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When faced with any key decision, you effectively choose one of two potential characters:

Investor: Long-term thinker who is willing to delay gratification; makes an investment that may sacrifice short-term pleasure for a larger, more meaningful reward in the long-term.

Borrower: Short-term thinker who is unwilling to delay gratification; takes out a loan to experience pleasure in the short-term, even if that means paying a steep price in the long-term.

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: Different people are held to different standards.

Double standards are the rule, not the exception.

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"Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude."

— M. Russell Ballard

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It’s A Game Of Tonnage


Back in the ‘80s, Jerry Seinfeld’s friend was teaching a comedy course at The Improv in Los Angeles.

The friend asked Seinfeld if he’d be willing to visit the class and speak to the students. Seinfeld agreed. “I went in and there were maybe 20 people in the class,” he recalled. “I went up on stage, and I said, ‘The fact that you’ve signed up for this class is already a very bad sign for what you’re trying to do.

The fact that you think anyone can teach you or that there’s something you need to learn, you’ve gone off on a bad track because nobody really knows anything about any of this.’” Seinfeld suspected that the students were looking for a shortcut to becoming great comedians, hoping the class would give them the secrets to bypassing the hard phase of forcing the skills to come. “You know,” Seinfeld said, “no one’s really that great. You know who’s great? The people that just put a tremendous amount of hours into it.


It’s a game of tonnage, you know? How many hours are you going to work? Per week? Per month? Per year?” If he could do it over, Seinfeld said, “what I really should have done is I should have had a giant flag behind me, and when I pulled a string, it would roll down, and on the flag, it would just say two words: Just work.”

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We cannot put off until tomorrow, he said, what we can do today—whether that’s being good (our highest priority), telling people we love them, or going to places we wish to see. No one knows what the future holds. No one knows how much time we have left.

Do not delay. Do not wish. Do not wait. Do it now. While you still have time. While there is still a chance.


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"Everyone has the right to their opinion"

No.

Not everyone has the right to an opinion.

You do NOT have the right to an opinion, if the matter at hand is a topic you have zero education on or experience with.

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Some features are enabled by money (the porch and the yard), but most of them are earned through consistent behaviors and actions.

Want a smiling wife at your side at 80? Be a loving husband daily.

Want kids who choose to be around you? Be a supportive and caring parent daily.

Want a healthy body and mind in old age? Flex your body and mind daily.

Want good friends who you share laughs with? Be a good friend to those you care about daily.

I'd encourage you to try the exercise. Sit down and envision your ideal life at 80-years-old.

What does it tell you about what you need to focus on in the present?​

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Self-Handicapping (& How to Fight Back)
We've all been there...

You have a big, ambitious goal you're driving towards, but you start to feel a creeping sense of doubt about whether you can achieve it. You worry about failing to achieve the goal, so you start thinking, speaking, and acting in ways that subtly cut into your odds of success.

You shrink yourself down to avoid a hard fall.

Self-Handicapping is a psychological protection strategy that people use to insulate their self-esteem from the damage of potential failure.

When someone engages in Self-Handicapping, they engage in actions or behaviors that actually undermine their chance at success in an effort to provide themselves with a built-in excuse if failure occurs.

Self-Handicapping is an emotional and psychological shield we all put up—one that is particularly prevalent among highly ambitious people who set high bars for success.

I believe there is a simple root cause:

We live in a culture that endlessly promotes and celebrates the achievement of the extraordinary. As such, we conflate success with the achievement of the extraordinary.

When we convince ourselves that success is only defined by the monster achievement, we create a perfect storm for Self-Handicapping.

To fight back, start embracing the beauty of tiny wins. Find purpose, joy, and fulfillment in the small—in the process, not the prize.

Your success is not determined by your achievement of the extraordinary, but by your ability to show up, day-in, day-out, and lay one new brick in your life's wall.



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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

— Dale Carnegie

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I just wrote a new article.

Please read and share the feedback in the comments

Read it here: 🔗 The importance of weaknesses

Once something is obvious and working, people tend to underestimate it.

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