A running thread of inconvenient truths I don't want to forget:
No one cares what you do, they care what you can do for them.
If you spent half as many hours taking action as you did optimizing your note-taking system, you would be in a better spot.
You are smarter and have better ideas than many successful people. They are simply executing better than you.
Success comes from doing somewhat-monotonous things every day for years.
You can solve almost every modern-day problem with writing, exercise, sunshine, and meditation.
If you are reading productivity blogs, you are working on the wrong project.
You can't deposit the number of books you've read in a bank account.
You said you would start months ago.
You have three finite resources: time, energy, and attention. Every time you waste them, they're gone forever.
You can complain about the game or you can learn the rules.
The market rewards not the best product, but the product who best position themselves as the obvious solution.
If you're afraid to publish things online, you have an ego problem.
The people you look up to are not that special and are no more talented than you are.
If you did everything you said you'd do, your results would be 10x better than they are.
99% of people would rather be uncomfortable and unhappy than uncertain.
Being "busy" is a sign you lack leverage and are delegating poorly.
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