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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Preview:
Quote: Earn It
Ideas: 10 Small Steps, Action, and Don’t Quit
Article: Busyness
Tweet: Lessons from a Father
Question: Grateful
Quote
Naval Ravikant on the things in life that can’t be purchased:
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.”
How do you “earn” these?
Discipline.
We have to have discipline and invest the time in habits that will lead to these outcomes.
We can’t buy these results and they won’t magically happen on their own.
Ideas From Me
I.
10 Small Ways to Improve the Quality of Your Life
1. Be grateful
2. Move your body
3. Whole foods diet
4. Read great books
5. High-quality sleep
6. Connect with others
7. Laugh and smile more
8. Sunlight in the morning
9. Set goals that excite you
10. Talk to yourself like a friend
II.
A lot of people are stuck in a state of limbo between what they want and what they’re willing to do to get there.
How do you close the gap?
Action.
III.
Just a reminder...
Keep going.
Life can be hard. No one is immune.
Adversity is either here now, just left, or coming again soon.
Don't quit.
Hard times build strong people.
Article
Lazy: A Manifesto from Tim Kreider
“Being busy is a form of laziness.” - Tim Ferriss
I heard someone recently say in an interview that “busyness starts as a virtue and ends as a vice.” I think that’s well said.
Life is too short to be busy. And yet… we often wear busyness around like a badge of honor.
Let’s focus on being productive instead of being busy.
Great read here from Tim Kreider.
https://www.staystrongsc.com/blog/2017/1/8/lazy-a-manifesto
“The busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness: Obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.
All this noise and rush and stress seem contrived to drown out or over up some fear at the center of our lives. I know that after I’ve spent a whole day working or running errands or answering emails or watching movies, keeping my brain busy and distracted, as soon as I lie down to sleep all the niggling quotidian worries and Big Picture questions I’ve successfully kept at bay come crowding into my brain like monsters swarming out of the closet the instant you turn off the nightlight.
When you try to meditate, your brain suddenly comes up with a list of a thousand urgent items you should be obsessing about rather than simply sit still. One of my correspondents suggests that what we’re all so afraid of is being left alone with ourselves.”
Tweet
Ryan Russell passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 41.
In this thread below, his wife shared the life lessons he left behind for his kids.
They are simple lessons that we could all benefit from.
Before he died, my husband wrote our 3 young children a letter.
This letter was one final gift - a guide for our family.
I shared it at his funeral, and everyone said a version of the same thing - hearing that letter read- has changed them
It's here: my-grey-matters.com/grey-blog/on8a…
— Samantha Russell 👩🏼💻 (@SamanthaTwenty)
5:26 PM • Nov 16, 2023
Question
Who are you thankful for? Have you let them know recently?
Sadly, we often wait until funerals to let people know how we truly feel. Go let someone know how much they mean to you today.
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Make it a great weekend.
Much love,
Beau Burns
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