I think it’s important to have a long term vision and plan for your life. But, if you’re not careful, it becomes overwhelming and crippling.
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I think it’s important to have a long term vision and plan for your life. But, if you’re not careful, it becomes overwhelming and crippling.
[Read more…] about How to deal with long-term goal setting overwhelm and frustration
We all procrastinate, but there’s usually a simple strategy for beating it.
Just start.
That sounds such dumb advice to give, but it often really is that simple.
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No one likes being last. But, I realised yesterday that you need to get comfortable with it. Sometimes, that’s exactly the right place to be.
Every now and then, I stumble across a handful of awesome articles over the course of a few days. That happened this week, so I wanted to share them.
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I read a great article recently — If It’s Important, Learn It Repeatedly. It makes a good case for going back and re-reading important books.
So, I went back and read Deep Work by Cal Newport. It’s one of my favorite books and it was even better the second time round. It gave me a renewed enthusiasm for doing deep work and some fresh ideas for how to go about it.
It got me thinking, what other books could I go back and read again?
Whenever anyone asks me for advice about investing, I always give the same response:
Invest in indexes. Contribute regularly, hold for the long term and rarely check.
Then I point them towards two bits of reading — JL Collins Stock Series and Warren Buffett’s $1 million bet. These do a great job of outlining the above approach, with some proof that it actually works.
Yeah, that’s the cold truth.
OK. Maybe Elon Musk is an outlier. Benjamin Franklin definitely is. But, it’s lottery ticket probability that you’ll do something that has an impact beyond even a few generations.
For 99.99% of us, it’s true — you’re gone in three generations and nobody cares.
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As we get older (and hopefully wiser), our thinking about the important things in life changes. We learn new things. We have amazing, good, bad and awful experiences. We try things that work and don’t work. We slowly build informed opinions and beliefs from all of this.
I’ve noticed that in the first 35 years of life, my thinking on certain things has changed a lot. As I’ve got closer to 40, things are starting to settle. I’ve had a few epiphany / mid life type movements. These have either solidified how I think about something, or significantly changed my thinking — probably for the rest of my life.
Get more done, spend more time on what really matters and be happier. It sounds too good to be true, but it isn’t.
Planning the week ahead could be the one, single biggest thing you can do to get more done — and be happier. It’s usually the difference between a bad, or an awesome week.
I made a tough decision towards the end of last year — I changed my work situation. What made it tough was, it was a good job, at a good company. It ticked most of the boxes.