I had goosebumps when I heard my friend talk about how things in his life are starting to fall in place. I felt a dose of inspiration to “get after it”. 

Such is the power of surrounding yourself with people who has the same drive as you in life. You feed off of each other’s success. I’m talking about the ones who successfully managed rock-bottom and committed to rebuilding themselves from the ground-up.

He reminded me of that same drive I felt when I promised myself “I’m going to be fuckin better than this…”. Here’s the online conversation we had related to this [watch here].

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The effect goes both ways, positive or negative. I also felt sad for a friend when I heard about how corporate restructuring affected her employment. It reminded me of the time it happened to me. If I had to do it all over again, I’d be more “stoic” about it. I wrote about it. Here’s the draft [read here].

The article is now submitted to one of the biggest publications on Medium. Now I’m waiting for the rejection letter lol.

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I need to start setting boundaries for my writing time. What feels like 15-minutes actually takes an hour. 

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The year is almost ending. Now I’m looking into setting my goals for 2021.

Goal setting is more than just writing a to-do list on a piece of paper. I do this every year. I almost always never reach it. But that’s ok because those goals are vague and are probably borderline unrealistic.

It’s going to be an on-going experiment.

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We are going to try meal-prepping ahead of time again. I was able to pump out 4 dishes in a span of 2.5-hrs.

Is it going to be good? The answer to that is subjective. But I would suggest you eat only when you’re super hungry. That makes any food somewhat taste like a 1-star Michelin dish.

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A credit limit increase was granted to lower our interest rate. Money management is not fun when you’re income is limited. It’s kind of like trying to lose extra 3-lbs of weight when you already lost 15-lbs.

You have to do more than what you’re already doing. Otherwise, you’ll be stuck there forever. #LawOfDiminishingReturns.

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I need to do a lot of planning and dreaming and goal setting. This why I’m thankful for my friend’s success. I needed that drive to figure out how I plan to create a better version of myself next year.