a major US city.
Never married, never dated, almost had sex with a prostitute, but my self respect stopped me.
This is a two-step process.
The first step is for you and I to meet on an intellectual level, to agree that regret serves no-one, improves nothing, has no utility. If we can meet there, then the second step is to drop it like a hot coal.
Try these out and see your life take a turn for the worse!
Be as lazy as possible
Being lazy is easy, so take the easy route. Stay inside and don’t do anything productive. If you start exercising, for example, you might build momentum and become more energetic, so make sure not to do that.
A man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: “You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?”
So the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.”
So the man ordered his boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along.”
Your time is the furthest thing from free
For the majority of my life I made one really big mistake: I under-valued the precious nature of the time I’ve been given to live here on earth, and over-valued the short term gratification that comes from digital pleasure.
You Will Never be Ready. Do it Anyway.
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” — Paulo Coelho
The bulletproof way to miss out on a career that means the world to you is to wait for the perfect moment. Your brain will always convince you into believing that you are never ready.
(photo: @franciscoegonzalez)
Often we procrastinate or straight up don’t do things that we know we need to do because we’re afraid of discomfort. We’re scared to take a risk or do something that we’ve never done before.
So we don’t do it.
I can tell you from experience that very few things are as unpleasant as you think they will be. Your mind comes up with scenarios that are typically much worse than reality.
The only thing that’s ever been worse than I expected it to be is regret, and I’ve regretted inaction much more often than I’ve regretted action.
(photo: @xaviercoiffic)
You are responsible for your problems. You are not at fault for (some of) your problems, but you are responsible for all of them.
When you decide to claim responsibility for everything that you don’t like in your life—the annoying coworker, your inability to focus, how busy you are—you give yourself the power to do something about it. I don’t care that you didn’t create these issues. Stop playing the victim card, and do something about it.
(photo: @diegonacho)
Screen-free mornings and evenings.
The programming: Keep your phone by your bedside. Wake up, check your inbox and Twitter and Instagram before you get up. (Associate your smartphone with safety and warmth). Look at a screen until the moment you pass out. Wake up and do it again.
The counter-programming: It is critical to have a morning and evening routine that omit screen time. The first and last hours of your day should be low activity and screen-free. Honor your body’s natural wake/sleep cycles. I can’t overemphasize how critical this is.
Align values with behavior online
The programming: 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.