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All you need to do is go to sleep before 12 every single night and wake up at 7am without fail, hit the gym and crank out a few sets of squats, hit the pool and
by bluerooibos 9mo ago
All you need to do is go to sleep before 12 every single night and wake up at 7am without fail, hit the gym and crank out a few sets of squats, hit the pool and the sauna, read a chapter of that book, and then cook yourself an amazing breakfast, all before 9am.
If you're a real go-getter, though, you'd wake up at 6am and do some vibe coding for an hour on that side hustle.
Super simple.
- roguechimpanzee 9mo agoI know you’re being smart but these things are all possible if you want to make them happen
- andy99 9mo agoPeople would rather blame external factors and not take responsibility. It’s actually insulting to people who work hard that some people assume they have it easy somehow, like the “must be nice” comment upstream. Not everyone takes the view that you can’t control what happens to you, it’s pretty easy to see who does.
- davorak 9mo ago> People would rather blame external factors and not take responsibility. In my opinion the first step to taking responsibility is acknowledging reality. That reality can includes brains and bodies being different, sometimes extremely so. If someones brain or body is different but they deny it, stick their head in the sand, ignore it, then they are at a disadvantage when they try to take responsibility for something and may fail due to failing to acknowledging reality.
- roguechimpanzee 9mo agoYou can actually just choose to lock in. And you don't need a perfect streak. Waking up early, working out and eating a nutritious breakfast is a perfect morning for probably 90% of people but our society is so broken that being healthy is associated with being either a grifter or a fascist.
- shibapuppie 9mo agoYou can actually just choose to not be depressed too. Just skip the therapy and exercise altogether.
- doctaj 9mo agoPeople just don’t get the context >.>
- shibapuppie 9mo agoThey get the context plenty fine. You're just wrong.
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- Forgeties79 9mo agoGod I wish one could actually just choose to lock in.
- roguechimpanzee 9mo agoskill issue
- synecdoche 9mo agoNot everyone needs breakfast and still eat healthily. A longer fasting period is even an argument against it. But to each their own.
- blandflakes 9mo agoIt's also pretty insulting to assume that everything is equally easy for all people.
- nradov 9mo agoNo one is assuming that. Everyone has their burdens. But gradual improvement is always possible.
- Forgeties79 9mo agoYour prior comment makes it sound like you assume it’s generally just about willpower and that external factors aren’t generally an issue. Is that accurate?
- nradov 9mo agoNo, is generally about discipline and building good habits. Willpower or lack thereof is largely irrelevant. I'm not convinced that willpower is even a real thing.
- Forgeties79 9mo agoThis all just sounds like bootstraps by another name
- fastasucan 9mo agoDicipline and the ability to build good habits is out of the window for a lot of people due to different illnesses. You come across as trying to sell snake oil to people with a heart attack.
- nradov 9mo agoIf you try hard enough you can always find a plausible sounding excuse for failure. Discipline and good habits are the most effective way to prevent heart attacks in the first place. While there are a tiny fraction of people with serious mental health conditions or developmental disabilities which prevent them from making progress, that hardly applies to anyone on HN.
- jimnotgym 9mo agoI have to leave the house for work at 7am. I get back sometime between 6 and 8pm. When I get back I'm mentally and physically shot. I mean, yes I could get an easier job that pays less I suppose, lose the house etc.
- andy99 9mo agoYou should try doing 1/2 hour of exercise after you get back. It will make you feel way better, especially mentally.
- jimnotgym 9mo agoThat sounds like a good plan, thanks. It made me think an exercise bike right where I change from work, would make me remember to actually do it! Thanks again
- master-12 9mo agoI hope this will work for you. I wish you good luck.
- synecdoche 9mo agoEven better in my opinion and experience, exercise during lunch break, if possible. Being drained after work can feel like too high barrier to get started exercising.
- seec 9mo agoYour parents determine a lot of your trajectory. If they don't make the same investement in their kids as the average for the socioeconomic, you start with a heavy penalty. You can work hard, but you'll have to work twice as hard as everyone else. If you friends gets permit, cars, fully financed studies but you get thrown out to work straight out of high school what is the probability you would give to be able to accomplish the same things as your friends in a similar timeline. Sure you can work hard and you will get somewhere, but is that somewhere anywhere near what could be possible ? I would argue not. The left often argues about unfair advantage from famillies having money. In my experience it's not the having money part that is important, its the parent willing to invest it in their children. I know some people who accomplished a lot with poor parents, but they got full support from both gov aids and parents, it generally explains a lot. Without talking about the genetic lottery, life is unfair and hard work isn't really all that's needed. It can never hurt but at the same time you can work much harder than most and never get as much. Add politics in the mix and anything goes.
- chrisweekly 9mo ago"smart"? I'd say "sarcastic"
- davorak 9mo ago"smart" is sometimes short for "smart aleck"
- fastasucan 9mo agoNo its not.
- tdeck 9mo agoDon't forget to spend a few minutes journalling self-affirmations. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
- Forgeties79 9mo agoWas waiting for this to come up lol
- recursive 9mo agoThis but unironically. I don't post on LinkedIn or anything. But sometimes it seems like all the agonizing people sometimes do over whether or not they should follow their plan (fitness, diet, productivity) makes it ten times worse. It can be possible to decide to do something in advance, and then... just do it. The more times you do it the easier it gets. My wife comments on this sometimes. I guess not everyone has this? Maybe it can be learned? I don't know.
- paulryanrogers 9mo agoThe list of things I must do is large and growing. Much of it outside my control. Yes, I could sell the house but rent is quite high. Yes, I could divorce the wife but that actually makes for more work. Yes, I could abandon the children but I've grown attached; and that's only legal after finding someone else willing to adopt them and a judge willing to approve it. Yes, I could deny any help with the elderly parents on both sides of the family but that seems extreme and carries a social cost. Yes, I could spend a few decades trying to cure the medical issues I've collected but that leaves little time for anything mentioned earlier. Then there are the things I'd like to do.
- recursive 9mo agoI mean, yes. That's true for everyone. Different people have different life circumstances. It's equally important not to decide to do things that one can't realistically do, for whatever reasons there may be. I'm not sure what your point is. Don't sell your house if you don't have a realistic place to live lined up. Don't divorce your wife if it's not worth the work. I'm not saying everyone can or should be grindset hustle bro. Probably no one. I'm just saying that it is sometimes possible to decide what you're going to do in advance. If you already have too many obligations, that could include deciding which ones to fail. That's probably better than trying to do everything and just rolling the dice. It's surprising how controversial this idea is, but it works for me. I hope you find something that works for you.
- paulryanrogers 9mo ago
- BoneShard 9mo agoand not have any kids.
- jjulius 9mo agoNah, you can do it with kids! I have two that are about to be 4 and 6, here are my weekdays: - Alarm at 4:30. 5 mins of breathing exercises, 20 mins of meditation. - Make coffee, have breakfast, out the door to work by ~5:30. - Get to work's gym by 5:45, cardio for 60 mins. - In my office by 7:00-7:15. - 3:30, 25 mins of breathe work and meditation again. Tuesdays and Thursdays, this is 3:15 so I can fit in ~30 mins of strength training. - Head on out, pick up my youngest from school, home by ~4:15-4:30-ish. Ballpark depending on traffic, actual gym times, etc. - Cook dinner (kiddos often like to help), eat with family, hang out with and play with my kiddos until 7:00PM. - Kiddo bath and bed time, wife and I take turns doing this every night. Whether I'm "done" at 7 or 8, it only takes me ~30 mins to shower and prep my shit (clothes, lunch, etc.) for the next day. - Leaves me with ~1-2 hours each night to hang out, read a book, and enjoy my wife's company before heading to bed at ~9:30. It's busy, but I don't feel like I'm overstretched and I don't feel like it leaves me missing out on anything.
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- _whiteCaps_ 9mo agoI'm genuinely jealous of your ability to either: - fall asleep at 9:31 and function on 7 hours of sleep - or fall asleep at 10:30 and function on 6 hours of sleep If I'm not getting 8 hours, I feel like a zombie the next morning.
- jimnotgym 9mo agoAgreed, and then I just jump back in time two hours so that I can get to work on time, because that is what successful people do.
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