34 – The Most Beautiful Game

Reflecting back on the last year. Top lessons learned.

If your heart isn’t in it, don’t begin it

Workout hard, rest hard.

When they go low, you go high

Reps neglect luck

My dad writes the same message in my Christmas card every year: “The more I practice, the luckier I get.”
Anywhere you want to get, just put in more reps of that one thing.
Count in terms of hundreds: how many hundreds of attempts did it take you to get there?
Perfecting Moksha took thousands.
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
If you’re willing to suck at anything for 100 days in a row, you can achieve almost anything you want.

Speak the truth, always.

Your voice is your superpower.
From telling white lies to deceiving the truth to protect your ego, just say it as it is. The truth will set you free.

Creating Vs Productivity

You cannot be productive when you are creating.
Productivity is associated with getting things done. When you create, you go through many weeks of nothing to show, then one day you wake up and you have a masterpiece.
When creating, be patient and living with yourself and just keep showing up.

Your gut is telling you everything you need to know

Consume, what you want to experience and feel

Less time on social media.
Less time reading the news.
Less time on negative conversations.
Less time watching movies that make you feel anxious.
More time with books. (Most of the world’s knowledge has already been written somewhere; you’ve just got to read the right books.)

One thing I am going to pursue more

Our daily routines are likely to be very consistent. So much so, you could take the timeline of one day and place it on another day—whether it’s in the past or the future—without much change because the actions you take each day are essentially the same.
Take your morning routine. You turn off your alarm and you check your phone/Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or email first thing.
Meditation breaks this. “The best way to predict your future is to create it, not from the known, but from the unknown.” When we are in a state of meditation, we circuit-break these habitual loops and can enter a state of unlimited possibilities and imagination.
The hardest part about change is not making the same choices you made the day before.

Is Thought True?

Sometimes when I feel super anxious and overwhelmed, I ask myself three questions:
- When was the last time I had a good night’s sleep?
- When was my last healthy meal?
- When was the last time I worked out?
More often than not, that thought was never true; it was just because I failed to do these three basic principles well.

Compound Effect

In my 20s, I felt so overwhelmed by what I wanted to do, I felt so frozen I didn’t do a whole lot.
Just focus on making a little progress every day. Just try and squeeze in one little win today.
You don’t see a little progress today, but 30, 60, and 90 days later, you see it. Progress compounds.
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” —Warren Buffet

Being a true friend

I’m okay if someone gets mad at me for having an honest conversation with them. If it makes them better, I will tell them, even if they hate me at the time for pointing it out.

Favourite read of the year?

Best thing I did that were loving

Nothing great, comes easy.

In a world of people promising fast tracks, hacks, and shortcuts to success, always keep coming back to one quote:
“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
The time spent practising your craft is where the flow and magic lie.

Things that continual to work/ stand the test of time.

Always leave something the way you found it, if not better.

Mum used to say this to me all the time as a kid.
Whether this be a place you visit or the people you meet, make things better where ever you move.