🌳 3 Life Changing Habits

When you hear journaling, you may think it’s something that monks or spiritual woo-woo people do to ‘connect with their inner self’ However, journaling has countless real-world benefits that if you’re not taking advantage of, you’re just missing out on. Don’t treat journaling as some spiritual thing but more of a release and a method to logically analyse your emotions.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one”

Confucius

In simple terms, your health is the foundation of your well-being, above all if your health fails nothing else matters. No ambitions, goals or wants. Your health will make or break you.

3 LIFE CHANGING HABITS

Journaling.

When you hear journaling, you may think it’s something that monks or spiritual woo-woo people do to ‘connect with their inner self’ However, journaling has countless real-world benefits that if you’re not taking advantage of, you’re just missing out on. Don’t treat journaling as some spiritual thing but more of a release and a method to logically analyse your emotions. Lots of people and men especially tend to keep their thoughts, feeling and emotions bottled up inside of them. Whether that’s because of how they were brought up or because of what the idea of a ‘masculine man looks like’ they think it’s the right thing to do.

This gets you nowhere, If you’re not comfortable with talking to other people about your emotions, talk to yourself about them. Write them down in a notebook and this allows you to attack and analyse them logically and create proactive and forward-thinking next steps instead of being stuck in this cycle of juggling your emotions.

This will also feel like you’re being listened to, as humans we have a need to release energy and your emotional baggage is part of it, sometimes you just need to release your thoughts and speculations onto a piece of paper to be able to see your thoughts from a different perspective.

Making your health a priority above all

Making your health a priority should be a no-brainer and too many people put it on the back burner, they have this idea that they will start focusing on their health when it becomes necessary to do so however at the point when it becomes necessary could be too late. As quoted at the start of this issue, a healthy man wants a thousand things and a sick man wants one. Nothing else will matter if your health is critical so make it a priority, to be active or go to the gym 3-4 times a week, this doesn't have to be heavy lifting bodybuilding exercises but just being active will do enough. You could even pick up a sport. Something like combat sports is fantastic not only for your physical self but also for your mental health. You’ll acquire skills alongside it such as discipline, confidence and community.

Become more active and know you’re playing a long game. A game in which you will not win but you should find joy in being a participant.

Sources of income that are dependent on you

The final habit is to find sources of income that are dependent on you and not on others. Now this works to an extent because at the end of the day if you are going to acquire income from a product or service it will be dependent on others buying that product or service but you need to be the only person that’s in control of the input to achieve the output.

The traditional route is to work for someone else, a big company or small you are an employee who ultimately could be fired any day due to circumstances that are out of your control and that's scary as that means you are living in a system of constant risk whereas, working for yourself or working in a system where you are in control of the input and action to achieve the outcome there is much less risk as you’re the one in control. You get to decide whether you need to work more or do something differently.

This results in you filling your own pockets, not someone else’s and you not being dependent on other people but your own will.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

  • Start Journaling

  • Get your health in check, and create a plan to make it a priority

  • Look into acquiring sources of income that are dependent on you.

TAKEAWAYS:

Habits can make or break you, be wise with the ones you implement.

BOOK OF THE WEEK —

The book of the week is Relentless by Tim Grover, a brilliant and inspirational read written by the personal trainer of some of the world’s greatest athletes such as Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. He gives an insight into their minds, how they work and how to make it from good to great to relentless. Check it out HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK —

The creator of the week is @Maxilifts a UK-based fitness creator with an Inspirational self-improvement twist on his content. He’s extremely transparent and shares common problems that young people face with insights on how to combat them. Definitely check him out HERE 

LESSON OF THE DAY —

Stupidity is power

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