[bluerooibos]

All you need to do is go to sleep before 12 every single night and wake up at 7am without fail, hit the gym and crank out a few sets of squats, hit the pool and the sauna, read a chapter of that book, and then cook yourself an amazing breakfast, all before 9am.

If you're a real go-getter, though, you'd wake up at 6am and do some vibe coding for an hour on that side hustle.

Super simple.

[recursive]

This but unironically. I don't post on LinkedIn or anything. But sometimes it seems like all the agonizing people sometimes do over whether or not they should follow their plan (fitness, diet, productivity) makes it ten times worse.

It can be possible to decide to do something in advance, and then... just do it. The more times you do it the easier it gets. My wife comments on this sometimes. I guess not everyone has this? Maybe it can be learned? I don't know.

[paulryanrogers]

The list of things I must do is large and growing. Much of it outside my control. Yes, I could sell the house but rent is quite high. Yes, I could divorce the wife but that actually makes for more work. Yes, I could abandon the children but I've grown attached; and that's only legal after finding someone else willing to adopt them and a judge willing to approve it. Yes, I could deny any help with the elderly parents on both sides of the family but that seems extreme and carries a social cost. Yes, I could spend a few decades trying to cure the medical issues I've collected but that leaves little time for anything mentioned earlier.

Then there are the things I'd like to do.

[tdeck]

Don't forget to spend a few minutes journalling self-affirmations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

[Forgeties79]

Was waiting for this to come up lol

[roguechimpanzee]

I know you’re being smart but these things are all possible if you want to make them happen

[andy99]

People would rather blame external factors and not take responsibility.

It’s actually insulting to people who work hard that some people assume they have it easy somehow, like the “must be nice” comment upstream. Not everyone takes the view that you can’t control what happens to you, it’s pretty easy to see who does.

[fastasucan]

No its not.

[chrisweekly]

"smart"? I'd say "sarcastic"

[jimnotgym]

Agreed, and then I just jump back in time two hours so that I can get to work on time, because that is what successful people do.

[BoneShard]

and not have any kids.

[jjulius]

Nah, you can do it with kids! I have two that are about to be 4 and 6, here are my weekdays:

- Alarm at 4:30. 5 mins of breathing exercises, 20 mins of meditation.

- Make coffee, have breakfast, out the door to work by ~5:30.

- Get to work's gym by 5:45, cardio for 60 mins.

- In my office by 7:00-7:15.

- 3:30, 25 mins of breathe work and meditation again. Tuesdays and Thursdays, this is 3:15 so I can fit in ~30 mins of strength training.

- Head on out, pick up my youngest from school, home by ~4:15-4:30-ish. Ballpark depending on traffic, actual gym times, etc.

- Cook dinner (kiddos often like to help), eat with family, hang out with and play with my kiddos until 7:00PM.

- Kiddo bath and bed time, wife and I take turns doing this every night. Whether I'm "done" at 7 or 8, it only takes me ~30 mins to shower and prep my shit (clothes, lunch, etc.) for the next day.

- Leaves me with ~1-2 hours each night to hang out, read a book, and enjoy my wife's company before heading to bed at ~9:30.

It's busy, but I don't feel like I'm overstretched and I don't feel like it leaves me missing out on anything.

[djeastm]

Organized people have kids, too.