Everybody be like, "Now I have time for that project of mine"
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The first week all I could see was total despair and my dreams crashing. I became self-aware on everything about myself, physical and mental. My body hurt in different places on different days. My ever-existing depression was heightened. I couldn't sleep at night without taking a Xanax.
3 weeks is over. I am now readjusting expectations, changing perspective, making daily financial forecasts (as gloomy as it may sound this is helping me cope with my current situation and feel better)
Things I stopped doing:
- checking currency rates
- immersing myself in corona news
- reading other people write about corona
- worrying about the future
Things I am doing instead:
- not spending my money on unneeded things
- following essential info about corona on official channels
- reading non-fiction books to help re-strategise my life and cope with the now
- making the most out of today by working on my business’ market position and job hunting
I downloaded WOW back the other day, and successfully refrained myself from re-subbing. I am a proud gamer. Instead I carry on with my brief evening online gaming session playing Destiny 2. Surprisingly playing Destiny just before bed time makes me like jello. So here is my secret healthy alternative for my nocturnal mistress Xanax.
This is the book I recommended THE MOST in my life. Can't think of a better time to read it.
Here's the book description on Amazon:
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.If the competition threatens you, it's time to be fearless, to display your courage. An impossible deadline becomes a chance to show how dedicated you are. And as Ryan discovered as Director of Marketing for American Apparel, if your brand is generating controversy - it's also potentially generating publicity.The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped its users become world-beaters.
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