⌚️ TREE 770: You have time

TREEpeat 322

Have you gotten into cryptocurrency yet?
Have you lost that weight yet?
Have you sorted out your eating habits yet?
Have you written your book yet?
Have you bought a house yet?
Have you started that side hustle yet?
Have you seen the 100 greatest films yet?
Are you overwhelmed yet?

A billion voices (it used to be a million, but inflation), including your own probably, are telling you the thousands of things you should have done or at least started by now.

I have advice about how to respond to those voices.

1. Tell them to get in the sea. You have lots of time. So much time. Yes, life is short and you will die soon. Life is also long and there is so much you can do with it. (footnote: I think this is what Seneca says in his book which I haven’t read yet even though it’s on my desk.)

2. What do you think are the two or three things on your list of things you haven’t done yet that are most important to your long-term thriving?

3. What are the main things you are doing that don’t help your long-term thriving? I’m thinking TV, social media, hanging out with wastrels kind of stuff.

4. Boom. Now you’ve seen it and you can’t unsee it.

5. Break down the things from 2 into small small chunks that you can do every day instead of doing 3.

6. The things from 2 become self-rewarding over time. But you can start by using the things from three as rewards for doing the things from 2. (See also TREE 718.)

It’s working for me. Maybe it will work for you.

Lizzie Esau surprised me with this one. Not a sound I expected from her. I like it.

Grow slowly
Jeff