Officially off from everything this month. MS4 is awesome. I actually haven’t been doing anything since October, but no one needs to know that. I’m going on a Carnival cruise with my parents tomorrow! They have never gone on any vacations or trips so this should be good for them. We’re leaving from Long Beach tomorrow at noon and the cruise is going to Ensenada. I’ve never been on a cruise before so I’m pretty excited. I get to eat and gamble all day! Woohoo! Speaking of gambling. I’ve been playing daily fantasy basketball on FanDuel and DraftKings. It’s super addicting and super fun. Brings me back to my poker days where I made/lost some money every day haha. I’ll probably just play a bunch this month and then stop when rotations start up again in January.
I’ve been listening to the book, “The subtle art of not giving a fuck” by Mark Manson and one piece of advice that I am taking action of in this post is to “do something.” I’ve always believed I was a poor writer which probably made it a reality. Now my only goal right now is to write more. I just need to write every day. It doesn’t matter to me what I write about or how good or bad it reads, my goal is just to get words down on the page and that should not be too hard to accomplish. I realized I have been reading a lot of self-help books lately. Some have good information and some don’t but I enjoy reading other people’s opinions and incorporating what I think is important and useful. This current book is saying that how one views successes or failures are based on one’s own values and what one finds important. If one has shallow goals such as wanting to buy a house or be rich, they won’t be happy after they accomplish these goals because… then what? If someone has a goal of making everyone like him/her, then there is so much anxiety in what other people think about him/her. Why should one’s success/failure be entirely based on others? So the point is to pick a better value. So if my value was to be honest to everyone, then that is all on me. It is my responsibility to be honest and it is entirely in my control. He also has a lot of points about not being afraid to fail, about everyone having problems so you should choose good problems to have, and to accept our imperfections and not to have preconceived thoughts of who one is. One main thing the book was about is to take responsibility.
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