Day 10 — Time

No one understands time completely.

It is the universal source all living beings have. It goes in one direction, at the same consistent speed.

Everything we do takes time to do it. Whether that's sleeping, working, eating, reading, watching TV, or going through social media, they all require time.

24 hours per day, year-round. So how come we wish for more of this source?

How come, some people progress significantly better compared to others, and some people say it's unfair?

It's because some people are unaware and/or impatient.

When thinking time, think marathon, not a sprint.

Where you are today, directly correlates to what you've done 5-10 years ago.

If you have been playing games for the past 5 years, you won't progress much in life.

But if you were reading books for the past 5 years, you would progress a lot further in your life. I'm talking about non-fiction books here.

It takes the same amount of time, 5 years. But what you're doing with your time matters a lot.

Even that 1 hour of video games per day, to wind down from your busy day, will have a crippling effect on your future self.

What you did yesterday matters, but not for tomorrow, but for the long run. What matters now, is what you did in the previous years.

Where you are now, is the result of all your doing. If you're unhappy in your life, it's all your fault.

Unless you've got cancer, when you've been eating clean, not smoking, exercising, then that's not your fault. If your family got into a car accident, it's not your fault.

But 99.99% of your life is your fault, it's your doing. You have to understand this concept. Where you are now, directly correlates to what you've been doing a long, long, long time ago.

Now, it's enough to do just one thing and call it done. Things take time to elapse.

Second Order Consequences - Butterfly Effect - The Lollapalooza Effect. Whatever you want to call it.

In simple terms, when one single action leads to big impacts, over a long period of time.

Everything is connected. Let me give you an example, of how the action of 1 thing can ruin your life:

A man goes into debt to buy a TV. He's now forced to sit in front of a TV and watch it. Since he's only sitting and watching it, he's not reading books, there's no exercise, and he gets obese and unhealthy. Because of the TV, he becomes more wired to instant gratification, he finds it significantly hard to do any work. He gets poor, blames the government, and his wife leads him with kids telling him how he changed, and that he's not a good role model to their kids. He's left all alone, wondering how he got here. All he has left is his TV.

This didn't happen overnight. It took months or years to let this unfold. But one single action led to this.

Now if he chose to read a book instead of going into debt and buying a TV, his life would be completely different from the first scenario.

To fix it, you have to start today. And here comes the concept of gratification.

There are 2 types of gratification.

1. Instant Gratification

2. Delayed Gratification

Instant gratification is doing something that you shouldn't be doing, but it feels great in the short term.

This is bad because you're sacrificing your future self for immediate pleasure.

Delayed gratification is doing something you know you should be doing, but you don't want to. It feels hard.

When something feels hard, it's painful, that's when you need to do it the most.

When you do good habits, over and over again, consistently, it creates a massive success in your life in the foreseeable future.

Once you see success, you won't even know what got you there.

But when you do those hard things, with no results, it's hard. If you stay consistent, you'll be happy for it.

Time is universal. Understand it, use it wisely, and you'll achieve great things.

With that said, the 10th day has been completed.

I'll see you tomorrow!

Don't forget, always chase your dreams.

Dejan Kopunovic