Performance requires constraint
Doing hard things push on the edge of my emotional capacity. Managing my internal state through daily habits allows me the fortitude to work through the challenges of doing things I have yet to do. No extraordinary result is predestined or deserved.
All forms of pleasure come at a cost, I can pay it up front or I can pay it on debt. Work is not exempt.
Frontier work without an on purpose routine leads to my Mind stealing energy worrying about the inconsequential. Work I find fun requires a relatioship with emotional distress because it pushes on my wounds, offers me no guarantees, and has unpredictable consequences. If it didn’t it wouldn’t be live player work that fulfills me.
Without a daily routine my Mind falls weak to the uncertainty and triggers anxiety, fear, regret, and loneliness. The debt for the pleasure I accepted on credit. Pay upfront with constraint.
There is no short cut through challenge. Learning on the job is my advantage.
My growing experience is my moat.
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Proposed habit
- Meditate first thing
- Sit with how I am doing
- Take the dogs to the park, let them enjoy the air
- Write
- Move my heart
- There is never time to go to the gym, go anyways
- Incline all days, yoga when those days aren’t accessible
- Eat greens and beans
- Eat less sugar, I know its hard
- Add more greens
- Batch make beans
- Rest
- 10 device off
- Eye mask
- Disconnect
- Don’t check slack/discord/emails after 8 and before 10
- Memetics
- Extraordinary results require extraordinary decisions
TO DO:
Read this list daily first thing in the morning until this becomes a habit, then read it weekly on Sunday mornings
No shame for missed days, this is for me not against me
