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[jpanarra]

I'll be honest, I've been having a tough time for awhile, this is for the people out there that are having a tough time as well. When you're in a rough place its easy to start thinking and saying negative things such as doubting yourself, frustration or even blaming others.



I noticed with my work ethic, I produce in waves, some days/weeks/months pick your time frame… I'll be pounding out and finishing things so fast that your head will spin and other days I'm getting nothing done. It’s the bottom part of the wave that hurts me and others.



So I told myself, no matter what I'll get one thing done a day no matter if I did nothing all day. If the clock turns to 11:45pm, and I didn’t do anything, Fine go online find a potienal client and schedule a email to go out tomorrow in the morning. Its all about patterns, sometimes it just takes one to get the wave to go back up into the "super-productive mode"



This part is from a reddit thread I read awhile back,



Be greatful for the "3 you's"



-Past You

- Present You

- Future You



Be grateful for the past you, he did all of the work to get you to where you are today. The skills you have are due to him, so be happy and thank him every day. Now the present you is indebted to the future you, In bed with an alarm going off and you don’t want to get out… "this is for you future you" and get the F*ck out of bed and do something.



Being grateful also means forgiving yourself and understand why you did what you did so you can better avoid or control your time. I'll admit I love video games, it’s a nice escape and can entertain me for hours. So I use it as a token to myself when I achieve something. For example, I'm a sucker for real time strategy games like starcraft2 so If I do something positive and productive like a sale, I'll treat myself to 2 matches but I'll never do more than 2 matches a day. Now If I break that rule, it's my own rule… so I need to forgive myself and just move on and go back to following it, its easier to go "this rule is dumb its not doing its job" than to go "I f*cked up, tomorrow I'll do better"



I'll just say this but this is already embedded in me, but I can see how it helps on the basic level is reading books and exercising, I play soccer during the week and weekends in pickups and leagues and I read 30 mins before bed and after I wake up. The weeks that I don’t read/exercise I just end up sluggish and not so productive.



All of this sounds easy as hell, but if you're just starting out just try to stick with it for 3 months… if you fall off the wagon, that’s fine just get back on it again and try again.

 

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[Dylan in Africa]

Vjot sinopfif ni ug tunivjoph O sief vjot xiil op Vji Qistupem NCE cz Kutj Leagnep.

Jisi esi tuni liz veliexezt gsun jot tidvoup up Haofoph Tvsadvasi:

• Vji tvsadvasi ug zuas Ipwosupnipv ot vji meshitv fivisnopepv ug zuas cijewous.
• Og zua xepv vu taddittgammz djephi e cijewous, fup'v vsz vu djephi vji cijewous fosidvmz. Djephi vji tvsadvasi vjev opgmaipdit us taqqusvt vji cijewous, epf vji cijewous xomm djephi eavunevodemmz.

O dep qistupemmz evvitv vu vji iggidvowipitt ug ipwosupnipvem djephi op jecov siduptvsadvoup epf fotdoqmopi. Hsuxoph aq, O xet updi effodvif vu wofiu henit et ximm. Vseptovoupoph gsun mogi op vji Apovif Tvevit vu Vepbepoe uwis vji qetv gix nupvjt, cef jecovt jewi foteqqiesif tonqmz cz sinuwoph vinqvevoupt. Et zua nipvoupif, jewoph huuf mogitvzmi jecovt vu vasp vu (moli iyisdoti) dep emtu jewi e hsiev onqedv up ipvsiqsipiasoem qsufadvowovz, cav xjz puv neli vjopht iwip ietois up zuastimg cz neloph ov opdupwipoipv vu neli apqsufadvowi djuodit?

Vjsux vji wofiu heni duptumi aq op vji evvod gus e nupvj epf tii xjisi vjopht hu.