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Clearing out my inbox on a Sunday evening got me reading two articles from the Daily Stoic and watching one video off YouTube.  From You Are Not Too Busy to Read :  "If Napoleon, commanding an army of some 40,000 men, could find time to read on a march some 1,600 miles from home, you can find it. If Marcus could read while he was ruling the world, if Seneca could do it while studying the law, suffering from tuberculosis, while in exile, in the Senate, as a consul, while he dealt with Nero's insanity, you can. Leaders must be readers. There is no good life without study and practice and wisdom. Don't find the time. Make the time . You're not too busy.  Nobody is." From You Still Have Time. You Have So Much Time : "What Seneca's life proves is something much more bluntly phrased in Gary Vaynerchuk's viral video, " You've Got F*cking Time. " It might feel like you are too old, that things have not turned out like you planned, that you'v...

It's better to write and publish it everyday than to wait for the perfect moment to pen an entry.  I just listened to Ali Abdaal's podcast with Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and the Importance of Idleness and man, there were so many good takeaways. Here's some I found useful: On YouTube video content:  Videos of "Here's how I do something.." rather than "How to do something.." garner more views - Ali Abdaal On content creation: Gary Vaynerchuk: Document, Don't Create   which is also what got me to just start this blog to document my journey of writing everyday for a year to see where that takes me. I watched the video  and it's the best 22 minutes of my life spent. What I took away from it is that, showing up everyday is better than planning, waiting it out, thinking up big ideas and executing tasks in your head but not doing the work. "Too many "content creators" think that they only have one at bat - they have to make ...