@Mr Wright Awesome feedback, thank you sir!
@LiveYourDream ****ing hell...what a post! Haha and yes I did read it all. Though, I'll need to reread it a couple times to fully get it. Thank you, that was so helpful. I hope it was also helpful and therapeutic for you to write that stream of consciousness. Again, thank you! I am curious, how do you know all this? I might assume that it's fairly obvious to you because you are indeed a woman. But then again, understanding one's own desires is sometimes the trickiest thing of all. I feel like I hardly understand people and myself sometimes, despite having a lot of pickup and related knowledge. So does this all come naturally to you, or do you have to really think about it, or maybe something else entirely? Because many of the points you make are very nuanced.
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Now I'd like to share something with you, one of my intellectual formula's for success. This came to me many years ago and applies to basically anything you're trying to accomplish. The explanation I give here is not very nuanced but I believe it's good food for thought for when you are trying to accomplish a task. I'll keep this brief. In order to be successful you must be/have 3 things: work ethic, organization, consistency.
Work Ethic
Being a hard worker is probably the most obvious requisite of success. Although many have become successful without working hard, many more have achieved success through hard work. Work ethic involves many things, which I will not go into here, but maybe the most important of them is strong focus -- such that you are able to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time. On a planar graph, high focus on the Y-axis coupled with a lot of time on the X-axis leads to a strong work ethic.
Organization
A strong work ethic, however, is nothing without organization. Organization is the key to bridging the gap between working hard and working smart. Ideally you want to work hard, but no harder than you have to. This is called working smart, and it allows you to be extremely efficient. Organization is probably my favorite piece of this equation because it goes hand in hand with planning. Creating schedules, graphs, checks and balance, and motivations and punishments are all parts of being organized.
Consistency
The most important part in attaining success (assuming minimal initial luck and a big goal) is consistency -- without it, the first two variables do not matter. It's a rather simple concept really, and says that you can work hard, even smart via massive organization, but that if can't do it for a long time then you will fail. The question of
how to be consistent is the real trick. I have some ideas, but I'm honestly not too sure. I'll get into the deeper parts of this later, if you're interested.
And there you go! I'm not sure why I shared this, but I hope it is of some value to you. I suppose I was just thinking that with pickup right now I'm lacking most in my work ethic and consistency. In terms of work ethic I just need to be going harder and more intense when I'm out. I'm confident that I'll get out enough now, at least 7 hours per day, but I just need to make more of my time. And consistency has been a real frustration, mostly because I haven't been following my schedule as well as I would like. I suppose it's mostly because I created my schedule about a week ago, and then caught a 4 day bed-ridden sickness. So I haven't actually had a chance to follow it haha. There's no logical reason to be upset at myself, but still, I want to follow it perfectly.
Anyways, I'm out.
Talk to you soon,
Alex