09/07/2024
I turned 31 this weekend, these are the top 10 lessons I learnt this year.
1. Value your time.
There's a lot of things competing for your time and when it’s gone, it’s gone. Be the captain of your own ship and control where your time and energy goes.
2. Work smarter, not harder is a stupid phrase.
You can work smarter AND work harder. It doesn’t have to be one of the other and I’m sure that phrase is only there to give people an excuse to be lazy.
3. Age CAN BE just a number.
If you train right, eat right, and recover right, you can and will outperform people younger than you.
4. Life’s a joke, or at least it should be.
You should be laughing every day. Don’t take yourself too seriously, don’t take life too seriously.
5. You’ll learn more from the bad than the good.
I’ve learnt a lot this year. Most of the things I’ve learnt have come from “failures”. It sounds cliché, but a failure is only really a failure if you don’t learn from it.
6. If you want to do something, do it NOW!
Putting things off or waiting for the right time is almost always just you trying to attach logic to a fear you have. If you want something, you have to go for it. Success lies on the other side of fear.
7. Look after your body and it will look after you.
A couple of hours per week in the gym and some good food, or a couple of hours per week in the hospital and medication. The choice is up to you.
8. Putting yourself first isn’t selfish.
You can’t pour from an empty glass. Look after yourself first, you’ll have much more to give to the people you care about.
9. You know experts in so many fields. Use them.
Asking for help is something I'm notoriously bad at but it’s helped me so much. Stop trying to do the job of a mechanic, a painter, a PT, a builder, and god knows what else. You know people who know more than you. It’s okay to ask them for help.
10. Good things come to those who wait.
I’ve been lucky enough to meet a lot of successful people this year, and the one common trend is they kept going when other people would have given up. You can see a lot of success by simply keeping on going!
#31