Ten hours left in 2017. Seems like a good time to write. The ultimate question is: What do you want? When you get it, will you be happy? As you take your steps towards what you want, will you be happy? If you are unhappy, stressed and full of doubt, is it worth it? Not everything in Life is about being happy. In fact, many important aspects of Life are downright painful. Giving birth, I have observed, is very painful. So is Death, the majority of the time. Working out to be in shape, is usually painful. Eating green veggies instead of French Fries... So I think there are two types of unhappiness: 1) The type that comes from Challenge: climbing that mountain when every breath is a searing pain in your lungs 2) The type that comes from not climbing that mountain I actually judge people who come across as "Happy" all the f^cking time as inauthentic. Anything worth going for and achieving in Life is worth a few tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth. Few people are happy when they fail. Yet, without failure... Nine hours left in 2017. What do you want? What are you willing to do to get it? When the mountain looms so high and every breath an agony. The sweat floods out of your pores. Each step feels like your last. Will you continue? Most won't. That is your competitive edge. All you have to do is one thing really well. My problem is I try to do ten things really well. And usually those ten things last week are different things this week... The good news is you don't need 10,000 hours unless you want to be the All-Seeing Master in that topic. And there are topics where you will spend 10,000 hours and be that good. But most topics require twenty hours. The way we learn, if you devote 20 hours over 2 weeks to a topic/activity/skill, you won't be totally awesome (unless it fits in with your talents), but you will be competent and in most cases that's all you need. To be competent. In a world full on incompetence... Eight hours left in 2017. This is the time of year when I review the last 12 months and set goals for next year. I don't spend a lot of time on it. Write in the back of my paper calendar book. My goals range from Financial, Physical, Mental, Emotional to Spiritual. Last January, I wrote down 19 countries to visit in 2017. Three on my list I did not go to (yet). There are at least 7 countries I went to that I never even thought of going to. I wrote down 30 new Udemy courses. I only did 23 new one. Although I have one in review and 8 in production (recorded and waiting for the editing to be done). The thing is I never look at that list except at the end of the year. It is always a surprised the things on the list that got done that I never realized I wrote down. Seven hours left in 2017. What do you want? In every city, there are many routes to get where you want to go. In life, they are just as many ways to get what you want out of life. IF If you want something more than you have now... If you want to change the world... If you want to stop struggling... You have to do something BIG. A friend of mine is a drug addict. Since he was 11. Still is. I met him when he was clean 8 years. At 10 years clean we hiked up a mountain. It was cold. Droplets hung in the air, like suspended rain. You walked and got wet. The fog closed in. We had a destination. Just over that valley was the peak. It was a steep decline on wet rocks covered in moss. We never saw anyone in the entire 3 hours it took to get there. The world was closed in and gray. When we reached the peak, I let out a scream as loud as I could. YES! We made it. Ten minutes later, a dog came out of the fog onto the peak. Five minutes later, a woman appeared. Being Canadian, I started apologizing for making so much noise... LOL, it's so funny to think about it now. She said, 'No, no. I was alone in the fog and thinking about turning around, when I heard your shouts of joy and it inspired me to finish my hike at Second Peak.' Sometimes, yelling at the top of your voice on a desolate mountain peak surrounded by cold fog and drizzling rain is "Something Big". Six hours left in 2017. When you do "Something Big", when you aspire to do "Something Big", you attract people who want to be a part of it. No one wants to be a part of "Something Small". When you accomplish "Something Big", people want to know how you did it. They become your tribe/community. It makes life much easier. But that's because you already did all the Hard Stuff. Here is a Secret: after the 'tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth', life may get a lot easier. But you can't normally skip the 'tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth'... Five hours left in 2017. How are you going to spend them?

Ten hours left in 2017. Seems like a good time to write. The ultimate question is: What do you want? When you get it, will you be happy? As you take your steps towards what you want, will you be happy? If you are unhappy, stressed and full of doubt, is it worth it? Not everything in Life is about being happy. In fact, many important aspects of Life are downright painful. Giving birth, I have observed, is very painful. So is Death, the majority of the time. Working out to be in shape, is usually painful. Eating green veggies instead of French Fries... So I think there are two types of unhappiness: 1) The type that comes from Challenge: climbing that mountain when every breath is a searing pain in your lungs 2) The type that comes from not climbing that mountain I actually judge people who come across as "Happy" all the f^cking time as inauthentic. Anything worth going for and achieving in Life is worth a few tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth. Few people are happy when they fail. Yet, without failure... Nine hours left in 2017. What do you want? What are you willing to do to get it? When the mountain looms so high and every breath an agony. The sweat floods out of your pores. Each step feels like your last. Will you continue? Most won't. That is your competitive edge. All you have to do is one thing really well. My problem is I try to do ten things really well. And usually those ten things last week are different things this week... The good news is you don't need 10,000 hours unless you want to be the All-Seeing Master in that topic. And there are topics where you will spend 10,000 hours and be that good. But most topics require twenty hours. The way we learn, if you devote 20 hours over 2 weeks to a topic/activity/skill, you won't be totally awesome (unless it fits in with your talents), but you will be competent and in most cases that's all you need. To be competent. In a world full on incompetence... Eight hours left in 2017. This is the time of year when I review the last 12 months and set goals for next year. I don't spend a lot of time on it. Write in the back of my paper calendar book. My goals range from Financial, Physical, Mental, Emotional to Spiritual. Last January, I wrote down 19 countries to visit in 2017. Three on my list I did not go to (yet). There are at least 7 countries I went to that I never even thought of going to. I wrote down 30 new Udemy courses. I only did 23 new one. Although I have one in review and 8 in production (recorded and waiting for the editing to be done). The thing is I never look at that list except at the end of the year. It is always a surprised the things on the list that got done that I never realized I wrote down. Seven hours left in 2017. What do you want? In every city, there are many routes to get where you want to go. In life, they are just as many ways to get what you want out of life. IF If you want something more than you have now... If you want to change the world... If you want to stop struggling... You have to do something BIG. A friend of mine is a drug addict. Since he was 11. Still is. I met him when he was clean 8 years. At 10 years clean we hiked up a mountain. It was cold. Droplets hung in the air, like suspended rain. You walked and got wet. The fog closed in. We had a destination. Just over that valley was the peak. It was a steep decline on wet rocks covered in moss. We never saw anyone in the entire 3 hours it took to get there. The world was closed in and gray. When we reached the peak, I let out a scream as loud as I could. YES! We made it. Ten minutes later, a dog came out of the fog onto the peak. Five minutes later, a woman appeared. Being Canadian, I started apologizing for making so much noise... LOL, it's so funny to think about it now. She said, 'No, no. I was alone in the fog and thinking about turning around, when I heard your shouts of joy and it inspired me to finish my hike at Second Peak.' Sometimes, yelling at the top of your voice on a desolate mountain peak surrounded by cold fog and drizzling rain is "Something Big". Six hours left in 2017. When you do "Something Big", when you aspire to do "Something Big", you attract people who want to be a part of it. No one wants to be a part of "Something Small". When you accomplish "Something Big", people want to know how you did it. They become your tribe/community. It makes life much easier. But that's because you already did all the Hard Stuff. Here is a Secret: after the 'tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth', life may get a lot easier. But you can't normally skip the 'tears, frustration and gnashing of teeth'... Five hours left in 2017. How are you going to spend them?
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December 31, 2017 at 03:38AM
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