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I want to start gratitude practice - But I feel silly about this.
Apart from being grateful for what i have and where I am - i would love to create some morning or before bed routine where I can remind myself and maybe manifest better tomorrow? Is it good idea to create some sort of scrip that once memorised would be like a praying ? Any guide how to make one that is for me ( you gona say get pice of paper and list all the bits you grateful for ) but i really feel like an idiot doing it and i cant belive even that what im writing is true. Is like taking someone to the gym and tell them to feel the muscle - they cant as they are not ready yet. I need like 1 baby steps . I'm very grateful that someone will spent time replaying to my post.
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I like to just think of one single thing I'm grateful for and expand upon it instead of listing 20 things. For example, I'd go like: I'm grateful for this desk I've got. It's a standing desk, and just a few years ago, I'd kill to be able to use one of these. I'm able to work not just sitting down, but standing up too, giving me a feeling of also burning a few more calories. I'm really glad I have this standing desk.
How to stay consistent as an entrepreneur
You keep falling off because you still see yourself as lazy. Let me explain. Let's say you're life is like a rubber band. Imagine your self-image is at Point A. Let's say you see yourself as unproductive. A procrastinator. A doom scroller. Now, you start building good habits. You wake up early. You study. You lock in. That's like pulling the rubber band tighter and tighter (further away from Point A, which is your self-image). As you pull further (doing better habits with the same self-image), the rubber band gets tighter... And boom, it snaps back. Because deep down, you still see yourself as that lazy person, that 9-5 worker and not that entrepreneur. Your habits improved, sure. But your identity didn't. And your identity always wins. You can only stretch so far before the rubber band pulls you right back to where you think you belong. That's why you fall off. That's why consistency feels impossible. Not because you're weak. But because you're fighting against your own self-image. So here's the fix: Move the rubber band. Stop seeing yourself as the unproductive person trying to be better. Start seeing yourself as a productive person (who occasionally slips up). Because when you do that? EVERYTHING changes. Now, when you fall off β€” when you skip a day, when you doom scroll, when you mess up β€” the rubber band snaps you BACK to being PRODUCTIVE. Because that's just who you are now. You're not trying to become disciplined. You're just a disciplined guy. You're not trying to be a hard worker. You just ARE a hard worker. And when you slip? You get right back up. Because that's what a disciplined entrepreneur would do. So stop trying to build better habits while still seeing yourself as the person who can't stick to them. Change the identity first. The habits will follow.
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How to stay consistent
You keep falling off because you still see yourself as lazy. Let me explain. Let's say you're life is like a rubber band. Imagine your self-image is at Point A. Let's say you see yourself as unproductive. A procrastinator. A doom scroller. Now, you start building good habits. You wake up early. You study. You lock in. That's like pulling the rubber band tighter and tighter (further away from Point A, which is your self-image). As you pull further (doing better habits with the same self-image), the rubber band gets tigher... And boom, it snaps back. Because deep down, you still see yourself as that lazy person. Your habits improved, sure. But your identity didn't. And your identity always wins. You can only stretch so far before the rubber band pulls you right back to where you think you belong. That's why you fall off. That's why consistency feels impossible. Not because you're weak. But because you're fighting against your own self-image. So here's the fix: Move the rubber band. Stop seeing yourself as the unproductive person trying to be better. Start seeing yourself as a productive person who occasionally slips up. Because when you do that? EVERYTHING changes. Now, when you fall off β€” when you skip a day, when you doom scroll, when you mess up β€” the rubber band snaps you BACK to being PRODUCTIVE. Because that's just who you are now. You're not trying to become disciplined. You're just a disciplined guy. You're not trying to be a hard worker. You just ARE a hard worker. And when you slip? You get right back up. Because that's what a disciplined man would do. So stop trying to build better habits while still seeing yourself as the person who can't stick to them. Change the identity first. The habits will follow.
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Why life is so much harder now
You're not dumber than you were as a kid. You're just more distracted. Let me tell you something. When I was a kid, everyone thought I was a genius. Teachers loved me. Parents would brag about me to their kids. I'd finish tests first. Get straight A's without trying. I felt unstoppable. And then... something changed... in 9th grade (2022). School got harder. Focus got harder. Everything felt like a struggle. And I started thinking: "Wait, what just happened? Why am I so dumb? Was I never that smart to begin with?" But here's the truth: You didn't get dumber. The world just got more distracting. Back when we were kids, what was the most addictive thing around? Video games, maybe? And even those weren't that bad. You'd play for an hour or two, get bored, and go outside. But now? TikTok. Instagram. YouTube Shorts. Infinite scroll. Autoplay. Algorithms designed by the smartest engineers in the world whose entire job is to keep you hooked. These apps are built to steal your attention. And they're really, really good at it. So no wonder you feel like you're struggling. You're not fighting against yourself. You're fighting against billion-dollar companies that have weaponized your dopamine system. But here's the good news: You can get it back. You can become more focused, more productive, more locked in than you ever were as a kid. It's not easy. But it's possible. And you do it by leveraging exactly what these tech giants use too: biology. These tech giants are trying to take your attention. They study the human mind, your psychology, and your neurobiology. But the everyday person doesn't even care about that (probably cuz it's just boring). The last time you heard about homeostasis was your biology textbook (and you prolly already forgot that). Circadian rhythms have only just been popularized... and even then, it's not enough. But this is what will save your life... it's what saved mine. I started working WITH my biology, rather than against it... choosing nature over Netflix, sunlight over scrolling, and cold showers over caffeine.
Curing procrastination is so d*mn simple
Newton's second law solved my entire procrastination problem. Let me explain. So I'm sitting at my desk, camera set up, ready to record a video. And I don't want to do it. Like, at all. I'm tired. My brain's foggy. I'm telling myself, "I can just push this to tomorrow." But then I just... hit record. And I start talking. At first, it's shit. My words are stumbling over each other. I'm saying random stuff. I sound like an idiot. But I keep going. And then, 10 minutes in, I pause the recording. And I realize something: I'm not tired anymore. I'm not resisting. I'm actually... enjoying this. I had entered a flow state without even noticing. And that's when it clicked. β–Ά Newton's second law: An object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an external force. The reason you procrastinate isn't because the task is hard. It's because you're not even moving yet. You're stuck. At rest. And objects at rest stay at rest unless acted on by some other force. So what's the solution? Simple. Get in motion. But here's the trick β€” you don't need some huge push. You don't need to psych yourself up or wait for motivation. You just need a tiny push... something that I call the minimum viable action (MVA). Let's say you have to write an essay. Don't write the essay. Instead, just type your name at the top of the page. Got 20 math problems to finish? Don't solve them. Just write down the formula you'll need to use. That's it. Because once you do that one tiny thing, the ball starts rolling. And once it's rolling? It just keeps on going, bro. That's the beauty of it. Starting is the hardest part. But once you're in it, it's so easy to keep going. So next time you're procrastinating, don't think about the whole task. Just do the smallest possible action. Open the doc. Write one sentence. Solve one problem. Get the ball rolling. Physics doesn't lie, bro.
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