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Change Your Life With These 3 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 them, you’re just missing out on.
Callum Carver
February 16, 2024
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it. There is no second chance."
CHANGE YOUR LIFE WITH THESE 3 HABITS
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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 them, you’re just missing out on.
Don’t treat journaling as some spiritual thing; it's more of a release and a method to logically analyse your emotions.
Lots of people, and men especially, tend to keep their thoughts, feelings, 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 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, but 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, but at the point when it becomes necessary, it could be too late.
This doesn't have to be heavy lifting or 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 health but also for your mental health, you’ll acquire skills along the way, 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 in control of the input to achieve the output.
The traditional route is to work for someone else, whether it's a big company or a small one.
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 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 not being dependent on other people but on your own will.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Start taking action on those three habits:
Buy an expensive journal book because the more you invest in it, the more you feel like you should use it, which will help you kick the habit into gear.
Make some kind of physical activity a non-negotiable part of your daily routine. As minor or major as you want it to be, get moving and don’t stop.
Start to educate yourself on being in control of your own income; this all stems from doing the research and developing an understanding that you can then take action on.
BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The book of the week is ‘Measure what matters’ by John Doerr - In the book, he shares the goal-setting system that he learned at Intel and taught to Google way back when it was a 30-person company to now having over 80k employees that all use it. - Check it out HERE
CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
“There are 3-4 things on my plate, and I'm very running low on time. Each of these things seem to be equally important. And even if I try to pay less attention to the others (prioritizing one or two of 'em), it'll cost me heavily overall in the near future.
How do I manage this kind of a situation and do justice to all of them?”
Treat your time like a token. Each day, you’re given 24 brand new tokens, and you get to choose where you want to spend them.
Eight of them are spent on sleep, and you will have others that are spent on things out of your control.
Now it's your job to allocate the remaining ones to what you deem most important. This way, you can look at your time from a bird's-eye view, which will make it easier to choose where to spend it.
Always look for options that benefit you in multiple ways; that way, you can get more out of the time that you put in.
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