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Do these six things every day and you will find it hard to fall short of your dreams

Alex Mathers
3 min readJul 2, 2024

The economy sucks, people are dicks, and life is hard.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t live the life you really want.

1. Remind yourself frequently of where you want to go.

Many commit themselves to things they think they ‘should’ do but then burn out because it doesn’t allow for growth or expression in the long run.

Often the more ‘outlandish’ a goal the better because so few normies are focused here, and it’s more exciting for you.

Focus on what you would love to make happen, expect it to be occasionally hard, and keep an eye on this vision daily.

I often re-write my goals daily to maintain my vision in my head.

2. Stay with ONE thing and stop stopping.

As you embark on your journey, you’ll see many people quitting and falling off to the side. Not you.

It’s never been easier to find excuses to try something new, shiny, and different.

Stay with the thing you chose, evolving or pivoting if it’s a must, but maintain momentum in less at the very least.

3. Use feedback to continually tweak, adapt and improve.

Those who go far are acutely aware of how their work is being received objectively.

Share what you create and then gather the data.

Adapt the process to what works. All is uncertain, but the results speak loudly. So take note of the things that are working for you.

This is the gold. Do more of what works, and you will have the closest thing you will get to a shortcut.

4. Exercise your brainstorming muscle.

Very little in your life and process does not benefit from sitting down for ten minutes and writing or sketching solutions to particular problems.

Ask yourself: ‘What’s one thing I can do to simplify my system today?’

Then brainstorm a list of potential solutions. Excavating in the deeper tunnels of…

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