Priorities
I must get my priorities sorted.
I have just started a small business selling products. I have the products in my house ready to sell, I have the website up and I am waking up on Saturday morning to get stoned and play a very niche form of World of Warcraft. Instead of implementing ways for my business to succeed I am thinking about which professions and build I’m going to level my character with.
Again, I can put this down to weed. I fell into the absolute classic trap of being clean for 30-ish days and then the thought pops in your head that you can utilize weed for some new creative perspective on the current project of the day. The first day and perhaps the second you get a strong rush of inspiration and a boost of productivity, then the feeling of fleeting enthusiasm and finally switching focus almost entirely to video games and weed.
My much younger brother has decided to quit World of Warcraft to focus on real life. I said I’m in too, and then the next day I had reinstalled it.
This got me thinking about the importance of the word you keep to yourself. It’s so easy for me to give up on anything since I’ve done it so many times in the past. I have an archive of evidence to support the case that I am most likely going to not follow through with most things I say. This is why it’s important when you’re young to prove to yourself that your word is important and protect that threshold.
What can build back that threshold though? Is there anything in the world that can make me really deliver on what I say, which is again most of the times what I truly want? There was the period in 2023 where I felt like I figured it out but now since dropping that, it seems like there is no way back. If I dropped that, how I pick it up and run with it again…
I always find myself Googling or asking AI things like “What book changes your life?“. I think this is might be to do with the kick off 2023 period was reading Stoic literature that inspired me so much. The focus on discipline.
Perhaps that’s all I need to be focussed on, being focussed.
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