07-31-2020, 03:29 PM
Stage 6. Day 14,
I think I found the secret to being an adult/a man/responsible human. So dropdead simple that it took me 28 years of messing up to stumble upon this:
1) Determine your goals/aims/desires,
2) Figure out what is realistically required to achieve these,
3) Establish a course of action,
4) Evaluate the likely consequences of your preferred course of action,
5) Decide whether the likely negative consequences are worth the likely positive consequences,
6) Decide to execute your course of action,
7) Execute your course of action,
8) Accept the actual consequences of your actions,
9) Repeat.
No mysticism, no personal wishlists, no LOA, and no spiritual bypassing.
Throughout my adolescence and early 20s, I kept trying to game the system and figure out the minimum effective doses to things. Anything to avoid strapping in and undergoing the actual work needed to become excellent at something.
I wished that I could have learned to connect the pain of doing the right thing in the moment (e.g. studying instead of video games) to my personal growth. I also wish that I could've thought to numerically track all of the right actions, as I've done with my backpocket goals list.
I think I found the secret to being an adult/a man/responsible human. So dropdead simple that it took me 28 years of messing up to stumble upon this:
1) Determine your goals/aims/desires,
2) Figure out what is realistically required to achieve these,
3) Establish a course of action,
4) Evaluate the likely consequences of your preferred course of action,
5) Decide whether the likely negative consequences are worth the likely positive consequences,
6) Decide to execute your course of action,
7) Execute your course of action,
8) Accept the actual consequences of your actions,
9) Repeat.
No mysticism, no personal wishlists, no LOA, and no spiritual bypassing.
Throughout my adolescence and early 20s, I kept trying to game the system and figure out the minimum effective doses to things. Anything to avoid strapping in and undergoing the actual work needed to become excellent at something.
I wished that I could have learned to connect the pain of doing the right thing in the moment (e.g. studying instead of video games) to my personal growth. I also wish that I could've thought to numerically track all of the right actions, as I've done with my backpocket goals list.
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