Remember, you must die.
Now is the only moment you have. So do what is important now. What are you afraid of?
This fear of doing the important reminds me of [Zettel 202108130226]. Self-worth theory, fear and procrastination.
Yesterday is gone; Tomorrow not promised.
There is only one time that is important– Now. It is the most important time because it is the only time when you have power.
Leo Tolstoy
Death makes now more precious.
If we can tame our negative emotions [ Zettel 202108150244 ], maybe we can tame our biases, too. Then we can make better decisions that are better grounded in reality.
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Performing an activity over and over doesn’t promise improvment. To reach your best, you need to have a structured aproach for the way you practice.
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Businesses want you to buy from them. They want you to need their products. They want you to need the comforts they provide. This makes you vulnerable in so many ways [ Zettel 202108150309 ].
The American Dream is also a form of consumerism. It’s a debt trap.
And when you accumulate too much debt, you become a slave to the system of extreme capitalism. You no longer work to make a living [ Zettel 202108151607 ]. You work to pay your master . . . er . . . Master Card.
You can’t save as much or invest as much as you need when you have large debt. If you can’t keep any money for yourself, then you can’t build an emergency fund. You can’t invest.
The comforts we seek lull us into a state of weakness and vulnerability. Growth requires work. And comfort can call us away from that work.
Fear also keeps us in our comfort zone and prevents us from trying something new.
But if we learn to lean into the discomfort, we can gain so much.