⛅ 4 Simple Tips to Live an Extraordinary Life
Plus your weekly content digest and a dose of motivation
It’s Monday! Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween. Lots of things to be excited about this week and in the last 2 months of 2021.
Let’s get into it!
How to live an extraordinary life
Living an extraordinary life isn’t about being a billionaire, curing cancer, or breaking Olympic records. It’s much simpler than that. An extraordinary life just means exceeding the norm in a few key categories that puts you in the top 1%.
1. Choose to be happy…because most people aren’t. Happiness is not about having the best job, the most money, or the coolest stuff. It’s about being satisfied with what you have and who you surround yourself with. You can be happy right now if you simply chose to be. I know this is much harder than it sounds. Here are a few ways to help make this mindset shift:
Practice gratitude
Learn how to meditate
Smile more (fake it ‘til you make it)
Ditch negative/toxic people and hang out with more positive people
Help others (helping those less fortunate than you can change your perspective)
Do more things that make you happy in your bones (don’t sacrifice ALL of your personal happiness to make others happy)
2. Believe in yourself. You will undoubtedly face many challenges and accumulate a long list of “failures” in your life. If you believe in yourself and your abilities, you won’t be discouraged to give up on your dreams. You’ll persevere. Many people lack the self-confidence to keep going. If that’s you, slowly build yours up by setting and achieving increasingly harder goals for yourself.
3. Be consistent. If you are consistent in the actions you take, you will eventually achieve whatever you set your mind to. Not only that, but if you are consistent in your behaviors, you will further build trust in yourself and others will have an easier time trusting you. Righteously earning the trust of others is something not many people on this Earth can say they’ve done.
4. Make investments for the future. Humans are unique in that we are one of the only creatures that can plan for the future, yet so many of us fail to see the forest through the trees.
Set money aside for your financial future
Take an online course to increase your knowledge
Keep in touch with your friends and family by making a simple phone call
It’s often the little things that yield an extraordinary life. Are you extraordinary?
The content you consume matters. In fact, it matters A LOT. That’s why going forward I’d like to make sure I provide you a personally curated list of only the best stuff I’ve found on the web each week. Here are the best stories, tweets, etc. from this past week:
97 year old Stanislavskyi, who holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest ITF tennis player, plays a round of tennis with Rafael Nadal.
Austin, TX real estate is booming, which has sparked innovation in the form of 3D-printed homes. A partnership between real estate company Lennar and 3D printing company Icon will begin printing homes to create the largest 3D-printed neighborhood in the US, starting in early 2022.
In the last quarter, US wages have increased by the most ever in the last 20 years. Costco is one of the companies leading the charge, who announced that their minimum wage is being raised to $17 an hour.
“Uptober” (crypto investing) lived up to its hype (h/t Morning Brew):
Shiba: +909.8%
Ethereum: +44.8%
Solana: +44.%
Bitcoin: +40.8%
Dogecoin: +33.0%“
For comparison, the Dow (traditional stock investing) moved +4.5%, S&P 500 +5.7%. and Nasdaq +7.6%.
I bought this Ethereum charging bull canvas to celebrate:
Last week, I learned about James Harrison, who was an Australian blood plasma donor also known as “The Man with the Golden Arm”. His unusual plasma composition has been used to cure Rhesus disease and he’s made over 1,100 donations throughout his life, estimated to have saved over 2.5 million babies.
And lastly, something to inspire you to be just a little bit better this week:
From r/GetMotivated, “Say less do more”.
Hope you have an awesome week!
Best,
Jason