Graduation From Meditation
I’ve reached a point where I’ve successfully added meditation to my early morning routine.
The whole point of this weekly post is to track whether or not I’m following through with my goals.
Meditation was part of that “craft your perfect morning routine” I wanna consistently follow. Why? Help me “win” the day.
I don’t complain about Mondays like I used to. I don’t look forward to the weekend either. Every day is a day I can use to help me become better at doing the “basics”. Why?
The positive “feelings” you get from doing the basics (ie. good sleep, coffee, read, meditation, reading, cold shower, and breakfast ) will carry itself out throughout your day. Regardless of how happy or stressful your day is (especially when things are stressful, you’re in a much better shape of dealing with whatever that problem is).
While I pat myself on the back for adding meditation to my routine, I failed at…
Exercising for 2-minutes
I would do jumping jacks, squats and push-ups to wake my body up. But that’s as far as it gets.
I tried to add more sets to it but I wasn’t able to follow through.
This tells me that exercising (working out) is not a priority for me (at the moment). I care about my physical health a lot but the actions and decisions I’ve taken for the past 3 months do not fully support that.
Perhaps I should start with getting a high quality 7 to 8-hr sleep?
Or maybe dig a littler deeper: do not look at my phone 30-mins before sleeping.
Failing to follow through could be a sign of a deeper problem.
I’m logging this in to remind myself to “know when to quit”.
If you’ve been doing something for a period of time but you’re not progressing, are you going to keep pushing through?
You convince yourself “hard work pays off” and you do the exact same thing over and over and over again with much much greater effort, but you’re still not progressing.
Shouldn’t that be a signal to ask yourself: maybe it’s time to quit?
It took me a while to learn that and it came with a great cost.
Persistence mixed with stupidity can take you farther away from your real goal.
Back to “Entrepreneurship”
I wanna get back to finding my Purple Cow to help me with my goal of making money on the side.
Last time, I explored copywriting. I read books about it and I’ve been writing consistently to apply its rules (rules that I only remember though lol).
I’ve also been consistent with releasing new artwork every week. This was to push me to improve my (MS Paint) drawing (with mouse) skills.
In the next few months, I’m going to focus on “promotion” and writing.
Speaking of promotion, I wanted explore and address the question: “What if social media is not the best platform to promote my work?”
I hesitate to talk openly about this because I haven’t made any money yet.
To most people, money is a metric of success. But I had to reframe things to keep myself going.
If I stuck with money as a metric of success then I’d lose my passion or desire of having a side income.
I once heard from one of the famous online entrepreneurs (I think it was Pat Flynn) I follow:
The goal of entrepreneurship is to help others FIRST.
The money is second. The amount of money you make is just a representation of how much help you’ve given others.
So far I’ve made $0.00 which tells me I haven’t really helped anybody…yet 😀
P.S. If I helped you or at least made you question your views (of pretty much on anything), please let me know by sending me a private message. Thank you.