I sat down here today and thought to myself, if you wrote to yourself what would you say?
“Keep going.”
There are hard things to do and if you choose hard things you must do them full on.
And keep going.
So many of us live this way.
Full on
All my clients are full on. Many jobs are full on.
You’re always on. It demands a lot of you and you’re giving a lot.
It’s a hard way to play but for founders and top executives how you must play.
Work hours and travel are a lot and demand the best you’ve got.
You can never just show up, you must play full on.
Keep playing
Writing a letter to myself I’m reminding how fun and simple it has become!
It’s like after studying 4 years of finance and writing a thesis on option pricing I graduated to the most basic stuff like formatting charts at Goldman Sachs.
You learn a lot to keep it simple and it is the same in everything I do.
Way back in 2000 I walked into Borders on Market Street in San Francisco over to self-help and thought who the heck goes over here.
From here it just got so complicated with thousands of books and thousands pages of writing and tens of thousands hours training.
Simple
“You have no idea how clear and simple this will become,” I write to my past self.
Like all those decades of reading and teachers and teachings and mind training and hypnosis and everything else I learned it all became so simple.
This is key to everything.
Doesn’t matter what you know, what matters is exactly how you do it.
Like weight loss it must be simple because doing is the hard part.
Train
A memory I use to train doing hard things is me learning to spin a pen around my thumb in university.
Like a baby learning to walk it took me years to do this well and I dropped a lot of pens.
It was a silly thing but same with hard things I’m doing in the world and mind.
I know how to do it, I’ve trained it for years, really decades.
But I’m still only at 77%, so I keep training.
Keep going
Keep going.
This is my point to you and myself here.
Whatever hard thing you’re doing, keep going.
In a letter to yourself you might remember how far this has brought you.
Keep going, get it done.