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Quite Possibly The Only Plan You Need To Get Your Shit Together in 2024
Or at least how to become 11% better
Once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, lived a man named Tom. Tom had dreams, ambitions, and a Netflix subscription that knew him better than any living soul.
Each day, as the sun set, Tom’s aspirations sank with it, buried under a mountain of ‘what ifs’ and ‘tomorrows’. But one day, Tom decided that enough was enough. He was going to get his shit together.
And so, he embarked on a journey that was less about finding himself and more about building the self he wished to be.
The Illusion of Motivation
“Motivation is a fickle friend,” Tom realized. It’s like that fun uncle who shows up unannounced with a box of fireworks, fills your day with excitement, and then disappears, leaving you in a silent, dark room with nothing but echoes of laughter.
Tom learned that building habits on motivation is like building a castle on sand. Instead, he turned to willpower, a more reliable but less flashy cousin of motivation.
Willpower is to motivation what a crockpot is to a microwave. It’s slower, less sexy, but it gets the job…