This one is simple. When your values are clashing, you get stuck.Let’s say you value success (business, sports, girls, whatever). And you also value comfort.Success needs determination, hard work and sacrifice. So the opposite of comfort.Each day you are faced with numerous questions.Wake up early?Go to the gym?Make the sales call?Party on a Friday?The problem … [Read more...]
Why do we punish our body as a reward?
I woke up in Tenerife, a Canary Island gem and frankly a paradise in the Atlantic ocean… but with a terrible numbing headache, and at 7.30am.So why am I in Tenerife, what’s up with the crazy headache (no, I’m not sick), and why I’m writing all this? Let’s backtrack a little.I had an amazing evening yesterday. Chilled with a special girl, had sisha and a few drinks, a … [Read more...]
I got mint shisha with my friend Eri last night after a very long work day.
I wanted to have a chill night because I knew I’d have to put in a few more hours in the morning...I came home at 2.30am, feeling relaxed and pretty much ready to fall in the bed and sleep like a baby. And then I remembered - fuck, I still need to do the core exercises, as well as the weekly report for one of my clients.For a short moment, I hated myself.“I’m tired, … [Read more...]
The Dark Years
There’s a concept that many self-made men call “the dark years.” I think I’m getting the first-hand experience of what that means...It was a rough day yesterday. Started at 6 am and finished at midnight, I was literally giving email-direction till 11.57pm. I felt drained, and frustrated, and pissed off.If that “son of a *****” client could have their ***** together, … [Read more...]
Crushing your reality and an early X-mas gift
I’ve recently returned from a reality-crushing week in Tenerife that made me realize a peculiar secret...Canary islands could indeed be a little piece of paradise.Where most of the world known to me is covered in snow and dark, I got to swim and sunbathe on 23 degrees.Instead of waking up to an alarm, I got to do my own schedule. I got to combine hanging out with an … [Read more...]