⏱️ The Best Minute: The BEST strategy for growth
💡 1 IDEA FROM ME
Whenever you are looking for the optimal plan or strategy, remember: nothing beats getting started.
No matter in what area you are trying to improve or new habit you want to create, theoretical knowledge can’t beat practical understanding.
When I started to learn how to cook, YouTube videos could only do so much; I learned more once I started cooking
When I started preaching, books and recourses could only do so much; I learned more once I started preaching
When I started making tea in the mornings; I learned the most once I started experimenting with what I liked
Typically, you’ll never feel fully ready to start. And that’s because you aren’t. The best teacher is practice. Small improvements over time only happen while you're doing it.
You’re not going to fully optimize the workout routine until you put in the reps
You’re not going to understand how to make better graphics until you’ve made a lot of sub-par designs
You’re not going to grill the perfect steak until you grill some you wouldn’t want anyone else to eat
Optimization takes practice. To improve in any area of desire, here are the two most important things to remember nothing beats getting started. And you can only improve if you keep with it.
So here’s the optimal plan of growth for any area of your life:
Get started and keep going. The results only follow if you do those two things.
💬 2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Jon Gordon on what failure can teach us:
“Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.”
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II. Arthur C. Brooks on how political discourse (and relatable to all life’s relationships) can be improved:
“We don’t have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.”
💯 1 THING I RECOMMEND
I don’t like coffee but recently have begun drinking tea in the morning and use this electric kettle. It boils water in about a minute, and you can set the water to stay at your desired temperature in the kettle for up to 2 hours. It’s a quick and easy way to make tea (or any other drink needing hot water like a French press).
🤯 1 INTERESTING FACT
George Washington was not the first face on the $1 bill.
The first face to appear on this currency was Salmon P. Chase. The first $1 bill was issued during the Civil War in 1862. Chase was the Secretary of Treasury at that time and was also the designer of the country's first bank notes.
Source: Best Life
🤔 1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
Are your obligations real or imagined?
P.S. Who decorated your tree?
