→ first, you want to get out of your parents’ basement,
→ Then you are living with roommates to work
→ Then you want to rest away from roommates
→ Then you’re driving on your commute to work
→ Then you want to get out of a commute
→ Then you are waking up to an alarm clock
→ Then you want to get away from an alarm clock
→ Then you are living a highly calendared and scheduled life
→ Then you want to get away from your calendar
→ Then, finally, you want to get over here from email AND TEXT MESSAGES
SO I’m SORT OF WORKING MY WAY THROUGH THIS RABBIT HOLE AND WHERE I currently am,
I have gotten rid of calendars and schedules
I am trying to get rid of emails all together
I now check email once every three days
I eventually want to get to the point where I never check my email and obviously this is a luxury but you can get there.
You just have to engineer your life towards it, and you have to be uncompromising.
You have to reject social obligations;
you have to reject meetings that are a waste of time.
You have to give up your FOMO.
You have to not be afraid to **disappoint people** and cut people out of life who aren’t comfortable with spontaneity and lack of schedules the email.
One’s going to be a little harder but there are sacrifices involved along every step of the way nothing is cost free.
But what do you get on the side you get your time back.
And **if you have your time** then you have spontaneity,
Which I would argue helps with the flourishing of joy in your life –
“You have creativity because you now have time to get bored and have time to think.”
You have
“proper prioritization, where now you are going to focus on what’s the most important thing”
As opposed to just what happens to be scheduled,
you are going to have productivity because you are going to work on things when you feel like them,
As opposed to when you are forced to grind through something when you don’t feel like it.
And you are going to say But wait off.
Can’t do this, I have a job…
And my answer is well – Change jobs, get a job where you are in control of your time,
You will say my extra time is worthless, I can’t earn more if I am working harder or working different hours,
Then I will say – Change your career to where you can.
Or you will say…But my family won’t tolerate it,
And I am like
– Retrain your family
– Change your friends
– Change your co-workers
– Disappoint people.
If you are not disappointing them,
If you are not leaving people behind,
You are not changing
And Changing is also growing, Growth involves change.
“If you want to operate at maximum productivity, efficiency, and creativity, you are going to work on things that you are excited about.”
And accept nothing less,
It is better to sit on your butt and do nothing than to work on things that you are not excited about.
Because now you are just grinding, and you are robbing yourself of the time that you need to have the good thoughts and the proper space to find what it is.
You are meant to work on and where you are meant to live, and who you are meant to be with.
I have been utterly ruthless about prioritizing my time and saying no to things.
I disappoint people every single day,
And I will continue to do so until I have complete control of my time back.
This note is from one of Naval Ravikant’s podcasts.
So what’s your hourly rate?