A little motivational reminder

If the next 365 days looked exactly like your last 30, would you be proud of where you end up?

You can literally just wake up and decide, “I’m done being who I’ve been.” You don’t need a new year, a rock bottom, or anyone’s permission. Change doesn’t require the perfect moment. It begins the second you choose differently. You're not a tree. You're not stuck. You're one decision away from a completely different life.

If you change from "how can I make the most money?" to "how can I architect my days how I want and then make the most money?" It will change your life.

So so good.

Makes ya think, doesn’t it?

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

In 2009, an Australian palliative care nurse named Bronnie Ware wrote a blog post called "Regrets of the Dying." She had spent years working with people in the final weeks of their lives, and the same regrets kept coming up.

The top regret, the one she heard more than any other, was: "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."

And my gosh, that hits hard. How many people spent their last moments regretting that they never went after what they wanted? I don't know about you, but that scares the living sh*t out of me.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and regret that I played small.

Charlie Munger once said, "If you need a tool and haven't bought it, you're already paying for it." The same is true with dreams. If you have a dream and you haven't started acting on it, you're already paying for it.

The entrepreneur who's been researching for years and hasn't made a single dollar. The writer who has a dozen drafts saved in a folder but has never hit publish. The athlete who quit the moment it got hard and now watches from the sidelines.

You think that not taking action is no big deal, but every time you pass up on your dreams or forgo what you want to do, that inaction debt compounds.

The ironic part is, the people who accumulate the most inaction debt are usually the most intelligent. Some of the smartest people I know are also the most stuck. They can diagnose every problem in every industry, pick apart anyone's business model, and explain why something won't work, but they haven't built anything themselves.

Being really smart yet never doing anything with it is a trap.

High intelligence with low agency is the pipeline to unexplainable anxiety. All that horsepower and nowhere to direct it eventually turns inward, and it slowly eats you from the inside out.

As psychologist Carl Jung said, "The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life … The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live." 

You can't solve a courage problem with more intelligence.

Until next week,

Author of You Can Just Do Things & Work With The Best

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