Life hacks. Tactics. Pro tips for stealing small, incremental improvements to your life…
Make your bed.
Organize your desk.
Drink eight glasses of water a day.
Who. Fucking. Cares?
Seriously, are these truly going to make your life better? Are you going to look back from your death bed and say, “you know, I wish I would have drunk so much goddamn water that I needed to piss 47 times every day?”
Fuck no.
You’ll wish you had helped more people. You’ll wish you had doubled down on a promising opportunity. You’ll wish you had paid more attention to the extraordinarily marvelous world of sights and sounds and tastes and people around you instead of spending so much time with selfish assholes who handed you their problems instead of challenging you to be a better version of yourself.
Maybe someone once unearthed some magical piece of advice that solved all their problems at some point in their life.
Maybe they discovered some tactic that iced their proverbial cake.
Maybe they found some life hack that pushed them the few feet they needed to reach the summit.
Whatever it is, these hacks and tactics and tips are never the full answer. Most of the time they aren’t even a part of the answer.
That tactic that iced someone’s cake? They probably didn’t tell you their cake was made with the blood and sweat and tears of struggle that they’d rather forget (and couldn’t teach you if they tried).
That life hack that helped someone reach the summit? They probably didn’t tell you they’d already scaled most of the mountain with good old fashion hard work.
Hell, for all you know, the latest pro tip could be some Instagram fucktard trying to make a buck repeating bullshit from the latest self-help book they read–one with no scientific backing because it was written by another fucktard who was trying only to promote their business.
Let’s get back to focusing on what matters.
