Brienne writes

"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential" by David Goggins This message came up for me while doing my morning meditation. Yup, okay, I got the message. 

 The Universe sent me this video today.  And if you're reading this.  This one's for you too.  I love you. Thank you for still being here.  --- I'm an artist and that's what I have to keep doing. I'm going to come back and keep creating bad work everyday to get to my best work.

 Who do you want to be?  What do you want to become?  Picture the end and then work your way backwards.  SHARE THIS MESSAGE with someone you want to live a FULFILLED life! Live TODAY like the end is Tomorrow… Who you are, and who you want to become, matters. #EDMYLETT #MAXOUT #ONEMORE pic.twitter.com/aTYI3J5OS4 — Ed Mylett (@EdMylett) July 28, 2023

It's 196 days till the end of the year. What do you want to achieve?  Will you change or remain the same? Thinking about wanting to make a change makes me think of so many other things.  If I wrote every day from today, I will only have 196 more posts.  That's the maximum I can go for this year. That's 196 more times to practice writing and be better with it until the end of the year comes. I would love to start having clients for copywriting/ coaching. Hoping to get 15 clients working with me for the next 196 days.  That's 29 weeks or 6 months to bring value to people.  If I want to work out thrice a week (minimum), I can only work out 29 x 3 (87 times) more this year.  Seems very little, how about 29 x 4 (116 times). Looks better. If I visit my family once every 3 weeks, that's about 9 more times of meeting till the end of the year.  Got me thinking, what do you want to do in the time left for this year? 196 days. 

When it's tough and you feel alone. Full benefit . Thank you Teddy Mitrosilis for this.  Navy SEALs have a saying. When something sucks, they say: "Full benefit." Instant mindset shift. • Hiking + it pours rain? Full benefit. • Lose a draft of a project? Full benefit. • Driving + car breaks down? Full benefit. Adversity makes us better if we let it. — Teddy Mitrosilis (@TMitrosilis) May 29, 2022

Isn't it Sunday?  Why is she in a meeting on a weekend?  S he must be a really busy businesswoman.  That's what I thought when my tutee's mom texted me to tell me she won't be able to speak to me before the lesson today. Only after I was on the way home did I realise. It's not a Sunday, it's Tuesday. When you love your job ( I know, controversial ), everyday feels like a weekend.  I haven't felt this much joy and eagerness for life.  (Don't get me wrong) I'm always excited for my life.  I find little pockets of time to be grateful. When I'm on the way home, when I'm on my jogs, I'm thankful I get to choose what I want to do with my time.  9-5? I've done it once more than 10 years ago. The question that got me out.   Is this what you want to do for the rest of your life? Every. Single. Day. Is this what you want to do for the rest of your life? No.  But I didn't know what to do for a while. But quietly, I hear her whisper.  Is this...

So many things to do but I'm always choosing the easy tasks. Are you the same? Thank goodness I put copywriting in my Manifest the Day time block schedule. And I studied for a total of an hour and a half.  Then the whole schedule was gone to waste.  Doing the hard things is difficult. It's no surprise not many get to do them right? Like climbing 14 Peaks like Nirmal Purja . Or going Free Solo on El Capitan like Alex Honnold . These men inspire me so much. What happened to the dreams of doing a marathon at 30? I don't want to reveal my age. So many of my dreams... are still dreams. I've been postponing the stuff I want to do.  Travel the world, or at least a month away alone. Work out every single day for the next 365 days. Skydive, climb the mountains of different continents. Are they still dreams I want to accomplish? What dreams have you been putting off? Are they still your dreams? What dreams have you achieved? What dreams are you the proudest of? Share them wi...

My father.  He taught me how to solve my own problems.  When I was in primary school, I remember going to him with Math problems I did not know how to solve. What did he do? He took a long look at it and asked me for the textbook. When I brought it to him, he asked me to search for the answers myself.  He said the answer must be in there, somewhere. Growing up, our house was a constant work in progress.  Things needed fixing. Like I believe all houses do. When he fixed a light bulb, he got me to hold the ladder. Trim the wires for a faulty power cord, I was asked to watch. The roof needed fixing, I was his assistant tasked to pass him all the tools he needed.  He once demonstrated how to suck out the gunk from the AC pipe.  Mom stopped him before he could ask if we wanted to try. He let us squat at the back of the lorry while he drove around the neighbourhood. Then, it was just me and my sister.  Mind you, we were still in our diapers. He dabbled into ...

It's difficult to do the difficult things. But it's more difficult when you look back a year from now and know that you haven't achieved all that you want to achieve because you chose to do the easy things. - Brienne, 2 March 2023

No one is going to push you to write everyday, to take steps towards your dreams.  No one, except you. What would you like to achieve in 5 years time? Can we push to achieve it in a year?  How can we maximise the time we have? How can we achieve more with what we have? What is our unfair advantage?  What can you gift yourself right now to achieve more tomorrow? The gift of discipline. Of sleeping early and getting up early at the same time everyday. Of writing and publishing every single day. Of improving yourself, making progress. Reading, every single day. The start of the month is a good time to start over. Set new habits. Make new goals.  Go get it, rockstar! Love, Brienne, 1 April 2022, 9.54 p.m.