⏱️ Luck only works at the start

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I. At the start, a lot of success can mostly come down to luck.

You talked to the right person. Watched the right YouTube video. Happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Where you end up, however, mostly depends on the choices you make.

Did you stick with it? Did you create sustainable habits and rhythms that helped you grow and improve? Did you keep putting yourself out there and prepare yourself for opportunities?

Anyone can be lucky in the beginning. But being “lucky” in the end comes down to your choices.

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II. We like to wait until tomorrow because it makes today easier.

The problem is, making the change, doing the thing, or putting in the effort starting tomorrow will actually be more difficult than if you did it today.

The longer you continue in your current habits and practices, the harder they will be to break.

Today, in fact, may be the best chance you have to take action.

The longer you wait, the more comfortable you become, and the more reason you’ll have not to change.

Don’t wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow will be even harder than today.

I. Robert Louis Stevenson on reaping what we sow:

“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.”

II. Hunter S. Thompson on choosing your life":

“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that — no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.”

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

A book about facing and overcoming resistance, which can be applied to really any area of life. The book was a short, punchy read, broken up into three sections. I thought the first two sections were the best, and the third section drifted more into the philosophical and even spiritual dimensions of resistance and why we put things off.

That is where the book really took a nose dive for me. The author presents a sort of pantheistic worldview where God, or the gods, or angels, or the "muse" as he sometimes calls it, is out there waiting for us to connect with it to bring into the world what we were created to make.

It sounded very open-minded, but logically doesn't add up, so that was a big minus for me.

In some ways this could be a very helpful book (the first two sections anyway) to anyone who feels stuck. And with it being a short read, it's not much of a risk reading it.

For me overall, it was interesting but didn't do much for me.

6/10

I discuss the importance of showing up to inspire creativity, the significance of the creation story in Genesis, moral obligations towards refugees, and insights from the book 'The Familiar Stranger' about the Holy Spirit.

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P.S. The secret to everyone’s success: