Quotes
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” — David Allen.
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
"Around me, everyone wins" - Teronie J. Donaldson (Yep that's me cool right?)
Notes/Observations
The secret to your success lies within your habits - pay close attention to what you love to do and build your life around it.
Articles
Watched
Jack Reacher
A nice change of pace - a cool series.
Strategy
Set up a block of time for your productivity daily.
Simple and effective.
I got this from the Productivity course I took called Momentum Breakthrough by Awodeji Awosika. He mentioned making sure your time blocks are non-negotiable. That is what I have been using to create lots of new content.
Book of the Week
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Greenlights is the captivating autobiography of Matthew McConaughey in which he takes us on a wild ride of his journey through a childhood of tough love, rising to fame and success in Hollywood.
When he turned 50 years old, actor and producer Matthew McConaughey took his 35 years' worth of personal journals, headed to the desert, and went through them to see what kind of person he had become. “Greenlights” is the result of this taking stock, and while McConaughey focuses on his own life and experiences in it, he hopes that the book will be helpful to others as well. He calls it an “approach book,” a way of seeing reality.
What are greenlights?
McConaughey believes that to be happy in life, it is necessary to get comfortable with the inevitable. There is only one inevitability in life, and that is death. Death is the eulogy of life. Life is the only way to the inevitable: it is our résumé, the way we chose to live it.
We all have greenlights in life that tells us to advance or proceed. They can come in the form of encouragement, approvals, or gifts and are the kind of moments that “say yes and give us what we want.” Sometimes, a greenlight is disguised as a red or yellow light - signaling times in life when we are forced to stop and consider. But over time, these lights can turn into greenlights as well. Going through suffering often teaches us a lesson and gives us what we need. McConaughey says you can also learn to catch more greenlights in your life, it’s about timing and skill. You can plan your life to avoid red lights and catch more greenlights, and you can even create them for yourself.
Question
People say life is short. Why do you do so many things you don’t like, and like so many things you don’t do?