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Monday, January 18, 2021

If You Do What is Easy, Your Life Will be Hard. If You Do What is Hard, Your Life Will be Easy

 If You Do What is Easy, Your Life Will be Hard.  If You Do What is Hard, Your Life Will be Easy

πŸ“•Hey dude, do you want to re-echo what Sponge Bob is boasting ?  That he's able to leverage on that alarm's snooze button 17 times ?  Whew !  I hope no one listens to this crap because seriously, this is NOT the way to start off your day.  Over and over again, even the Business Insider [https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-to-wake-up-early-2019-5#youll-improve-your-overall-quality-of-sleep-5] and BBC [https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190213-is-waking-up-early-good-or-bad] all scream the upside of waking up early as opposed to hueing the detestable habits of Sponge Bob.  

Further testament comes from Harvard Business Review [https://hbr.org/2010/07/defend-your-research-the-early-bird-really-does-get-the-worm].  This decade-old study attests that generally, our performance really peaks in the morning [those 'top performers' during the night shift are stories that are few and far in between].  But hold on, what's the fuss ?  Are we making a mountain out of a molehill ?  No sirs, this is no petty matter.  And lend me your ear for now.  The average millionaire wakes up at 4am.  Oooops are you about to protest, that you are not on the same league with those millionaires ?  Hence, do you wanna lazy up till your phone's battery conks out ?  That's pity of you.
Take it as gospel truth [even from https://yourstory.com/2017/04/benefits-of-rising-early?utm_pageloadtype=scroll].  "That very first hour of your day and how you spend it often sets the tone for the rest of the day and your life".  This can never be farther from the truth.  Just last Friday [January 15th], myself, my wife and my daughter did accomplish 3 tasks which we planned for that day, tasks which were no petty tasks [e.g. passport renewal, payment/settlement of real estate property taxes and even a well deserved 'make over' for my queen N princess at David's Salon !  If we didn't rise up that early, I don't think we could have accomplished that much.
But do note, when you set the tone, it could dictate the tempo, the tone for the rest of your life.  Bluntly, your trajectory can just either be north-bound or it goes down south, deep south.

Oh, excuses ?  Hands-down we're SMEs [Subject Matter Expert] on that, we never run out of tricks and cards from our sleeves when it comes to excuses, alibis and that deceitful easy way out.  When we become culpable, it becomes palpable that we want an easy way out.  And a thousand times you would blame everything that transpired the day before.  Oh, I had a grueling, tough day yesterday.  Oh, we had a marathon meeting with client.  Oh, I drove through a horrendous traffic gridlock in the metro.  But hold on.  Don't you want the best life on your own terms ?  Then, you gotta pay your dues to get there.  You gotta awaken the beast and the best inside you.  You have to decide not allowing the abyss to determine what you become.  Bluntly, that bed where you need to rise up can is a microcosm of your entire life.  STOP hitting that alarm's snooze button.  STOP finding an easy way out.  STOP putting off things for tomorrow.  You gotta live in the moment.  And that moment is today, as in today.
And do you want to remain a member of that 'snooze button crowd' ?  On their way to work, they already felt drained and drowned ?  And energy all zapped at SOD [start of day] ?  We hate to be part of that 'snooze button crowd', right ?  And early in the day, DON'T prepare yourself with that baloney, that volume of work caused you to be drained and drowned [again ?].  DON'T setup yourself to fail.  DON'T be the very architect of your failure.  Start and sniff your day with passion and with purpose no less.  And those are non-negotiable terms for you.πŸ“•

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