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Couldn’t agree more. I have already made these exact 3 items my focus since last 2 years when I came across naval ravikant. (Credit where credit is due: he had

Couldn’t agree more. I have already made these exact 3 items my focus since last 2 years when I came across naval ravikant. (Credit where credit is due: he had distilled this pretty well I thought (if curious google his blog post “startup boy life formula”) I find it’s quite hard to narrow the focus to activities that truly fall in these three buckets as anything could technically fit in one of these, generally speaking. I keep trying though and put myself back on the focus path when I find myself veering off.. any tips to stay focused are welcome. On a side note I had reduced item 2 in your list to just “relationships”.

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It's really not that hard for me. Health - I use to be a part time fitness instructor up until my mid 30s when I got married. I saw first hand the difference between people who let their bodies get in disrepair from years of neglect and people who were running and teaching dynamic classes in their mid 50s and people who are still running in their mid 60s. I turned one of our spare bedrooms into a gym that I use regularly. Family. My wife and I are both on our second marriages. We both know how emotional devastating divorce is. In some cases it happens because only one person is willing to put in the work, in others it's because the couple doesn't make a conscientious effort to put each other first. We both make an effort to raise a red flag when outside obligations are interfering with our time and keep us from investing in our relationship. Career. I've also seen first hand older developers who got comfortable, got blindsided by a layoff and had trouble getting a job because they didn't keep themselves marketable. That happened to me at 34. I stayed at a job for 9 years, stop learning after two and my skill set was woefully out of date. I studied for six months, took what was an entry level job after being in the industry for 12 years and aggressively learned and job hopped for the next nine.
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scarface74 8y ago

It's really not that hard for me. Health - I use to be a part time fitness instructor up until my mid 30s when I got married. I saw first hand the difference between people who let their bodies get in disrepair from years of neglect and people who were running and teaching dynamic classes in their mid 50s and people who are still running in their mid 60s. I turned one of our spare bedrooms into a gym that I use regularly. Family. My wife and I are both on our second marriages. We both know how emotional devastating divorce is. In some cases it happens because only one person is willing to put in the work, in others it's because the couple doesn't make a conscientious effort to put each other first. We both make an effort to raise a red flag when outside obligations are interfering with our time and keep us from investing in our relationship. Career. I've also seen first hand older developers who got comfortable, got blindsided by a layoff and had trouble getting a job because they didn't keep themselves marketable. That happened to me at 34. I stayed at a job for 9 years, stop learning after two and my skill set was woefully out of date. I studied for six months, took what was an entry level job after being in the industry for 12 years and aggressively learned and job hopped for the next nine.

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